Palmerston Football Club was an Australian
soccer
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
Palmerston Palmerston may refer to:
People
* Christie Palmerston (c. 1851–1897), Australian explorer
* Several prominent people have borne the title of Viscount Palmerston
** Henry Temple, 1st Viscount Palmerston (c. 1673–1757), Irish nobleman an ...
, the Northern Territory. Palmerston competed in the NorZone Premier League. After the 2008 season the club was relegated, but was reinstated in the Territory's top league on the provision of relocating its training base closer to the Palmerston City, Northern Territory, Palmerston city centre.
History
The club was formed as Palmerston La Faek in 1999, however prior to the club's incorporation in 1991, Palmerston's first Association football, soccer team in 1984 was the ''Palmerston and Rural Districts Junior Soccer Club''. La-Faek came from the East Timorese word meaning crocodile, which was part of the club's emblem. Also on the emblem was a satellite dish, representing Palmerston as a Satellite town, satellite city to Darwin. The clubhouse is a customary building of Timor. In 2008 the club changed its name to Palmerston Football Club.
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Soccer clubs in the Northern Territory
Association football clubs established in 1999
1999 establishments in Australia
Palmerston, Northern Territory
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Defunct soccer clubs in Australia