Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC

Full name Mount Druitt Town Rangers FC
Founded 1970 (inc.)
Ground Popondetta Park
Capacity ~2500
Owner Mark Robertson
Chairman Mark Robertson
League FFA FNSW NPL
FFA NPL TBD

The Mount Druitt Town Rangers, or the Mt Druitt Rangers, are a football (soccer) club from Mt Druitt in Western Sydney Australia. The club was incorporated in 1970. The team currently plays in the FFA FNSW National Premier League's program, the highest league in the state.

History

The Mt Druitt Town Rangers Soccer Club was incorporated in 1970 and has developed a strong association with the district and the states governing body, Football NSW Football Federation Australia.

Since 1970, the Rangers has provided football opportunities for the youth of Western Sydney. Founded by two Scots of opposing religions and the fiercest of football rivalries, they overcame their differences to unite the green of Celtic, the Rangers name, and the gold of Australia.

The Rangers play in the FFA FNSW National Premier League (NPL2) 1st Grade, 20s, 18s, National Premier League Youth u16s, 15s, 14s, 13s, Skills Acquisition League u12s, 11s, 10s, 9s, Girls Conference League 17g, 15g, 13g. MDTRFC plays Futsal in the FNSW National Premier League competition [Men, Boys, Women, Girls] including Athletes With Disabilities, Town rangers also offers community football opportunities in the local Blacktown District Soccer Football Association.

The Rangers also regularly feature in the highly respected invitational Portuguese International Tournament hosted by Vila Franca do Rosario 2014 u15s, 2016 u15s, 2017, u15s, 2018 u14s testing our Rangers Youth Academies. Over the years vFR has included some of the Superpowers of European Footballs Youth Academies such as regulars Sporting Club Portugal, SL Benfica, Porto FC, as well as other international guests Sheffield Wednesday, Real Betis,

In 2017, the Skills Acquisition League also toured Portugal and played in the Algrave New World Youth Cup where the Rangers team was awarded the Fair Play Award. That same year, the Rangers made the National Premier League first grade grand final against the league winners and highly respected Marconi.

In 2017, Rangers Youth won the u15s Football New South Wales National Premier League One against all 26 National Premier League Youth clubs, and ranked fourth in the unofficial Club Championship of 13s~16s. Technical Director Ben Gough and Stewart Montgomery along with Head Coach Ferdinand Maniti and Chris Zaccazan steered the Under 15 Boys to Victory in their final game against Rockdale FC. With Club Committee Scott Payer, Kevin Allen, Mark Robbo Robertson and all the volunteers have made this possible for a great Football Club.

2015 saw MDTR First play Western Sydney Wanderers FC A-League team in their first trial having won the ACL, with the gates closed with some 2,200 in attendance.

The Rangers have also hosted many Y-League and W-League matches at Popondetta Pk for the Western Sydney Wanderers and the in 2017 hosted the Brasil National Women's team (featuring the superstar Marta) as they prepared for their games against the Matildas.

Since 2011, significant upgrades to the core development from 1986 have taken place, including 1000 additional seats (400 covered), an awning covering entire grandstand, about 350 bucket seats installed in the grandstand, a first aid room, overhaul of the canteen and bathroom facilities, installation of air conditioning in the clubhouse, and a media box.

In 2016, Blacktown City Council announced a major upgrade to the Popondetta Pk precinct of $5m. including the development of a synthetic field and additional amenities for players and spectators.

Recent FNSW Results: (Club Championship is an aggregate of ladder points for the teams in the League per FNSW stipulation.)

2017: 

 NPL2: 1st Grade Premiers, 20s and 18s. All NPL2 finalists. Club Championship: Winners (promotion)
 NPLY: 16s, 15s, 14s, 13s. All finalists. (unofficial CC 3 of 26 team competition).
 GCL:  17g, 15g, 14g Grand Finalists. All finalists.

2016: 

 NPL2: 1st Grade 3rd Grand Finalists, 20s, 18s. Club Championship:
 NPLY: 16s, 15s, 14s, 13s. 
 WNPL2: 1st, Res, 17g, 15g, 13g.

2014~15 NPLY1 (Tier1)

2013 NPLY2 1st (Tier2)

2012 Div.1 1st

2011 Div.1 1st (not promoted)

2010 Div.1 2nd

2009 Div.1 2nd (Tier3)

Club colours and kit

The club's home kit is based on the Australian national jersey/shirt is predominately gold and shorts bottle green, the socks are gold. The away kit is shirt bottle green, shorts black, and socks black.

References

    Mount Druitt Town Rangers FC U15s


    Player Name Team Name M Last GOALS YC RC Ahmed Hammoud Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 1 2017-05-30 Ali Al Yasiry Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 9 2017-09-09 3 Ali Almoail Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 1 2017-04-22 Blake Steward Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 10 2017-05-20 1 Callum Richards Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 28 2017-09-23 1 Cooper Halfpenny Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 26 2017-09-23 1 Emmanuel Dolo Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 27 2017-09-23 19 2 Gabriel Pellegrini Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 4 2017-06-18 Hussain Al Shmaeri Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 27 2017-09-23 3 7 Jack Davidson Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 15 2017-09-23 Jacob Debien Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 30 2017-09-23 13 3 Jacob Maniti Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 25 2017-09-23 2 3 Jarrod Galea Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 18 2017-08-05 2 4 Jerome Narayan Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 30 2017-09-23 Jesse Dickson Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 3 2017-07-02 Joseph Carbone Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 14 2017-09-23 1 Joshua Isaac Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 16 2017-09-23 6 1 Marcelo Martellotta Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 1 2017-05-06 Michael Christof Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 10 2017-05-20 2 Mitchell Masonwells Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 30 2017-09-23 1 Mohommed Sabbouh Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 22 2017-09-23 2 Nicolas Danby Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 25 2017-09-23 Rhys Osmond Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 30 2017-09-23 48 4 Ryan Duffy Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 7 2017-05-20 William List Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 7 2017-09-09 Youssef Hawchar Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 30 2017-09-23 1 3 Zane Sharma Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 27 2017-09-23 1 5



    Ladder FNSW U15s 2017 standings

    http://websites.sportstg.com/comp_info.cgi?c=1-10179-0-443167-0&pool=1&a=LADDER

    14 H. Al Shmaeri 13 J. Carbone 16 N. Danby 6 J. Davidson 8 J. Debien 7 E. Dolo 2 C. Halfpenny 15 Y. Hawchar 12 J. Isaac 10 J. Maniti 3 M. Masonwells 9 R. Osmond 5 C. Richards 11 M. Sabbouh 4 Z. Sharma 1 J. Narayan


    http://websites.sportstg.com/team_info.cgi?c=1-10179-150721-443167-25895971&a=STATS

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