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Melbourne Hakoah Full name Melbourne Hakoah Nickname(s) Hakoah Founded 1927 Dissolved 1983 Ground Middle Park
(Capacity: 18,000)League Victorian State League Melbourne Hakoah is a defunct Australian sports club which had a predominantly Jewish Australian supporter base, akin to Hakoah Vienna. The club's best known arm was its soccer club.
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History
The club was founded in 1927, and within a decade was one of the leading sides in the Victorian First Division. The club broke ground by becoming the first successful non-Anglo migrant backed club in the state, laying the foundation for the dominance of other migrant run clubs after World War II. While the club was unable to win a league title post-war, it still managed several victories in the Dockerty Cup, including four consecutive titles in the 1950s. Gradually, the club's supporter base dwindled due to assimilation and lack of renewal from younger supporters, and it eventually merged with South Melbourne's Victorian league reserve side in the early 1980s.
Notable people
Notable former players
Henry Mowbray
Jack Reilly- Anton Dosen
- Mike O'Hara [Victorian State Representative]
Managers
Honours
- Victorian Premier League titles: 4
- 1934, 1935, 1938, 1943
- Dockerty Cup titles: 9
- 1935, 1943, 1945, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1966, 1973
Footnotes
External links
- Official
Categories:- Association football clubs established in 1927
- Association football clubs disestablished in 1983
- Hakoah sport clubs
- Jewish football clubs
- Melbourne soccer clubs
- Soccer clubs in Victoria (Australia)
- Defunct Australian soccer clubs
- Jews and Judaism in Australia
- Australian soccer club stubs
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