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Launceston City 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)
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 club based in Launceston
Launceston, Tasmania
Launceston is a city in the north of the state of Tasmania, Australia at the junction of the North Esk and South Esk rivers where they become the Tamar River. Launceston is the second largest city in Tasmania after the state capital Hobart...

, Tasmania
Tasmania
Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...

. It competes in the Northern Premier League
Northern Premier League (Tasmania)
The Tasmania North Premier League is the highest level of association football competition in Northern Tasmania. Nationally, it is one grade lower than the A-League and is controlled by the Football Federation Tasmania , the state's governing body...

 run by the governing body Football Federation Tasmania
Football Federation Tasmania
Football Federation Tasmania is the governing body for Association football in the Australian state of Tasmania. The federation oversees leagues in Northern and Southern Tasmania, Tasmanian representative teams, and development of the sport in the state...

 and has over 100 registered players across senior, women and social leagues.

The junior club is run as the "Westside Devils Soccer Club" with age groups from Under 7 to Under 16, and one of the largest junior soccer clubs in the state with over 400 junior soccer players.
The club uses the colours of Juventus
Juventus F.C.
Juventus Football Club S.p.A. , commonly referred to as Juventus and colloquially as Juve , are a professional Italian association football club based in Turin, Piedmont...

 and have links to the club. Prior to the cessation of ethnic affiliations by Australian football clubs in 1997, Launceston City were known as Launceston Juventus.

City was particularly dominant in the 1960s, when they won every season except 1964. Although Northern Tasmania's most successful club with 19 Northern titles, they have failed to repeat their dominance of the 60s.

The club also has a women's team which has been dominate at the turn of the new century picking up 4 out of 6 Premier League titles and gone 4 Premier League seasons unbeaten from 2005 to 2008.

Launceston City fields teams in the Northern Premier League, Premier League Reserves, Under 18's, and currently has two Northern Premier League Teams as well as two Northern Division One teams with over 100 registered players.

In 1978 Launceston Juventus relocated from the their home ground at White City Greyhound Stadium to Mitsubishi Park located in Prospect where the club is still playing home games till this day. Mitsubishi Park has two playing grounds, fully functional flood lights for night games, clubrooms, change rooms.

Honours

  • State Championships: (once) 1961
  • State Championships Runners-up: (10 times) 1960,1964,1969,1971,1972,1975,1976,1995,2001,2005
  • Northern Premierships
    Northern Premier League (Tasmania)
    The Tasmania North Premier League is the highest level of association football competition in Northern Tasmania. Nationally, it is one grade lower than the A-League and is controlled by the Football Federation Tasmania , the state's governing body...

    : (19 times) 1959,1960,1961,1962,1963,1965,1966,1967,1968, 1969,1971,1972,1975,1976,1982,1984,1986,2001,2005
  • Statewide Cup:1966,1976,1991,2004,2007
  • Statewide Cup Runners-up:2005,2006
  • Steve Hudson Cup:1987,1989,1991,1993,1996,2002,2004,2005,2007

  • Northern Women's Premier League:2001,2002,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010
  • Women's State Championship:2007

Club Presidents


Life Members


Current squad

As of May 2011

Nationality given from place of birth

Past Players

  • Miotto, Simon
    Simon Miotto
    Simon Jon Miotto is an Australian footballer. He was last contracted to Tranmere Rovers as a goalkeeper, where he was also goalkeeper coach.-Career:...

  • Ganderton, Daniel
    Daniel Ganderton
    Daniel Ganderton is a Thoroughbred horse racing jockey.Ganderton comes from a racing family; originally racing for his uncles stable in Spreyton, Tasmania. Ganderton started racing in 2005 and forged his name as the leading apprentice in Tasmania...

  • Brown, Roger
    Roger Brown (cricketer)
    Roger Leedham Brown is a former Australian first-class cricketer, who until the arrival of Jason Gillespie, had played more first-class matches than any other Aboriginal Australian....


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