Marconi Stallions FC
Squad
- Ray Richards1969–1977
- Trevor Edwards1970–1972
- Colin Curran1971–1971
- Ernie Campbell1971–1977
- Max Tolson1972–1973
Peter Wilson1972–1972- Allan Maher1975–1983
- Jimmy Rooney1977–1978
- Peter Ollerton1978–1978
Frank Farina1987–1988
Paul Okon1989–1991
Mark Schwarzer1990–1994
Steve Corica1990–1995
Matthew Bingley1992–1997
Ufuk Talay1992–1995- Angelo Colombo1994–1995
Ante Covic1997–1999- Frank Farina1998–1999
- Kim Pan-keun1998–2001
Aleksandar Đurić1999–2000
Michael Beauchamp2000–2002
Alex Brosque2001–2004
Archie Thompson2001–2001
Michael Thwaite2002–2004
Nick Carle2003–2005
Bruce Djité2005–2006- Naoki Imaya2006–2006
- Naoki Imaya2006–2007
Ali Abbas Al-Hilfi2008–2009- Ali Abbas Al-Hilfi2009–2009
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Career & Clubs
Foundation and early years (1956–1976)
Club Marconi was founded as a bocce club in 1958 by 106 members of the Italian community in the western suburbs of Sydney. It is named after the Italian inventor and electrical engineer Guglielmo Marconi, whose wireless company sent the first direct radio message from Great Britain to Australia. It was inaugural president Oscar Michelini who first suggested the name Marconi at the second meeting of the club's provisional committee. A statue of Guglielmo Marconi was donated by the Italian government in 1959 and it remains inside the main foyer of the club, inscribed with the message “Guglielmo Marconi, 1874 – 1937, immortal genius of the Italian nation who first with science’s wonders and spiritual wings linked Australia with the world.” Italo-Australian artist Guido Zuliani, born in 1927, designed Club Marconi's emblem, which remains in use by the social club today. It incorporates a globe, a boomerang to symbolise Indigenous Australian culture, with the colours of green, white and red to represent the Italian heritage. The emblem is encased by Marconi's invention of wireless communication, further portrayed as a radio tower. The club's home base in Bossley Park, next to where Marconi Stadium now stands, was offered for $6900 by the brothers Ruben and Provino Sartor, two inaugural members who had visited the Yoogali Club in the rural town of Griffith, New South Wales to learn how the Italian community there had founded their own…
- League
- National Premier Leagues NSW
Legacy
National Soccer League
NSL Championship Champions (4) – 1979, 1988, 1989, 1992–93 NSL Premiership Minor Premiers (3) – 1989, 1989–90, 1995–96 NSL Cup Winners (1) – 1980
National Premier Leagues
National Premier Leagues NSW Championship Champions (4): 1972, 1973, 2012, 2024 National Premier Leagues NSW 2 Premiership Premiers (1): 2017 National Premier Leagues NSW 2 Championship Champions (1): 2017
Academy
National Youth League Championship Champions (2): 1988, 1995–96
Individual
Brad Maloney won the Johnny Warren Medal while playing for Marconi in the 1998–99 NSL season.
Archive
Passport
Identifiers & aliases
Marconi Stallions FC is a semi-professional soccer club based in the suburb of Bossley Park in Sydney, New South Wales (NSW). It is a section of Club Marconi, an Italian Australian social club. Its senior men's team plays in the National Premier Leagues NSW, while its senior women's team plays in the Football NSW League One Women's, in the second and third tiers of the Australian league system, respectively. It also competes in the Australian Championship as a foundation club. It plays its home games at Marconi Stadium.
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