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Past History of the Club

The South Hobart Soccer Club was founded in 1910, and is the oldest continuously existing soccer club in Australia. Over the years it has seen the mixture of success and dissappointment that all clubs experience, but has always been proud to be regarded as a club which has the interests of the game and the well being of its members as foremost.

A true community club, at one time it could boast that all the members of its senior team lived within two streets in the South Hobart district, and while it is still regarded as a club for the people of the district, with the increase in mobility due to the access to the motor car and the growing reputation of the Club, players are attracted from far and wide in the greater Hobart area.

Having established its base at Wellesley Park, taking over the clubroom from the South Hobart – Sandy Bay Cricket Club, it has now outgrown the facilities and is now looking at the South Hobart Soccer Ground with a view to establishing new clubrooms, possibly with additional recreational facilities that will benefit the South Hobart Community as a whole.

Recent History

Following a season in the State League in 1981, South Hobart was a First Division Club for ten years until it was accepted to rejoin the State League, Tasmania’s highest level of competition, when a new statewide summer competition was trialled in 1993.

The Club originally had a five year plan to finish in the top four in the League. This goal was not quite reached as our best finish in this period was sixth but the South Hobart State League team is now highly competitive and is close to reaching this goal. Premier (Cadbury) League and Premier Reserve were added in 1998.

A Women’s Team was reintroduced in 1997, this grew to two teams in 1998. In 1999 the Premier Women’s Team was strengthened by new players and became very competitive mid-season, however the momentum lapsed and the team finished third in the league. The Division One side, a novice squad, acquitted itself well, with learning and enjoyment the main objectives. However, from the year 2000 seaon, the women’s team left to join the Clarence United Soccer Club.

After a period in which little or no junior teams were fielded, an Under 13 team was formed at the South Hobart Soccer Club in 1990, and in 1993, some of the players who by now were playing Under 17, were able to gain experience in senior soccer by playing reserves in First and Second Division Teams. Since then, the Club has fielded many junior teams, and starts its involvement with juniors by providing coaching at the South Hobart Primary School, where the youngest age group is Under 7, and in Central Region Junior Representative Soccer, which caters for boys and girls from Under 9 up to the Under 12 age group. 1994 and 1995 saw the fielding of Under 14 Teams. In 1996 the Club embarked on an ambitious junior development strategy to have the best program for juniors in Tasmania. The Club is now reaping the benefits of this strategy. The success of this strategy is also revealed by the number of players from SHSC who have represented their State at under age level.

In 1996 we had two Under 13 Teams and one Under 15 Team, 1997, Under 13 and two Under 14 Teams, 1998, one Under 13, two Under 14 and two Under 15 Teams, and in 1999 we had one Under 13, two Under 14, two Under 15 and two Under 16 teams.

At Senior Level in 2001 the Club is fielding teams in the Premier, Premier Reserves, Lotto (U23) League and Division One.

Winners – Summer Cup 2000

© South Hobart Soccer Club, 2001
Web by Nigel Reeves, Richmond Tasmania
Last Updated June 20, 2020