Jim Bayutti

Bayutti was born in Italy in 1924 and emigrated to Australia in 1949. In Australia, he worked as an engineer on the Snowy Mountains Scheme.^[1]

In 1954, Bayutti was founding president of Associazione Poli-sportiva Italo Australiana (APIA), an Italian-Australian sports club. While APIA was a multi-sport club, the soccer section became the most well known section.^[2][3]

Bayutti was a vice president of the Australian Soccer Federation and president of the NSW Soccer Federation during the 1960s.^[4]

Bayutti founded Bayutti Contractors, a civil engineering company based in Sydney.^[5][6]

During the 1970s, Bayutti spent five years as a member of the Qantas board.^[7] Bayutti was named chairman of the New South Wales Urban Transit Authority in 1980.^[8]

In 1970, he became a life member of the Australian Soccer Federation.^[9] Bayutti was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 1975 Queen's Birthday Honours.^[10] In 1981, Bayutti became a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.^[11] Bayutti was an inaugural inductee in 1999 into the Australian Soccer Hall of Fame (now the Football Australia Hall of Fame).^[12]