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Preston Lions FC
Preston Lions Football Club (formerly Preston Makedonia Soccer Club) is a semi-professional association football, soccer club from Preston, Victoria, Preston, a northern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. The club was established in 1947 to play non-professional soccer matches against other teams in the local community until 1959, and 12 years later, they joined the Victorian Soccer Federation (now Football Victoria), the club's first season in an officially sanctioned competition. The club won promoted in 2022 from NPL 3 Victoria and in 2024 from VPL 1 to return top flight football Victoria NPL in 2025. The Lions currently compete in the NPL Victoria competition, which is the third tier in the Australian soccer league system.The club won the NPL Victoria, VPL/NPL Victoria in seasons 1980, 1994, 2002 and 2007. History Foundation The club was founded in 1947 and was affiliated with the Victorian Soccer Federation (now Football Victoria) in 1959. Ba ...
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Reservoir, Victoria
Reservoir ( ) is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, north of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City of Darebin Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. Reservoir recorded a population of 51,096 at the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census. Reservoir is an established suburb with standard brick or clapboard, weatherboard homes, and an increasing number of new developments. The suburb contains popular recreation areas and facilities, including Edwardes Lake and the Reservoir Leisure Centre, and is home to the Edwardes Street and Broadway shopping strips. History The land which became the suburb of Reservoir was first surveyed by Robert Hoddle in 1837, and was formed from parts of both the Jika Jika Parish and Keelbundoora Parish. The Rose Shamrock Hotel, formerly known as The Rose Shamrock & Thistle Hotel, opened on Plenty Road in 1854. Reservoir post office opened around ...
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Diamond Valley United
Diamond Valley United Soccer Club is a soccer club based in Greensborough, Victoria, Australia. Greensborough SC played at Willinda Park, Greensborough, until 2003 when that ground became dedicated to athletics. The local members then joined Heidelberg-Bundoora to create Diamond Valley United Soccer Club in 1986. Notably, Eltham SC also merged with the club in 1989. The old Greensborough SC was taken over by a Cypriot community who moved the club to City of Moorabbin with the new name of Bentleigh Greens SC. The colours were subsequently changed from green and white to all green. Diamond Valley United Soccer Club is currently (2023) in Victorian State League Division 3, Victorian State League Division 3 North-West and plays its home games at Partingtons Flat, Greensborough. External linksDiamond Valley United official siteDiamond Valley ...
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Connor Bell
Connor Bell (born 15 July 1996) is an English professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football), striker in Australia for Preston Lions FC in the National Premier Leagues Victoria. Career In the summer of 2017, Bell joined Scottish Championship side Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C., Inverness Caledonian Thistle after a spell in Switzerland playing for Servette FC, Servette's under-21 side in the 2. Liga Interregional, fifth-tier of Swiss football where he scored six goals in 16 matches. Bell then joined Greenock Morton F.C., Greenock Morton in the summer of 2018 and scored on his debut against Albion Rovers F.C., Albion Rovers. In February 2019, having been released by Greenock Morton in the previous month, Bell signed for Northern Premier League, Evo-Stik Northern Premier League side South Shields. He scored his first goal for the club in a 4–1 over Hednesford Town F.C., Hednesford Town In June 2019, Bell moved to Australia, sign ...
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Banyule City SC
Banyule City SC is an Australian soccer club from Viewbank. Banyule City plays their matches in the Victorian State League Division 1. It sits at Level 3 on the Victorian league system (Level 4 of the overall Australian league system) __TOC__ History Banyule City SC was founded as Rosanna in 1969. The club changed its name to Banyule City in 1995. Honours * Victorian State League Division 2 North-West Champions 2015 * Victorian Provisional League Division One Runners Up 1982 * Victorian Provisional Division Three Champions 1981 * Victorian State League Division 3 North-West Champions 2009 * Victorian League Division 4 Champions 1985 * Victorian State League Division 4 The Victorian State League, known as VETO Sports State League for sponsorship purposes is an Australian soccer league based in Victoria that was founded in 1958 and administered by Football Victoria. It consists of five divisions (separated by t ... Runners Up 1993 Ex-Players * George Campbell (1 ...
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Keilor Park SC
Keilor Park Soccer Club is an Australian soccer club based in Keilor Park, Melbourne. The club currently competes in the Victorian State League Division 2 The Victorian State League, known as VETO Sports State League for sponsorship purposes is an Australian association football, soccer league based in Victoria (state), Victoria that was founded in 1958 and administered by Football Victoria. It co .... History The Keilor Park Soccer Club was originally established in 1957, at the Blue Cellar Restaurant in Fitzroy from where the club's administration was conducted until 1961. The club originally appointed two club administrators to organise the formation and structure of the club and election of the first Committee. According to club records, the first official game of soccer was played in 1958. Keilor's first home ground was at Royal Park, behind the current Royal Children's Hospital. The Club then moved on a number of occasions from Royal Park to Elwood, Footscray, Maribyr ...
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Geelong SC
Geelong Soccer Club (Formerly Geelong Makedonia, West Geelong, East Geelong) is an Australian soccer club based in Geelong, Australia founded in 1958 by Geelong's Macedonian Australian community. In 2019, Geelong SC obtained National Premier Leagues Victoria status after being crowned 2018 champions of Football Victoria State League 1 North-West. Geelong SC is based at Winslow Park which is located in the Stead Park Sports Precinct in Corio, Victoria and is strongly supported by the Macedonian community of Geelong. History Early history The Geelong Soccer Club was established in the early 1950s as a way of playing soccer and socialising. Not long after the club was established, it began competing in the local Geelong and Ballarat Soccer League where it experienced local success. In the early seventies the club was promoted to the Victorian Provisional League and later gained promotion to the Victorian State League. In 1994, East Geelong Soccer Club moved to Stead Park after ...
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Naum Sekulovski
Naum Sekulovski (born 14 May 1982) is an Australian retired soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ... player who last played for Preston Lions in the NPL 2 Victoria competition. A League career statistics (''Correct as of 21 March 2010'') Honours Perth Glory FC *Best Clubman: 2010 References External links Perth Glory profile 1982 births Living people Soccer players from Melbourne Sekulovski, Naum Oakleigh Cannons FC players Falcons 2000 SC players Wollongong Wolves FC players Parramatta Power SC players Preston Lions FC players Perth Glory FC players Persema Malang players Hume City FC players Goulburn Valley Suns FC players A-League Men players National Premier Leagues players Indonesian Premier League players Victorian Institute o ...
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Robert Stambolziev
Robert Alexander Petar Stambolziev (born 26 October 1990) is an Australian retired professional footballer who last played as a winger for National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 club Preston Lions. A product of Bristol City's Youth Academy to make over 100 appearances in his football career, Stambolziev left Australia at a young age to join the club in the EFL League One, where he played in the Premier Academy League and FA Youth Cup. In 2009, Stambolziev joined Super League Greece club Panathinaikos before playing in three of Greece's four professional league's in the Greek football league system. Between 2012 and 2014, he made over 50 appearances in Cypriot football and also played in the 2016 AFC Champions League for Sydney FC. He later returned to Cypriot football to reach the quarter-finals of the 2017–18 Cypriot Cup with PAEEK. Stambolziev represented Australia at under-20 level between 2008 and 2009. Club career Early career Stambolziev grew up in the suburb Whittl ...
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North Sunshine Eagles FC
North Sunshine Eagles FC is a soccer club from St Albans, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is an Albanian Australian-backed club. In 2019 the Club competed in the Victorian State League Division 1 North-West division, after promotion in 2014. However, with a successful year, NSEFC will be promoted to NPL Victoria 3 in 2020; entering a new era of professional football. History Early years The club was founded in 1975 as Klubi Futbollistik Shqiponja – Albanian Eagle Soccer Club by Albanian migrants. In 1989 the club moved its home base from McIvor Reserve in Yarraville to Keilor Downs. Just two years later in 1991, the club moved its home base once more to its current location at Larissa Reserve in the Western Melbourne suburb of St Albans. In 1993, the club changed its name from Albanian Eagle SC to North Sunshine Eagles Soccer Club. In 2000, NSEFC was promoted from Victorian Provisional League 1 to Victorian State League Division 3. Another promo ...
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FFA Cup
The Australia Cup (currently known as the Hahn Australia Cup for sponsorship reasons) is the national soccer knockout cup competition in Australia. This annual competition is organised by Football Australia (known as Football Federation Australia until 2020). The Australia Cup comprises teams from the top division, A-League Men (known as simply the A-League before the 2021–22 season), as well as those from lower tiers in the Australian soccer league system. Teams enter in progressive stages, with qualifying rounds culminating with the competition proper, starting with the Round of 32. Each of the regional, state or territory-based member federation is granted a team allocation for entry into the main competition, joining clubs from A-League Men. Initially, all A-League Men's teams entered at the Round of 32; following the latest expansion of the league, the top eight teams enter at the Round of 32, while play-offs are conducted between the four lowest-ranked teams for the f ...
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Lupce Acevski
Lupce "Lou" Acevski (born 14 November 1977) is an Australian former soccer goalkeeper who later became a coach. As a player, he played 71 times in the Australian National Soccer League (NSL) for Melbourne Knights, Northern Spirit and Adelaide City. He had a short stint in Czech football where he played seven times for FK SIAD Most. He also made over 200 senior appearances in the Victorian Premier League. Lupce was coach of Hume City FC in the National Premier Leagues Victoria, but left on 21 July 2016. He now works as head coach of Preston Lions Preston Lions Football Club (formerly Preston Makedonia Soccer Club) is a semi-professional soccer club from Preston, a northern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The club was established in 1947 to play non-professional soccer matche .... Notes External links Acevski, Lupce at Australian Player Database* 1977 births Living people Australian men's soccer players Australian expatriate men's soccer players Aust ...
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Hume City FC
Hume City Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Broadmeadows, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Established by the local Turkish Australian community, the club competes in the National Premier Leagues Victoria. The club, known by the local Turkish Australian community as ''Anadoluspor'', is the most successful Turkish Australian-backed football club in Australia. Hume City has senior men's, women's and junior boys and girls teams, all based out of John Ilhan Memorial Reserve. History The club was established as ''Holland Park Football Club'' in 1979 by Cengiz Binyazar, Halit Kirdar and Abdullah Saglam. The club officially registered with the Victorian Soccer Federation in 1979, with Emin Aslan holding the position of president in its inaugural season. In 1993, the club decided on a change of direction and to take the club to higher places, out of the amateur divisions. The first step was the move to Reddish Reserve and to rename the club ' ...
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