Kingborough Lions United Soccer Club

Football club infobox
clubname = Kingborough Lions


fullname = Kingborough Lions United
Soccer Club
founded = 1998
ground = "Lightwood Park", Kingston
capacity = 400
chairman = Brian Dale
manager = Tim Dale
league = Southern Premier League
season = 2008
position = 7th
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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. Fact|date=February 2007

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 1950's, but had since faded.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 inheiritors 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.

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

* [http://www.klusc.org.au/ Kingborough Lions - Official Site]