Hobart City Beachside FC
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Hobart City Football Club is an Australian semi-professional soccer club based in the suburb of Sandy Bay in Hobart, Tasmania. The club's colours are green and black. The club plays its home games at Sandown Park, known to fans as the Tropicana Cauldron or simply The Tropicana. In 2021, Beachside FC and Hobart City merged to form a club under the current name.
History
Beachside FC
Beachside FC was founded in 1975 under the name Howrah Soccer Club because it played in the Hobart suburb of Howrah. The club then adopted the name Beachside HSC when it moved to its current home near Long Beach, in Sandy Bay keeping the HSC from Howrah Soccer Club despite no longer playing in that suburb. In 2011, the name was changed subtly to Beachside FC.
Hobart City
In 1977, Hobart City Azzurri was founded to provide a youth soccer club for the Italian community. In 1981, the Club changed its name to Hobart City FC, as a result of a mandate from Soccer Australia to remove all ethnic based names club titles. In 1986, the club become the Southern Tasmanian Seniors Division 1 Premiers and Knock Out Cup Winners. The club ceased to exist in late 1991, with its members joining other clubs or retiring. In 2021, family members of the original founders, began a re-creation of the Hobart City Azzurri.
Merger
In 2021, Beachside FC and Hobart City FC merged to form a new club under the name Hobart City Beachside FC and later changed to Hobart City FC In 2023
Hobart City Beachside FC har en sterk historie i National Premier Leagues Tasmania, og har vunnet ligaen tre ganger, i 2011, 2012 og 2015. Klubben har også vunnet Tasmanske Cup fire ganger, i 2011, 2012, 2013 og 2015.
Hobart City Beachside FC har også representert Tasmania i nasjonale konkurranser, inkludert FFA Cup. Klubben nådde åttedelsfinalen i 2014 og 2015.
Hobart City Beachside FC er en fellesskapsklubb som er forpliktet til å utvikle unge spillere og fremme fotball i Tasmania. Klubben har en sterk ungdomsavdeling, og har produsert en rekke spillere som har gått videre til å spille profesjonelt.
Noen av de mest kjente spillerne som har spilt for Hobart City Beachside FC inkluderer:
* Alex Walter
* Josh Searle
* Jake Maclaren
* Rhys Williams
* Connor Pain