Fremantle Croatia H.N.K. Soccer Club is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n football (soccer) club from the city of Fremantle, Western Australia

Fremantle, Western Australia

Fremantle is a city in Western Australia, located at the mouth of the Swan River. Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth, the state capital. Fremantle was the first area settled by the Swan River colonists in 1829...

. It is a Croatian

Croats

Croats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have...

 backed club. It recently took out the Western Australian Amateur League Division 2 title and will compete in Division 1 when the 2009 season starts.

The club is a regular participant at the Australian-Croatian Soccer Tournament

Australian-Croatian Soccer Tournament

The Australian-Croatian Soccer Tournament is a tournament run by the Croatian Soccer Federation of Australia and New Zealand, an organisation founded in 1974. The inspiration for the tournament came from the successful Croatian-North American Soccer Tournament founded in 1964...

. Fremantle Croatia claimed second position in the Australian-Croatian soccer tournament in 2007 held in Perth losing out to Sydney's FC Ljubuski in the final 1-0. This runners up placing has been the clubs highest achievement to date having eclipsed a third place finish in Sydney in 2003. In the latest instalment of this tournament held in Geelong in 2008, the club finished third in their group of 5 clubs in the newly formed division 1, narrowly missing out on a semi-final appearance.

The club has a tight-knit, loyal and ever growing fan base often known as the "Purple Dragons" although the name has no significance with regards to the club colours or name. The club's theme song is "Croacija iz Fremantlea" (which literally translates to: "Croatia from Fremantle") and is sung to the tune of popular up-beat Croatian song "Dalmacijo".

External links

• List of Croatian football clubs in Australia
• Australian-Croatian Soccer Tournament
  Australian-Croatian Soccer Tournament
  The Australian-Croatian Soccer Tournament is a tournament run by the Croatian Soccer Federation of Australia and New Zealand, an organisation founded in 1974. The inspiration for the tournament came from the successful Croatian-North American Soccer Tournament founded in 1964...
  
  
• Croatian Australian
  Croatian Australian
  Croatia has been a source of migrants to Australia, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s. In 2006, 128,051 persons resident in Australia identified themselves as having Croatian ancestry.- History :...