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Marlin Coast Rangers FC
Full nameMarlin Coast Rangers Football Club
Nickname(s)Coast
Founded1946; 78 years ago (1946)
GroundPennell Field, Trinity Beach, Far North Queensland
Head CoachCriostoir O'Hare
LeagueFQ Far North & Gulf
Websitehttps://marlincoastrangersfc.com.au/

Marlin Coast Rangers Football Club is an amateur soccer club founded in 1946.[1] and based in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. The club play in the regional Football Queensland FQ Far North & Gulf competition, the fifth tier of the Australian soccer league system. Its home ground was officially named Pennell Field in 2010,[2] in honour of Gary Pennell – a respected member of Marlin Coast Rangers Football Club.

The club has won the Football Queensland FQ Far North & Gulf Treble (League, Premiership, Crad Evans Shield) four times in its history (2007, 2010,[3] 2013 and 2024), and also won the League Cup in 1954 and 2022.[4] [5]

The club's Pennell Field grounds regularly play host to the Queensland Schools Football Championships, with the most recent event being the 10-12 years Girls and Boys Football State Championships in 2023.[6]

Current Matildas international player Winonah Heatley played junior football at the Club.[7]

Formation of club and early history

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The Club was originally formed in 1946 as Northern Australia Brewery (NAB) – and nicknamed Brewery – as one of eight teams in the newly-reformed Cairns Soccer Association League following an 8-year break of football competition in Cairns due to World War 2. The Club's first competitive fixture was a game against Latrobe on 20 April 1947.[8] The Club had a very successful 1954 season, winning the League title.[9] and Diggers' Cup.[10]

In 1973, the Club rebranded itself as Carlton United Brewery (CUB) after a corporate takeover of NAB by the Melbourne-based CUB. CUB Football Club was the first club to be based at Endeavour Park in Cairns, the current Football Queensland headquarters in Cairns.

In 1983, the Club moved to its current Trinity Beach grounds in Nautilus Street and rebranded itself as Marlin Coast Rangers Football Club.

Recent history

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On 6 October 2023, former Coast player Criostoir O'Hare – who won the Treble with the club in 2010 and 2013 – was confirmed as the club's new player-coach for the 2024 season.[11]

In O'Hare's first season back at Marlin Coast, the club again won the Treble, after being crowned league champions for the first time in 11 years, and winning their FQPL Grand Final 4-0 against Mareeba,[12] and the Crad Evans Shield with a 5-3 win over MA Olympic in Townsville.[13] Striker Cooper Kennedy also won the Golden Boot with 17 goals.[14]

Notable former players

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Current squad

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As of 28 September 2024

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
23 GK Australia AUS Kev Ward
2 DF Australia AUS Lachlan Morrison
3 DF Republic of Ireland IRL Jordan O'Brien
4 DF Australia AUS Charlie Beverley
5 DF Australia AUS Oliver Berry
6 MF England ENG Lewis Hayden
7 FW England ENG CJ Lewis
8 MF Peru PER Oscar Rodriguez
9 MF Australia AUS Josh De Nittis
10 FW Australia AUS Criostoir O'Hare
11 MF Australia AUS Josh Taylor
No. Pos. Nation Player
12 MF Netherlands NED Jeffrey Lassche
15 MF Australia AUS Darcy Fitzroy
16 MF Australia AUS Anthony Goweid
18 FW Australia AUS Cooper Kennedy
19 MF Chile CHI Gerardo Balart
20 DF Wales WAL James Corrigan
21 MF Australia AUS Jake Broomhead
25 DF Australia AUS Sam Humphries
27 DF Australia AUS Jimmy Breeze
88 DF Australia AUS Kal Kumar

Honours

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Football Queensland

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  • FQPL Far North & Gulf
    • League Champions
      • Winners (8): 1952, 1954, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2024
    • Grand Final
      • Winners (6): 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2024
    • League Cup
      • Winners (2): 1954, 2022
  • Crad Evans Shield
      • Winners (4): 2007, 2010, 2013, 2024

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "About Us". Marlin Coast Rangers FC.
  2. ^ "RENAMING OF PART OF A PARK – (LOT: 2 RP: 902180) – TRINITY BEACH SPORTING PRECINCT, TRINITY BEACH" (PDF). Cairns Regional Council). Retrieved 21 October 2024.
  3. ^ "Crad Evans 2010 Marlin Coast 4 Brothers Tsv 1". YouTube. 13 October 2010. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  4. ^ "Marlin Coast, Southside Comets in cup final". Cairns Post. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  5. ^ "Marlin Coast Rangers triumph over Southside Comets". 7 News Cairns (Facebook). Retrieved 16 May 2024.
  6. ^ "Community groups share in over $170,000 of funding". Mirage News. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
  7. ^ "Wini Heatley on Matildas, football, life in Denmark and leading FC Nordsjælland". Cairns Post. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  8. ^ "Soccer fixtures commence on Sunday (16 April 1947)". Trove. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
  9. ^ "N.A.B 1954 Premiers (12 July 1954)". Trove. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
  10. ^ "N.A.B take Diggers' Cup (4 May 1954)". Trove. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
  11. ^ "Marlin Coast lands huge FQPL coaching coup". Cairns Post. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  12. ^ "FQPL Far North Men Grand Final - Marlin Coast Rangers vs. Mareeba United". Football Queensland (YouTube). 14 September 2024. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  13. ^ "A hat trick of trophies in 2024 for one of Cairns biggest football clubs after claiming the Crad Evans trophy". Cairns Post. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  14. ^ "We reveal Football Queensland's award and golden boot winners". The Chronicle. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
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