Essendon Royals SC

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Essendon Royals
Essendon Royals Crest.png
Full nameEssendon Royals Soccer Club
Nickname(s)Royals
Founded1958;66 years ago (1958)(earliest form)
1959;65 years ago (1959)as Unione Sportiva Triestina
1995;29 years ago (1995)as 'Essendon-Brunswick Royals' (present entity)'
GroundCross Keys Reserve (Juniors) and Ormond Park (Seniors)
ChairmanRichie Di Sauro
ManagerVitale Ferrante
League Victoria Premier League 2
2023 10th of 12
Website Club website
Soccerball current event.svg Current season

Essendon Royals Soccer Club is an Australian semi-professional soccer club based in the North-Western Melbourne local government area of Moonee Valley. [1] The club's senior men's squad currently participates in the National Premier Leagues Victoria 3, following promotion from Victorian State League 1 in 2022. The senior women's squad compete in Victoria Women's State League Division 1 North-West. [2]

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History

The club was originally founded as Unione Sportiva Triestina in 1959 by Italian immigrants from the seaport city of Trieste. Prior to the 1995 season, the club had completed its last merge of four merges, with six other original stand-alone clubs to form 'Essendon-Brunswick Royals', later renaming to its present name Essendon Royals for the 1999 season. [3] [4] [5]

The club had two stints in the Victorian Premier League (VPL), the second highest level in Australian soccer, in 2001 and from 2003–07. [6]

The club has a current membership over 700 and currently fields teams in junior boys and girls leagues from 8 years to seniors. In August 2019, the club was granted a National Premier Leagues Victoria junior licence for its u13 to u16 teams. [7]

Vitale Ferrante was appointed as the club's senior men's coach for the 2020 season. [8] After the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the cancellation of the 2020 and 2021 seasons, Essendon Royals achieved promotion from Men's State League 1 North-West to National Premier Leagues Victoria 3 in the 2022 season. [9] Earlier in the year, Vitale Ferrante stepped away from the head coach job, with his brother Michael Ferrante, an ex-professional footballer and until then player at the Royals since mid-2019, took over the manager role.

Historical honours (1958–1994)

Anstey Roma (1968–1969)

Premiers (1): 1968 (Central)

Central Brunswick/Dallas City/Ivanhoe City (1973–1987)

Premiers (1): 1984
Premiers (1): 1977

East Brunswick (1970–1986)

Third Place (promotion) (1): 1983
Premiers (2): 1972 (East), 1975 (East)

East Brunswick–Ivanhoe (1988–1994)

Runners–up (1): 1991
Premiers (1): 1990

Fiorentina (1958–1963)

Runners–up (2): 1961, 1963
Runners–up (1): 1959

Moonee Ponds (1973–1982)

Third Place (promotion) (1): 1977

Unione Sportiva Triestina/Maribyrnong Triestina/Essendon City Jets (1958–1994)

Premiers (1): 1963
Runners–up (1): 1986
Premiers (1): 1962
Runners–up (1): 1985
Premiers (1): 1973
Runners–up (1): 1976
Third Place (promotion) (1): 1983

Recent honours (1995–present)

Runners–up (2): 2000, 2002
Runners–up (1): 1999
Runners–up (2): 2016 (North–West), 2022 (North–West)
Premiers (1): 2014 (North–West)
Runners–up (1): 2011

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