Kingborough Lions United Soccer Club

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Kingborough Lions

Full name

Kingborough Lions United
Soccer Club

Founded

1998

Ground

Lightwood Park, Kingston
(Capacity 400)

Chairman

Brian Dale

Manager

Tim Dale

League

Southern Premier League

2006

9th





Home colours

Kingborough Lions are an Australian professional football (soccer) club based in Kingston, Tasmania. They play in the Tasmanian Southern Premier League.

Kingborough Lions is a strong club, and has a complicated history having been formed out of several former clubs. The club formed as a merger between Kingborough United and West Hobart Lions in 1998.^{[citation needed]}

However, West Hobart Lions was already a unified side formed out of a smaller West Hobart club, and the previously large successful side of "Caledonians" who were a powerhouse club in the 1950's, but had since faded. Kingborough United themselves were also already a merged side, having come together out of a union of Kingston and Rapid.

As a result, Kingborough Lions are the inheiritors of the traditions of these four clubs, and have now become a large club that the municipality of Kingborough can be proud of. Although relatively unsuccessful since merging, the club is well set in a growing community for future success.

[edit] Honours

State Championships: 6 times (as "Caledonians", 1953,1955,1056,1957,1958,1960) 4 times (as "Rapid", 1976,1979,19801982)
State Championship Runners-up: Once (as "Caledonians",1959) Twice (as "Rapid" 1961,1965)
Southern Premierships: 7 times (as "Caledonians", 1953,1955,1956,1957,1959,1960,1981) 5 times (as "Rapid",1958,1961,1964,1976,1982)