White City Woodville

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White City Woodville
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Full name White City Woodville Soccer Club
Nickname(s) Beograd, Warriors
Founded 1952
Ground Frank Mitchell Park
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Chairman Branko Uzelac
Manager Adrian Santrac
League FFSA Super League
2007 Super League, 8th/10
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White City Woodville are a football (soccer) club from Adelaide, South Australia. White City Woodville play in the recently formed South Australian Super League. They are based at Frank Mitchell Park in Woodville West in Adelaide's western suburbs. They are a Serbian-backed club and are also known by the name of Beograd. Their rival club is the Croatian-supported Adelaide Raiders. They were formally coached by former Socceroos legend Milan Ivanovic.

[edit] History

The Beograd Sports and Social club was formed on Saturday 19th November 1949 and a meeting arranged at the railway lawns, North Terrace. The first Committee was President Ilija Ilic, Vice President Miodrag Zivkovic, Secretary Danilo Cukic, Treasurer  Nikola Kleut and committee members Dusan Naumovic, Vaso Kekovic, Stanoje Vukovic and Peter Nikolich.

Beograd played its first league game on 15th April 1950 at its home ground at the South Parklands against Prospect, winning the game 5-2. Beograd moved to its current home of Frank Mitchell Park in 1956. In 2006, the Club celebrated its 50th anniversary.

In 1979 Beograd won the State League First Division Championship for the first time. This milestone also coincides with the year Beograd changed its playing colours from blue, white and red to the Serbian colours of Red, blue and white. In addition, flood lights were also installed in 1979 by Branko Petakovic and the president was Milan Stepanovic.

In 1992 Beograd changed its name to White City Woodville and still plays under this name today. The ground at Woodville West was changed to Frank Mitchell Park in honour of the Club's servant who devoted many years of his life to the White City Soccer Club and its juniors.

[edit] Club Honours

1st Division Champions: 1979, 1983 & 1993

1st Division Minor Premiers: 1996

2nd Division Champions: 1955, 1967, 1971, 1989 & 1994

Federation Cup Winners: 1980, 1983, 1993, 1996 & 2005

U/23 Cup Winners: 1997

U/23 Cup Finalist: 2002

U/19 Premier League Champions: 1999, 2006

U19 Cup Winners: 1999

U19s Federation Cup Winners: 2006

Team : Dragan Samardzija (GK), Panigiris, P.Radocaj, Koumoulas, Sarris, Petkovic, Dragan Lekic, M.Radocaj,Kamara, Skoumbros, D.Kennedy, Jaric, Atkinson, Dragan Manojlovic (RGK) Memorable mentions to Neven Dragas who's heroics in the quarter-final appearance got the team to the final. He later retired due to personal reasons.

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