Canterbury District Soccer Football Association

Canterbury District Soccer Football Association
Formation 1923
Headquarters Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia[1]
Parent organisation
 Football NSW, FFA
Website Official Website

Canterbury District Soccer Football Association is a governing body and football (soccer) competition located in the Canterbury suburbs of Sydney. Its administrative headquarters are located at Pratten Park Bowls, Ashfield, New South Wales.[1] All competitions and football activity is under control of Football New South Wales. The District Association consists of ten all ages competitions which corresponds to tiers six to fifteen on the Australian soccer pyramid. Clubs are located in the Ashfield, Burwood, Canada Bay, Canterbury, Leichhardt, Marrickville and Strathfield local council areas.[2]

History

Canterbury Districts Soccer Football Association was founded in 1922; the first year of competition was 1923.

Teams and structure

Tiers

As of 2013, the Canterbury Districts Premier League and Premier League Reserves competitions have been scrapped to align with the national curriculum overhaul which included the introduction of the National Premier Leagues. The Canterbury Districts highest all ages competition sits on the sixth tier of the Australian soccer league system. There are a total of 12 all age divisions.

Leagues

Canterbury District Soccer Football Association is responsible for overseeing all men's, women's and junior's competitions as well as small sided competitions.

Teams

Teams competing across all tiers and divisions are made up from these clubs:

Clubs may field more than one team per all ages division and may also not participate in each division

Premiers

Premier League

Premier League Reserves

All-ages

Division 2011 2012
AA-1 Enfield Strathfield
AA-2 Leichhardt Saints Balmain A
AA-3 Stanmore Five Dock A
AA-4 Five Dock Burwood
AA-5 Burwood Belmore United
AA-6 Leichhardt Tigers Concord
AA-7 Enfield Enfield
AA-8 Strathfield Burwood A
AA-9 Burwood Five Dock
AA-10 Stanmore Stanmore

State Cup winners

Teams have represented the Canterbury District at State Cup tournaments since its foundation in 1957.[3] Hurlstone Park Wanderers managed to win the U-21's foundation title that year.

Club Total number of titles Years and competition
Burwood FC 2 2007 (U-16's), 2011 (U-21's)
Canterbury FC 2 1981 (Amateur), 1984 (U-16's)
Earlwood Wanderers 3 1973 (U-21's), 1982 (U-14's), 2011 (U-11's)
Five Dock RSL 1 2002 (U-18's)
Glebe 1 1972 (Amateur)
Hurlstone Park Wanderers 3 1957 (U-21's), 2005 (U-12's Women's, U-14's Women's)
Leichhardt Saints 1 2004 (U-12's Women's)
Leichhardt Tigers 3 2009, 2010 (U-12's), 2015 (Over 35's)
Marrickville FC 1 1965 (U-21's)
Strathfield FC 1 2000 (U-16's Women's)
Western Suburbsdagger 1 1969 (U-21's)
  • dagger Club has dissolved
  • Glebe are no longer apart of the Canterbury Districts Soccer Football Association

References

  1. 1 2 "Football Canterbury About". Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  2. ↑ Canterbury District Soccer Football Association About Us
  3. ↑ "State Cup winners". Retrieved 12 June 2016.

External links

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