Glenorchy Knights Football Club is a 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 which represents Glenorchy

Glenorchy, Tasmania

Glenorchy is a business district and suburb in the northern part of greater Hobart, capital of the state of Tasmania, Australia. The land was originally used for agriculture but is now a largely suburban, working-class area...

 in the Tasmania

Tasmania

Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...

n Southern Premier League

Southern Premier League (Tasmania)

The Tasmania South Premier League is, jointly with the Tasmania North Premier League, the highest level association football competition in Tasmania. Nationally, it is one grade lower than the A-League and is controlled by the Football Federation Tasmania...

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The club also fields teams in all junior divisions, as well as women's teams.
Glenorchy Knights play their home games at KGV Soccer Park, in the City of Glenorchy

City of Glenorchy

The City of Glenorchy is a Local Government Area of Tasmania which covers several northern suburbs of Hobart including the suburb of Glenorchy by the same name. The city is managed by Glenorchy City Council. Current mayor is Stuart Slade.- History :...

, Tasmania

Tasmania

Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...

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History

Glenorchy Croatia was born in 1957 and experienced almost immediate success, winning the state title for the first time in 1963. They experienced their best success in the 1970s, winning three titles, before having a league lull in the 1980s. However, re-branded as the Glenorchy Knights, they have slowly established a new sense of self, culminating in winning the State Championship for the first time in 13 years in 2005, and narrowly missing out on back to back state titles by losing a penalty shoot-out to Somerset

Somerset FC

Somerset Football Club, also known as the "Sharks", is a football Club which represents Somerset in the Tasmanian Northern Premier League.The club also fields teams in all junior divisions, as well as women's teams....

 in 2006.

In 2010, Glenorchy Knights finished in 3rd Position in the Forestry Tasmania Southern Premier League.

Honours

• State Championship: 6 times (1970,1974,1975,1992,1999,2005)
• State Championship Runners-up: 4 times (1978, 1980, 1998, 2006)
• Southern Premierships
  Southern Premier League (Tasmania)
  The Tasmania South Premier League is, jointly with the Tasmania North Premier League, the highest level association football competition in Tasmania. Nationally, it is one grade lower than the A-League and is controlled by the Football Federation Tasmania...
  
  : 7 times(1970,1974,1975,2000,2004,2005,2006)
• Southern Premier Runners-up: (9 times) 1967,1971,1972,1973,1977,1985,1986,1998,2002
• KO Cup Winners: (6 times) 1963,1969,1970,1978,2000,2005
• KO Cup Runners-up: (4 times) 1968,1974,2001,2003
• Summer Cup Winners: (5 times) 1979,1982,1983,1993,2003
• Cadbury Charity Cup Winners: (once)1993
• Cadbury Trophy Winners: (3 times) 1978,1985,1992
• Falkinder and Association Cup Winners: (once)1964
• Falkinder and Association Cup Runners-up: (5 times) 1962,1963,1966,1970,1973
• Lloyd Triestino Cup Winners: (2 times) 1972,1973

Links

• List of Croatian football clubs in Australia
• Australian-Croatian Soccer Tournament
  Australian-Croatian Soccer Tournament
  The Australian-Croatian Soccer Tournament is a tournament run by the Croatian Soccer Federation of Australia and New Zealand, an organisation founded in 1974. The inspiration for the tournament came from the successful Croatian-North American Soccer Tournament founded in 1964...
  
  
• Croatian Australian
  Croatian Australian
  Croatia has been a source of migrants to Australia, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s. In 2006, 128,051 persons resident in Australia identified themselves as having Croatian ancestry.- History :...
  
  

External links

• Tasmanian Croatian Community