Marconi Stallions

Marconi Stallions

Full name	Marconi Stallions Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Stallions
Founded	1958
Ground	Marconi Stadium Bossley Park, Sydney New South Wales, Australia
Ground Capacity	10,000
Chairman	Vince Foti
Head Coach	Tony Candy
League	National Premier Leagues NSW 2
Website	Club home page

The Marconi Stallions Football Club is an Australian semi-professional (formerly professional until 2004) football club based in Fairfield, Sydney, New South Wales. The club won the National Soccer League title a record four times, along with South Melbourne and Sydney City SC. The club is one of only two clubs to have competed in every season of the NSL.

Over the years, the club has been known as Club Marconi, Marconi-Fairfield and Marconi Stallions.

The club is currently a member of the National Premier Leagues NSW 2, effectivley the NSW 2nd Division, and plays their home games out of Marconi Stadium, in Bossley Park.

Club Marconi was founded as a bocce club in 1956 by 106 members of the Italian community in the Western Suburbs of Sydney. It is named after the Italian inventor and electrical engineer Guglielmo Marconi, whose wireless company sent the first direct radio message from Great Britain to Australia. The football (soccer) club first appeared in 1958 as a youth team, and the first senior side competed in the 1961 NSW amateur championship that it won by 8 points.

The club gradually moved up the ranks in the NSW soccer system, eventually gaining promotion to the NSW 1st Division in 1970. By this point the club had come of age, and the aura of being feared was well on its way to being cemented. Marconi became back-to-back champions of the NSW 1st Division in 1972 and 1973, and continued to challenge for honours up until 1976. The next year, 1977, changed Australian soccer and Australian sport forever. Together with 13 other clubs Marconi formed the basis of the first ever truly National Sports League in Australia, the National Soccer League (NSL).

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