Gungahlin United FC

History

The club was established by the local Canberra Italian community in 1963 under the name Juventus Soccer Club, inspired by the Italian club of the same name. Juventus competed in the ACT Division One and the Federation Cup in their inaugural season. The following year the club won the league, receiving qualification to the Australia Cup. They competed in the 1965 and 1967 Australia Cup, where they failed to progress past the first round.

In 1973, Juventus SC toured New Zealand between 30 September and 7 October. Juventus was one of the first sporting teams from the ACT to tour New Zealand. The club started the tour in Auckland at Newmarket Park with matches against Auckland and Auckland U23s. Juventus lost both matches 1-3 and 0-3 respectively. Juventus' second tour destination took the club to Muir Park in Hamilton to take on Hamilton AFC on 4 October. Juventus and Hamilton drew 1-1 with a goal from M Valeri securing the visitors a draw. 6 October, Juventus continued its tour in the New Zealand capital of Wellington when they faced off against Wellington City at Rongotai College. Juventus repeated its feats in Hamilton and secured a second 1-1 draw of the tour with J Campbell scoring for Juve. Juventus finished its tour on 7 October at English Oval in the city of Christchurch. Juve succumbed to a 2-0 loss at the hands of Christchurch United.

The restructuring of the ACT Premier League after the 2006 season saw Gungahlin removed from the top tier competition. In 2015, Gungahlin United was granted a National Premier Leagues licence to field a team in the National Premier Leagues ACT. In the same year, the team won the Federation Cup, thereby qualifying to the round of 32 of the 2015 FFA Cup.

Club colours and crest

Gungahlin United still uses its traditional colours of white, black and yellow. The club has gone through a number of crest changes since its inception in 1963. In 2006 the club dropped its traditional black and white stripes from its crest but retained the central football with the yellow wings.

In 2016, a logo design competition was set up by GUFC to commemorate 20 Years of Gungahlin United Football Club. The crest could be any shape, could include the club's nickname 'The Gunners' and must use the club colours of black, white and yellow and the words Gungahlin United FC. The competition was open to the public between 5 June 2016 till 30 September 2016 and involved a small prize for the winning design. The top ten designs were made public for comment and the top three designs were put to the executive committy for a vote on 7 January 2017.

Home venue

Gungahlin United's NPL first team home venue is Gungahlin Enclosed Oval. The ground was constructed in 2013/14 with the official opening on 7 March 2014. The stadium has a seating capacity of 1,150 (550 under cover) and an overall capacity of 5,000. Gungahlin United is one of four tenants of the venue with the multi-purpose field being used for association football, australian rules football, rugby union and rugby league. Canberra based Stewart Architecture was the architect of the stadium which cost stadium owner, the ACT Government, $12.5 million to build. The ground has a natural water-efficient grass surface, team and officials' changing rooms, public toilets, canteen and storage for both users and maintenance staff. Rooms are provided for coaches, the ground announcer and the operator of the electronic scoreboard. There is also a club room which can be used for after/pre-match functions. The venue has played host to Gungahlin United's round of 32 FFA Cup match against former NSL NSW club Sydney Olympic FC and pre-season friendly matches involving A-League club Central Coast Mariners as well as being selected as a reserve training venue for the 2015 Asian Cup tournament in case McKellar Park became unavailable.

Honours

ACT League Premiers and Finals Champions

Premiers (8): 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1974, 2000 Runners-up (6): 1966, 1973, 1986, 2001, 2002, 2004 Champions (8): 1964, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1986, 2001 Runners-up (6): 1963, 1966, 1973, 1995, 2000, 2004

Capital Football Federation Cup

Winners (8): 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1988, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2015 Runners-up (6): 1969, 1972, 1985, 1986, 1987, 2002

Season-by-season results

The below table is updated with the statistics and final results for Gungahlin United FC following the conclusion of each National Premier League Capital Football season.