Green Gully Cavaliers
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Green Gully Soccer Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Full name | Green Gully Soccer Club |
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Nickname(s) | Cavaliers, Gully | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Founded | 1955 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ground | Green Gully Reserve | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Capacity | 8,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chairman | Charles Farrugia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manager | Ian Dobson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
League | VPL | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
VPL 2006 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Green Gully Cavaliers are an Australian football (soccer) club in Melbourne that plays in the Victorian Premier League (VPL). The club was founded in 1955 and celebrated its 50th anniversary by winning the VPL Grand Final in 2005.
The club was originally known as Ajax Soccer Club then Green Gully Ajax when it moved to its current home ground at Green Gully in 1966. The Ajax was dropped in 1982. As the name might suggest, the team play in green uniforms.
[edit] Honours
- Victorian Champions 1981, 1982, 1983, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005
- Champions - Division 2 in 1971
- Champions - Division 1 in 1976
- Dockerty Cup Winners 1981, 1982, 1986, 2004
- State League Cup Winners 1982, 1983, 1987
- Armstrong Cup Winners 1978, 1983 1995
- Ampol Cup Winners 1979, 1981 and 1983
[edit] Current squad
- 1. Brian Maher
- 3. Phillip Riccobene
- 4. Dean Fak (captain)
- 5. Zoran Markovski
- 6. Matthew Sanders
- 7. Jeffrey Fleming
- 8. Brandon Vassallo
- 9. Peter Hader
- 10. Andrew Marth
- 11. Matthew Dimech
- 12. Michael Batinovic
- 13. Joel Nikolic
- 14. Stephen Strano
- 15. Dragi Nastevski
- 16. Pasi Schwalger
- 17. Andy Vargas
- 18. Lubo Lapsansky
- 19. Nick Tsaltas
- 20. Matthew Xerri
- 22. Ante Loncaric