Blacktown City FC, formerly The Demons, are an Australian football (soccer)

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 club based in Blacktown

Blacktown, New South Wales

Blacktown is a suburb in the City of Blacktown, in Western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Blacktown is located 34 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre of the local government area of City of Blacktown.Blacktown is the largest...

, New South Wales

New South Wales

New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. The club was formed in 1953 as Toongabbie Soccer Club and changed their name to Blacktown City in 1979. The club competed in the National Soccer League

National Soccer League

The National Soccer League is the former national association football competition in Australasia, overseen by Soccer Australia and later the Australian Soccer Association. The NSL spanned 28 seasons from its inception in 1977, until its demise in 2004...

 in 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1989 and 1990.

Since then they have competed in the highest level in New South Wales, the NSW Premier League, where they have finished Premiers (1st in the League) in 2001, 2002/03, 2004/05, 2006 and 2007.

The Blacktown City Demons took out the double in 2007 winning both the Premiership and then staging a miraculous comeback from 1-1 with ten men to defeat Bankstown City 3-1 and claim the Championship.

The team was known as Blacktown City Demons and owned by The Demons Sports Club until 2009 when the club went into liquidation

Liquidation

In law, liquidation is the process by which a company is brought to an end, and the assets and property of the company redistributed. Liquidation is also sometimes referred to as winding-up or dissolution, although dissolution technically refers to the last stage of liquidation...

. The demon image was retained in the logo but dropped from the name.

Current squad

Adam Biddle

Adam Biddle (footballer)

Adam Biddle is an Australian football player who plays for Blacktown City Demons.-Club career:...

 Mirko Jurilj Luke Roodenburg Mitchell Long Jordan Simpson

Jordan Simpson

Jordan Simpson is an Australian football player who plays as a central midfielder for New South Wales Premier League club Blacktown City Demons.- Club career :...

 Brendan Maroney Travis Major Kain Rastall Paul Karbon Chris Bedzo Ray Miller Luke Austin Joel Chianese

Joel Chianese

Joel Chianese is an Australian football player currently playing for Sydney FC in the A-League. He plays as a Midfielder.-Sydney FC:...

 Nicholas Fitzgerald

Nicholas Fitzgerald

Nicholas Fitzgerald , is an Australian football player currently playing for Brisbane Roar FC in the Hyundai A-League.-Club career:...

 Gavin Forbes Luke Dukic Matthew Ryan Tolgay Ozbey

Tolgay Ozbey

Tolgay Özbey is an Australian football player, who currently plays for Kingfisher East Bengal.-Biography:Early in his career, Özbey was recognized for his contributions as a Striker with Blacktown City Demons during which he was chosen as the NSW Premier League Player Of The Year in 2006 and won...

 Michael Herbert

Michael Herbert

Michael Herbert was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician.A publican from Castleconnell, County Limerick, he unsuccessfully contested the 1965 general election and was first elected to Dáil Éireann in the 1969 general election as a Teachta Dála for Limerick East...

 Matthew Pressllo Kain Rastall Ante Deur Carlo Aloisio Bruno Salas

Notable former players

Australia
Robbie Slater

Robbie Slater

Robert "Robbie" Slater is a former Australian footballer and football pundit.-Early years:Slater, a red-haired midfielder, moved to Australia as a youngster and started his playing career in Australia, with various clubs in his youth before joining St George Saints in the National Soccer League in...

 Adam Kwasnik

Adam Kwasnik

Adam Kwasnik is an Australian football player. He currently plays as a striker for the Australian A-League club the Central Coast Mariners.-Club career:...

 Darren Stewart

Darren Stewart

Darren Stewart is a former Australian football player.He is a former Australia national football team player from 1991-1993...

 Jason van Blerk

Jason van Blerk

Jason van Blerk is a former Australian footballer. He played primarily as a midfielder, but could also play in defense. He has played for many clubs, both overseas and locally. He has also represented Australia both at youth and senior level.-Club career:Van Blerk started his club career at...

 Gary van Egmond

Gary van Egmond

Gary van Egmond is an Australian football manager of Dutch heritage who is currently the manager of Newcastle Jets in the A-League.-Playing career:Van Egmond began his playing career with APIA Leichhardt in 1982...

 Charlie Yankos

Charlie Yankos

Charles Yankos is a former Greek-Australian football player who played for the Australian football team 49 times and scored 7 full international goals...

 Adam Biddle

Adam Biddle (footballer)

Adam Biddle is an Australian football player who plays for Blacktown City Demons.-Club career:...

 Scott Jamieson

Scott Jamieson

Scott Jamieson is an Australian football player who plays for Sydney FC in the Hyundai A-League.-Club career:...

 Zlatko Arambasic

Zlatko Arambasic

Zlatko Arambašić is a former Australian football player.-External links:* *...

 Chad Gibson

Chad Gibson

Chad Gibson is a football player, currently playing in the New England Mutual Premier League.-Biography:...

 Paul Carter

Paul Carter

Paul Carter was a Scottish artist known for his constructions. Educated at Edinburgh College of Art and Glasgow School of Art.Paul died in a car crash near Gosford House, East Lothian.- Publications :...

 Anthony Mazzone John Gibson Tyler Simpson

Tyler Simpson

Tyler Simpson was an Australian football player who played as a Central or Right Back. He was the twin of fellow footballer Jordan Simpson.-Career:...

Scotland Lawrie McKinna

Lawrie McKinna

Lawrie McKinna is a Scottish-Australian former football player and formerly managed Chengdu Blades in China Super League.-Club career:...

England Bobby Charlton

Bobby Charlton

Sir Robert "Bobby" Charlton CBE is an English former professional football player, a member of the England team who won the World Cup and Ballon d'Or for European Footballer of the Year in 1966...

  Kevin Keegan

Kevin Keegan

Joseph Kevin Keegan, OBE is a former international footballer and former manager of the England national football team and several English clubs, most notably Newcastle United....

State

• Ampol Cup: 1

1985

• Waratah Cup: 2

1991, 1993

• State Division 1: 1

1988

• State Division 1 Grand Final: 1

1991

• State Super League: 2

1993, 2000

• State Super League Grand Final: 3

1998, 1999, 2000

• New South Wales Premier League
  New South Wales Premier League
  The New South Wales Premier League is the highest state-level men's soccer competition in New South Wales, Australia. Nationally, it is considered one grade lower than the A-League...
  
   Grand Final: 2

2007, 2010

• New South Wales Premier League
  New South Wales Premier League
  The New South Wales Premier League is the highest state-level men's soccer competition in New South Wales, Australia. Nationally, it is considered one grade lower than the A-League...
  
  : 3

2002-2003, 2006, 2007

• Johnny Warren Cup: 1

2006

• Continental Tyres Cup: 1

2006

External links

• Official Website
• Oz Football profile
• Goodbye Demons, hello Blacktown FC, Blacktown Advocate, 24 December 2009