The first American representative team was assembled from grammar schools and took part in three reciprocal tours of Australia with international matches played at junior level between 1909 and 1919, the game in the US at the time was known as Fieldball and it competed against Australia in 1911 in front of a crowd of more than 5,000 in San Francisco. In addition to the matches against Australia, the team also competed against Canada in 1911 and 1915. It was disbanded in the 1920s and it would be another three quarters of a century before a team was again assembled to compete at international level. Australian football legend
Paul Roos coached the national side's inaugural game in 1999 at Chicago (Naperville, 8/1/99) to victory over
Canada USA 10:15(75) CAN 8:12(60) before returning to
Australia be appointed as coach of the
Australian Football League side the
Sydney Swans. Gary Hill of the
Milwaukee Bombers succeeded Roos, coaching the Revolution from 2000 to 2001. Under 2006 head coach Tom Ellis, the Revolution lost in a lopsided score to the ex-patriate team (the All-comers) in a January 2006 match played as a curtain raiser to the AFL
exhibition match held at
UCLA. On November 2, 2006, it was announced that Australian Trevor Lovitt would be the new Revolution head coach. Lovitt had served as an assistant coach (1998-2001) with the
Noble Park Football Club (a premier division
Eastern Football League club), winning the premiership twice, and twice finishing runner-up. In 2002 and 2003, Trevor served as the head coach of Mulgrave Football Club’s (division 2 Eastern Football League) senior team which finished 3rd in 2002 and 2nd in 2003. From 2003 to 2005, he was an assistant with
Frankston Football Club in the
Victorian Football League. He also served as a recruiting officer for
Port Adelaide Football Club in 2004 and 2005. during the 2008 International Cup Prior to the
2008 Australian Football International Cup, Trevor Lovitt stepped down as coach. New York Magpies coach Robert Oliver was appointed coach of the Revolution and guided the team to Melbourne. Matt Bishop became head coach in 2009. Tom Ellis returned as head coach in May 2015. ==International competition==