Sunshine George Cross FC

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Sunshine Georgies

Full name

Sunshine George Cross Football Club

Nickname(s)

The Georgies

Founded

1947

Ground

Chaplin Reserve

Capacity

5 000

Manager

Joe Montemurro

League

Victorian Premier League

VPL 2006

12th





Home colours





Away colours

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.

1 History
2 Honours
3 Notable Former Players
4 External links

[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

FFV : 2007 The Vodafone Cup
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