Hobart City Beachside Football Club is an Australian semi-professional soccer club based in the suburb of Sandy Bay in Hobart, Tasmania. The club's colours are green and black. The club plays its home games at Sandown Park, known to fans as the Tropicana Cauldron or simply The Tropicana. In 2021, Beachside FC and Hobart City merged to form a club under the current name.

History

Beachside FC

Beachside FC was founded in 1975 under the name Howrah Soccer Club because it played in the Hobart suburb of Howrah. The club then adopted the name Beachside HSC when it moved to its current home near Long Beach, in Sandy Bay keeping the HSC from Howrah Soccer Club despite no longer playing in that suburb. In 2011, the name was changed subtly to Beachside FC.


Hobart City

In 1977, Hobart City Azzurri was founded to provide a youth soccer club for the Italian community. In 1981, the Club changed its name to Hobart City FC, as a result of a mandate from Soccer Australia to remove all ethnic based names club titles. In 1986, the club become the Southern Tasmanian Seniors Division 1 Premiers and Knock Out Cup Winners. The club ceased to exist in late 1991, with its members joining other clubs or retiring. In 2021, family members of the original founders, began a re-creation of the Hobart City Azzurri.

Merger

In 2021, Beachside FC and Hobart City FC merged to form a new club under the name Hobart City Beachside FC.

Les Beachside sont une équipe de football australienne qui représente l'Australie sur la scène internationale. L'équipe a été fondée en 2006 et a depuis participé à plusieurs compétitions internationales, notamment la Coupe du monde de football de plage et la Ligue des champions de l'AFC. Les Beachside sont l'une des équipes de football de plage les plus titrées au monde, ayant remporté plusieurs titres de Coupe du monde et de Ligue des champions de l'AFC. L'équipe est composée de certains des meilleurs joueurs de football de plage d'Australie, dont Trent Sainsbury, Mat Ryan et Aaron Mooy.