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| Full name | Sydney Soccer Club Yugal | ||
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| Founded | 1956–57 | ||
| Dissolved | 1992 | ||
| Ground | Liverpool Showground, ES Marks Athletics Field, Concord Oval, Mona Park, Ernie Smith Reserve | ||
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SSC Yugal (Sydney Soccer Club Yugal), also known as Yugal, Yugal Ryde, Ryde-Yugal, Yugal-Prague, Auburn Yugal, Liverpool Yugal, is a defunct soccer club from Sydney, Australia. The club, formed by Yugoslav immigrants in the mid-1950s, was originally known as Dalmatinac due to the Dalmatian origins of most of its founders. It competed initially in the Granville District competition before joining the New South Wales Federation of Soccer Clubs' Second Division Competition in 1958, the same year as other former giants of soccer in New South Wales, Pan-Hellenic, later known as Sydney Olympic FC, and Polonia.
The club experienced fierce rivalries with Sydney Croatia and White Eagles (later Avala), due to these clubs' large Croatian and Serbian supporter bases and Yugal's Yugoslav-orientated supporter base. Fierce rivalries of an underlying political nature were also experienced with the soccer clubs of Venezia-Giulia (now defunct) with its Italo-Istrian supporter base and Blacktown City. Yugal merged with former Champion Club Prague to be known as Yugal-Prague from the 1973 season until late in the 1970s when they became known as Sydney Soccer Club Yugal. The Yugal-Prague licensed club was originally located in Pagewood, and later, as S.S.C. Yugal, the licensed club moved to Haymarket.
The club won the inaugural Australia Cup in 1962, and inspired local children through the 1960s, including the first Indigenous Australian to become a Australia women's national women's team, the Matildas, Karen Menzies.[1]
The club struggled to survive once the Former Yugoslav States began to gain independence in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and unsuccessful mergers were attempted with Auburn and Liverpool before ultimately disbanding in 1992.
- ^ Lewis, Samantha (24 November 2021). "Meet Karen Menzies, Australia's first Indigenous Matilda". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 26 November 2021.