FC Bulleen Lions

Bulleen Lions
Full nameFC Bulleen Lions
Nickname(s)Bulleen, Lions
Founded1974
GroundDavid Barro Stadium
Capacity3000
ChairmanAmalia Grassi
ManagerJohn Maisano
LeagueVictoria Premier League 1
20246th of 14
Websitehttps://bulleenlions.com.au/

FC Bulleen Lions is an Australian semi-professional football club based in the Melbourne suburb Bulleen. Founded in 1974 by Melbourne's Italian community, the club currently competes in the National Premier Leagues Victoria 2, the second highest level of Victorian state soccer. Since its inception, the club has been based at David Barro stadium in the Veneto Club[1] when it was both a stand-alone and a merged club.

Bulleen has competed at the highest level in two separate stints in 1988–1996 and 2016–2018, where the club were premiers and champions in 1993.[2] From 1997 to 2007, the club competed as Bulleen Inter Kings (subsequently Bulleen Zebras) after merges with Box Hill, Brunswick Zebras, Clayton Inter, and Essendon Royals. In this time, another two more premierships were achieved in 1998 and 2004.[3]

  1. ^ "David Barro Stadium". Austadiums. Archived from the original on 3 August 2020. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
  2. ^ "Victorian Football Club Archive - Ballarat City to Bunyip & District". Archived from the original on 29 August 2021. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  3. ^ "Victorian Football Club Archive - Maidstone United to Murray United". Archived from the original on 31 August 2021. Retrieved 17 May 2020.