Penrith Nepean United Football Club, originally the Penrith Panthers, was an Australian

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 ...

club based in

St Marys, New South Wales St Marys is a suburb in western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 45 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Penrith. St Marys sits between South Creek which ...

History

The club was originally known as Penrith Panthers. It rose to the New South Wales First Division in 1996 and again to the

New South Wales Super League The NSW League One Men is an Australian semi-professional association football league comprising teams from New South Wales. The league sits at Level 2 on the New South Wales league system, behind the National Premier Leagues NSW, (Level 3 of th ...

in 2000. The club became Penrith Nepean United from 2004. From 2007, the club was promoted to the

New South Wales Premier League The National Premier Leagues NSW is a semi-professional soccer competition in New South Wales, Australia. The competition is conducted by Football NSW, the organising body in New South Wales (the other being the National Premier Leagues Norther ...

, the highest level of competitive

football (soccer) in New South Wales Soccer in New South Wales is a popular participation and spectator sport. It is organised and managed on a state level by two separate governing bodies; Football NSW and Northern New South Wales Football which are affiliated at a national leve ...

. United finished its last season in 2009 on ninth place amongst twelve participants, and ceased operations after this. The club hosted its home games at

Penrith Stadium Penrith Stadium (known commercially as BlueBet Stadium) is a rugby league and association football stadium located in Penrith, New South Wales, Australia. The 22,500 capacity venue is the home ground for the Penrith Panthers who play in the Na ...

, which from 2006 was named by sponsorship as Credit Union Australia (CUA) Stadium.

Notable people

Kyah Simon Kyah Pam Simon (born 25 June 1991) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a striker for Tottenham Hotspur of the FA Women's Super League. In 2011, Simon became the first Indigenous Australian player to score a goal in a FI ...

, later a Matildas player, moved to the club from the Hills Brumbies early in her career.

References

External links

Penrith Nepean United FC
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