Australia NPL Victoria | 02/06 08:30 | 1 | Melbourne Knights vs Heidelberg Utd | - | View | |
Australia NPL Victoria | 02/17 08:30 | 2 | South Melbourne vs Melbourne Knights | - | View | |
Australia NPL Victoria | 02/21 08:30 | 3 | Melbourne Knights vs Avondale | - | View | |
Australia NPL Victoria | 02/28 09:15 | 4 | Oakleigh Cannons vs Melbourne Knights | - | View | |
Australia NPL Victoria | 03/09 08:00 | 5 | Melbourne Knights vs Port Melbourne SC | - | View | |
Australia NPL Victoria | 03/14 08:30 | 6 | Green Gully vs Melbourne Knights | - | View |
Australia NPL Victoria | 08/18 05:00 | 26 | [12] Green Gully v Melbourne Knights [8] | W | 0-3 | |
Australia NPL Victoria | 08/12 09:30 | 25 | [8] Melbourne Knights v Dandenong Thunder [10] | L | 1-2 | |
Australia NPL Victoria | 08/09 09:30 | 25 | [8] Melbourne Knights v Dandenong Thunder [10] | - | PPT. | |
Australia NPL Victoria | 07/27 05:00 | 24 | [5] Oakleigh Cannons v Melbourne Knights [8] | L | 3-1 | |
Australia NPL Victoria | 07/19 09:30 | 23 | [8] Melbourne Knights v Altona Magic [9] | W | 2-1 | |
Australia NPL Victoria | 07/12 09:30 | 22 | [5] Heidelberg Utd v Melbourne Knights [8] | L | 2-0 | |
Australia NPL Victoria | 07/05 09:30 | 21 | [8] Melbourne Knights v Manningham United Blues [12] | W | 1-0 | |
Australia NPL Victoria | 06/29 09:00 | 20 | [5] Hume City v Melbourne Knights [8] | D | 1-1 | |
Australia NPL Victoria | 06/21 09:30 | 19 | [8] Melbourne Knights v Moreland City SC [14] | W | 6-0 | |
Australia NPL Victoria | 06/15 05:15 | 18 | [7] Dandenong City v Melbourne Knights [9] | W | 2-5 | |
Australia NPL Victoria | 06/09 05:00 | 17 | [14] St Albans Saints v Melbourne Knights [10] | W | 1-2 | |
Australia NPL Victoria | 06/01 05:00 | 16 | [2] Avondale v Melbourne Knights [9] | D | 1-1 |
Total | Home | Away | |
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Matches played | 27 | 14 | 13 |
Wins | 10 | 4 | 6 |
Draws | 5 | 3 | 2 |
Losses | 12 | 7 | 5 |
Goals for | 43 | 24 | 19 |
Goals against | 39 | 24 | 15 |
Clean sheets | 6 | 3 | 3 |
Failed to score | 8 | 4 | 4 |
Melbourne Knights Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in the suburb of Sunshine North, Melbourne. The club currently competes in the National Premier Leagues Victoria, the second-tier of the Australian soccer league system under the A-League. It is one of the most successful soccer clubs in Australia, being a two-time championship and four-time premiership winner in the now defunct National Soccer League (NSL).
The club is based in the western suburbs of Melbourne and draws much of its support from the Croatian Australian community. The club's identification with its Croatian roots remains strong. It is a regular participant in the Australian-Croatian Soccer Tournament.
The Melbourne Knights play matches at Knights Stadium, a 15,000 capacity venue (with approximately 4,000 seated) which the club has owned and operated since 1989. As well as fielding men's and women's sides, the Knight's field junior teams of all year levels.
Melbourne Knights FC was founded in 1953 by a group of Croatian émigrés. Among the founders was Srećko Rover, a military official of the Independent State of Croatia, and subject of investigation into alleged war crimes during World War II. The club played its first match on 10 April 1953, the 12th aniversarry of the Ustaše regime's founding. The Knights became a member of the Victorian Soccer Federation in 1954, which saw the club join and compete in a league competition for the first time that same year in the newly created Victorian Provisional League. The club moved up the state divisions and by the mid-1960s had become one of the strongest clubs in Victoria, winning the State League title in 1968, 1978 and 1979. In 1984, after a number of years of lobbying, the Knights finally joined Australia's elite soccer competition, the National Soccer League. By the 1990s the club had become the premier soccer club in Australia as it made the NSL Grand Final 5 out of 6 seasons, winning it twice in 1994–95 and 1995–96. Following the disbanding of the NSL in 2004, the Knights dropped to the Victorian Premier League, making the Grand Final in 2008.The Knights won the Dockerty Cup in 2014, the club's first piece of major silverware in 18 years.