White City FC
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Full name | Beograd Woodville Sports And Social Club Inc | ||
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Nickname(s) | Beograd, Warriors | ||
Founded | 1949 | ||
Ground | Frank Mitchell Park | ||
Manager | Sergio Melta | ||
League | NPL South Australia | ||
2014 | 8th | ||
Website | Club website | ||
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White City Football Club is an Australian semi-professional soccer club based in Woodville, Adelaide, South Australia. Founded in 1949 by the Serbian Australian community, the club currently competes in the National Premier Leagues South Australia. White City was formerly coached by former Australian international Milan Ivanović. They are currently coached by former Adelaide City player Sergio Melta who was appointed as head coach for the 2015 season.
History
The Beograd Sports and Social club was formed on 19 November 1949 and a meeting arranged at the railway lawns, North Terrace, Adelaide. The first Committee was: President Ilija Ilic, Vice President Miodrag Zivkovic, Secretary Danilo Cukic, Treasurer  Nikola Kleut and committee members Dusan Naumovic, Vaso Kekovic, Stanoje Vukovic and Peter Nikolich.
Beograd played its first league game on 15 April 1950 at its home ground in the South Parklands against Prospect, winning the game 5–2. Beograd moved to its current home of Frank Mitchell Park in 1956. In 2006, the Club celebrated its 50th anniversary.
In 1979 Beograd won the State League First Division Championship for the first time. This milestone also coincides with the year Beograd changed its playing colours from blue, white and red to the Serbian colours of Red, blue and white. In addition, flood lights were also installed in 1979 by Branko Petakovic and the president was Milan Stepanovic.
In 1992 Beograd changed its name to White City Woodville and still plays under this name today. The name of the ground at Woodville West was changed to Frank Mitchell Park in honour of the Club's servant who devoted many years of his life to the White City and its juniors.[1]
First-team squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Notable players
Chad Bugeja Lucas Pantelis Robert Cornthwaite Ross Aloisi Kris Trajanovski Todd Clarke Cristiano Lloyd Owusu Zoran Matić Andrej Rastovac Norman Lees Bradley Armour Bugsy Nyskohus Uroš Živković Bradley Hassell Milan Ivanović Ricardo Da Silva Dušan "Dule" Rusmir
Honours
1st Division Champions: 1979, 1983 & 1993
1st Division Minor Premiers: 1996
2nd Division Champions: 1955, 1967, 1971, 1989 & 1994
Federation Cup Winners: 1980, 1983, 1993, 1996 & 2005
U/23 Cup Winners: 1997, 2003
U/23 Cup Finalist: 2002
U/19 Premier League Champions: 1999, 2003, 2006
U19 Cup Winners: 1999
U19s Federation Cup Winners: 2006
References
- ↑ "Club History". Beograd Woodville Sports & Social Club Inc. Archived from the original on 20 July 2014. Retrieved 30 December 2013.