The Brighton Soccer Club is an Australian Community run

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club based in the

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suburb of

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. The club was founded in late 1987 by the merger of the original Brighton and Prahran City soccer clubs founded in 1924 and 1908 respectively. The club fields both senior and reserve teams for men & women, . This club has no connection to the defunct 'Prahran City Football Club' that competed in 2012–2015.

Honours

Historical (1909–1987)

Brighton (1925–1987)

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:Winners (5): 1933, 1937, 1943, 1944, 1952 :Runner's up (3): 1951, 1953, 1956 * Victorian First Tier :Premiers (1): 1949 :Runner's up (3): 1944, 1945, 1952 * Victorian Second Tier :Premiers (1): 1927 :Runner's up (2): 1930, 1961 * Victorian Fourth Tier :Premiers (1): 1974 :Runner's up (1): 1925, 1969

Prahran/Prahran City (1909–1987)

:Winners (2): 1942, 1946 :Runners-up (4):

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, 1937, 1939, 1941 * Victorian First Tier :Premiers (4): 1927, 1939, 1944, 1945 :Runner's up (5): 1937, 1941, 1943, 1946, 1947 * Victorian Second Tier :Runner's up (3): 1926, 1936, 1955 * Victorian Third Tier :Premiers (1): 1969 * Victorian Fourth Tier :Premiers (1): 1985 :Runner's up (1): 1968

Recent (1988–present)

* Victorian Third Tier :Runner's up (1): 1990 * Victorian Sixth Tier :Premiers (1): 2015 (South)

References

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