Glenorchy Knights

Football club infobox
clubname = Glenorchy Knights
fullname = Glenorchy Knights Football Club
founded = 1957
ground = "KGV Soccer Park ", Glenorchy
capacity = 1,000
chairman = Zarko Baltic
manager = Anton Baltic
league = Southern Premier League
season = 2006
position = 1st
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Glenorchy Knights Football Club is a football (soccer) club which represents Glenorchy in the Tasmanian Southern Premier League. The club also fields teams in all junior divisions, as well as women's teams.Glenorchy Knights play their home games at KGV Soccer Park, in the City of Glenorchy, Tasmania.

Glenorchy Knights grew out of "Glenorchy Croatia", one of the state's more successful clubs having won many leagues and cups, when it was decided in 1997, that ethnic affiliations should be ended for football clubs in Australia. Prior to that, Glenorchy Croatia had been largely dependent upon the ex-patriot Croatian community for the bulk of its players.

Glenorchy Croatia was born in 1957, and experienced almost immediate success, winning the state title for the first time in 1963. They experienced their best success in the 1970's, winning three titles, before having a league lull in the 1980s. However, re-branded as the Glenorchy Knights they have slowly established a new sense of self, culminating in winning the State Championship for the first time in 13 years in 2005, and narrowly missing out on back to back state titles by losing a penalty shoot-out to Somerset in 2006.

Honours

*State Championship: 6 times (1963,1970,1974,1975,1992,2005)
*State Championship Runners-up: 4 times (1967, 1978, 1980, 2006)
*Southern Premierships: 6 times(1970,1974,1975,2000,2005,2006)
*Southern Premier Runners-up: (8 times) 1971,1972,1973,1977,1985,1986,1998,2002
*KO Cup Winners: (5 times) 1963,1969,1970,1978,2000
*KO Cup Runners-up: (4 times) 1968,1974,2001,2003
*Summer Cup Winners: (5 times) 1979,1982,1983,1993,2003
*Cadbury Charity Cup Winners: (once)1993
*Cadbury Trophy Winners: (3 times) 1978,1985,1992
*Falkinder and Association Cup Winners: (once)1964
*Falkinder and Association Cup Runners-up: (5 times) 1962,1963,1966,1970,1973
*Lloyd Triestino Cup Winners: (2 times) 1972,1973

Links

*List of Croatian football clubs in Australia
*Australian-Croatian Soccer Tournament
*Croatian Australian
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External links

* [http://www.crotas.org.au/ Tasmanian Croatian Community]