Hobart City Beachside FC
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Hobart City Football Club is an Australian semi-professional soccer club based in the suburb of Sandy Bay in Hobart, Tasmania. The club's colours are green and black. The club plays its home games at Sandown Park, known to fans as the Tropicana Cauldron or simply The Tropicana. In 2021, Beachside FC and Hobart City merged to form a club under the current name.
History
Beachside FC
Beachside FC was founded in 1975 under the name Howrah Soccer Club because it played in the Hobart suburb of Howrah. The club then adopted the name Beachside HSC when it moved to its current home near Long Beach, in Sandy Bay keeping the HSC from Howrah Soccer Club despite no longer playing in that suburb. In 2011, the name was changed subtly to Beachside FC.
Hobart City
In 1977, Hobart City Azzurri was founded to provide a youth soccer club for the Italian community. In 1981, the Club changed its name to Hobart City FC, as a result of a mandate from Soccer Australia to remove all ethnic based names club titles. In 1986, the club become the Southern Tasmanian Seniors Division 1 Premiers and Knock Out Cup Winners. The club ceased to exist in late 1991, with its members joining other clubs or retiring. In 2021, family members of the original founders, began a re-creation of the Hobart City Azzurri.
Merger
In 2021, Beachside FC and Hobart City FC merged to form a new club under the name Hobart City Beachside FC and later changed to Hobart City FC In 2023
Fondata nel 2002, la squadra ha vinto il campionato di terza divisione tasmaniana nel 2005 e nel 2006, ottenendo la promozione in seconda divisione. Nel 2010, l'Hobart City Beachside FC ha vinto la NPL Tasmania, ottenendo la promozione in prima divisione. Tuttavia, la squadra è retrocessa in seconda divisione dopo una sola stagione.
Nel 2014, l'Hobart City Beachside FC ha vinto nuovamente la NPL Tasmania, ottenendo la promozione in prima divisione. Questa volta, la squadra è riuscita a mantenere la categoria, ottenendo il sesto posto nella stagione 2015.
L'Hobart City Beachside FC è una squadra giovane e ambiziosa, che punta a raggiungere la massima serie del campionato australiano di calcio. La squadra gioca le sue partite casalinghe al North Chigwell Oval, situato nel sobborgo di Chigwell, a Hobart.
I colori sociali dell'Hobart City Beachside FC sono il blu e il bianco.