Footscray Thistle Football Club was an Anglo-Celtic backed association football (soccer) club from Melbourne, Australia.
| Full name | Footscray Thistle Football Club |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1913 |
| Dissolved | 1940 |
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".