Beachside Football Club is an Australian semi-professional soccer club based in the suburb of Sandy Bay in Hobart, Tasmania. The club's colours are green and black. The club plays its home games at Sandown Park, known to fans as the Tropicana Cauldron or simply The Tropicana.[3]
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Full name | Beachside Football Club | ||
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Nickname(s) | Blowflies | ||
Founded | 1975[1] | ||
Ground | Sandown Park, Sandy Bay[2] | ||
Capacity | 500 | ||
President | Adam Richards | ||
Manager | Romilton Amaral | ||
League | Southern Championship | ||
2021 | 6th of 12 | ||
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Beachside FC was founded under the name Howrah Soccer Club because it played in the Hobart suburb of Howrah.[4] The club then adopted the name Beachside HSC when it moved to its current home near Long Beach, in Sandy Bay keeping the HSC from Howrah Soccer Club despite no longer playing in that suburb. In 2011, the name was changed subtly to the current Beachside FC.
The club's best and fairest medal is named after Alistair Hales while a yearly award is presented for the best contributor to the club's off-field success. This is named after James Dunsby, a club life member who died in an SAS selection test in Wales.[5]
Year | Alistair Hales Best and Fairest | James Dunsby Clubman |
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2019 | James Anderson & Brett Andrews | |
2018 | Ben Whitehall | |
2017 | ||
2016 | ||
2015 | ||
2014 | Jayden Welch | James Andrews |
2013 | ||
2012 | ||
2011[6] | Nathan Robinson, Jack Turner and Luke Atkin | Anthony Grznic |
A summary of the seasons of the Beachside Senior Men's Team:
Season | League | National League Level | Final Position | Coach | Notes |
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2019 | Southern Championship | 3 | 3rd | Brett Pullen | |
2018 | Southern Championship | 3 | 2nd | Daniel Lapolla | |
2017 | Southern Championship | 3 | 2nd | Daniel Lapolla | |
2016 | Southern Championship | 3 | 2nd | ||
2015 | Southern Championship | 3 | 4th | Brett Pullen | |
2014 | Southern Premier League | 3 | 4th | Farrell Shaw[7] | |
2013 | Southern Premier League | 3 | 1st | Nathan Robinson[8] | An FFT league restructure led to Beachside joining the SPL. |
2012 | Southern League One | 3 | 2nd | Brett Pullen | |
2011 | Southern Premier League | 2 | 8th(Last) | Brett Pullen | Relegated to SL1 at end of season. |
2010 | Southern League One | 3 | 1st | Nathan Robinson | Promoted to SPL next season. |
2009 | Southern League One | 3 | Tony Kavanagh |
In 2014 the club has male teams playing in the Tasmanian Southern Premier League, Premier League Reserves, Under 20s & Social Division Three. The club also has a female teams playing in Division One and youth teams. All Beachside teams play in competitions run by Football Federation Tasmania.
Beachside has teams involved in the following senior competitions:
The third solider [sic] to die following a SAS selection test in mid-Wales region of Brecon Beacons has been named as Corporal James Dunsby, a reservist who served with the Australian Army.
Nathan Robinson, Jack Turner and Luke Atkin shared Beachside's Alistair Hales Best-and-Fairest Award with 24 votes each at last night's trophy presentation evening at the Lenah Valley RSL.
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