FK Beograd (Australia)

FK Beograd

Full name	Beograd Woodville Sports And Social Club Inc
Nickname(s)	Beograd, Warriors
Founded	1949 as Beograd 1993 as White City Woodville 2022 as FK Beograd
Ground	Frank Mitchell Park
Manager	Adrian D'Aloia
League	NPL South Australia
2025	4th of 12
Website	http://www.whitecityfc.com.au/
Home colours Away colours

FK Beograd, formerly known as White City Woodville, is an Australian semi-professional soccer club based in Woodville, Adelaide, South Australia. Founded in 1949 by the Serbian Australian community, the club currently competes in the South Australian National Premier League. FK Beograd was formerly coached by former Australian international Milan Ivanović. They are currently coached by Adrian D'Aloia with his assistants of Lee Addison and John Falidis.

History

The Beograd Sports and Social club was formed on 19 November 1949 and a meeting arranged at the railway lawns, North Terrace, Adelaide. The first Committee was: President Ilija Ilic, Vice President Miodrag Zivkovic, Secretary Danilo Cukic, Treasurer  Nikola Kleut and committee members Dusan Naumovic, Vaso Kekovic, Stanoje Vukovic and Peter Nikolich.

Beograd played its first league game on 15 April 1950 at its home ground in the South Parklands against Prospect, winning the game 5–2. Beograd moved to its current home of Frank Mitchell Park in 1956. In 2006, the club celebrated its 50th anniversary.

In 1979 Beograd won the State League First Division Championship for the first time. This milestone also coincides with the year Beograd changed its playing colours from blue, white and red to the Serbian colours of Red, blue and white. In addition, flood lights were also installed in 1979 by Branko Petakovic and the president was Milan Stepanovic.

In 1992 Beograd changed its name to White City Woodville. The name of the ground at Woodville West was changed to Frank Mitchell Park in honour of the club's servant who devoted many years of his life to the White City and its juniors. ^[1]

In 2022 the club changed its name to FK Beograd. ^[2]

Current squad

As of 26 February 2023

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   AUS Jamie Signorello 4 DF   AUS Cohan Morris 5 DF   AUS Adam Leombruno 7 MF   AUS Yusuf Ahmed 8 MF   AUS Christian Sotira 9 FW   AUS Joshua Mori 10 MF   AUS Paul Radice 11 FW   AUS Ninko Beric 12   AUS Antonios Natsiopoulos 13   AUS Kosta Balaban

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 FW   AUS Donovan Pollock 15 MF   AUS Massimo Falco 17 MF   AUS Gideon Arok 18   AUS Stanisa Velinov 19   AUS Damian Ljujic 20 DF   VAN Jared Clark 21 GK   AUS Nikola Jokic 23 DF   AUS Yared Abetew 24 FW   SOL Micah Lea'alafa 25   KOR Ahn Byung-Tae

Honours

• South Australian First Division Championship ^[3]
  • Winners (3): 1979, 1983, 1993
  • Runners-up (2): 1977, 1996
• South Australian First Division Premiership ^[3]
  • Winners (1): 1996
• South Australian Second Division Championship ^[4]
  • Winners (6): 1955, 1967, 1971, 1989, 1994, 2021
  • Runners-up (1): 1970
• South Australian Second Division Premiership ^[4]
  • Winners (1): 1994
  • Runners-up (1): 2009
• Federation Cup ^[5]
  • Winners (5): 1980, 1983, 1993, 1996, 2005
  • Runner-up (2): 1952, 2013
• First Division Cup ^[6]
  • Runner-up (2): 1951, 1953
• Second Division Cup ^[6]
  • Winner (1): 1955
  • Runners-up (1): 1971
• Top Four Cup ^[7]
  • Winners (1): 1979
  • Runners-up (3): 1982, 1985, 1986
• Night Series ^[8]
  • Winners (1): 1980
  • Runners-up (2): 1986, 2004
• Pre-Season Cup ^[9]
  • Winners (1): 1957
• Premier Cup ^[10]
  • Winners (1): 1986

References

1. "Club History". Beograd Woodville Sports & Social Club Inc. Archived from the original on 20 July 2014. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
2. "RAA NPLSA 2022 Preview | Part Two". 16 February 2022.
3. "National Premier Leagues South Australia Champions". socceraust. Archived from the original on 29 September 2022.
4. "State League 1 South Australia Champions". socceraust. Archived from the original on 21 October 2021.
5. "Federation Cup Finals". socceraust. Archived from the original on 29 September 2022.
6. "Other Major Cup Winners". socceraust. Archived from the original on 21 October 2021.
7. "Top Four Cup Winners". socceraust. Archived from the original on 21 October 2021.
8. "Night Series Winners". socceraust. Archived from the original on 21 October 2021.
9. "Pre-Season Cup Winners". socceraust. Archived from the original on 21 October 2021.
10. "Premier Cup Winners". socceraust. Archived from the original on 21 October 2021.

External links

• Official website Archived 15 December 2018 at the Wayback Machine