Woden Weston FC
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| Full name | Woden Weston Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | Wanderers |
| Founded | 2007 (merged 2014) |
| Ground | Woden Park |
| Capacity | 1000 |
| Chairman | Steve Rohan-Jones |
| Manager | Tony Olivera |
| League | NPL Capital Football |
| 2016 | 10th |
| Website | Club home page |
Woden Weston Football Club, also known as Woden Valley and Weston is a semi-professional football club based in Canberra, Australia. The club currently competes in the National Premier Leagues Capital Football.
Woden Weston field teams in Junior and senior (adult) men’s and women’s National Premier League competitions in the ACT. The club has links to the junior clubs Woden Valley Soccer Club and Weston Molonglo Football Club, providing an elite pathway from junior to senior football.
Woden Valley FC was formed in 2007 to distinguish itself as a senior club, where formerly Woden Valley SC was a junior and senior club.
Woden-Weston FC was incorporated in November 2014 with the intention to merge the elite levels of Woden Valley FC and Weston Molonglo FC into one club to compete in the 2015 ACT National Premier League and beyond.
The merger provided Weston Molonglo FC (formally Weston Creek Soccer Club) the opportunity to compete in the Premier League for the first time since 2002 when the club dropped out of the top level of men’s football in the ACT after 10 successful years due to a shake-up of club management with the retirements of Warren Barsley and James Lee from presidency and senior men’s chair respectively.
20 February 2015, the new merged club was officially launched as Woden-Weston FC at the Woden Tradies Club. The two regional ACT clubs will field combined teams in the NPL from u12's through to seniors, however state leagues and juniors will remain separate. The new merged club has chosen to adopt colours from both clubs with the black from Weston Creek and Red from Woden Valley picked to form the new strip. The strip has been compared to the Western Sydney Wanderers home strip with red and black hoops. The inaugural manager appointed to the men’s NPL team is former Canberra FC coach Miro Trninic while the women’s WPL inaugural manager will be long-time Weston Molonglo coach Pat Mills.
12 April 2015, Woden-Weston FC took to the field away from home for their maiden ACT NPL match against Tigers FC. Things could not have started better for the newley merged side as they took a deserved lead in the 29th minute through Pepe Varga goal that the visitors took to the half time break. Unfortunately for Woden-Weston the second half did not go to plan when the returning Alex Oloriegbe snagged a leveler in the 61st minute. The match was then on a knife edge and both teams looked like they could secure all three points and it looked like Woden-Weston would take full advantage of a late red card to Tigers captain Dejan Santrac but it was the Tigers who fired up and secured a late penalty in injury time that Lucas Montana stepped up and slotted home to give the current champions all three points with a 2–1 victory.
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