Manningham United Blues Football Club is an Australian soccer club from

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, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. The club was formed in 1965 by local Italian Australians and was formerly known as Fawkner Blues. In 2010,

Fawkner SC Fawkner Soccer Club is an Australian soccer club from Fawkner, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. The club was formed in 1967 by local Italian Australians after Fawkner SC separated from Fawkner Blues now known as Manningham United FC Ma ...

split from the club. Manningham United plays their senior games at Pettys Reserve.

History

In 1999, the club, originally known as Manningham Juniors Soccer Club, had just three junior teams, with a committee led by Paul Martinello and Tari Mallia.

Fawkner-Whittlesea Blues

In 2004 Fawkner Blues merged with Whittlesea Stallions to form Fawkner-Whittlesea Blues. Their home games were played at Whittlesea's home stadium

Epping Stadium Epping Stadium is an Australian soccer ground on Harvest Home Rd in Epping, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. The stadium has a capacity of 10,000, with approximately 1000 seats in its sole grandstand. The venue was host to several National Soc ...

. The merge only lasted until 2006. The club played in the 2005 and 2006

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. In 2005 they finished fourth but only six points from first. The following year, the final year before Fawkner-Whittlesea dissolved, it finished 10th. At the end of 2006, Fawkner opted to go back to being a stand-alone club and Whittlesea forming a partnership with Bulleen Lions to form the Whittlesea Zebras, who have been known as

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since 2011. In 2013, Manningham were playing in the Victorian State League 5 and had finished 5th. Fawkner on the other hand playing in State League 1 would finish dead last, below Eastern Lions by 6 points. Manningham United player taking a shot in a friendly

Manningham United player taking a shot in a friendly

The season before the merger, Manningham had just escaped the bottom of the ladder finishing above Brandon Park who only managed one win in the entire season. Manningham ended the season on 19 points with 6 wins and 1 draw. In the 2014 season Fawkner finished 3rd behind

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and

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Manningham United Blues

On 27 November 2014 it was announced that Manningham United, a then Victorian State League 4 team would merge with Fawkner Blues, a State League 1 team, and Manningham United Blues Football Club was born. In 2014 they fielded 30 junior teams and have grown to be the biggest community club in Manningham. They moved from

CB Smith Reserve CB Smith Reserve is a football facility based in Fawkner, Victoria, a suburb 12 km north of the centre of Melbourne. The venue is home to the Pascoe Vale Soccer Club and Brunswick Juventus who compete in the National Premier Leagues Vi ...

which

now plays at to play at Mannigham's ground Timberidge or alternatively Wilson Road Reserve. In its inaugural season Manningham finished a disappointing 10th. In 2016, it finished in fifth. In the first season of the merger, Manningham United Blues would finish 10th. Manningham's seniors had a relatively slow start to the season with only two wins in the first five matches. however form hit when they won six matches in a row from round 7–12 and were only stopped by eventual winners

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. It looked at that point even though there was a loss to Mornington there was still a good chance of a high place finish or even the title. However, with one win in the last five matches including a 3–3 draw to bottom side Frankston Pines FC a fifth-place finish would ultimately be disappointing for Manningham. Manningham United Promotion

In 2018, Manningham achieved promotion from State League 1 to the

National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 The National Premier Leagues Victoria 2, commonly referred to as NPL Victoria 2, is a semi-professional soccer league in Victoria, Australia. The league is the second-highest in the Victorian league system, behind the National Premier Leagues V ...

with a league championship. Dean Lorenzi finished as the club's and league's top goalscorer with 21 goals.

National Premier Leagues Victoria

Manningham United reached an agreement with the

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to play its senior home games for the 2019 season.

Club name and logo

Logo

Fawkner's original logo has not been touched except for their brief merge with Whittlesea Stallions in 2004 which would eventually end in 2006. After Fawkner-Whittlesea Blues dissolved Fawkner changed back to their original logo. When they would eventually merge with Manningham it would stay relatively the same, however that cannot be said for Manningham. Manningham started off in 1999 with a soccer ball as the foundation of their logo with blue pentagons and blue and white stripes on it. In 2011 a name change and a new logo as well the ball still featured heavily but instead of blue and white it would be blue and black to match their new colours. This new logo would only last three years because in 2014 Manningham and Fawkner would merge and the logo stayed relatively the same and it so happened that a soccer ball once again featured heavily on the logo. File:Fawkner Blues Logo.jpg, Fawkner Blues Original Logo File:Manningham JSC Logo.jpg, Manningham Junior Soccer Club Logo 1999-2010 File:Manningham United old logo from 1999-2011.png, Manningham United Logo 2011-2014 File:Manningham United Logo.jpg, Current Manningham United Blues Logo

Name

The club that is now Manningham United Blues originally was founded in 1965 under the name Fawkner however in 1994 they changed their club name to Fawkner Blues, with a brief change to Fawkner-Whittlesea Blues after a merge with Whittlesea in 2004 which ended in 2006. merge with Manningham United in 2014 as Manningham adopted the blues to become Manningham United Blues. Manningham have also had several name changes. Beginning as Manningham Junior Soccer Club in 1999 the club swapped out the soccer for a more traditional football. The name and logo lasted only three years after a merge with Fawkner in 2014 and they adopted part of their name and majority of their badge.

Kit provider and sponsor

FFA/Australia Cup Record

Overall

Matches

Records

Biggest Win Manningham United 13–0 Tatura SC BIggest Defeat

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6–1 Manningham United FC Manningham United FC 0–5

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Best Result Sixth Round Preliminary,

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Top Goalscorer

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: (4) Most Appearances David Lorenzi (9) ;Notes Manninham's score is always in bold P: Preliminary Round

Dockerty Cup Record

From 2014 onwards, the Dockerty Cup is also a qualifying completion for the

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Overall

Matches

Records

Biggest Win Karingal United 0–6 Fawkner (14 October 1984) Fawkner 7–1 Springvale United (27 February 1993)

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0–6 Fawkner Blues (31 August 2004) Biggest Defeat

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7–0 Fawkner (17 October 1987) Notes Manninham's score is always in bold AFL1: Affiliated Leagues Round One PR: Provisional League Preliminary Round PL2: Provisional League Second Round P1: First Preliminary Round P2: Second Preliminary Round P3: Third Preliminary Round R: Round QF: Quarter Final SF: Semi Final F: Final AET: After Extra Time †: Match Went to Penalties Ref:

State knockout cup

The State knockout cup also known as the previously known as the "Team App Cup" now known as the "Nike F.C. Cup" is an annual women's cup which was introduced in 2012 under the name Women's State Knockout Cup, Manningham first competed in 2017 entering in the qualifying round.

Overall

Matches

Notes Manninham's score is always in bold QR: Qualifying Round

Competition timeline

Records

Individual Records

Most Appearances- (485)

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(1980–1983, 1985–1992, 1994–2003) Top Goalscorer- (45) Bruno Cozzella (1983–1986, 1988)

Team Records

Highest League Position: 1st

(2002) Lowest League Position: 7th Victorian Metropolitan League South-East (2009) Most Wins In A Single Season: 22, (1982) Most Draws In A Single Season: 13, (1994) Most Losses In A Single Season: 17, (1989 and 2008) Most Points In A Single Season: 46, (1982, and 1999) Most Goals Scored In A Single Season: 81, (1978) Most Goals Conceded In A Single Season: 59, (2008) Biggest League Win: Fawkner 11–0 South Dandenong, Victorian Provisional League, 10 September 1977 Biggest League Defeat: Fawkner Blues 0–6

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, Victorian Premier League, 13 July 2008 Highest Scoring League Game: Fawkner 11–0 South Dandenong, Victorian Provisional, League 10 September 1977 Manningham 4–7 Albert Park, Victorian Metropolitan League Central, 9 April 2011 Manningham 4–7

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Attendances

Highest ever attendance: 6,500 vs

at Bob Jane Stadium,

Grand Final, 25 August 2002 Highest home attendance: 4,750 vs

4 July 2005

Honours

League

*Victorian Premier League (Victorian second tier) :Minor Premiers(1) 2002 :Runners Up(1) 1993 *Victorian Metropolitan League Division 1 (Victorian third tier) :Champions(1) 1982 *Victorian Metropolitan League Division 2/ State League 1(Victorian fourth tier) :Champions(2) 1981, 2018 :Runners Up(1) 2010 *Victorian Metropolitan League Division 3/ State League 2 North-West (Victorian fifth tier) :Champions(1)2012 :Runners Up(1) 1980 *Provisional League/Victorian Metropolitan League Division 4 (Victorian sixth tier) :Champions(1) 1978 :Runners Up(3) 1973,1975,1977 *Metropolitan League 5 South-East :Champions(1) 2017

Cup

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:Winners(1) 1984 :Runners Up(1) 2004

Individual honours

FFV Best and Fairest *2011 Mens Metro Central –

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VPL Player of the Year *1989 – George Campbell *1990 – Claude Lucchesi Bill Fleming Medal *2002 –

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*2003 –

VPL Goalkeeper of the Year *2007 –

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VPL Coach of the Year *2002 – Josip Biskic VPL Under 21 Player of the Year *2002 –

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Wienstein Medal *1997 –

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Jimmy Rooney Medal *1993 – Adrian Pender

Current squad

Senior squad

Notable players

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(Youth Career) * Andreas Govas (Youth Career) *

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(Youth Career) * Doug Brown (1987–1988) * Scott Fraser (1988) * George Campbell (1989) * Carlos Retre (1991–1997) *

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(1991–1992) * Manny Anezakis (1992–1994) * Chris Jackson (1993–1994) * Brian Bothwell (1993, 1994 & 1996) *

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(1994) * Jude Kattan (1994) * Ransford Banini (1995) *

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(1996, 2011) *

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(1997) * Josip Biskic (1998–2001) *

(2002,2004) * Chimaobi Nwaogazi (2003) *

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(2004–2005) *

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(2004) *

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(2004–2006) *

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(2005) * Vince Lia (2005) *

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(2006–2007) *

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(2006) *

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(2015) *

Vojtěch Engelmann Vojtěch Engelmann (born 4 July 1989) is a professional Czech Republic, Czech association football, football player who last played for Manningham United FC Engelmann arrived at Dukla in January 2012 from third division side TJ Kunice. He made h ...

(2016) * Siddharth Singh (2016–2017) *

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(2019) * Yanni Barberoglou (2019) * Nicolas Chalmet (2022-) * Kojo Brown (2022-)

Notable managers

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(1994) * Michael Micevski (1994) * Kenny Murphy (1997–2000) * Josip Biskić (2002–2003) * Eddie Krncevic (2003) *

(2004–2006)

References

External links

Official SiteFootball Federation Victoria Official website
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History

Fawkner-Whittlesea Blues

Manningham United Blues

National Premier Leagues Victoria

Club name and logo

Logo

Name

Kit provider and sponsor

FFA/Australia Cup Record

Overall

Matches

Records

Dockerty Cup Record

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Matches

Records

State knockout cup

Overall

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Competition timeline

Records

Individual Records

Team Records

Attendances

Honours

League

Cup

Individual honours

Current squad

Senior squad

Notable players

Notable managers

See also

References

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