Port Kembla FC
| Full name | Port Kembla Football Club |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | 'Azzuri' |
| Founded | 1966 |
| Ground | Wetherall Park, Primbee |
| Capacity | 1,000 |
| Chairman | Emilio Salucci |
| Manager | Noel Spencer |
| League | Illawarra Premier League |
| 2014 | 4th |
Port Kembla Football Club are an Australian semi-professional association football club based in Port Kembla, New South Wales. It participates in the regions semi-professional competition, the Illawarra Premier League. The club is the most successful of all the Illawarra Premier League teams having won both the Premiership 7 times, and the Championship 8 times each, the last time being in 2013 when they took out both titles. Additionally, the club has won the Bert Bampton Cup – the knockout club competition for the region – a record 5 times.
Their home ground is Wetherall Park, located in the suburb of Primbee on the Port Kembla peninsula. The club has had several well-known footballers start off with the club, including current A-League player Corey Gameiro.
Port Kembla FC was founded in 1966 by a group of Italian migrants in the Marina coffee lounge in Warrawong. Soon they began playing matches against a group of players from the Italo coffee lounge in neighbouing Port Kembla with the losers having to pay for the winners dinner. Eventually both sides got together and decided it would be a better idea to form a single club and enter it into a local competition. With the majority of the players being of Italian heritage and background, they decided to call the club Warrawong Azzurri however this was unsuccessful as the head football body Soccer Australia were trying to eliminate ethnic names for football clubs in the aim of reducing tensions between rival ethnic backgrounds. A further application of Lake Heights Blues was similarly rejected on the same grounds. However the president of former Port Kembla club Port Kembla Dunubia approached the group and inquired if they were interested in taking Danubia's spot in the local competition. Both parties agreed, and having settled upon the name of Port Kembla FC the club was born.
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