Stanmore Hawks FC

Stanmore Hawks Football Club is an Australian football club based in Stanmore, New South Wales. The club was founded in 1978 by the Greek-Cypriot community of Sydney, originally playing under the name Cyprus United. Stanmore Hawks currently competes in the National Premier Leagues NSW 3.

Stanmore Hawks
Full nameStanmore Hawks Football Club
Nickname(s)Hawks, Kypriaki
Founded1978
GroundArlington Oval
LeagueNSW NPL 3
20207th
WebsiteClub website

History

After playing in the lower leagues of NSW football for the early 1980s, Cyprus United were introduced into the New South Wales Inter Urban Division Five for the 1985 season.[1] In their first season in the Inner Urban league, they won two-thirds of their matches, finishing the season with twelve wins and gaining promotion.[2] This was further followed by a string of seven consecutive promotions,.[3]

The club was promoted to the NSW 2nd Division after winning the NSW 3rd Division in 1990. In 1992, the club experienced a magnificent season, winning the NSW 2nd Division that year, leading to Stanmore's promotion into the 1993 NSW Premier League season..[3]

Stanmore finished 9th in 1993 and 12th in 1994, avoiding relegation as the league was set to expand to 14 teams for 1995. By the halfway mark of the 1995 season, Stanmore won just two games, drawing four others whilst having lost seven, including a 7–3 defeat to their fellow relegation zone rivals, Mount Druitt Town Rangers. Stanmore were able to pick up three more wins from their final thirteen fixtures, which wasn't enough to save them from relegation. They finished 10 points behind thirteenth placed Adamstown Rosebud.[4]

After stagnating in the second division of NSW Football for the next decade, Stanmore went through a lean phase, wherein they were relegated again in 2007 to the third division.[5] They stayed in the State League until the end of the 2012 season,[6] when Football NSW created their new competition format for 2013. Because of this, Stanmore were effectively relegated to the NSW State League Division 2.

Despite losing their first match of the 2013 season,[7] Stanmore dominated the league, winning 16 games, including a 16–0 defeat of Schofield Scorpions, before going on to win the Grand Final 1–0 over Fairfield City.

Honours
  • NSW Super League/NSW 2nd Division
Champions (3): 1992, 1997, 2004
  • National Premier Leagues NSW 3/NSW 3rd Division
Premiers (1): 2019
  • NSW State League 2/NSW 4th Division
Champions (1): 2013
  • NSW Premier League 3/NSW 3rd Division
Champions (1): 2019

References
  1. 1984 NSW Lower Leagues
  2. 1985 NSW Lower Leagues
  3. Stanmore Hawks Divisional History
  4. 1985 NSW State League
  5. 2007 NSW Super League
  6. 2007 NSW State League Division One
  7. 2013 NSW State League Division Two
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