Glenorchy Knights Football Club is an Australian
association football
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club based in
Glenorchy,
Tasmania
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. Founded in 1957, the club competes in Australia's second-tier
National Premier League
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, with matches played at
KGV Park
KGV Park, or simply KGV (King George V) is home to Football Federation Tasmania, the governing body for association football in Tasmania, and home to the Glenorchy Knights football team. It is referred to as the Home of Football in Tasmania.
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History
The club was founded in 1957 as Glenorchy Croatia, and experienced almost immediate success, winning the state title for the first time in 1963. They experienced their best success in the 1970s, winning three titles, before having a league lull in the 1980s. However, re-branded as the Glenorchy Knights, they have slowly established a new sense of self, culminating in winning the
State Championship
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History
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for the first time in 13 years in 2005, and narrowly missing out on back to back state titles by losing a penalty shoot-out to
Somerset
( en, All The People of Somerset)
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in 2006. In 2010, Glenorchy Knights finished in 3rd Position in the Forestry Tasmania Southern Premier League.
In 2012 Glenorchy Knights were accepted with a license to participate in a new Tasmanian statewide league
NPL Tasmania between 2012 and 2015.
In 2015 Glenorchy Knights were unsuccessful in their application to remain within the NPL Tasmania and returned to lower
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. ...
in 2016.
The 2015 season was particularly poor for the Knights' first grade side, who won just two games all season and finished with a -133 goal difference.
Glenorchy Knights responded by winning three consecutive Southern Championship's in 2016, 2017 and 2018, losing just three in 49 games.
Honours
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State Championship
New Zealand has had a domestic first-class cricket championship since the 1906–07 season. Since the 2009–10 season it has been known by its original name of the Plunket Shield.
History
The Plunket Shield competition was instigated in Octob ...
: 7 times (1970, 1974, 1975, 1992, 1999, 2005, 2021)
*State Championship Runners-up: 5 times (1978, 1980, 1998, 2006, 2020)
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Southern Premierships: 10 times(1970, 1974, 1975, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2016, 2017, 2018)
*Southern Premier Runners-up: (9 times) 1967, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1985, 1986, 1998, 2002
*KO Cup Winners: (8 times) 1963, 1969, 1970, 1978, 2000, 2005, 2012, 2020
*KO Cup Runners-up: (5 times) 1968, 1974, 2001, 2003, 2017
*Summer Cup Winners: (5 times) 1979, 1982, 1983, 1993, 2003
*Cadbury Charity Cup Winners: (once)1993
*Cadbury Trophy Winners: (3 times) 1978, 1985, 1992
*Falkinder and Association Cup Winners: (once)1964
*Falkinder and Association Cup Runners-up: (5 times) 1962, 1963, 1966, 1970, 1973
*Lloyd Triestino Cup Winners: (2 times) 1972, 1973
Seasons
See also
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List of Croatian soccer clubs in Australia
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Australian-Croatian Soccer Tournament
The Australian-Croatian Soccer Tournament is a tournament run by the Croatian Soccer Federation of Australia and New Zealand, an organisation founded in 1974. The inspiration for the tournament came from the successful Croatian-North American So ...
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Croatian Australian
Croatian Australians are Australian citizens of Croatian ancestry. Croatia has been a source of migrants to Australia, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s. In 2021, 200,000 persons resident in Australia (0.6%) identified themselves as having ...
References
External links
Official club website
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National Premier Leagues clubs
Soccer clubs in Tasmania
Croatian sports clubs in Australia
Association football clubs established in 1957
1957 establishments in Australia
Glenorchy, Tasmania
Sport in Hobart