Brunswick Zebras Football Club

This article is about the 1964 club based in Brunswick East. For the 1997 break off club based in Fawkner, see Brunswick Juventus FC.

Brunswick Zebras
Full nameBrunswick Zebras Football Club[1]
Nickname(s)Zebras
Founded1948 as part of Juventus
1964 as Brunswick United Juventus Juniors
1997 Brunswick Zebras Juniors
GroundSumner Park, Brunswick East
ChairmanCarlo Carli
LeagueMen: VSL 4 North
Women: VWSL 1 North-West
2022Men: 10th
Women: 3rd
WebsiteClub website

Brunswick Zebras Football Club is an Australian semi-professional association football (soccer) club that is based in the northern Melbourne suburb of Brunswick East.[2][3] Nicknamed the 'Zebras',[4] the club fields both senior and reserves teams for men & women, and operates a junior academy under license from Football Victoria.[5] For the 2019 Football Victoria season, the senior men finished seventh of the state league fourth division,[6] and the senior women were premiers of the state league third division,[7] both in the northern conferences. To date, the club have been national champions and premiers on one occasion each,[8] Victorian state league premiers on eight occasions,[9] state cup winners on six occasions,[10] and winners of various lower state competitions throughout its existence.

The club was founded in 1948 as 'Juventus' by the Italian community of Melbourne[11] and operates from the original clubrooms at Sumner Park. Under the name 'Brunswick Juventus', the club participated in the National Soccer League from 1984 to 1988, where they would be national champions in 1985 and southern conference premiers in 1986. The club again participated in the national competition for the 1993–94 and 1994–95 seasons under the names 'Brunswick Pumas' and 'Melbourne Zebras' respectively.[12]

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  4. ^ "Club Name Change - Brunswick Juventus Junior Football Club". 23 January 2021.
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  6. ^ "Ladder for Brunswick Zebras FC". GameDay.
  7. ^ "Ladder for Brunswick Zebras FC". GameDay.
  8. ^ "The Australian National Soccer League".
  9. ^ "Victorian Premier League Champions".
  10. ^ "Dockerty Cup".
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  12. ^ "Victorian Football Club Archive - Maidstone United to Murray United".