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Broadbeach United S.C.
Broadbeach United Soccer Club is a semi-professional soccer club based in Broadbeach, Queensland, Australia. The club currently play in the Football Queensland Premier League 2 after promoted from 2022 Football Queensland Premier League 3 − South Coast, the top flight of the Football Queensland South Coast administrative division, and the fifth flight of the Australian soccer league system. Broadbeach United have won a record 10 premierships, 13 championships and 9 President's Cups within the division. Founded in 1963, Broadbeach was an inaugural club to join the then Gold Coast top-flight men's soccer competition in 1975. The club plays its home games at the Nikiforides Family Park. History The Broadbeach juniors were founded in 1970 with the S.S.B juniors disbanding when John Stainsby left Broadbeach Oval to form the Musgrave Soccer Club at Keith Hunt Park. Most of the founders of S.S.B stayed on board with the new club such as David Erwicker, Billy Massa, John Green, Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football Queensland Premier League 2
The Football Queensland Premier League 2, or the FQPL 2, is a association football, football competition contested by clubs in South East Queensland, Australia. It is administered by Football Queensland and is the third tier of Football Queensland, Football in Queensland, behind the Football Queensland Premier League, from which the top team from each season are promoted. The FQPL 2 was founded in 2020, with the first season held in 2021. The league has 4 teams from Brisbane, 2 from Gold Coast, Queensland, Gold Coast and 2 from Moreton Bay. The current premiers and champions of the 2021 Football Queensland season, 2021 season are Caboolture Sports FC, Caboolture Sports and Grange Thistle SC, Grange Thistle respectively. History Following the foundation of the Football Queensland Premier League in 2017, Football Queensland sought to extend and link the Australian soccer league system, footballing pyramid in Queensland to a third tier. At the time, there was only regional league ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football Queensland Premier League 3 − South Coast
The Football Queensland Premier League 3 − South Coast, or the FQPL 3 − South Coast, is a men's football competition contested by clubs on the Gold Coast and surrounding areas close to the Queensland−New South Wales border. It is administered by Football Queensland South Coast and it is within the fourth tier of football in Queensland, operated by a system of promotion and relegation. The league is contested by 11 clubs each season, the team that finishes at the top of the league is crowned premiers and they qualify for the FQPL 2 play-offs, whilst the bottom three teams are relegated to the Football Queensland Premier League 4 − South Coast. The teams that finish in the top four qualify for a finals tournament, where the winners of the bracket are crowned champions. The competition was founded in 1975, with the first season held in the same year. The competition from 1975−1990 had no title and simply acted as the Gold Coast's senior men's football competition, in 1 ... [...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] |
Broadbeach, Queensland
Broadbeach is a suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. In the , Broadbeach had a population of 5,514 people. Geography Development in the area today mostly incorporates low rise structures, consisting of single bedroom houses and apartment blocks. Much of the suburb consists of canal waterways, including Lake Intrepid that are linked to the Nerang River. The suburb contains a major road intersection between Nerang - Broadbeach Road and the Gold Coast Highway. History In circa 1924, 70 allotments were advertised as "Mermaid Beach Estate" located at Mermaid Beach and Broadbeach to be auctioned by R. G. Oates Estates. The estate map has 3 estates for sale at Mermaid Beach and Broadbeach. The estates were divided in two by the "New Coastal Road" running through the Gold Coast. While residential housing lots were selling successfully in the state government developed Broadbeach township from 1934, and the area had good bitumen roads that were described as 's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football Queensland South Coast
Football Queensland South Coast is a Football Queensland administrative zone encompassing the Gold Coast and surrounding areas in South-East Queensland and North-East New South Wales, including Kingscliff, Tweed Heads, Murwillumbah and Beaudesert. The premier men's football competition is the Football Queensland Premier League 3 − South Coast and the premier women's football competition is the Football Queensland Women's Premier League 3 − South Coast. The administrative zone also has a numerous variety of lower divisions for both men and women, as well as academy and junior competitions to develop soccer and fitness within the region. The zone is a culmination of antecedent bodies initiating in 1975 as the Gold Coast and District Soccer Association, it has been recognised under various names since. In 2021, as part of Football Queensland reforms, the zone would be known as Football Queensland South Coast. The region has a variety of clubs playing in state competitions. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Soccer League System
The Australian soccer league system is the league structure for soccer clubs in Australia. The league system in Australia since 1977 has involved one top divisional league controlled by Football Australia and many leagues run within each state below. The National Soccer League stood from 1977 to 2004 as the top nationwide tier above the current state-based league systems, in 2005, the A-League was established as its successor. The introduction of the National Premier Leagues in 2013 introduced a direct second tier of soccer in Australia, underpinning the A-League. The National Premier Leagues incorporated the existing state leagues as divisions with a nationwide end of season finals series. In 2013, the National Premier Leagues rebranded 5 of the 9 top state leagues, and the remainder – with the exception of the Northern Territory – joined in 2014. There is no promotion and relegation to and from the top-tier A-League, and promotion and relegation at other levels varies betw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gold Coast, Queensland
The Gold Coast is a coastal city in the state of Queensland, Australia, approximately south-southeast of the centre of the state capital Brisbane. With a population over 600,000, the Gold Coast is the sixth-largest city in Australia, the nation's largest regional city, and Queensland's second-largest city after Brisbane. The city's Central Business District is located roughly in the centre of the Gold Coast in the suburb of Southport, with the suburb holding more corporate office space than anywhere else in the city. The urban area of the Gold Coast is concentrated along the coast sprawling almost 60 kilometers, joining up with the Greater Brisbane Metropolitan Area to the north and to the state border with New South Wales to the south. Prior to European settlement the area was occupied by the Yugambeh people. The demonym for the Gold Coast is Gold Coaster. The Gold Coast is a major tourist destination with a sunny, subtropical climate and has become widely known for its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Smeltz
Shane Edward Smeltz (born 29 September 1981) is a New Zealand Australian footballer. He plays as a striker for Guiseley AFC in the Northern Premier League, the 7th tier of English football. Smeltz had spent much of his early career playing in Australia before moving to England where he played for two and a half seasons. He played mostly in the A-League from 2007 onwards, with the exception of brief stints with Gençlerbirliği in Turkey and Kedah FA in Malaysia. He ended his professional playing career with Indonesian team Borneo F.C., before returning to the sport at a semi-professional level. Smeltz is the all-time second-highest goalscorer in the A-League and was the top-goalscorer for Gold Coast United. He scored 24 goals in 58 international appearances for New Zealand and played at the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Early and personal life Smeltz was born in Göppingen, West Germany to ethnic German parents with New Zealand citizenship. Six months later he moved to New Zealand. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gold Coast United
Gold Coast United Football Club is an Australian soccer club based in Gold Coast, Queensland. The earliest incarnation of the club formed in 1966 and its home ground was at Nikiforides Family Park in Broadbeach. The first era of Gold Coast United senior teams competed in the Brisbane leagues until the club disbanded after the 1979 season, allowing Broadbeach United Soccer Club to form its first senior team in 1980 at the same grounds. Twenty-eight years later the club was revived and was officially announced as a professional expansion team for the A-League's 2009–2010 season on 28 August 2008. It was the second bid accepted by the league, with an unrelated bid known as Gold Coast Galaxy FC preceding it. The club was owned by Clive Palmer, the wealthiest man in Queensland, until the FFA took over the club's A-League licence in February 2012, and officially folding on 25 March 2012 and its intellectual property being surrendered to Football Federation Australia. In their fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 In Queensland Men's Soccer
The 2022 Football Queensland season will be the tenth season since NPL Queensland commenced as the top tier of Queensland men’s football. This season will also be the fifth season of the Football Queensland Premier League and the second season of the Football Queensland Premier League 2 The Football Queensland Premier League 2, or the FQPL 2, is a association football, football competition contested by clubs in South East Queensland, Australia. It is administered by Football Queensland and is the third tier of Football Queenslan ..., representing the second and third tiers of Queensland men's football respectively. This season will also be the inaugural season of the FQPL Champions League for the Northern Conference. Below NPL Queensland and the FQPL is a regional structure of nine zones with their own leagues. Football Queensland National Premier Leagues Queensland Football Queensland Premier League Football Queensland Premier League 2 Football Darling D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mudgeeraba SC
Mudgeeraba Soccer Club is a semi-professional soccer club based in Mudgeeraba, Queensland, Australia. The club competes in the Football Queensland Premier League 4 − South Coast, the second flight of the Football Queensland South Coast administrative division and the sixth flight of the Australian soccer league system. The club's home ground is the Sid Bigg Park and since foundation in 1980, the club has been a regular competitor in the Gold Coast Premier League. However, the club currently competes in the second division, following relegation from the Gold Coast Premier League after the 2019 season. The club's senior men's team has won 1 First Division Premiership, 2 First Division Championships and 1 First Division President's Cup. Most of the kids at this club are cocky and full of themslelfves! Never go here History With the interest of developing junior sport, an inaugural meeting of the Mudgeeraba Sports Club was held on 22 May 1979. Mudgeeraba Sports Club acquired ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burleigh Heads Bulldogs SC
Burleigh Heads Soccer Club is a semi-professional soccer club based in Burleigh Heads, Queensland, Australia. The club play in the Football Queensland Premier League 3 − South Coast, the top flight of the Football Queensland South Coast administrative division and the fifth flight of the Australian soccer league system. The club have won 5 premierships, 5 championships and 2 President's Cups within the division. The club was founded in 1981 from the remnants of the Pacific Colts (at the time the Senior team of Palm Beach Soccer Club), where it competed within the Gold Coast first division and was an inaugural member of the Gold Coast Premier League in 1991. The club's home ground is the Pizzey Park Pizzey is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Amos Pizzey (born 1967), British DJ * Christopher Pizzey (born 1976), British actor * Erin Pizzey (born 1939), British novelist and family care activist * Graham Pizzey (1930–2001), .... Honours Football Sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
