List of South Melbourne FC seasons

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South Melbourne celebrate their 2006 VPL title

South Melbourne Football Club is an Australian semi-professional association football club based in Albert Park, Melbourne.[1] The club was formed in 1959 as three clubs South Melbourne United, Hellenic and Yarra Park before it was shortly renamed to South Melbourne Hellas in 1960.

Before their entrance into the National Soccer League in 1977, South Melbourne won 8 premierships, 2 Dockery Cups and 2 Ampol Cups. It was until the 1984 season, where South Melbourne won their first national competitive league in the Southern Conference.[2] During the club's stadium move to Bob Jane Stadium (now Lakeside Stadium), the club were known as the South Melbourne Lakers with failure aspects afterwards, they won the 1997–98 season of the National Soccer League and won another championship the next season which was their last in their National Soccer League career.

A move to the Bob Jane Stadium and a nickname change in the mid 90s injected new life into the club. South were known as the Lakers and after the 'failure' - by South's high standards - of the early to mid 90s (five Preliminary Final defeats), South Melbourne were able to shrug the finals monkey off its back by winning the 1997–98 Ericsson Cup.

As of the end of the 2020–21 season, the club's first team have spent 28 seasons in the National Soccer League, 33 in the top division of Victoria and the one in the second division of Victoria. Their worst finish to date is 14th in the National Soccer League, their placing at the end of the 1979 season. The club's longest period without a competitive honour is 7 years, between the 2007 and 2013 seasons.

Key[]

Key to league competitions:

  • Victorian State League (State League)

Seasons[]

Results of league and cup competitions by season
Season Division Pld W D L GF GA Pts Pos Finals National Cup Dockerty Cup Competition Result Name(s) Goals
League Other / Oceania Top goalscorer(s)
1960 Up-arrow 18 17 1 0 79 11 35 1st — — — — — —
1961 22 10 5 7 45 38 25 5th — — — — — —
1962 22 15 2 5 51 21 32 1st — — — — — —
1963 22 6 9 7 28 30 21 7th — — DNE RU — —
1964 22 13 4 5 55 41 30 1st — — — — — —
1965 22 15 4 3 53 19 34 1st — — — — — —
1966 22 13 5 4 47 24 31 1st — — RU — —
1967 22 10 7 5 50 36 27 4th — — — — — —
1968 22 9 7 6 38 29 25 3rd — — — — — —
1969 22 9 3 10 40 39 21 7th DNQ — DNE W — —
1970 22 9 9 4 36 27 27 5th DNQ — RU W — —
1971 22 12 8 2 41 16 32 2nd RU — DNE RU — —
1972 22 16 3 3 50 13 35 1st — — — — — —
1973 22 13 5 4 48 27 31 3rd GS — — — — —
1974 22 13 7 2 47 23 33 1st GS — — — — —
1975 22 11 6 5 28 19 28 2nd GS — RU — —
1976 22 17 3 2 40 21 37 1st RU — W — —
1977 NSL 26 7 8 11 27 35 22 7th — R1 — — — Peter Ollerton 6
1978 NSL 26 12 8 6 45 30 32 3rd SF R2 — — — Duncan Cummings 11
1979 NSL 26 6 3 17 26 45 16 14th DNQ R1 — — — Alun Evans 7
1980 NSL 26 15 5 6 42 21 35 3rd PF R2 — — — Branko Buljevic 12
1981 NSL 30 13 13 4 41 27 39 2nd — R1 — — — Alun Evans 14
1982 NSL 30 11 9 10 46 37 31 6th DNQ R1 — — — Charlie Egan 20
1983 NSL 30 15 7 8 44 36 52 4th — SF — — — Duggie Brown 19
1984 NSL Southern 28 18 4 6 48 20 40 1st W SF — — — Duggie Brown 22
1985 NSL Southern 22 14 5 3 39 21 33 1st PF R1 — — — Charlie Egan 21
1986 NSL Southern 22 10 5 7 27 20 25 7th DNQ R2 — — —
1987 NSL 24 9 7 8 32 34 25 6th DNQ RU — — —
1988 NSL 26 13 8 5 36 29 34 3rd EF SF — — —
1989 NSL 26 9 8 9 44 37 26 8th DNQ SF — — —
1989–90 NSL 26 15 6 5 42 23 36 2nd SF W — — —
1990–91 NSL 26 14 6 6 45 33 34 2nd W SF — — —
1991–92 NSL 26 13 5 8 51 28 31 3rd PF R1 — — —
1992–93 NSL 26 18 4 4 51 23 58 1st SF — — —
1993–94 NSL 26 13 8 5 39 20 47 2nd PF — — —
1994–95 NSL 24 9 5 10 42 36 44 6th PF SF — — —
1995–96 NSL 33 14 12 17 47 33 54 8th DNQ W — — —
1996–97 NSL 26 14 4 8 39 25 46 3rd PF SF — — —
1997–98 NSL 26 13 9 4 56 41 48 1st W — — — —
1998–99 NSL 28 17 6 5 50 26 57 2nd W — — — —
1999–2000 NSL 28 17 6 5 50 26 57 10th DNQ — — Club Championship W
2000–01 NSL 28 21 6 3 70 24 69 1st RU — — — —
2001–02 NSL 24 10 6 8 30 22 36 5th SF — — — —
2002–03 NSL 24 10 5 9 36 37 35 7th DNQ — — — —
2003–04 NSL 24 11 4 9 39 21 37 5th SF — — — —
2005 26 13 7 6 30 17 46 3rd PF — — — —
2006 26 12 7 7 45 28 42 3rd W — — — —
2007 26 10 7 9 39 33 37 7th DNQ — — — —
2008 Prem 26 10 4 12 35 32 34 9th DNQ — — — —
2009 Prem 22 10 7 5 41 22 37 5th EF — — — —
2010 Prem 22 10 6 6 41 28 30 6th DNQ — — — —
2011 Prem 24 12 5 7 39 33 41 4th SF — R5 — —
2012 Prem 22 9 5 8 34 31 32 6th DNQ — R5 — —
2013 Prem 22 9 6 7 40 33 31 4th DNQ — PF — —
2014 26 21 3 2 59 22 66 1st — DNQ QF — —
2015 26 18 4 4 58 22 58 1st RU R32 QF — —
2016 26 18 2 6 64 39 53 3rd W DNQ QF — —
2017 26 15 3 8 49 28 48 2nd SF SF SF — —
2018 NPL Victoria 26 8 4 14 48 53 28 10th DNQ DNQ R5 — —
2019 NPL Victoria 26 10 4 12 27 42 34 8th DNQ DNQ QF — —
2020 NPL Victoria 5 1 3 1 7 7 6 8th — — — — —
2021 NPL Victoria 18 6 7 5 19 18 25 9th — R32 SF — —

References[]

General

  • "South Melbourne Football Club Seasons". ozfootball.net. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  • Persoglia, Tony. "South Melbourne: Divisional History". ozfootball.net.

Specific

  1. ^ "The Forming Of South Melbourne Hellas". South Melbourne FC. Archived from the original on 10 July 2015. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
  2. ^ "History of South Melbourne FC". South Melbourne FC. Archived from the original on 7 November 2008. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
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