The Australian-Croatian Soccer Tournament is a tournament run by the Croatian Soccer Federation of Australia and New Zealand, an organisation founded in 1974. The inspiration for the tournament came from the successful Croatian-North American Soccer Tournament founded in 1964. The Australian tournament kicked off in 1974 with a trial event staged in Melbourne, Australia where six soccer clubs participated at Melbourne Croatia's ground Montgomery Park in Essendon. The first official tournament was staged in 1975, hosted by Sydney Croatia and taken out by Canberra FC who defeated Sydney Croatia 3-1 in the Final. Since then it has gone on to become the largest and oldest ethnic football tournament in Australia, having been hosted in every state and territory except for the Northern Territory. It also holds the honour of being the oldest national soccer competition still running in Australia.

Contents 1 History of Tournaments 2 Tournament Winners 3 See also 4 References

[edit] History of Tournaments

Year	Winner	Host
2010		Auckland Croatia
2009	Adelaide Raiders	Adelaide Raiders
2008	St Albans Saints	North Geelong Warriors
2007	Ljubuski FC	Western Knights
2006	Sydney United	Sydney United
2005	Canberra FC	Melbourne Knights
2004	O'Connor Knights	Canberra FC
2003	Auckland Croatia	Luddenham Bosna
2002	Adelaide Raiders	Adelaide Raiders
2001	Canberra FC	Rocklea United FC
2000	St Albans Saints	St Albans Saints
1999	Hajduk Sydney	Hurstville Zagreb
1998	St Albans Saints	North Geelong Warriors
1997	Adelaide Raiders	Adelaide Raiders
1996	Sydney United	Canberra FC
1995	Adelaide Raiders	Gold Coast Knights
1994	Canberra FC	South Coast United
1993	Melbourne Knights	Melbourne Knights
1992	Canberra FC	North Geelong Warriors
1991	St Albans Saints	Adelaide Raiders
1990	St Albans Saints	St Albans Saints
1989	Sydney United	Rocklea United FC
1988	Sydney United	Canberra FC
1987	Sydney United	Sydney United
1986	Canberra FC	Melbourne Knights
1985	St Albans Saints	Adelaide Raiders
1984	Adelaide Raiders	Irymple Knights
1983	St Albans Saints	North Geelong Warriors
1982	Rocklea United FC	Rocklea United FC
1981	Sydney United	Kralj Tomislav Sydney
1980	Western Knights	Glenorchy Knights
1979	Sydney United	Western Knights
1978	Sydney United	Canberra FC
1977	Whyalla Croatia	Adelaide Raiders
1976	Sydney United	Melbourne Knights
1975	Canberra FC	Sydney United

[edit] Tournament Winners

• Sydney United, 9 titles
• St Albans Saints, 7 titles
• Canberra FC, 6 titles
• Adelaide Raiders, 5 titles
• Melbourne Knights, 1 title
• Whyalla Croatia, 1 title
• Western Knights, 1 title
• Ljubuski FC, 1 title
• Hajduk Sydney, 1 title
• O'Connor Knights, 1 title
• Auckland Croatia, 1 title
• Rocklea United, 1 title

[edit] See also

• List of Croatian football clubs in Australia
• Croatian Australian

[edit] References

(1) Adelaide Advertiser "Raiders confident" 4 October 2002, page 103

Official website AusCroSoccer.com

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