Rockdale City Suns
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| Full name | Rockdale illinden football club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | Rockdale City Suns Football Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1969 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Rockdale Ilinden Sports Centre Arncliffe,Sydney (Capacity 15000) |
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| Chairman | Zlatko Agioski | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | NSW Super league
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| NSWSL 2006 | Champions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rockdale City Suns are a football (soccer) team which plays in the New South Wales Super League. Based in the Sydney City of Rockdale, the club play their home games at the Rockdale Ilinden Sports Centre located at Arncliffe a suburb in the city of Rockdale.
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[edit] History
Rockdale City Suns are backed strongly by the Macedonian community in the area, with the club known as Rockdale Ilinden to the ethnic Macedonian supporters.
[edit] Club
In recent years, the club has had to move its location several times due to the construction of Sydney's M5 Motorway right next to the oval. The club played its home games in Wollongong at John Crehan Park during the Motorways construction. The local council has announced plans to build the club a new stadium in the area to replace their home at Arncliffe. Before the council had released this information, Rockdale City Suns were trying the get the rights of owning the poorly conditioned St. George Stadium which is also located in Rockdale but were denied by the council as St.george Stadium was in too poor of a state to stage any matches. Rockdale Ilinden Sports Centre where the Suns currently play has 2 fields (1 training and 1 main), 200+ space car park, manual & automatic scoreboard's, canteen, mega-bright field lights, club and seating around the field. Due To there current ground not meeting the criteria (suitable grandstand seating and suitable night lighting) of the newly formed NSW Premier League The Suns have been playing in the NSW Super League one division below since 1999 and are waiting to get their new stadium at Rockdale's Bicentennial Park and hopefully in the near future be back in the Premier League.
[edit] Rivalry
A rivalry exists between the Rockdale City Suns and the Bankstown City Lions or as the Macedonians know them by Sydney Makedonia (another club backed heavily by Sydney's Macedonian community). Due to past ethnic tensions between Macedonians and Athenians, rivalries also exist between Rockdale City Suns and several Sydney based teams with a small Athenian fan base. These clubs include Sydney Olympic FC and the West Sydney (Canterbury) Berries.
[edit] Special Info
The Club President is Zlatko Agioski, the previous president was Mendo Cklamovski previously the Club Secretary and has been with the club since 1992. The club were the winners of the 2006 NSW Super League competition under 1st Grade coach Zlatko Nastevski. In 2006, 1st Grade coach Zlatko Nastevski led the Rockdale City Suns into the 2006 NSW Super League competition where in the Grand Final they defeated Penrith-Nepean with the final score 2-1.The current coach for the 2008 season is Michael Grbevski.
[edit] Premerships
3 (1984 Marconi Stadium: Rockdale Ilinden 3 - 2 Inter Monaro) (2000 Melita Stadium: Rockdale Ilinden 1 - 0 Hajduk Wanderers) (2006 Melita Stadium: Rockdale Ilinden 2 - 1 Penrith-Nepean)
[edit] Supporters Group
Known as the "Suns Army". Formed in 2000 at the semi final against Hajduk Wanderers at Rockdale Ilinden Sports Centre.
[edit] Notable Former Players
Stewart Porter (1988-92) [1]- Francis Awaratefee
- Alvin Ceccoli
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