Kingborough Lions United FC

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Full nameKingborough Lions United Football Club
Nickname(s)The Lions
Founded1998
GroundLightwood Park, Gormley Park
Capacity1,000
ChairmanBrian Downes
ManagerAlfred Hess
League NPL Tasmania
20223rd of 8
Website Club website

Kingborough Lions United Football Club is a semi-professional association football club based in Kingston, Tasmania. Founded in 1998, the club currently competes many leagues including in the NPL Tasmania and the Women's Super League. The club has a large playing group ranging and teams range from juniors, youth academy, and social teams through to high performance men and women's programs.

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History

Kingborough Lions has a complicated history having been formed out of several mergers of former clubs in the Hobart region. The club in its current form was formed after a merger between Kingborough United and West Hobart Lions in 1998. [1]

Kingborough United were a long standing southern-based Premier League team and was the result of the previous mergers of Kingston Cannons and Rapid Hobart. The club's original home ground was the Sherburd Park Complex, which it shared with the Blackmans Bay District Cricket Club. In 1996, the club moved to the then Tasmanian Baseball Complex (Now known as the Lightwood Park Complex), taking up a long term tenancy and they shared the facilities with the Kingston Crows Cricket Club.

Caledonian Soccer Club (West Hobart Lions) was already a unified side formed out of a smaller West Hobart club, and the previously largely successful side of "Caledonians" who were a powerhouse club in the 1950s, but had since faded. [2] The side was relatively nomadic in existence with no permanent facilities, but training was generally undertaken at the West Hobart Oval. Caledonian Soccer Club was forced to change their name in 1994 after an edict from the newly formed Soccer Australia mandated clubs could not use ethnic connotations in club names. [3]

In 2010 the club began operating under the updated name of Kingborough Lions United Football Club, and in 2012 a new logo was designed and presented on all playing strips.

As a result, Kingborough Lions are the inheritors of the traditions of these four clubs, and have now become a large club based in the municipality of Kingborough. Although relatively unsuccessful in their senior programs since merging, the club has the foundations in place to be a successful club due to the large player catchment area, and is the only club in the Southern region of Hobart with a high performance Men and Women's program.

Players

Current Squad - Men

Note: Known players.

No.Pos.NationPlayer
1.GK AUS Eisa Azizi
3.DF AUS Matthew Hess
4.MF AUS Gregory Downes
5.DF AUS Jacob Huigsloot
6.MF AUS Simon Vivarelli
7.FW AUS Phillip Kantzos
8.MF AUS Kobe Kemp
9.FW AUS Noah Mies
10.MF AUS Ilan Mastrocola-Simon
11.DF AUS Tom Prince
12.FW SY Ahmad Othman
13.DF AUS Keenan Douce
14.FW AUS Joe Ojwiya
15.MF AUS Declan Taylor
16.DF AUS Alfred Hess
17.FW AUS Tom Hocking-Cousins
20MF AUS Feisal Baddiley
21.GK AUS Lee Mackie

Coaching Staff - Men

Note: Known Staff.

NPL Head Coach:NPL Assistant CoachNPL GK CoachNPL S&C CoachNPL SEM CoordinatorNPL U21 Head Coach
Alfred HessJake VandermayLee MackieNick AtwellGreg DownesMatthew Hess

Recent Seasons - Men

SeasonLeague Statewide Cup FFA Cup
Name (national level)PldWDLGFGAGDPtsPositionTasmanian Finals NPL Finals
2012 Southern Premier League (2)2186747452304thQuarter-finalsDid not existQuarter-finalsN/A
2013 Victory League (2)2165104055−15236thDNQDNQRound of 16
2014 Victory League (2)2151153584−49166thDNQDNQSemi-finalsDNQ
2015 Victory League (2)2172123760−23236thQuarter-finalsDNQRunners-upDNQ
2016 NPL Tasmania (2)2163123453−19216thSemi-finalsDNQQuarter-finalsDNQ
2017 NPL Tasmania (2)2125141664−48118thDNQDNQRound of 16DNQ
2018 NPL Tasmania (2)2143143554−19157thNot heldDNQRound of 16DNQ
2019 NPL Tasmania (2)2493124350−7306thNot heldDNQRound of 16DNQ
2020 NPL Tasmania (2)146352634-8214thNot heldCancelledQuarter-finalsCancelled

Ref: [4]

Recent Seasons - Women

SeasonLeague Statewide Cup
NamePldWDLGFGAGDPtsPosition
2016Southern Championship Women20101912110-9836thDid not exist
2017Women's Southern Championship2081113954-11254thRound of 16
2018VETO Women's Southern Championship211236643133393rdFinal
2019Womens Super League209011574314274thFinal

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References

  1. "Club History". Kingborough Lions United Football Club. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  2. "Reconnecting to Caledonians". Hobart Mercury . Retrieved 30 June 2011.
  3. Meidl, Eva (2008). "Rapid Hobart - A history of acculturation". German Association for Australian Studies.
  4. "Team Home for Kingborough". SportsTG. Retrieved 13 August 2020.