Kingborough Lions United Soccer Club

Kingborough Lions are an Australian professional football (soccer) club based in Kingston, Tasmania. They play in the Tasmanian Southern Premier League.

Kingborough Lions is a strong club, and has a complicated history having been formed out of several former clubs. The club formed as a merger between Kingborough United and West Hobart Lions in 1998.

However, West Hobart Lions was already a unified side formed out of a smaller West Hobart club, and the previously large successful side of "Caledonians" who were a powerhouse club in the 1950s, but had since faded.^[1] Kingborough United themselves were also already a merged side, having come together out of a union of Kingston and Rapid.

As a result, Kingborough Lions are the inheritors of the traditions of these four clubs, and have now become a large club that the municipality of Kingborough can be proud of. Although relatively unsuccessful since merging, the club is well set in a growing community for future success.

Kingborough play their home games it either Lightwood or Gormley park. Both grounds will go under renovations for the 2012 season - most notably Gormley Park which is having a drainage system installed.

Honours

• State Championships: 6 times (as "Caledonians", 1953,1955,1956,1957,1958,1960) 4 times (as "Rapid", 1976,1979,1980,1982)
• State Championship Runners-up: Once (as "Caledonians",1959) Twice (as "Rapid" 1961,1965)
• Southern Premierships: 7 times (as "Caledonians", 1953,1955,1956,1957,1959,1960,1981) 5 times (as "Rapid",1958,1961,1964,1976,1982)

External links

• Kingborough Lions - Official Site

References

1. ^ "Reconnecting to Caledonians". Hobart Mercury. http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2011/06/30/241791_sport-news.html. Retrieved 2011-06-30.