Broadbeach United SC

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Broadbeach United
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Full nameBroadbeach United Soccer Club
Nickname(s)Broadie, The Dolphins, "The Tank" (ground nickname)
Founded1963; 59 years ago (1963)
GroundNikiforides Family Park
ChairmanMichael Doyle
ManagerAndrew Robinson
LeagueFQPL 3 − South Coast
20216th of 10
WebsiteClub website

Broadbeach United Soccer Club are a semi-professional Australian soccer club from Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. It is a club which was founded in 1963. The club's home ground is at Chelsea Avenue in the suburb of Broadbeach. The club competes in the Gold Coast Premier League, where it has been the most successful side in the history of the competition.

History[]

The Broadbeach juniors were founded in 1970 with the S.S.B juniors disbanding when John Stainsby left Broadbeach Oval to form the Musgrave Soccer Club at Keith Hunt Park.

Most of the founders of S.S.B stayed on board with the new club such as David Erwicker, Billy Massa, John Green, Carlo March Shirley Newman, Anne and Archie Shaw. Some stayed for a year or two, before leaving to other clubs. Rini Hendriks came on board with the juniors when his sons came and played for the Broadbeach juniors in 1971. Rini was also Gold Coast United's Brisbane delegate from 1971–79 and then became a Broadbeach United icon for many years. Rini watches his beloved Dolphins still to this day.

Broadbeach seniors were founded in 1980, the year after Gold Coast United folded. With the formation of a new team called Gold Coast City to play in the Brisbane Premier League, and move away from Broadbeach oval, it left the possibility of Broadbeach oval having no senior team. However it was decided by people such as Dave Blake and Eddie Dwight that Broadbeach enter a team in the Gold Coast First Division. Many of its players stayed on from the Gold Coast Dolphins [Gold Coast United's 3rd team which started playing in the inaugural 1976 Gold Coast season].

In its first year, Broadbeach won the treble which included the Presidents Cup, Grand Final, and the Premiership trophy, beginning a wonderful tradition of stability and success. Broadbeach remain the only Gold Coast club not to be relegated. Success has been constant through the years and in 1995, the Broadbeach Dolphins won all 4 trophies on offer in a magnificent season, successive club championships in 1995, 1996 followed, and the Qantas Cup win in 1990 highlighted the dolphins winning culture.

From 2005 to 2015, Broadbeach have won 6 Premierships, 6 Grand Finals and 3 Club Championships in arguably the clubs', and Gold Coast's best era, stamping itself with Palm Beach as the best club in Gold Coast history. In 2014, the club's four Senior Teams (Premier Firsts, Premier Reserves, Veto Division 2 and Women's Premier) all did the League and Grand Final double, a feat unmatched by any other Gold Coast Club.

Early pioneers of the club such as Dave Blake, Eddie Dwight, Carlo March, Micky Baker, Rini Hendriks, Terry Swift, Steve Bennett, Ronny Bell, Sharon Edwards and many others have started a magnificent history that has lasted for many years. In more modern times, the likes of Pat Hedges, Dave Rea, Mick and Steve Doyle, the Vernon family and the Broadfoot family have kept Broadbeach as a front runner in the modern era.

Notable players[]

This is a list of former Broadbeach United players who have gone on to represent their country at full international level:

Honours[]

Football South Coast[]

  • FQPL 3 − South Coast / Gold Coast Premier League (first tier)[1][2][3]
    • Premiership
      • Winners (10) (record): 1976, 1985, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016
    • Championship
      • Winners (13) (record): 1976, 1977, 1980, 1991, 1992, 1995, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017
    • President's Cup
      • Winners (9) (record): 1976, 1980, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1999, 2002, 2005
  • BLK Cup / F.A Cup (Gold Coast domestic cup)
    • Winners (7) (record): 1988a, 1989, 1995, 2000, 2004, 2015, 2016, 2018
  • Quantas Cup
    • Winners (1): 1990

The list of honours does not include honours achieved by academy or reserve teams, excluding the F.A Cup win by the reserve team.a Both Broadbeach's Premier Firsts and Premier Reserves hold the record for the highest Grand Final winning score lines. The First Team defeated Mudgeeraba in the 2014 Grand Final 6–0 at home. Ten years earlier in 2004, the Premier Reserves team defeated then rivals Burleigh Heads Bulldogs, by the same scoreline at Pizzey Park. The Premier Firsts are also the only team in the history of the league to play in seven consecutive Grand Finals (2009–2015), winning five of them.

Notes[]

a.^ The Broadbeach United reserve team won the F.A Cup, being the first reserve team todo so.

References[]

  1. ^ "FOOTBALL GOLD COAST INC. SENIOR COMPETITION / AWARD WINNERS" (PDF). Football Gold Coast. 2015.
  2. ^ "Queensland Past Seasons". www.socceraust.co.uk. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  3. ^ "Reports for Round 0". GameDay. Retrieved 23 November 2021.

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