Glenorchy Knights
Full nameGlenorchy Knights Football Club
Founded1957
GroundKGV Park
Capacity2,000
ChairmanTony Bacic
ManagerFranco Previdi
LeagueNPL Tasmania
20211st of 8, Champion
WebsiteClub website

Glenorchy Knights Football Club is an Australian football club based in Glenorchy, Tasmania, 7km north of Hobart's CBD. Founded in 1957, the club competes in Australia's second-tier National Premier League, with matches played at KGV Park, a 2,000 capacity stadium.

History

The club was founded in 1957 as Glenorchy Croatia, and experienced almost immediate success, winning the state title for the first time in 1963. They experienced their best success in the 1970s, winning three titles, before having a league lull in the 1980s. However, re-branded as the Glenorchy Knights, they have slowly established a new sense of self, culminating in winning the State Championship for the first time in 13 years in 2005, and narrowly missing out on back to back state titles by losing a penalty shoot-out to Somerset in 2006. In 2010, Glenorchy Knights finished in 3rd Position in the Forestry Tasmania Southern Premier League.[1]

In 2012 Glenorchy Knights were accepted with a license to participate in a new Tasmanian statewide league NPL Tasmania between 2012 and 2015.

In 2015 Glenorchy Knights were unsuccessful in their application to remain within the NPL Tasmania and returned to lower Southern Championship in 2016.[2] The 2015 season was particularly poor for the Knights' first grade side, who won just two games all season and finished with a -133 goal difference.

Glenorchy Knights responded by winning three consecutive Southern Championships in 2016, 2017 and 2018, losing just three time in 49 games. In 2021, they won the NPL title, downing powerhouse club, Devonport, in the final round of the season.

Honours

  • State Championship: 7 times (1970, 1974, 1975, 1992, 1999, 2005, 2021)
  • State Championship Runners-up: 5 times (1978, 1980, 1998, 2006, 2020)
  • Southern Premierships: 10 times(1970, 1974, 1975, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2016, 2017, 2018)
  • Southern Premier Runners-up: (9 times) 1967, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1985, 1986, 1998, 2002
  • KO Cup Winners: (8 times) 1963, 1969, 1970, 1978, 2000, 2005, 2012, 2020
  • KO Cup Runners-up: (5 times) 1968, 1974, 2001, 2003, 2017
  • Summer Cup Winners: (5 times) 1979, 1982, 1983, 1993, 2003
  • Cadbury Charity Cup Winners: (once)1993
  • Cadbury Trophy Winners: (3 times) 1978, 1985, 1992
  • Falkinder and Association Cup Winners: (once)1964
  • Falkinder and Association Cup Runners-up: (5 times) 1962, 1963, 1966, 1970, 1973
  • Lloyd Triestino Cup Winners: (2 times) 1972, 1973

Seasons

Season League Statewide Cup FFA Cup
Name (national level) Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Position Tasmanian Finals NPL Finals
2012 South Premier League (2)2154122343−20197thDNQDid not existChampionsDid not exist
2013 Victory League (2)2144133056−26167thDNQDNQSemi-finals
2014 Victory League (2)2132162866−38117thDNQDNQRound of 16DNQ
2015 Victory League (2)21201915148−13368thDNQDNQRound of 16DNQ
2016 Southern Championship (3)1613216611+55411stQuarter-finalsNot eligibleRound of 16DNQ
2017 Southern Championship (3)1613216611+55411stSemi-finalsNot eligibleRunner upDNQ
2018 Southern Championship (3)1615108110+71461stNot heldNot eligibleRound of 16DNQ
2019 NPL Tasmania (2)24102125845+13325thNot heldDNQRound of 16DNQ
2020 NPL Tasmania (2)1410133713+24312ndNot heldCancelledChampionsQualified/cancelled
2021 NPL Tasmania (2)2115515216+36501stNot heldCancelledRunner upDNQ

See also

References

  1. ↑ "History". glenorchyknights.com. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "Clarence United replace Glenorchy Knights in Victory League | March | 2015". Archived from the original on 17 April 2016. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
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