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| Full name | South Melbourne Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Hellas, | ||
| Founded | 1959 | ||
| Ground | Lakeside Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 12,000 (7,400 seated)[1] | ||
| President | Nicholas Maikousis | ||
| Chairman | Bill Papastergiadis | ||
| Coach | Esteban Quintas | ||
| League | NPL Victoria | ||
| 2024 | 1st of 14 (Premiers) | ||
| Website | http://www.smfc.com.au | ||
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South Melbourne Football Club is an Australian semi-professional soccer club based in suburb of Albert Park, in Melbourne, Victoria. The club currently competes in the National Premier Leagues Victoria, with matches played at Lakeside Stadium.
The club was founded in 1959 by Greek migrants following World War II as South Melbourne hellas (Greek: Νότια Μελβούρνη Ελλάς), with a basis in the Greek community.
The club has won four Australian national championships, a string of Victorian State League titles, numerous Dockerty Cups and represented Oceania in the 2000 FIFA Club World Championship. Along with the Marconi Stallions, they were one of two clubs to compete in every season of the National Soccer League.
The club was chosen by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics as the Oceania Club of the Century for the 20th century.[2]
- ^ "Lakeside Stadium, Albert Park - Home of South Melbourne Football Club". Archived from the original on 23 December 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
- ^ "Oceania's club of the Century". IFFHS official website. 17 November 2017. Archived from the original on 19 December 2017. Retrieved 17 November 2017.