Hobart City Football Club is an Australian semi-professional soccer club based in the suburb of
Sandy Bay in
Hobart
Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/Palawa kani: ''nipaluna'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-small ...
, Tasmania. The club's colours are green and black. The club plays its home games at
Sandown Park
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, known to fans as the ''Tropicana Cauldron'' or simply ''The Tropicana''. In 2021, Beachside FC and Hobart City merged to form a club under the current name.
History
Beachside FC
Beachside FC was founded in 1975 under the name Howrah Soccer Club because it played in the Hobart suburb of
Howrah
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.
The club then adopted the name Beachside HSC when it moved to its current home near Long Beach, in
Sandy Bay keeping the HSC from Howrah Soccer Club despite no longer playing in that suburb. In 2011, the name was changed subtly to Beachside FC.
Hobart City
In 1977, Hobart City Azzurri was founded to provide a youth soccer club for the Italian community. In 1981, the Club changed its name to Hobart City FC, as a result of a mandate from
Soccer Australia
Football Australia is the governing body of soccer, futsal, and beach soccer within Australia, headquartered in Sydney. Although the first governing body of the sport was founded in 1911, Football Australia in its current form was only establi ...
to remove all ethnic based names club titles. In 1986, the club become the Southern Tasmanian Seniors Division 1 Premiers and Knock Out Cup Winners. The club ceased to exist in late 1991, with its members joining other clubs or retiring. In 2021, family members of the original founders, began a re-creation of the Hobart City Azzurri.
Merger
In 2021, Beachside FC and Hobart City FC merged to form a new club under the name Hobart City Beachside FC and later changed to Hobart City FC In 2023
Team Honours
*Southern Championship 1 Champions (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
*2019 Men's Summer Cup Division A
*2013 Southern Premier League Champions
*2010 Southern Tasmanian Division One Champions (Promoted to
Southern Championship
The Southern Championship is an association football league in Southern Tasmania. It is jointly with the Northern Championship, the second highest level soccer competition in Tasmania. Nationally, it sits below the A-League and NPL Tasmania. ...
)
*2007 Southern Tasmanian Division One Champions
Individual honours
The club's best and fairest medal is named after
Alistair Hales while a yearly award is presented for the best contributor to the club's off-field success. This is named after James Dunsby, a club life member who died in an SAS selection test in Wales.
Seasons
A summary of the seasons of the Beachside Senior Men's Team:
Teams
In 2014 the club has male teams playing in the Tasmanian Southern Premier League, Premier League Reserves, Under 20s & Social Division Three. The club also has a female teams playing in Division One and youth teams. All Beachside teams play in competitions run by
Football Federation Tasmania
Football Tasmania (FT) is the governing body for soccer in the Australian state of Tasmania. The federation oversees competitions across Tasmania, Tasmanian representative teams, and development of the sport in the state. The federation was kno ...
.
Current competitions
Beachside has teams involved in the following senior competitions:
*Southern Championship
*Southern Championship 1
*Southern Women's Championship
*Southern Women's Championship 1
*Southern Championship 3
*Southern Championship 6
*Southern Womens Championship 1 Tier 1
See also
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Association football in Tasmania
Soccer in Tasmania describes the sport of soccer being played and watched by people in the state of Tasmania in Australia.
The governing body for the sport is Football Federation Tasmania is a member of the Football Federation Australia (FFA) w ...
References
External links
Beachside's Official WebsiteBeachside's Facebook PageBeachside's Twitter Feed
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Soccer clubs in Tasmania
1973 establishments in Australia
Sport in Hobart