Adelaide Victory FC

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Adelaide Victory
Adelaide Victory FC logo 2023.png
Full nameAdelaide Victory FC
Nickname(s)Victory
League SA State League 1
2022 10th of 12
Website Club website

Adelaide Victory are a soccer club from Pennington, South Australia. Adelaide Victory play in the NPL State League. Their home ground is at Pennington Oval. Prior to 2015, the club was known as the Western Toros.

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Club history

From 2011, The Western Toros will introduce the FFA National Curriculum beginning at Junior level. The focus will be on developing football intelligence, technique and game awareness through modified small sided games in training.

In August, 2011 The Western Toros U15 team reached the club's first FFSA Cup Final. The game was held at Hindmarsh Stadium against Adelaide City. The Toros came from behind to win the game 4–3 with a late powerful header from Jordan Murphy following a corner.

In 2012 Western District Toros had their first ever championship win in the senior men's competition, coached by Lou Ricciuto and John Heenan.

In 2015 Western Toros changed their club name to Adelaide Victory FC to incorporate the greater Adelaide community, and moved their home ground to Rushworth Reserve, Blair Athol.

In 2018 Adelaide Victory were Champions of the FFSA State League 2 division, and were promoted to State League 1 for 2019.

In 2020 - the Adelaide Victory Senior Women's team commenced.

Players

First team squad

As of 20 February 2020 [1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.Pos.NationPlayer
1 GK Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS George Savvoudis
2Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Christwish Mutsigwa
3Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Delph Machochi
4Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Joshua Coyne
5Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Alex Katsigiannis
6Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Everiste Luyiksa
7Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Saidi Machochi
8Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Hermann Fombassion
9Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS George Katsigiannis
10Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Domenico Talladira
11Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Michael Birbas
12Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Terry Theodorou
No.Pos.NationPlayer
13Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Nick Malandris
14Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Eddie De Iacono
15Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Stasi Savvoudis
16Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Yasumasa Ueda
17Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Marco Krantis
18Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Jerome Dunphy
19Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Vasili Carapanayiotis
20Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Konnor Pehliavides
21Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Josef Shyti
22Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Thomas Capogreco
28Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Livani Gianakis
69Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Nenad Tadic

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References

  1. "State League 1 Season Preview, presented by Metro Homes SA". Football SA. 20 February 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2020.