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Inner West Hawks FC

Full name	Inner West Hawks Football Club (Formerly Stanmore Hawks)
Nickname(s)	Hawks, Kypriaki
Ground	Arlington Oval
Capacity	6000
League	NSW League Two
2024	4th of 15
Website	http://www.stanmorehawksfc.com.au/
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Inner West Hawks Football Club (formerly known as Stanmore Hawks FC) is an Australian Semi-Professional football club based in Stanmore, New South Wales. The club was founded in 1978 by the Greek-Cypriot community of Sydney, originally playing under the name Cyprus United. Inner West Hawks Fc currently competes in the NSW League Two.

History

After playing in the lower leagues of NSW football for the early 1980s, Cyprus United were introduced into the New South Wales Inter Urban Division Five for the 1985 season. In their first season in the Inner Urban league, they won two-thirds of their matches, finishing the season with twelve wins and gaining promotion. This was further followed by a string of seven consecutive promotions,.

The club was promoted to the NSW 2nd Division after winning the NSW 3rd Division in 1990. In 1992, the club experienced a magnificent season, winning the NSW 2nd Division that year, leading to Stanmore's promotion into the 1993 NSW Premier League season.

Stanmore finished 9th in 1993 and 12th in 1994, avoiding relegation as the league was set to expand to 14 teams for 1995. By the halfway mark of the 1995 season, Stanmore won just two games, drawing four others whilst having lost seven, including a 7–3 defeat to their fellow relegation zone rivals, Mount Druitt Town Rangers. Stanmore were able to pick up three more wins from their final thirteen fixtures, which wasn't enough to save them from relegation. They finished 10 points behind thirteenth placed Adamstown Rosebud.

After stagnating in the second division of NSW Football for the next decade, Stanmore went through a lean phase, wherein they were relegated again in 2007 to the third division. They stayed in the State League until the end of the 2012 season, when Football NSW created their new competition format for 2013. Because of this, Stanmore were effectively relegated to the NSW State League Division 2.

Despite losing their first match of the 2013 season, Stanmore dominated the league, winning 16 games, including a 16–0 defeat of Schofield Scorpions, before going on to win the Grand Final 1–0 over Fairfield City.

Current squad

2021 NPL 3 Men's Squad Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  AUS Tom Sutton 2  AUS Nicolas Zamora Arias 3  AUS Sidhya Malhotra 4  AUS Christopher Phillips 5  AUS Marcus Naoum 6  AUS 7  AUS Peter Yannopoulos 8  AUS Radwan Jirjnazi 9  AUS Diego Cuadros 10  AUS Nikita Andricopoulos 11  AUS Gabriel Antoniades 12  AUS Oliver Kovarik 13  AUS 14  AUS Jordan Seib 15  AUS Riccardo Lo Russo 16  AUS Reece Kilpin 17  AUS Thomas Sutton 18  AUS Heo Wookbum

No. Pos. Nation Player 19  AUS Aydin Kumburlu 20  AUS 21  AUS 22  AUS 23  AUS 25  AUS 26  AUS 27  AUS 28  AUS Gus Higgins 30  AUS 31  AUS 33  AUS 34  AUS 35  AUS Jordan Polyzos 36  AUS 38  AUS 39  AUS 40  AUS

Honours

• NSW League One/NSW 2nd Division

Premiers (1): 1992

• NSW Super League/NSW 2nd Division

Champions (3): 1992, 1997, 2004

• National Premier Leagues NSW 3/NSW 3rd Division

Premiers (1): 2019

• NSW State League 2/NSW 4th Division

Champions (1): 2013

• NSW State League 2/NSW 4th Division

Premiers (1): 2013

References

1. 1984 NSW Lower Leagues
2. 1985 NSW Lower Leagues
3. ^ Stanmore Hawks Divisional History
4. 1985 NSW State League
5. 2007 NSW Super League
6. 2007 NSW State League Division One
7. 2013 NSW State League Division Two

External links

• Official website
• OzFootball.net Archived 12 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine

• Soccer clubs in New South Wales
• Association football clubs established in 1978
• 1978 establishments in Australia
• Diaspora sports clubs in Australia
• Stanmore, New South Wales