Inglewood United

Football club infobox
clubname = Inglewood United
fullname = Inglewood United Soccer Club
founded = 1951 as "Kiev Soccer Club"
ground = Clipsal Stadium, Inglewood, Western Australia
capacity = ~2500
chairman =
manager = Lee Bamber
league = State League
season = 2008
position = 6th
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Inglewood United is a football (soccer) team from Perth, Western Australia. They play in the Football West State League, the top league in Western Australia. Their home ground, Clipsal Stadium, is located in Inglewood.

The club's most recent success was in the 2005 night series, which they won by defeating Swan I.C 3-0 in the final. Their reserve side also completed the league and cup double in 2006. The reserves side won the league again in 2007.

Honours

1977, 1999 Cup Winners

1981, 1995 Cup Runners Crud

1983, 2005 Night Series Winners

1976, 1979, 1997, 2000 Shoot

1996 Premier League Winners

1968, 1977, 1994, 1995 Premier League Runners Up

1964, 1967 First Division Winners

1962 First Division Run

League record

League positions since 1962

1962: 2nd - Semi-Pro First Division

1963: 9th - Semi-Pro Premier League

1964: 1st - Semi-Pro First Division

1965: 9th - Semi-Pro Premier League

1966: 3rd - Semi-Pro First Division

1967: 1st - Semi-Pro First Division

1968: 2nd - Semi-Pro Premier League

1969: 8th - Semi-Pro Premier League

1970: 5th - Semi-Pro Premier League

1971: 8th - Semi-Pro Premier League

1972: 4th - Semi-Pro Premier League

1973: 5th - Semi-Pro Premier League

1974: 5th - Semi-Pro Premier League

1975: 8th - Semi-Pro Premier League

1976: 6th - Semi-Pro Premier League

1977: 2nd - Semi-Pro Premier League

1978: 5th - Semi-Pro Premier League

1979: 4th - Semi-Pro Premier League

1980: 4th - Semi-Pro Premier League

1981: 6th - Semi-Pro Premier League

1982: 3rd - Semi-Pro Premier League

1983: 3rd - Semi-Pro Premier League

1984: 7th - Semi-Pro Premier League

1985: 7th - Semi-Pro Premier League

1986: 7th - Semi-Pro Premier League

1987: 9th - Semi-Pro Premier League

1988: 6th - Semi-Pro First Division

1989: 4th - Semi-Pro First Division

1990: 5th - Semi-Pro First Division

1991: 5th - Semi-Pro First Division

1992: 7th - Semi-Pro First Division (SFWA)

1993: 7th - Semi-Pro Premier League

1994: 2nd - Semi-Pro Premier League

1995: 2nd - Semi-Pro Premier League

1996: 1st - Semi-Pro Premier League

1997: 4th - Semi-Pro Premier League

1998: 8th - Semi-Pro Premier League

1999: 7th - Semi-Pro Premier League

2000: 4th - Semi-Pro Premier League

2001: 8th - Semi-Pro Premier League

2002: 5th - Semi-Pro Premier League

2003: 4th - Semi-Pro Premier League

2004: 6th - Semi-Pro Premier League

2005: 4th - State League Premier League

2006: 8th - State League Premier League

2007: 5th - State League Premier League

2007: 1st - Milo Junior League

Current squad

Staff
*First Team Coach: Lee Bamber
*Reserves Coach: Kevin Brophy
*Goalkeeping Coach: Lee Bamber
*Under 18 Coach: Guy Stuart
*Team Manager: Vince Radcliffe

Club History

Inglewood United was formed as the Kiev Soccer Club in March 1951 [Federation of Ukrainians in Australia, 'Ukrainians in Australia Volume 1', Melbourne, 1966, p838.] by migrants from Ukraine in Australia. The club was named after the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, and their famous football team Dynamo Kyiv. The blue and yellow colours were adopted from the two colors of the Ukrainian national flag.

One of the Founders of the club was Ihor Schorsch, who was a long-term President until his death. Schorsch was succeeded by Ziggie Kramer in 1994.

Zyggie Kramer has been a regular fixture of the WA football landscape since he first played for Kiev in 1953. His career is tied to Kiev, coaching the club and filling positions on the committee non-stop since 1971 from junior committee to president, the latter since 1994 through until the present day. At the same time he filled positions at State level as a board member on the Professional Soccer League (1998-2001) and on the SAWA Board (2000-2001). Zyggie was inducted into the WA Football Hall of Fame in 2002. [ 'West Australian Football Hall of Fame', http://members.iinet.net.au/~jacob/wasoccer/halloffame/HallOfRecognition.htm]

The club originally used Raphael Park in Victoria Park as their first home ground, until moving to leased grounds in Inglewood.

In 1960, the Club came first in the Second Division and were promoted to the First Division.

In 1971, a twentyone year lease was arranged for clubgrounds on Crown land.

A Social club facility was built in 1976, with lots of voluntary labour from the Ukrainian community. The Building Committee was chaired by Vladimir Mandyczewsky.

An Amateur team was formed in 1977.

Secretary Jack Soer was instrumental in organising Bingo, which brought much-needed finances to the fledgling club.

The Club underwent several name changes, initially as the national governing body tried to eradicate "ethnic" names from football clubs throughout Australia. Names such as "Inglewood-Kiev" and "Inglewood Falcons" were used until the Club settled on "Inglewood United".

Past players of note

*Anthony Danze
*Bobby Despotovski
*Gary Marocchi

References