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Blacktown City Demons Football Club
Blacktown City Football Club is an Australian semi-professional football club based in Blacktown, New South Wales. Founded in 1953, the club currently competes in the National Premier Leagues NSW. Blacktown City's home ground is Blacktown City Sports Centre in the suburb of Seven Hills. History The club was formed in 1953 as Toongabbie Soccer Club and changed their name to Blacktown City in 1979. The club competed in the National Soccer League in 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1989 and 1990. Since then they have competed in the highest level in New South Wales, the NSW Premier League, where they have finished Premiers (1st in the League) in 2001, 2002/03, 2004/05, 2006 and 2008. The Blacktown City Demons took out the double in 2007 winning both the Premiership and then staging a comeback from 1–1 with ten men to defeat Bankstown City 3–1 and claim the Championship. The team was known as Blacktown City Demons and owned by The Demons Sports Club until 2009 when the club went ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darren Stewart (footballer)
Darren Stewart (17 May 1966 – 18 October 2018) was an Australian football (soccer), association football player. He was an Australia national football team player and was named Australian Player of the Year in 1993. Life and career A defender, Stewart was a former notable player for APIA Leichhardt Tigers, APIA Leichhardt, Newcastle Breakers and Johor FA where he captained and won the Malaysia FA Cup in 1998. Stewart was an Australia national football team player from 1991 to 1993. He moved to Singapore in 1999, where he played for Balestier Central FC from 1999 to 2002. In 2002, he retired from playing football. He was the assistant manager for Balestier Khalsa FC's Prime League team in 2003 and assistant manager for the Geylang United FC team in 2004–2005. He lived in Singapore where he coached and managed the Elias Park Football Club and was a coach for Little League Pte Ltd. Stewart was named as head coach for Gombak United FC at the start of the 2009 S.League season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathew Ryan
Mathew David Ryan (born 8 April 1992) is an Australian professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for Danish club F.C. Copenhagen and captains the Australia men's national soccer team, Australia national team. Born in Sydney, Ryan played youth football for Marconi Stallions FC, Marconi Stallions, Blacktown City FC, Blacktown City and Central Coast Mariners FC, Central Coast Mariners. He made his senior debut for Blacktown before moving to the Mariners' senior squad in 2010. In 2013, Ryan moved to Club Brugge KV, Club Brugge, where he played for two years before joining Valencia CF, Valencia. He made his senior international debut in 2012, and has since established himself as Australia's first-choice goalkeeper, effectively succeeding his childhood idol Mark Schwarzer. He played at the 2014 FIFA World Cup, 2014 and 2018 FIFA World Cup, 2018 World Cups as well as the 2015 and 2019 Asian Cups, winning the Best Goalke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roundglass Punjab
RoundGlass Punjab FC is an Indian professional football club from Mohali in Punjab that competes in the Punjab State Super Football League and I-League. Founded as ''Minerva Academy FC'', in 2005, the club name was rebranded to ''Minerva Punjab'' after being accepted into I-League, and in 2019 the club was again rebranded as Punjab FC. In April 2020, owner of ''Minerva Academy'' Ranjit Bajaj sold the football club to RoundGlass Sports Pvt Ltd, and hereafter it is recherished as RoundGlass Punjab. The club has won I-League title once, in 2017–18, their second season in the league. History The team was established in 2005 as ''Minerva Academy'', and has both the football and cricket sections. Initially, the team took part in its first major tournament at the national level, the I-League 2nd Division, and were the runners up for the season. They lost to five-time I-League champions Dempo SC in the final. They were promoted to I-League after an impressive stint at the 2nd Divisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Travis Major
Travis Paul Major (born 18 February 1990) is an Australian professional footballer player. He plays as a forward for National Premier Leagues NSW club Blacktown City. Career On 3 January 2015, he signed for A-League side Central Coast Mariners. He scored his first and only goal in a 5–1 defeat to Sydney FC. Major spent the 2016–17 season with Hong Kong club Pegasus. He was released by the club following the season. In August 2017, Major re-joined Pegasus during their pre-season training camp in Thailand. After almost three years at the club, Major left again on 22 April 2019 because of family reasons. On 31 May 2019, Southern announced via Facebook that Major had signed for the 2019–20 season. On 19 April 2020, due to circumstances brought on by the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, Southern bought out the remainder of Major's contract. On 12 February 2021, Major returned to Blacktown City whom he had last played for in 2016. On September 3, 2021, it was announced that Major w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Rooney (footballer)
Sean Rooney (born 1 March 1989) is an Australian footballer who plays for Blacktown City. Club career Rooney started his A-League career playing in the Youth League with Sydney FC. He was the league's top goal scorer before he was signed by Newcastle United Jets on a short-term injury replacement for Jason Naidovski. He made his A-League debut in Round 15 of the 2008–09 season against Queensland Roar. His first goal for the club, undoubtedly the most important in his fledgling career and a significant one in the short history of the Jets, was an injury-time matchwinner in the club's must-win encounter against Beijing Guoan on Matchday 5 of the 2009 AFC Champions League. In the final minute of the match, and with the score locked at 1–1, Rooney latched onto a fumbled pass from Ljubo Miličević on the edge of the area and struck the ball sweetly with his left foot, curling it into the top left corner of the net to send Newcastle players, staff and fans into raptures, with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Chianese
Joel Joseph Chianese (born 15 February 1990) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or forward. Career Sydney FC Chianese made his senior debut in the first game of the 2011 Asian Champions League as a substitute for Hirofumi Moriyasu in the 0–3 loss against Kashima Antlers at the Sydney Football Stadium. His A-League debut for the club didn't arrive until Round 19 of the 2011–12 A-League season, coming on as a substitute in the 5–2 thrashing at the hands of Newcastle Jets at the Sydney Football Stadium. Chianese scored twice in the first final of the 2011/12 season against the Wellington Phoenix FC, however it was not enough as Sydney lost 3–2. National Premier Leagues Following his release from Sydney FC, Chianese signed with National Premier Leagues NSW club Sydney United, and undertook a 2-week trial in England with Football League One club Swindon Town. This trial proved unsuccessful despite scoring twice in a friendly again ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyler Simpson
Tyler John Simpson (28 August 198526 May 2011) was an Australian football (soccer) player who played as a central defender or right back. He was the twin of fellow footballer Jordan Simpson (Australian footballer), Jordan Simpson. Career Simpson played in the NSW Premier League with Blacktown City Demons, APIA Leichhardt Tigers, APIA Leichhardt and Sydney Olympic. He had short stints in the A-League with Perth Glory and then-Queensland Roar. Simpson also played for a short time in Armenia with Ulisses F.C., Dinamo-Zenit Yerevan. It was a shock to many fans and supporters of football in Australia when his death, which was later disclosed to be suicide, was announced on 26 May 2011. A minute's silence was held as a mark of respect and remembrance to Simpson before the 2011 NSW Premier League season#Round Ten, Round 10 clashes between Blacktown City Demons and South Coast Wolves Football Club, South Coast Wolves and Sydney Olympic and Rockdale City Suns. As a mark of respect the O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chad Gibson
Chad Gibson (born 19 June 1976) is a former professional footballer. Biography Chad Gibson is from Sydney, Australia, with parents of South African origin who migrated to Australia during Apartheid due to racial policies, which legally forbid their relationship. Gibson is an ex-professional footballer who is a versatile player having played professionally from defence to the mid-field. He began his professional career with Sydney United, who played in the now defunct National Soccer League. After moving to Marconi Stallions, he played a season for Johor FC in Malaysia and another season with FK Bodø/Glimt in Norway, before returning to Australia to play for Marconi Stallions. He joined the Queensland Roar as the club's first ever captain, and a face of the A-League, appearing heavily in the A-League advertisement campaign. In 2006, Gibson retired from professional football after two seasons of the A-League and a career that spanned over 12 years and over 200 professional games. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zlatko Arambasic
Zlatko Arambasic (born 20 September 1969) is a former Australian football player, now residing in Australia as an educator. Club career A much-travelled striker, Arambašić, a Croatia-born Australian, played for several clubs in Europe and in Australia. He had three different spells at Belgian outfit Mechelen and played in France for FC Metz. International career He played at the 1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ... but never a full international for the senior team. References External links OzFootball Profile* * Zlatko Arambasic Interview {{DEFAULTSORT:Arambasic, Zlatko 1969 births Living people Croatian emigrants to Australia Footballers from Split, Croatia Australian soccer players Australian expatriate soccer players Olympic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Jamieson
Scott Alexander Jamieson (born 13 October 1988) is an Australian soccer player who plays as a left back and captains for Melbourne City in the A-League. Club career Blacktown City Jamieson was born in Auburn, Sydney. He has previously played for the Blacktown City in the New South Wales Premier League and has also attended Westfields Sports High School before signing for English Premier League side Bolton Wanderers. In the summer of 2007 he made an appearance for Wanderers in their pre-season defeat against Hibernian. Adelaide United He ended a three-year stint in England with Bolton on 6 June by signing for Adelaide United on a two-year deal. He made his first A-League appearance for Adelaide in the season opener on 17 August 2008 where he played a full game at left back. Since his first game Jamieson has become a mainstay in the United backline contributing significantly in attack and from set plays. Jamieson was named man of the match for his performance in the Club Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Biddle (soccer)
Adam Biddle (born 27 July 1988 in Sydney, Australia) is a former Australian footballer who played for Sydney FC and Bankstown City. Biography Biddle was educated at Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview Club career When part of the Parramatta-Melita Eagles, he was awarded the chance to trial with Manchester United. He has also had spells with a number of NSW State squads over the years. Biddle later joined Blacktown City Demons at the age of 17, and was part of the 2006 squad that won the Johnny Warren Cup and the 2007 New South Wales Premier League. Impressive form for New South Wales Premier League side Blacktown City Demons earned him much praise, and after trialling amongst several other players, was signed on a 2-year deal by manager Branko Culina as one of three Under-20 players required by each A-League club. Biddle made his debut for Sydney FC against the Central Coast Mariners in the opening game of the season on 24 August 2007; but was given few opportunities un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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