Sunshine George Cross FC
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| Full name | Sunshine George Cross Football Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | The Georgies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1947 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Chaplin Reserve | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capacity | 5 000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Joe Montemurro | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Victorian Premier League | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| VPL 2006 | 12th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Sunshine George Cross Football Club are an Australian football (soccer) club from Sunshine, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
The team currently competes in the Victorian Premier League.
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[edit] History
The club was formed in 1947. They are associated with Melbourne's Maltese community, which primarily lives around Sunshine and St Albans. After many years of being based in various suburbs and grounds, the club finally settled down in Sunshine in the early 1980's and in 1983 the club amalgamated with fellow Victorian State League side Sunshine City.
The club was a powerhouse of Victorian soccer for most of the 1960's and 1970's, but apart from their sole Victorian title in 1977, the club was better known for finishing runner-up eight times, though the club's greatest achievement was also achieved in this era, winning the 1964 Australian Cup defeating APIA Leichhardt 3-2. The club also spent a largely unsuccessful period from 1984 to 1991 in the National Soccer League, making the finals only once, in 1986.
[edit] Honours
- Australian Cup winners 1964
- Victorian Champions 1977
- Dockerty Cup Winners 1959, 1962, 1978
[edit] Notable Former Players
- Kevin Muscat
- John Markovski
- Paul Trimboli
- Craig Foster
- Lorenz Kindtner
- Ernie Tapai
[edit] External links
- Sunshine George Cross Official website
- Sunshine Georgies at the Football Federation Victoria website
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