Full name | Thornbury Athletic Football Club [1] | ||
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Nickname(s) | Reservoir, Swifts [2] | ||
Short name | TAFC | ||
Founded | 2014 | ||
Ground | LE Cotchin Reserve | ||
Head Coach | Walter Costantini | ||
League | VSL 4 North | ||
2019 | 12th | ||
Website | Club website | ||
The Thornbury Athletic Football Club is an Australian semi-professional soccer club based in the Melbourne suburb of Reservoir, operating under license from Football Victoria. [3] [4] With its senior men's squad currently competing in the northern conference of Victorian State League Division 4, [5] the club was established by members of the Melbourne's Italian community in 2014.
The club was founded in late 2014 by present head coach Walter Costantini after placing an advertisement on Gumtree to set up a soccer club in Melbourne's northern suburbs. With a squad size of approximately forty four players consisting of twenty five different nationalities, the club entered the amateur competition league 'VicSoccer' in which the senior squad were premiers of their division one league. Following this feat, Thornbury applied for Football Victoria's Victorian State League Division 5 for the 2016 season, then the seventh tier in Victoria, and was accepted. [6]
Thornbury's senior squad made its debut in Victorian state soccer on 2 April 2016, defeating Heidelberg Eagles 3–1 at their home venue of IW Dole Reserve. [7] At the conclusion of the season, the senior squad finished sixth out of eleven. [8] The club also fielded a team in the Metropolitan League 6 North-West competition, who finished last of nine teams. [9]
The 2017 season proved to be more difficult for Thornbury with its senior squad finishing second last on the table. [10] The season was also notable for its senior squad being defeated 0–18 at home to eventual premiers Craigieburn City. [11] The difficult season saw a recruitment drive leading up to the 2018 season, which saw the senior men's squad finish second on the ladder and be promoted to the Victorian State League Division 4, the seventh tier of Victoria football.
In the 2019 season, the club finished last out of twelve teams. Thornbury avoided relegation due to Football Victoria restructuring competitions, and introducing the National Premier Leagues Victoria 3, the new third of Victoria for the 2020 season.
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