Green Gully
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| Full name | Green Gully Soccer Club |
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| Nickname(s) | Cavaliers, Gully |
| Founded | 1955 |
| Ground | Green Gully Reserve |
| Capacity | 10,000 |
| Chairman | Charles Farrugia |
| Manager | Brian Vanega |
| League | NPL Victoria |
| 2015 | 7th |
| Website | Club home page |
Green Gully Soccer Club is an Australian football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. Green Gully is one of the largest clubs in Melbourne, having participated in the now defunct National Soccer League between 1984–1986. The club currently competes in the National Premier Leagues Victoria, with matches played at Green Gully Reserve in Kealba. Green Gully, along with South Melbourne FC, hold the joint record for the most Victorian top flight league titles, winning the league nine times in their history. Green Gully holds the distinction of being one of just 3 state league teams to have eliminated an A-League team in the FFA Cup, alongside Redlands United FC and Adelaide City FC.
The club was established as Ajax Soccer Club in 1955 by Maltese immigrants. In honour of the Maltese Floriana club, Ajax SC adopted their familiar green and white playing strips. The club was renamed to Green Gully Ajax SC when it moved to its current home ground at Green Gully Reserve in 1966, in the West of Melbourne suburb of Kealba. In 1972, the City of Keilor Council laid down two full size football pitches and constructed a large dressing room facility which included showers and toilets. The "Ajax" was dropped in 1982.
The club competed in the National Soccer League of Australia (NSL) from 1984 to 1986 and attracted some great players such as George Campbell from Preston (originally from Aberdeen), and Scott Fraser from Rangers. Green Gully is a 'Sister Club' with Sunshine George Cross FC, It is believed that both Green Gully and Sunshine Georgies adopted the Same kit as a Maltese Premier League club Floriana F.C., Floriana is one of the oldest clubs in Malta.
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