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Nickname(s)
  
The Green Machine

Manager
  
Graham Normanton

Founded
  
1953

President
  
Steven Nelkovski

2015
  
6th

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Full name
  
Olympic Kingsway Sports Club

League
  
Football West State League Division 2

Grounds
  
Kingsway Sporting Complex, Darch

The Olympic Kingsway Sports Club, often referenced as Kingsway Olympic, is an Australian football club from Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1953 by Greek immigrants. They moved to their current location at the Kingsway Sporting Complex in Darch in 1973. They currently have 400 players in teams ranging from Under 6 to under 16, as well as senior Saturday and Sunday Teams.

History

The club was founded in 1953, it was promoted in 1959 to the top division of the State of Western Australia. For the 1978 season, the club was renamed Olympic Kingsway. The club won both the 1978 and 1980 Western Australian State League titles, which qualified them for the 1979 and 1981 NSL Cups. During this period, they also won the Top 4 Cup 3 times in succession (1978-1980), as well as their first night series win in 1980.

They moved back to the Amateur Premier Division for six seasons (2006-2011), and since that time have been in the State League Division 2.

Since the 1990s, Olympic Kingsway has developed many future Australian professional football players, including Nick Ward, Stan Lazaridis, Richard Garcia and Daniel De Silva.

References

Olympic Kingsway SC Wikipedia