Footscray Thistle FC
| Full name | Footscray Thistle Football Club |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1913 |
| Dissolved | 1940 |
Footscray Thistle Football Club was an Anglo-Celtic backed association football (soccer) club from Melbourne, Australia.
The 1915 Victorian Soccer Football Association season appears to be its first in the Melbourne league competition.
In 1927, Thistle beat Navy 5-2 to win the Dockerty cup at the Melbourne Motordome.[1]
Throughout its existence, the club participated in the Football Victoria state league system, where it spent twenty-two of its twenty-four seasons in the Victorian State First Tier league, now the National Premier Leagues Victoria.[2]
As of the 2020 season, Footscray is still regarded as one of the most successful Victorian clubs, with five first tier premierships, one conference premiership[3] one championship and four Dockerty Cups.[4]
Honours
[edit]- Premiers (5): 1924, 1926, 1928, 1929, 1932
- Runner's Up (3): 1919, 1923, 1927
- Premiers (1): 1930 (north)
- Runner's Up (1): 1938
- Premiers (4): 1919, 1927, 1930, 1932
- Runner's Up (2): 1924, 1936
References
[edit]- ^ "SOCCER FOOTBALL". Argus. 2 November 1927. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
- ^ "Victorian Football Club Archive - Fairfield to Frankston City".
- ^ "Victorian Premier League Champions".
- ^ "Dockerty Cup".