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Gippsland Falcons SC
Falcons 2000 Soccer Club is an Australian semi-professional soccer club based in the regional Victorian city of Morwell. Founded in 1961 by the local Italian community, the club has participated in the Victorian state league system at multiple levels, and in the defunct National Soccer League. After being re-established in 2000, the club currently participates in the Latrobe Valley Soccer League. The club is one of the most successful in the Gippsland region, being the only club to have been crowned Victorian state premiers, on two occasions, and to have been the only rural club in Victoria to have participated at a national level. Since its inception, the club has played under multiple names, consisting of ''Gippsland Falcons SC'', ''Eastern Pride'', and being latterly known as the ''Morwell Falcons''. The club bears its present name after its financial re-establishment in 2000. History File:EasternPridelogo.png, Eastern Pride Logo File:Gippsland falcons.jpg, Gippsland Falcon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latrobe City Stadium
Latrobe City Stadium is a multi purpose sport stadium located in Morwell, Victoria, Australia. Opened in 1991, today it is the home ground of the Falcons 2000 SC in the Latrobe Valley Soccer League, and is used for association football, soccer, rugby league and rugby union. It was previously the home ground of the defunct Gippsland Falcons during their tenure in the National Soccer League, and briefly in the National Premier Leagues Victoria, Victoria Premier League. The Melbourne Rising rugby union club previously hosted a number of National Rugby Championship matches at the stadium. The stadium is also the headquarters of the Gippsland Cricket League and features Football Federation Victoria approved lights, a function room and bar and a soccer shop. In 1995, a new stand was built, bringing the total seating capacity of the stadium to 1,912. Notable fixtures The stadium held a Victorian Premier League match in 2008 between the Australian Institute of Sport and Oakleigh Cannons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian State League Division 2
State League 2 is a semi-professional association football league in Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. Sitting at level 5 of the Victorian league system, below the three NPL Victoria divisions, it forms part of the fifth tier of the overall Australian soccer league system, Australian pyramid. It is the second-highest-ranked of the five State Leagues. The league consists of two geographic divisions, North-West and South-East, comprising 12 teams each. The champions of each division are promoted to Victorian State League 1, State League 1; the two bottom-placed teams in each division are replaced with the champions and runners-up of the corresponding Victorian State League 3, State League 3 divisions. The competition is administered by Football Victoria, the governing body of the sport in the state. Clubs The following 24 clubs from 2 conferences of 12 who are competing in the Victorian State League Division 2 during the 2022 season. State League Division 2 North-West S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Foy (footballer)
Mark Foy is a former footballer who represented New Zealand at international level and played for Gippsland Falcons and Adelaide City in the Australian National Soccer League. Playing career Club career Ahead of the 1996 National Summer Soccer League, Foy joined North Shore United. Playing with Mount Wellington, Foy was the best player in the final of the 1996 Chatham Cup in a 3–1 loss to Waitakere City FC. Soon after his final appearance, Foy joined Gippsland Falcons in the Australian National Soccer League (NSL), where he played 50 times between 1996 and 1998. At the end of the 1997–98 NSL season, Foy headed to Europe, where he spent time with Bohemians in Ireland and Mainz 05 in Germany. In February 1999, Foy returned to Australia, joining Adelaide City on a four-week contract. He played for the Zebras in a friendly match against Sanfrecce Hiroshima but was released in March, having played once in the league as a late substitute in a loss to Melbourne Knights. Inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandar Đorđević (footballer, Born 1968)
Aleksandar Đorđević ( sr-Cyrl, Александар Ђорђевић, ; also transliterated Aleksandar Djordjević; born 14 July 1968) is a football coach and former player. He was part of the FK Partizan era that enjoyed great success in the Yugoslav First League in the late 1980s, finishing in the top three four times between 1986 and 1992 (including winning the 1986–87 Yugoslav First League). He was part of the squad that won the 1988–89 Yugoslav Cup. After a brief spell with FK Napredak Kruševac, He eventually moved to Australia and joined the Morwell Falcons in 1993 and formed part of their late-season run towards the 1993–94 National Soccer League finals, which they missed by a solitary point. In August 2013 Đorđević was appointed to the coaching staff of the Faroe Islands women's national football team. Honours FC Zürich *Swiss Cup The Swiss Cup (; ; ; ) is a football cup tournament that has been organised annually since 1925–26 by the Swiss Footbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alun Evans
Alun William Evans (born 30 April 1949) is an English former footballer who made his name as a centre forward in the Liverpool side rebuilt by Bill Shankly at the start of the 1970s. He was born in Kidderminster, Worcestershire. Career Evans began his professional career with Wolverhampton Wanderers, breaking into the first team in the 1967/68 season. He had already appeared for the club on their summer success in winning the United Soccer Association under the guise of the Los Angeles Wolves in Summer 1967. He only had one full season in Wolves' first team as he swiftly joined Liverpool in September 1968 for £100,000, making him Britain's most expensive teenager. He had caught the eye of manager Bill Shankly after he outran and out-thought Liverpool captain Ron Yeats in a match in 1968. Although only 19, and despite Shankly's known desire to introduce new players gradually to the team, Evans was put straight into the side and stayed there until the end of the season. He ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Hopkins
Jeffrey Hopkins (born 14 April 1964) is a former Welsh international football defender and current Melbourne Victory Women head coach, who most notably played club football for Fulham and Reading in the Football League. Club career Hopkins started his career as a trainee with Fulham, going on to make over 200 first team appearances for the club. This was followed by a four-year spell at Crystal Palace, including a loan to Plymouth Argyle in 1991–92. He spent a few months at Bristol Rovers in 1992, before spending the remaining five years of his Football League career with Reading. While at Reading, he was part of the team that narrowly missed out on promotion to the Premier League in the 1994–95 season, losing 4–3 after extra time in the playoff final against Bolton Wanderers. After a move to Malaysian football with Selangor where he was made captain, Hopkins moved to Australia in October 1999 as a player-coach with Gippsland Falcons in the National Soccer Leag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Levent Osman
Levent Osman (born 8 March 1977, in Melbourne) is an Australian former association football player of Turkish Cypriot descent. He played as a defender. He has previously played for Trabzonspor in Turkey, FCU Politehnica Timişoara in Romania, Tampere United in Finland as well as South Melbourne, Auckland Kingz in (New Zealand) and Gippsland Falcons in the Australian NSL. He has represented Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ... at under-20 level and in the Olympic team between 1997 and 1999. He was awarded Youth Player of the Year 1997. He was also the winner of the Jimmy Rooney Medal(Man of the Match) in the 2004 Premier League Grand Final. References Levent Osman at Ozfootball.net * 1977 births Living people Australian people of Turkish Cypriot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene Galekovic
Eugen Josip Galekovic ( ; hr, Eugen Josip Galeković, ; born 12 June 1981) is an Australian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is the current goalkeeper coach for Adelaide United. Biography Club career Galekovic's junior football was mostly played at Chelsea Hajduk in Melbourne's south-eastern suburbs. Galekovic played school football for St Bede's College. Galekovic started his career with Morwell based National Soccer League (NSL) side Gippsland Falcons as a 19-year-old in December 2000 before signing with Australian powerhouse South Melbourne the following season. South Melbourne FC Galekovic was second choice keeper in his early seasons at South playing behind Socceroos keeper Dean Anastasiadis. He made his debut in 2002 against rivals Melbourne Knights at Lakeside Stadium. After a string of impressive performances for his age, Galekovic claimed his spot as South's number 1 for the 2002 season ahead of Michael Theo. At his time at So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernie Tapai
Ernie Tapai (born 14 February 1967) is an Australian former professional soccer player who spent the majority of his career in the Australian National Soccer League (NSL). He also had stints in England, Portugal and Singapore. Tapai played 52 times for Australia, including 37 times in full international matches. Early life Tapai was born in Subotica, Yugoslavia (now in Serbia). He migrated to Australia with his parents as a young child. Club career After playing as a junior for Melbourne Hungaria, Tapai signed for Footscray JUST ahead of the 1985 National Soccer League season. He made at age 18 in the National Soccer League. After playing with Sunshine George Cross and Adelaide City Tapai moved to Europe to play for English side Stoke City. Stoke City. He never got much of a chance at Stoke making just once appearance for the club which came as a substitute in a 2–2 draw with Crewe Alexandra in the Football League Trophy on 6 January 1993. Tapai then signed with Por ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Bothwell
Mohammed Brian Iman Abdullah Bothwell is a former professional footballer most known for leading Brunei FA to their first Malaysian Cup title in 1999. He won the Penang Sports Club International Soccer Sevens tournament in 2007 with the Brunei Dragons. Career Brunei Spending several seasons in Australia, Bothwell returned to his native Scotland after being invited to train with Celtic. Instead, however, he passed on the opportunity to become an apprentice at Sheffield United. Next, the Scottish-born forward went back to Australia before transferring to Brunei FA, earning 50,000 pounds a year. In 2003, the Football Association of Malaysia ratified a policy which stated that foreign players must ply their trade elsewhere for two years before they can return to Malaysia. Despite this, they still allowed Bothwell to play for Brunei at the time without playing abroad for two years. By 2004, Bothwell had left the team. Geylang While lining up for Geylang from 2000 to 2002, the Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Wright (footballer, Born 1962)
Billy Wright (born 4 November 1962) is a former association football, footballer who played as a striker (association football), striker. His senior career included stints with Burnley F.C. (England), Dundalk (Ireland) as well as National Soccer League clubs Blacktown City Demons, West Adelaide SC, West Adelaide and Gippsland Falcons. Born in England, he represented the New Zealand national football team, New Zealand national team at international level. Wright made his full debut for New Zealand in a 2–0 win over Saudi Arabia national football team, Saudi Arabia on 21 June 1988 and ended his international playing career having played 26 times for the ''All Whites'', including 15 A-internationals in which he scored 9 goals, his final official cap being in a 1–0 loss to Australia national football team, Australia on 30 May 1993. Wright has since moved to coaching where he has found his calling combining his talent and love of the game with his tough play style. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archie Thompson
Archie Gerald Thompson (born 23 October 1978) is an Australian former professional association football, footballer. He also is serving as a club ambassador for Melbourne Victory FC. Born in New Zealand, Thompson played youth football at the New South Wales Institute of Sport before going on to play numerous seasons in the National Soccer League and A-League. After eleven seasons with Melbourne Victory, he moved on to play for Heidelberg United in 2016. Thompson also played overseas, for Belgian Pro League side Lierse S.K., Lierse and for Dutch Eredivisie side PSV Eindhoven. Thompson has played over 50 times for Australia, scoring 28 goals. He was in the squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, the 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup, 2001 and 2005 FIFA Confederations Cups, the 2007 AFC Asian Cup, the 2008 Summer Olympics and the successful 2004 OFC Nations Cup. He holds the all time goal scoring List of world association football records, record for a single international match, where he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
