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Newmarket SFC

Newmarket
Full nameNewmarket Soccer Football Club
Nickname(s)Newy
Founded1949
GroundMcCook Park, Newmarket
ChairmanPaul Tatters[1]
CoachJosh Hempstead[2]
LeagueFQPL 3 – Metro
20244th of 12 (champions)
Websitehttp://www.newmarketsoccerclub.com.au/

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]

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.

Season League FFA Cup
Division (tier) Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Position Finals Series
2008 Premier Division 2 (5) 22 8 1 13 41 46 −5 25 6th DNQ Not yet founded
2009 Premier Division 2 (5) 22 11 3 8 47 35 12 36 3rd Semi-final
2010 Premier Division 2 (5) 22 10 4 8 51 42 9 34 6th DNQ
2011 Premier Division 2 (5) 26 11 7 8 56 35 21 37 8th DNQ
2012 Premier Division 2 (5) 22 8 3 11 36 42 −6 27 8th DNQ
2013 Capital League 2 (5) 22 6 3 13 30 59 −29 21 9th DNQ
2014 Capital League 2 (5) 22 14 2 6 67 36 31 44 3rd Semi-final Qualifying Round
2015 Capital League 2 (5) 22 6 3 13 29 57 −28 21 11th ↓ DNQ Preliminary Round 3
2016 Capital League 3 (6) 22 8 4 10 37 38 −1 28 6th DNQ Preliminary Round 2
2017 Capital League 3 (6) 22 9 4 9 31 41 −10 31 6th DNQ Preliminary Round 2

Source:[6]

Key: Premiers / Champions Promoted ↑ Relegated ↓

The tier is the level in the Australian soccer league system

Honours

  • Brisbane Division 4 – Premiers 1953
  • Brisbane Division 2 – Premiers 1982
  • Brisbane Division 3 – Premiers and Champions 1993
  • Brisbane Division 3 – Champions 1996

Notable past players

  • Michael McGowan
  • Michael Baird
  • Raymond Attard
  • Henry Faleye
  • Shaun Dunleavy
  • Nathan Minter
  • Robert Ward
  • Matthew Mcdonnell

References

  1. ^ "Contacts". Newmarket SFC official website. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  2. ^ "Seniors". Newmarket SFC official website. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  3. ^ a b c "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. ^ a b c d "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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