Deletion of Australia national football (soccer) team season 2008

Comment: Encyclopedic content and in my view qualifies under .  The classification by year could be debated eg. discrete World Cup qualifying campaigns may be an alternative, but as a hold-all I think this basis for classification is as good as any
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Lists (WP:LISTS)

Comment: Without a specific policy violation I see no reason to delete any of these articles.  They appear to be a valid under  and  there is no policy as far as I know that says that precedent in an AfD become policy
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Lists (WP:LISTS)

Comment: per Assize and . A single past precedent is, at best, problematic as grounds upon which to determine deletion outcomes. AFD is not a policy setting forum and the number of contributors to each individual nomination debate are minuscule. Without having seen the original 'precedent' articles themselves (which may well have been quite different to what we have here) in my view that deletion debate may well have been wrongly decided
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTPAPER)

Comment: 1) The past precedent doesn't reflect a good reason to delete and no wiki policy was cited for their deletion. 2) This information can't be merged into the main page for Australian soccer without the page becoming too long, and so qualifies for separate pages. 3) Articles qualify under  as lists of information. 4) At the very least, the 2006 article has references for the matches, so at least that page is notable. It would be very surprising that you couldn't turn up a newspaper report on each of those matches in any major Australian newspaper
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Lists (WP:LISTS)