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| Full name | Western United Football Club | ||
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| Founded | 2018 as Western Melbourne | ||
| Ground | Ironbark Fields | ||
| Capacity | 5,000 | ||
| Owner | Western Melbourne Group, Sayers Road Investment Co, Jaszac Investments - Jason Sourasis, Theodore Andriopoulos, Steve Horvat, Levent Shevki and John Tripodi | ||
| Chairman | Jason Sourasis | ||
| Manager | John Aloisi | ||
| League | A-League Men | ||
| 2023–24 | 11th of 12 | ||
| Website | https://www.wufc.com.au/ | ||
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Western United Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club. The club is based in the western Melbourne suburb of Tarneit,[1] the club aims to represent western Victoria, incorporating the western suburbs of Melbourne; the regional cities of Ballarat, and Geelong; and regional and country towns in western Victoria.[2]
The club was first established as part of an expansion process in the country's premier soccer competition, the A-League. It began playing in the 2019–20 A-League season, under licence from Football Australia (FA). On 12 May 2022 it announced the establishment of an A-League Women team.[3]
Western United currently play home matches at Ironbark Fields in Wyndham. The club previously played home matches at GMHBA Stadium in Geelong, University of Tasmania Stadium in Launceston, AAMI Park in Melbourne and Mars Stadium in Ballarat, with the club planning to permanently relocate matches to Wyndham City Stadium, a soccer-specific stadium in Wyndham upon its construction.
- ^ "OFFICES - WUFC Head Office is at Corner of Leakes and Palmers Road, Truganina". Western United FC. Twitter. 29 May 2019.
- ^ "About us". Western United FC. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
- ^ Hughes, Nicholas (12 May 2022). "Western United to enter Liberty A-League Women in upcoming season". Western United. Retrieved 28 January 2023.