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The Geelong Regional Football Committee (GRFC) is the governing body of soccer in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. It is a sub-committee of governing body Football Victoria.

It was previously known as the Western Victoria Soccer Association, later becoming the Geelong Region Football Association (GRFA).

Local leagues

The GRFC organises local Geelong community competitions which consist of Miniroos & MiniTillies from ages 7 to 9 years plus Junior Divisions from ages 11 to 18. Member Clubs also contain Mens & Womens teams; both Senior and Reserve team.

Representative squads

GRFC's representative squads compete in the Annual tournament of the Country Championships, an annual Junior tournament established in 1978 by the Country Leagues Football Association (CLFA). It attracts both male and female regional representative players aged 11 years to 17 years old, coaches, officials and spectators over 3 days of competition, to determine and crown State Champions. The Event takes place each year in June on the King's Birthday long weekend. Each year Geelong competes against teams from all over Regional Victoria including Bendigo, Shepparton, Moama-Echuca, Albury/Wodonga, Gippsland, Goulburn, Latrobe Valley, Swan Hill, South West Victoria and Sunraysia.

GRFC clubs

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  • Armstrong United FC
  • Barwon Soccer Club
  • Barwon Heads Soccer Club
  • Bellarine Sharks
  • Bell Park
  • Breakwater Eagles
  • Colac Otway Rovers
  • Corio
  • Corio Bay
  • Drysdale SC
  • Geelong SC
  • Geelong Galaxy
  • Deakin University
  • Geelong Rangers
  • Golden Plains FC
  • FC Leopold
  • Lara United
  • Ocean Grove SC (formerly Surfside Waves)
  • North Geelong Warriors
  • Surfcoast FC

Former teams

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  • Bacchus Marsh SC (League Winners & Cup Winners, 3 years in total played in WVSA)
  • Brintons SC
  • Corio Cloverdale
  • DSG (Dutch Society Geelong)[1]
  • East Geelong FC
  • Elcho Park Cardinals
  • Espanol
  • Geelong City[2]
  • Geelong Celtic FC
  • Geelong United FC
  • H.M.A.S. Brisbane[3]
  • Ford Recreation[4]
  • International Harvester FC[5]
  • Industrial Service Engineers Pty Ltd FC
  • IAMA club (Italian Australian Migrants Association)
  • Kardinia International College
  • Lovely Banks FC
  • Northern Suburbs
  • Norlane Olympia
  • Shell[6][7]
  • Toldi
  • Queenscliff Garrison[8]

Current ranking

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Position Team Division
1 North Geelong Warriors FC National Premier Leagues Victoria 2
2 Geelong SC National Premier Leagues Victoria 3
3 Corio Soccer Club Victorian State League Division 2 North-West
4 Geelong Rangers Victorian State League Division 2 North-West
5 Surf Coast Victorian State League Division 4 West
6 Bell Park Sports Club Victorian State League Division 4 West
7 Golden Plains Soccer Club Victorian State League Division 4 West
8 Lara United FC Victorian State League Division 5 West
9 Deakin Ducks Football Club Victorian State League Division 5 West
10 Barwon Soccer Club Victorian State League Division 5 West
11 Breakwater Eagles Geelong Division 1
12 Ocean Grove Soccer Club Geelong Division 1
13 Drysdale S.C Geelong Division 1
14 Barwon Heads F.C. Geelong Division 2
15 Corio Bay F.C. Geelong Division 3
16 Colac Otway Rovers F.C. Geelong Division 3

Cup competition

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Timeline of football in Geelong

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  • 1923. Geelong United soccer club is formed.[16]
  • 1924. Geelong United plays its first league match against Melbourne Welsh at the Hope Street ground in Geelong West and participates in the Dockerty Cup.[17][18]
  • 1926. The Geelong and District Soccer League is formed. There are seven teams: Geelong City, Ford Recreation Club, Valley Worsted Mills, Overseas Club, Queenscliff Garrison, HMAS Brisbane and North Geelong. Geelong United who were playing in the Melbourne competition are disbanded to get the league launched [19][20][21]
  • 1926. The Madden Cup competition is established by William G. Madden (President of the Geelong and the Western District Football Association) who donates the cup trophy. The cup runs for at least two years until Madden's death in 1928. [22][23][24][25][26][27]
  • 1927. New clubs Caledonians and Union Jack are formed.
  • 1927. Players from various Geelong teams are selected for a Geelong association team to play a match against Preston Soccer Club on Easter Saturday at the Hope street ground in Geelong West.[28][29]
A football pitch used by the Federal Woollen Mills team in North Geelong. Photo circa 1925/1935
  • 1929. Federal Woollen Mills and Geelong Wanderers enters the league.
  • 1930/31. The Great Depression takes hold across Australia. Only four teams remain in the league in 1930, the league folds in 1931.[30]
  • 1934. Geelong United is revived to play in the Melbourne metropolitan competition.
  • 1949/50. The Geelong league is restarted with Geelong United, Geelong Celtic, International Harvester and Industrial Service Engineers play in the league. [31][32]
  • 1950. The post world war II migrant boom is underway across Australia, large number of European migrants will grow and transform the game in Geelong over the next decade. [31]
  • Dutch migrant workers form Shell A and Shell B teams during the construction of Shell's Geelong Oil Refinery (1951-54). [33][34]
  • 1952. A club named Geelong is founded, becoming the IAMA club (Italian Australian Migrants Association) in 1954/1955.[35]
  • 1955. Geelong Scottish formed - later to become Geelong Rangers.[36]
  • 1956. Corio SC is formed by German migrants.
Norlane Olympia team. Sept 1960.
  • 1956. The Dutch influence on local football increases as Dutch teams now make up five of the eight teams in the Geelong competition.[37]
  • 1956. The local Dutch newspaper De Nieuwe Wereld sponsors a post-season lightning premiership competition named the 'New World Cup' open to Ballarat, Melbourne and Geelong teams that runs until 1960.[38]
  • In 1957 Footscray's Croatia club was brought to Geelong for a short period.
  • By 1958 there were eight teams; British, Corio (German), Olympia 1 and 2 (Dutch), DSG (Dutch Society of Geelong), Ukrania, Scottish and Toldi (Hungarian).
  • 1958. Geelong Macedonia Soccer Club is established, based out of Harold Hurst Reserve in Herne Hill - later known as Geelong SC.
  • 1959. Bell Park Sports Club was founded by Frank Vanjek and Gino Tromba.
  • In 1963 the newly formed Victorian Soccer Federation removed Geelong clubs from its Metropolitan competitions, consigning teams to the Ballarat and Geelong Districts Soccer Association in 1964.[31]
  • 1964. Brintons Soccer Club formed that would later become Breakwater Eagles.[39]
  • 1964 and 1965. Bell Park are the undefeated champions.
  • 1965. West Geelong, the second local Macedonian club was formed.[31]
  • 1967. North Geelong Croatia is formed.[40]
  • 1978. Deakin Ducks Football Club is a established.[41]
  • 1981. Councillor Gerry Smith presided over the formation of The Association of Geelong Soccer Clubs. Aiming to create a National Soccer League team in Geelong.
  • 1981. The Geelong Advertiser Cup competition is launched.
  • 1986. Corio Bay Sports Cub (soccer and cricket) is formed.
  • 1987. Corio SC merges with Geelong United.
  • 1989/90/91. North Geelong win Division Two and then Division One of the State League.
  • 1992. North Geelong coached by Branko Culina win the Victorian Premier League in its first year in the top flight of Victoria football.[42]
  • 1996. Surfside Waves is founded - later renamed Ocean Grove Soccer Club.[43]
  • 1999. Lara Soccer Club is founded.[44]
  • 2004. Bellarine Sharks A.F.C.is founded.[45]
  • 2008. Barwon Heads Soccer Club founded.[46]
  • 2009. Drysdale Soccer Club is founded.[47]
  • 2012. Golden Plains Soccer Club is founded. [48]
  • 2016. Leopold FC is founded.[49]
  • 2016. Geelong Galaxy United FC is founded.[50]
  • 2018. Armstrong Creek United is founded.[51]

See also

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References

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