Canberra Olympic FC
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| Full name | Canberra Olympic Football Club |
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| Founded | 1955 |
| Ground | O'Connor Enclosed |
| Owner | Unknown |
| Chairman | John Efkarpadis |
| Senior Mens Manager | Dean Ugrinic |
| League | Gatorade Premier League |
| 2012 | 4th |
Canberra Olympic is a soccer club that plays in the ACT Premier League, in Canberra, Australia. They are one of the oldest clubs in Australia, and in the Australian Capital Territory, having been formed in 1955, with the first signs of the club being started in 1950.
History
Olympic appears to be in existence since the early 1950s. Formally the name Olympic was decided in a General Meeting of players and committee member in 1955. The names proposed for the team was either Olympic or AEK. Olympic appears to have played in competitive games in Grade 2 in 1955. Biggest Win was 25-0 against Cooma in Division 2 on May 23, 1971 Biggest Loss has been 8-0 against RMC in 9 October 1955 playing in Grade 2, in the Competition Finals. The 1956 season was split into three Divisions, a vast improvement on the 5 teams that existed only 3 years before. The first Division was cut down from 10 teams to 8 teams. There was a Second Division which initially was set to have 9 teams, but the Naples club withdrew their team from the Division. A Reserve Grade was created and although there was promise for a number of teams to play, eventually only 4 existed. In the Second Division, Olympic won convincingly taking maximum points from the games played. This won them promotion to the 1957 Division 1 with last placed team Dnipro being relegated.
Olympic always represented the region with players in the rep squads as shown below from a representative game in 13 May 1960.
ACT 7 (Exharos 3, Pethes 2, G. Jorbuzovic, Kams) v St.George Budapest 1 (Schauman)
Tom Exarhos not only has honoured the colours of Olympic and the ACT, but has been a member of Committees since the 1970s.[1]
Affiliated clubs
With the large Greek community in Australia, Canberra Olympic is aligned with many other Greek community association football clubs in Australia. These inter-club relationships were much stronger before 2004, in the old National Soccer League however they still exist.
New South Wales
- Sydney Olympic - New South Wales Premier League
- Hamilton Olympic Warriors FC - NBN State Football League
Queensland
- Brisbane Olympic - Brisbane Premier League
Northern Territory
- Darwin Olympic SC - Darwin Premier League
- Hellenic Athletic - Darwin Premier League
Victoria
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