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Football Geelong Region
AbbreviationFootball Geelong, GRFC, GRFA
Formation(1926; 98 years ago (1926) as Western District Football Association)
TypeRegional Sporting Association
Legal statusActive
Location
Region served
Geelong, Australia
Parent organisation
Football Victoria / Football Australia
Websitehttps://footballgeelong.com/

The Geelong Regional Football Committee (GRFC) is the governing body of soccer in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. It is a sub-committee of governing body Football Victoria.

It was previously known as the Western Victoria Soccer Association, later becoming the Geelong Region Football Association (GRFA).

Local leagues

The GRFC organises local Geelong community competitions which consist of Miniroos & MiniTillies from ages 7 to 9 years plus Junior Divisions from ages 11 to 18. Member Clubs also contain Mens & Womens teams; both Senior and Reserve team.

Representative squads

GRFC's representative squads compete in the Annual tournament of the Country Championships, an annual Junior tournament established in 1978 by the Country Leagues Football Association (CLFA).

It attracts both male and female regional representative players aged 11 years to 17 years old, coaches, officials and spectators over 3 days of competition, to determine and crown State Champions.

The event takes place each year in June on the King's Birthday long weekend. Each year Geelong competes against teams from all over Regional Victoria including Bendigo, Shepparton, Moama-Echuca, Albury/Wodonga, Gippsland, Goulburn, Latrobe Valley, Swan Hill, South West Victoria and Sunraysia.

Current clubs

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Clubs Est. Home ground/Stadium
Armstrong United FC 2018 Armstrong Creek Sporting Oval
Barwon Heads Soccer Club 2008 Barwon Heads Community Park
Barwon Soccer Club 1992[1] Grovedale Reserve
Bell Park Sport Club 1959 Bell Park Sports Club, Batesford
Bellarine Sharks 2004 St Leonards Lake Reserve
Breakwater Eagles 1964 Howard Glover Reserve, East Geelong
Colac Otway Rovers AFC 2010 Beeac Recreation Reserve
Corio Bay Sports Club 1986 Evans Reserve, Norlane
Corio SC 1955 Hume Reserve, Bell Park
Deakin Ducks FC 1978 Deakin University Sports Precinct, Waurn Ponds
Drysdale SC 2009 Drysdale Recreation Reserve
FC Leopold 2016 Estuary Boulevard Recreation Reserve, Leopold
Geelong Galaxy United FC 2016 Hume Reserve, Bell Park
Geelong Rangers 1955 Myers Reserve, Bell Post Hill
Geelong SC 1958 Stead Park, Norlane
Golden Plains Soccer Club 2012 Bannockburn Recreation Precinct
Lara United 1999 Lara Recreation Reserve
North Geelong Warriors 1967 Elcho Park, Lara
Ocean Grove SC 1996 Shell Road Reserve, Ocean Grove
Surfcoast FC 2001 Banyul-warri Fields, Torquay

Men's team ranking

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As of 2024

Team Division
North Geelong Warriors FC Victoria Premier League 2
Geelong SC Victoria Premier League 2
Corio Soccer Club Victorian State League Division 1 North-West
Geelong Rangers Victorian State League Division 2 North-West
Surf Coast Victorian State League Division 4 West
Bell Park Sports Club Victorian State League Division 4 West
Golden Plains Soccer Club Victorian State League Division 4 West
Barwon Soccer Club Victorian State League Division 4 West
Lara United FC Victorian State League Division 5 West
Deakin Ducks Football Club Victorian State League Division 5 West
Ocean Grove Soccer Club Victorian State League Division 5 West
Breakwater Eagles Geelong Division 1
Armstrong Creek United Geelong Division 1
Drysdale S.C Geelong Division 1
Barwon Heads F.C. Geelong Division 1
FC Leopold Geelong Division 2
Bellarine Sharks Geelong Division 2
Corio Bay F.C. Geelong Division 2
Colac Otway Rovers F.C. Geelong Division 3

Cup competition

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The Geelong Community Cup is an annual pre-season soccer tournament held in the region since 1981.

Notable players

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The following players have played football for GRFC clubs and have represented senior men's or women's national teams.

Life members

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Former teams

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Teams Years active (if known)
Brintons SC 1964-1991. Became Eastern Park in 1991.[17]
British 1956
Bellarine United 1985
Barwon City
Belmont 1967
Corio Cloverdale
DSG (Dutch Society Geelong)[18] 1956
East Geelong FC 1985-93 (Merged with Geelong).[19]
Elcho Park Cardinals
Geelong Espanol
Geelong City[20] 1914
Geelong Celtic FC 1950-1951[21]
Geelong Scottish 1955. Became Hamlyn Rangers [21]
Geelong Olympic Sports Club[22] 1984-
Geelong United 1923-31, 1934 - 1936
Geelong United 1951
Geelong United FC 1977 - 1987 (Merged with Corio SC)
H.M.A.S. Brisbane[23]
Ford Recreation[24]
International Harvester FC[25] 1950 -1953 [21]
Industrial Service Engineers Pty Ltd FC
IAMA club (Italian Australian Migrants Association) 1955
Kardinia International College
Lovely Banks Kiev 1987 [21]
Northern Suburbs 1979
Norlane Olympia 1955 [21]
Norlane Juliana[21]
Shell[26][27] 1953
Toldi
Union Jack[28]
Queenscliff Garrison[29]
West Geelong 1965-1984. Became East Geelong [21]
Zagreb 1958-1960 [21]

Timeline of football in Geelong

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  • 1923. Geelong United soccer club is formed.[37]
  • 1924. Geelong United plays its first league match against Melbourne Welsh at the Hope Street ground in Geelong West and participates in the Dockerty Cup but is eliminated in the first round.[40][41][42]
  • 1926. The Geelong and District Soccer League is formed. There are seven teams: Geelong City, Ford Recreation Club, Valley Worsted Mills, Overseas Club, Queenscliff Garrison, HMAS Brisbane and North Geelong. Geelong United who were playing in the Melbourne competition are disbanded to get the league launched. The arrival of workers for Geelong's new industry increase the need for pitches - a battle that will continue for clubs across the region for the next century. [43] [44][45][46][47][48]
  • 1926. The Madden Cup competition is established by William G. Madden (President of the Geelong and the Western District Football Association) who donates the cup trophy. Madden passes away in 1928. The cup runs to at least 1930. [49][50][51][52][53][54]
  • 1926. The Caledonian Charity Shield competition is started.[55]
  • 1927. New clubs Caledonians and Union Jack are formed.
  • 1927. Players from various Geelong teams are selected for a Geelong association team to play a match against Preston Soccer Club on Easter Saturday at the Hope street ground in Geelong West.[56][57]
A football pitch used by the Federal Woollen Mills team in North Geelong. Photo circa 1925/1935
  • 1929. Federal Woollen Mills and Geelong Wanderers enters the league.
  • 1930/31. The Great Depression takes hold across Australia. Only four teams remain in the league in 1930, the league folds in 1931.[58]
  • 1934. Geelong United is revived to play in the Melbourne metropolitan competition.
  • 1949/50. The Geelong league is restarted with Geelong United, Geelong Celtic, International Harvester and Industrial Service Engineers play in the league. [59][60]
  • 1950. The post world war II migrant boom is underway across Australia, large number of European migrants will grow and transform the game in Geelong over the next decade. [59]
  • Dutch migrant workers form Shell A and Shell B teams during the construction of Shell's Geelong Oil Refinery (1951-54). [61][62]
  • 1952. The Geelong 'International' Soccer club is founded by the Italian community and plays in blue and black vertical stripes. However it is later suspended by the Victorian Soccer Association for crowd trouble.[63] The club was then re-established with Fanny Borsari as president - the first women to be president of a soccer club in Australia. Fanny's husband Nino Borsari was president of Brunswick Juventus.[64][65] The club later became known as the IAMA club (Italian Australian Migrants Association) in 1954/1955.[66]
  • 1955. Geelong Scottish formed - later to become Geelong Rangers.[67]
  • 1956. Corio SC is formed by German migrants.
Norlane Olympia team. Sept 1960.
  • 1956. The Dutch influence on local football increases as Dutch teams now make up five of the eight teams in the Geelong competition.[68]
  • 1956. The local Dutch newspaper De Nieuwe Wereld sponsors a post-season lightning premiership competition named the 'New World Cup' open to Ballarat, Melbourne and Geelong teams that runs until 1960.[69]
  • In 1957 Footscray's Croatia club was brought to Geelong for a short period.
  • By 1958 there were eight teams; British, Corio (German), Olympia 1 and 2 (Dutch), DSG (Dutch Society of Geelong), Ukrania, Scottish and Toldi (Hungarian).
  • 1958. Geelong Macedonia Soccer Club is established, based out of Harold Hurst Reserve in Herne Hill - later known as Geelong SC.
  • 1959. Bell Park Sports Club was founded by Frank Vanjek and Gino Tromba.
  • In 1963 the newly formed Victorian Soccer Federation removed Geelong clubs from its Metropolitan competitions, consigning teams to the Ballarat and Geelong Districts Soccer Association in 1964.[59]
  • 1964. Brintons Soccer Club formed.[70]
  • 1964 and 1965. Bell Park are the undefeated champions.
  • 1965. West Geelong, the second local Macedonian club was formed.[59]
  • 1967. North Geelong Croatia is formed by Mirko Hrkač, Ivan Sesar, Vinko Radojević and Aldo Siketa.[71]
  • 1975. Rangers move from their ground at Calvert Street Hamlyn Park to Myers Reserve. [9]
  • 1978. Deakin Ducks Football Club is a established.[72]
  • 1981. Councillor Gerry Smith presided over the formation of The Association of Geelong Soccer Clubs. Aiming to create a National Soccer League team in Geelong.
  • 1981. The Geelong Advertiser Cup competition is launched by Bill Walsh, Bob Kocsiki, Billy Dorris and Jim Lippelgoes. Bell Park beat Hamlyn Rangers 1-0 to take the Silverware.[73]
  • 1986. Corio Bay Sports Cub (soccer and cricket) is formed.
  • 1987. Corio SC merges with Geelong United.
  • 1989/90/91. North Geelong win Division Two and then Division One of the State League.
  • 1992. North Geelong coached by Branko Culina win the Victorian Premier League in its first year in the top flight of Victoria football.[74]
  • 1992. Barwon Soccer club founded by Dave Rea.[1]
  • 1996. Surfside Waves is founded - later renamed Ocean Grove Soccer Club.[75]
  • 1999. Lara Soccer Club is founded by John Karounos and a group of dedicated volunteers.[76][77]
  • 2001. Surf Coast FC is founded.[78]
  • 2004. Bellarine Sharks A.F.C.is founded as the participation continues to grow rapidly across the Bellarine Peninsula and the Surfcoast.[79][80]
  • 2008. Barwon Heads Soccer Club founded.[81]
  • 2009. Drysdale Soccer Club is founded by Geoff Briggs.[82]
  • 2011. The Bellarine Cup is started. The handicap event runs for at least three years.[83]
  • 2012. Golden Plains Soccer Club is founded. [84]
  • 2015. 21,289 fans watch Melbourne Victory play Perth Glory FC at Kardinia Park.[85]
  • 2015. Pitch four at Hume reserve is converted into a water retention pond at a time when soccer participation for boys and girls surpassed all other sports across Australia.[86][87] Hume reserve was once a facility of six pitches that had been gradually reduced as land had been sold off for industrial development.
  • 2016. Leopold FC is founded by Jared Larkins and Mitchell Vials.The club had over 100 registered players in its first season in 2017.[88]
  • 2016. Geelong Galaxy United FC is formed as a joint venture of Greater Geelong Galaxy Girls and Surfcoast FC and are licensed to play as the only regional team in the new NPLW league from their home ground of Banyul-warri Fields Torquay. Vince Ierardo is head coach in their first season as Galaxy reach the grand final of the WNPL league losing to Calder United.[89][90][91][92][93]
  • 2018. The first stage of the Drysdale Sporting Precinct is complete - Drysdale SC move in.[94]
  • 2018. A $2 million FIFA standard synthetic pitch is opened at the Leisuretime Centre in Norlane.[95]
  • 2018. Armstrong Creek United is founded by Michael Parker, Moses Machao and Gavin Walker.[96]
  • 2022. Geelong Council purchase of the land and assets of Bell Park Sports Club club for $2.55 million, to ensure the club's survival.[97]
  • 2023. Breakwater Eagles move to the vacated Howard Glover reserve in East Geelong from the privately owned facility at White Eagle House.[98]
  • 2024. Breakwater Eagles change their name to Geelong City Football Club to better reflect their new home ground location.

See also

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