Oakleigh Cannons
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Full name | Oakleigh Cannons Football Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname(s) | The Cannons | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Founded | 1972 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ground | Jack Edwards Reserve, Oakleigh, Victoria |
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Chairman | Mal Sharma | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head Coach | Stuart Munro | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
League | Victorian Premier League | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2006 | 4th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Oakleigh Cannons Football Club is an Australian association football club based in the south-east Melbourne suburb of Oakleigh, Victoria.
The club currently competes in the Victorian Premier League.
[edit] History
The club was formed in 1972 as the South Oakleigh Soccer Club by members of Oakleigh's Greek community.
In season 2006 they dominated the regular season, winning the minor premiership comfortably, but bowed out of the finals with consecutive losses to Altona Magic and Heidelberg United.