Manly United
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| Full name | Manly United Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | MUFC, The Ospreys |
| Founded | 1992 |
| Ground | Cromer Park |
| Capacity | 5,000 |
| Chairman | Keith Pester |
| Coach | Paul Dee |
| League | NPL NSW |
| 2016 | NPL NSW, 3rd |
| Website | www |
Manly United Football Club is an Australian soccer club based in the northern beaches area of Sydney. The club competes in the National Premier League of NSW and their home ground is Cromer Park, in the suburb of Dee Why, approximately 15 minutes away from Manly.
Its main grandstand is named after former Socceroo captain Lucas Neill, who played for the club as a junior.
Manly United formed from the merger of Manly-North Shore United and Warringah Freshwater as Manly Warringah Dolphins at the close of the 1991 NSW Division 1 season for the start of the upcoming NSW Super League season.
A Dutch club called Neerlandia competed in the 1959 Sydney Federation Division Two, won the premiership and gained entry into the Sydney Federation Division One for 1960.
The club changed its named to Manly Warringah from 1960 until it merged with North Shore United in 1991. North Shore United itself was a merger of two clubs Ku-Ring-Gai and North Sydney-Artarmon. This merger took place for the 1989 season. The Manly-North Shore United merger dissolved after the 1991 NSW Division One season, with Manly merging with Warringah Freshwater. North Shore United would continue to send representative teams to tournaments as Ku-Ring-Gai Districts.
Warringah Narrabeen (and from 1986 Warringah Freshwater) was a club that had competed throughout the 1980s in Division Two, even winning the title in 1983. About 1986 Hilton Silva, a Brazilian who turned socceroo, played for the side towards the end of his career.
The original Logo of the renamed Manly United Football Club in 2004 was a collective of an Osprey sea bird, a Football & a Dolphin joined as one, these three icons represent the local MWFA Association (Osprey), a Football & Manly Warringah Dolphins (Dolphin). The Club again changed its logo in 2016 to reflect the evolution of Manly United Football Club and its ownership and association with Manly Warringah Football Association.
The club is the representative arm of the Manly Warringah Football Association (MWFA), the second largest community Football Association in Australia.
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