Sydney United
| Sydney United | |||
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| Surname | Sydney United Football Club | ||
| Seat | Sydney | ||
| founding | 1958 | ||
| president |
 Louie Apostolovski
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| Website | sydneyunited.com | ||
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| Head coach |
Mark Rudan
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| Venue | Sydney United Sports Center | ||
| Places | 12,000 | ||
| league | NSW Premier League | ||
| 2015 | 7th place | ||
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The Sydney United Football Club is an Australian football club from Sydney which was founded in 1958 by Croatian immigrants under the name Sydney Croatia Football Club .
In 1958, the club played its first season in what was then the NSW Soccer Football Association (NSWSFA) and did not lose a single game. After moving to the NSW Soccer Federation, they first played in the Third Division and rose to the Second Division in 1961 and in the First Division in 1963. In 1964 and 1965, after violent nationalistic activities by fans, the club was deprived of its right to play as "Croatia" and therefore played as the Sydney Metropolitan Adriatic Football Club .
In 1977 Sydney won the first championship in the New South Wales Division 1 under coach Luka Fabijinic . Two seasons later, the club moved to the new Sydney United Sports Center stadium, and a short time later the championships in 1982 and 1983 saw further successes. There were often more than 10,000 spectators in the stadium, which is why joining the National Soccer League was requested. But the association found it inappropriate to include a club with a nationalist club name in the league. However, the club was still unwilling to change its name.
After a complete restructuring of the league, Sydney Croatia was allowed to participate under this name in 1984. In the very first season, the new league set a new record with the wear and tear of six different coaches. Numerous successful years in the top Australian league followed, but only one cup win in 1987. In 1992 the club was renamed and has been called Sydney United since then . In the 1999/2000 season one of the darkest hours in the club's history of Sydney United followed, because they lost all players to the newly founded professional club Parramatta Power with the exception of one and the coach . Until the dissolution of the National Soccer League, the club could not record a successful season.
Since the fall of the league, Sydney United has been back in the New South Wales Premier League . After a fourth and a third place in the table United was NSW champions for the fourth time in 2006. Under coach Ante Milicic , Sydney United again reached first place in the table in 2009, but lost in the finals for the championship against Sutherland Sharks FC and the Marconi Stallions .
successes
- Masters of New South Wales: 1977, 1982, 1983, 2006
- Australian Cup Winner: 1987
player
Trainer
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Josip Kuže (1982-1984)
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ John O'Hara (Editor): Ethnicity and Soccer in Australia , Aust. Soc. f. Sports History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Univ. of Western Sydney , Macarthur, 1994. ISBN 0-646-15404-4