Avondale FC
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| Full name | Avondale Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | Avengers, AFC |
| Founded | 1984 |
| Ground |
Knights Stadium (temporary) Avondale Heights Reserve (permanent) |
| Chairman | Anthony Nuzzaco |
| Manager | Anthony Barbieri |
| League | NPL Victoria |
| 2015 | 9th |
| Website | Club home page |
Avondale FC is an Australian semi-professional association football club based in Avondale Heights, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. The club currently competes in the National Premier Leagues Victoria, having reached the top tier of Victorian football for the first time in their history in 2015. Avondale is currently playing its home fixture out of Knights Stadium, with upgrades being carried out to its traditional home base, Avondale Heights Reserve.
Avondale FC was founded in 1984 as Keilor I.C.K.A. by Italian migrants and later became known as Keilor United.
Keilor United competed in the Victorian Amateur League Division 3 in 1986, but achieved two consecutive promotions in '86 and '87 to rise to the Amateur League Division 1 by '88. Keilor competed in the Provisional Leagues for the first time in 1991, with the federation placing the club into Victorian Provisional League Division 4 that year, the ninth tier of football in Victoria. The club was promoted the following year, a third-place finish enough to see the club rise to Provisional League Division 3. Keilor was to spend the next eight years at that level.
After moving to Doyle Street Reserve in Avondale Heights in 1999, the club was renamed to Avondale Heights SC in 2000. That year proved to be a memorable one for the Melbourne club, finally achieving promotion to Provisional League Division 2 Nth-West, by taking out the Division 3 Nth-West title, losing just one game all season. The next year was even better, with the club taking out the Div 2 Nth-West title in their first season at that level, finishing five points clear at the top of the table ahead of Mill Park.
Avondale Heights' next promotion was to come in 2006, when the club finished second in the Provisional League Division 1 Nth-West. This promotion meant that the club would compete in the Victorian State Leagues for the first time, entering State League Division 3 Nth-West for the 2007 season. Devastatingly, the club were relegated on the final game of the 2007 season, finishing just one point of survival. The club endured another relegation the following season, falling to the sixth tier of Victorian football for the 2008 season.
A famous climb through the league divisions began in 2009. Avondale managed a second-place finish in the Provisional League Division 2 North-West, enough for promotion. Avondale was promoted once more the following season, the club again finishing second, this time in the Provisional League Division 1 North-West. The club finished mid-table the following season.
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