Grange Thistle SC

Grange Thistle SC
Full name Grange Thistle Soccer Club
Founded 1919
Ground Lanham Park, Grange
League Brisbane Premier League
2017 10th
Website Club website

Grange Thistle is an Australian association football club based in Grange, Queensland. The club currently competes in the Brisbane Premier League.

History

Grange Thistle SC forerunners included St Andrews and Thistles, clubs which enjoyed success in the 1880s during the earliest years of organised football in Brisbane. These clubs went into recess during the 1890s and later re-emerged as Merthyr Thistle, a club which existed from 1911 until most of its players and supporters broke away to form current Thistle soccer club in 1919.[1]

In the 1920s and 30s, ten members of Thistle Soccer club represented Queensland and Australia, including Jack Cumberford who scored Australia's first goal on a tour of New Zealand in 1922.[1] Thistle won their first major honour by claiming the 1923 Brisbane premiership after a 5-1 win in the Grand Final Replay against Bundamba Rangers.[2][3]

At the start of the 1930 season Thistle moved to its current home Lanham Park[4] which was described in April 1930 as "an open paddock".[5] The club controversially left the Brisbane and District FA to join the Ipswich and West Moreton Association at the start of the 1930 season.[6] After two seasons in the Ipswich League, Thistle suspended operations citing a "lack of harmony in the soccer world".[7] Although intended to be a temporary measure, and media reports of expectations the club would reform in the mid-1930s,[8] the club did not return to senior football until 1945.[9]

After World War II, Grange Thistle (as they have been known since the early 1960s) remained continuously in Brisbane Division One for 32 seasons from the 1945 season until finishing last in the 1976 season and being relegated to the Second Division for the first time. They bounced back after one season and then enjoyed a period of great success in the short lived Queensland State League (1979 to 1982), winning consecutive Grand Finals against Mount Gravatt in 1979 and 1980. During this period the club qualified for the national cup competition twice, losing each time to Brisbane Lions in the 1980 and 1981 NSL Cup competitions. The club left the State League and dropped back to Brisbane competition in 1982, winning their first Brisbane Division One premiership since 1923.[9]

In cup competitions, Grange Thistle has had success on five occasions. They won the Tristram Shield three times in a row from 1950 to 1952, and also won the Ampol Cup in 1966 and 1981.[10]

Grange Thistle competed in the Brisbane Premier League for all but three seasons from the commencement of this league in 1983 until 1996.[11] Since then it has played at the second and third tiers of the Brisbane competition until achieving promotion back to the Premier League by finishing in second place in Capital League 1 in 2016.

Recent seasons

Season League FFA Cup
Division (Tier) Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Position Finals Series
2008Premier Division 1 (4)2255122038-18209thDNQNot yet founded
2009Premier Division 1 (4)2223172059-39911thDNQ
2010Premier Division 1 (4)2613222980-51614th ↓DNQ
2011Premier Division 2 (5)261151043421387thDNQ
2012Premier Division 2 (5)2272133647-11239thDNQ
2013 Capital League 2 (5)221624693732502nd ↑Semi-Finalist
2014 Capital League 1 (4)2265112749-22239thDNQPreliminary Round 1
2015 Capital League 1 (4)2164112643-17229thDNQPreliminary Round 3
2016 Capital League 1 (4)221516533023462nd ↑ChampionsPreliminary Round 4
2017 Brisbane Premier League (3)2264123757-202210thDNQPreliminary Round 7

Source:[9]

Key: Premiers / Champions Promoted ↑ Relegated ↓

The tier is the level in the Australian soccer league system

Honours

Due to frequent restructures and re-classifications of divisions in Brisbane football, the club's first team honours below are listed by tier in the Brisbane football pyramid.

State Tier

  • Queensland State League – Premiers and Champions 1979
  • Queensland State League – Champions 1980

Brisbane – Tier 1

  • Brisbane Division 1 – Premiers 1923, 1982; Champions 1982
  • Tristram Shield – Winner 1950, 1951, 1952
  • Ampol Cup – Winner 1966, 1981
  • Pig N Whistle Canale Cup – Winner 2018

Brisbane – Tier 2

  • Brisbane Division 2 – Champions 1977
  • Capital League 1 – Champions 2016

Brisbane – Tier 3

  • Brisbane Premier Division 2 – Premiers 2007

References

  1. 1 2 "History of Grange Thistle". Grange Thistle Soccer Club official website. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
  2. ↑ "Exciting Soccer, How Thistle Won the Premiership". The Telegraph. 1 Oct 1923.
  3. ↑ "Queensland FA Division One 1923". socceraust.co.uk website. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
  4. ↑ "THISTLE FOOTBALL CLUB". The Telegraph (17, 900). Brisbane. 19 April 1930. p. 13. Retrieved 5 July 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ "SUCCOR OUR SOCCER". Truth (1569). Brisbane. 20 April 1930. p. 5. Retrieved 5 July 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ↑ "Thistle Club". The Telegraph (17, 844) (5 O'CLOCK CITY ed.). Brisbane. 12 February 1930. p. 20. Retrieved 5 July 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ↑ "THISTLE SOCCER CLUB". The Telegraph (FIRST ed.). Brisbane. 6 April 1932. p. 13. Retrieved 5 July 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ↑ "MAY BE RE FORMED NEXT YEAR". Daily Standard (6635) (FIRST ed.). Queensland, Australia. 24 April 1934. p. 6. Retrieved 5 July 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. 1 2 3 "Grange Thistle FC". Brisbane Football (Soccer) Tables. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  10. ↑ "Brisbane Cup Competitions 1921-2016". Brisbane Football (Soccer) Tables. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  11. ↑ "Brisbane Premier League Tables 1983 to 2017". Brisbane Football (Soccer) Tables. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
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