Kingborough Lions United Soccer Club
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| Full name | Kingborough Lions United Soccer Club |
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| Founded | 1998 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ground | Lightwood Park, Kingston | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capacity | 400 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman | Brian Dale | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Tim Dale | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Southern Premier League | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006 | 9th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kingborough Lions are an Australian professional football (soccer) club based in Kingston, Tasmania. They play in the Tasmanian Southern Premier League.
Kingborough Lions is a strong club, and has a complicated history having been formed out of several former clubs. The club formed as a merger between Kingborough United and West Hobart Lions in 1998.[citation needed]
However, West Hobart Lions was already a unified side formed out of a smaller West Hobart club, and the previously large successful side of "Caledonians" who were a powerhouse club in the 1950's, but had since faded. Kingborough United themselves were also already a merged side, having come together out of a union of Kingston and Rapid.
As a result, Kingborough Lions are the inheiritors of the traditions of these four clubs, and have now become a large club that the municipality of Kingborough can be proud of. Although relatively unsuccessful since merging, the club is well set in a growing community for future success.
[edit] Honours
- State Championships: 6 times (as "Caledonians", 1953,1955,1056,1957,1958,1960) 4 times (as "Rapid", 1976,1979,19801982)
- State Championship Runners-up: Once (as "Caledonians",1959) Twice (as "Rapid" 1961,1965)
- Southern Premierships: 7 times (as "Caledonians", 1953,1955,1956,1957,1959,1960,1981) 5 times (as "Rapid",1958,1961,1964,1976,1982)
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