Newmarket SFC

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Newmarket
Newmarket SFC logo.svg
Full nameNewmarket Soccer Football Club
Nickname(s)Bobble FC
Founded1949
GroundMcCook Park, Newmarket
ChairmanPaul Tatters [1]
CoachJosh Hempstead [2]
League Capital League 1 (2021)
2020 6th (Capital League 2)
Website Club website

Newmarket Soccer Football Club is an Australian football (soccer) club based at Newmarket, an inner north-west suburb of Brisbane, Queensland. The club was founded in 1949 as the Postal Institute Soccer Club, adopting its current name in the mid-1960s. [3] The men's senior team currently competes in Football Brisbane's Capital League 1. Newmarket SFC play in a gold strip (home) and a maroon strip (away). The club's logo has remained the same since foundation and depicts the Greek God Hermes, the patron and protector of athletes and messenger of the gods. [3]

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History

The Postal Institute Soccer Club was founded in 1949 and initially based on the southside of Brisbane. [3] The decision to form the club occurred towards the end of 1948 and occurred under the guidance of Henry Seeney and Les Tozer, members of the Postal Institute who had played for the Latrobe and Toombul clubs respectively. [4] The club was placed in Division Five, and lost their first competitive match 5–2 to Mitchelton's reserve team on 2 April 1949. [5] It remained in the lower divisions until winning its first title by topping the Division Four table in 1953. A further promotion saw the club reach Division Two in 1958, where the club remained for seven seasons until it was relegated at the end of the 1964 season. [6]

The club returned to Division Two as the Newmarket Soccer Football Club in 1967, and alternated between Division Two and Three several times during the next ten seasons. [6] Newmarket finished Division Two in fourth place for three consecutive seasons (1979 to 1981) before achieving promotion to Division One in 1982. The 1983 season witnessed Newmarket's best league performance, finishing second in Division One but denied the second promotion spot to the Brisbane Premier League which instead went to third placed Coalstars. [7] From 1983 to 2015, Newmarket completed 33 seasons in either the second or third tier of the Brisbane football structure, during which the highlights included Division Three Grand Final victories in 1993 and 1996. [6]

In 2005, Newmarket achieved their best cup performance, reaching the quarter-finals of the 2005 Brisbane Premier Cup, [8] the only time the club has progressed this far in cup competition. [9]

Between 2011 and 2013 the club lost access to its clubhouse through insect damage which required assistance from the Brisbane City Council to rectify, and resulted in a drop in activity at the club with participation falling from 30 junior teams in 2011 to 17 teams in 2013. [10]

Newmarket SFC was relegated from Capital League 2 in 2015 after losing their final three games, which allowed Slacks Creek and Pine Hills to overtake them in the final three weeks of the season. [11] Newmarket spent two seasons in Capital League 3, finishing sixth on both occasions; however, due to a restructuring of the league at the end of the 2017 season, they were promoted back to Capital League 2.

SeasonLeague FFA Cup
Division (tier)PldWDLGFGAGDPtsPositionFinals Series
2008Premier Division 2 (5)2281134146−5256thDNQNot yet founded
2009Premier Division 2 (5)221138473512363rdSemi-final
2010Premier Division 2 (5)22104851429346thDNQ
2011Premier Division 2 (5)261178563521378thDNQ
2012Premier Division 2 (5)2283113642−6278thDNQ
2013 Capital League 2 (5)2263133059−29219thDNQ
2014 Capital League 2 (5)221426673631443rdSemi-final Qualifying Round
2015 Capital League 2 (5)2263132957−282111th ↓DNQ Preliminary Round 3
2016 Capital League 3 (6)2284103738−1286thDNQ Preliminary Round 2
2017 Capital League 3 (6)229493141−10316thDNQ Preliminary Round 2

Source: [6]

Key:Premiers / Champions Promoted ↑ Relegated ↓

The tier is the level in the Australian soccer league system

Honours

Notable past players

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References

  1. ↑ "Contacts". Newmarket SFC official website. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  2. ↑ "Seniors". Newmarket SFC official website. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 "The pride of the north!". Newmarket SFC official website. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  4. ↑ NLA Trove website: Brisbane Telegraph 4 December 1948
  5. ↑ NLA Trove website: Sunday Mail 3 April 1949
  6. 1 2 3 4 "Newmarket FC". Brisbane Football (Soccer) Tables. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  7. ↑ "Brisbane Division One 1983 Fixtures/Results". socceraust.co.uk website. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  8. ↑ "Brisbane Premier Cup 2005 Fixtures/Results". socceraust.co.uk website. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  9. ↑ "Brisbane Cup Competitions 1921–2017". Brisbane Football (Soccer) Tables. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  10. ↑ Bill Johnston (20 March 2014). "Newmarket soccer club to rebuild junior teams after major work to clubhouse damaged by termites". Quest Newspapers.
  11. ↑ "Brisbane Capital League Division Two 2015 Fixtures/Results". socceraust.co.uk website. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
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