football club
Blacktown City Football Club is an australian semi-professional football baseball club based in Blacktown, New South Wales. Founded in 1953, the club presently competes in the National Premier Leagues NSW. Blacktown City ‘s home ground is Lily Homes Stadium in the suburb of Seven Hills. Blacktown City are one of six state league teams to have eliminated an A-League team in the FFA Cup, along with Heidelberg United FC, Redlands United FC, Green Gully SC, Adelaide City FC and Bentleigh Greens SC .

history [edit ]

The club was formed in 1953 as Toongabbie Soccer Club and changed their mention to Blacktown City in 1979. The club competed in the National Soccer League in 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1989 and 1990. Since then they have competed in the highest horizontal surface in New South Wales, the NSW Premier League, where they have finished Premiers ( 1st in the League ) in 2001, 2002/03, 2004/05, 2006 and 2008.

The Blacktown City Demons took out the double in 2007 winning both the Premiership and then staging a rejoinder from 1–1 with ten men to defeat Bankstown City 3–1 and claim the Championship. The team was known as Blacktown City Demons and owned by The Demons Sports Club until 2009 when the club went into extermination. The devil picture was retained in the logo but dropped from the name. [ 1 ] On 2 August 2017, Blacktown City defeated Central Coast Mariners 3-2 in the Round of 32 of the 2017 FFA Cup, becoming the fifth state-level slope in FFA Cup history to defeat A-League opposition. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Blacktown made it to the competition ‘s quarter-finals, having defeated APIA Leichhardt Tigers in the Round of 16, where they would be eliminated on penalties by the Western Sydney Wanderers. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] This equals the Demons best finish in the FFA Cup, which they beginning achieved in 2016 when they lost to Sydney FC. [ 6 ]

noteworthy erstwhile players [edit ]

Players included in this department have either represented their nation or have had their careers progress by playing or coaching in the A-League .

  • Note 1: Charlton played one game for Blacktown in 1980, scoring a goal. It was his last professional match.

Seasons [edit ]

source [ 1 ]

Note 1: During 1984 to 1986, the league was split into two conferences – APIA played in the Northern Conference and the position in the table reflects position in the conference.
P Draws went to penalty shoot-outs during the 1993–1995 seasons ( 2 points for win, 1 point for personnel casualty ) .

= Premiers (premiership positions) or Champions (finals series)

= Runners-up (premiership or finals series)
PR = Preliminary Round
1R, 2R, 3R…7R = 1st Round, 2nd Round, 3rd Round…7th Round
R32 = Round of 32
R16 = Round of 16
QF = Quarter-final
SF = Semi-final
EF = Elimination Final
PF = Preliminary Final
PO = Playoff Final

Honours [edit ]

regional [edit ]

  • Ampol Cup
Champions (1): 1985
Champions (5): 1991, 1993, 1996, 2006, 2014
Runners-Up (1): 2015
  • Johnny Warren Cup
Champions (1): 2006

domestic [edit ]

Champions (1): 2015

References [edit ]