Point Cook Soccer Club are 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 from
Point Cook, Victoria
Point Cook is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Wyndham local government area. Point Cook recorded a population of 66,781 at the 2021 census.
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, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. The club currently plays in the
Victorian State League Division 3
The Victorian State League Division 3 is the sixth tier soccer competition (behind the National Premier Leagues) in Victoria, Australia, and the seventh nationally, including the A-League. It is conducted by the Football Federation Victoria
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North-West.
History
The Point Cook Soccer Club was established in 2008 in Point Cook, in the western suburbs of
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...
.
[ The club plays its home games at Saltwater Reserve, which boasts some of the best sporting facilities in Victoria with 1 synthetic oval, 2 x football/cricket ovals and three turf soccer pitches. As of 2014 it had more than 500 members, ranging from junior to senior levels, and including both male and female teams.][ By 2014 the club had three girls' teams and a women's team.
The under-14 boys' team were runners-up at the ]Kanga Cup
The Kanga Cup is a week-long international youth association football tournament held annually in Canberra, Australia during July. The tournament is run as an open cup consisting of both male and female competitors with teams from diverse backgr ...
in Canberra in 2013.[ This is the Southern Hemisphere's largest International Youth Soccer Tournament.][ The under-12 boys won the 2014 Kanga Cup male plate in the first competition in which they played against teams from other states.
In April 2015 the club appointed Craig Filer, from Wales (UK), as the club's Head Coach . The club was aiming to climb to ]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 over ...
within five years, and to eventually compete in the Australian National Premier Leagues
The National Premier Leagues (NPL) is a national association football competition in Australia which acts as the second tier of the sport in the country below the A-League. The NPL consists of the highest level state league in each state-based ...
.
In 2017, Point Cook SC were promoted from State League Division 4 to State League 3 and despite a tough 1st season finished a respectable 7th just 6 points of a top 3 finish.
Notable players
* Joe Spiteri
Joseph Spiteri (born 6 May 1973) is an Australian former soccer player who played at both professional and international levels as a striker.
Personal life
Spiteri is of Maltese descent and lives in a Maltese neighbourhood of a Sydney subu ...
(2013–2016)1996 Summer Olympics
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and represented Australia national football team from 1995–1997. Austrian Football Bundesliga
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club SK Sturm Graz
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In its history, Sturm Graz has won the Austria ...
from 1996–1998, Belgian Pro League
The Belgian Pro League,(officially the Jupiler Pro League due to sponsorship reasons with Jupiler), is the top league competition for association football clubs in Belgium. Contested by 18 clubs since the 2020–21 season and reduced to 16 team ...
club Lierse S.K.
Koninklijke Lierse Sportkring (), often simply known as Lierse, was a Belgian professional football club from the city of Lier in the Antwerp province. Lierse have won four championship titles and two Belgian Cups. Lierse was one of the six Be ...
from 1998–2001 and Allsvenskan
Allsvenskan (; en, the All-Swedish, also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan, en, the Football All-Swedish) is a Swedish professional league for men's association football clubs. It was founded in 1924 and is the top tier of the Swedish football lea ...
club IFK Norrköping
Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna Norrköping, more commonly known as IFK Norrköping or simply Norrköping, is a Swedish professional football club based in Norrköping. The club is affiliated to Östergötlands Fotbollförbund and play their ...
in 2001.
Notable coaches
* Craig Filer (2015–) – Holds a UEFA
Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; french: Union des associations européennes de football; german: Union der europäischen Fußballverbände) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs f ...
B coaching license, former scout for Bristol Rovers
Bristol Rovers Football Club are a professional football club in Bristol, England. They compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league system.
They play home matches at the Memorial Stadium in Horfield, they have been c ...
and former academy co-ordinator at Newport County.
References
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Victorian State League teams
Sport in the City of Wyndham
Soccer clubs in Melbourne
Association football clubs established in 2008
2008 establishments in Australia