Southern Football Club
| Nickname(s) |
Southern FC |
| Founded |
1958 (as Rapid SC)
1997 (as Kingston Cannons) |
| League |
Southern Championship |
| 2014 |
2nd (promoted) |
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Southern Football Club is a Football (Soccer) Club from Kingston. They play in the Tasmanian competition. The club was founded in 1958 as Rapid FC. Rapid was highly successful during its life winning the State Championship 4 times, and the Southern Premiership 5 times as well. For a brief period in the 1980s, they were known as Rapid-Wrest Point, before switching back. They played their final match in 1996, being relegated in the process to the Southern League 2.[1]
The name was changed and the club reformed as Kingston Cannons.[2] They immediately won the Southern League 2 and were promoted back to the League 1.[3] At the end of the 2009 season, Kingston Cannons merged with Christian United to form Southern FC. in 2013 they won the Southern League 1 title and were runners up in 2014 gaining promotion into the Southern Champions League.
Honours
- Southern League 1 Runners-up 2014
- Southern League 1 Premiers 2013
- State Championship: (4 times) 1976,1979,1980,1982
- Southern Premierships: (5 times) 1958,1961,1964,1976,1982
- Southern Premier Runners-up: (5 times) 1959,1962,1974,1983,1984
- KO Cup Winners: (4 times)1974,1979,1980,1984
- Summer Cup Runners-up: (Once) 1984
- Falkinder Cup Runners-up: (Once) 1958
- Association Cup Winners: (Twice)1961,1965
- Ascot Gold Cup Winners: (Once)1961
- DJ Trophy Winners: (Once)1977
- Cadbury Trophy Winners: (Twice)1982,1983
- Cadbury Trophy Runners-up: (3 times)1979,1980,1984
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