President Guy Italiano 2015 7th Founded 2001 | Manager Tim Slack Website Club home page | |
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Full name South West Phoenix Football Club League WA State League Division 1 Grounds Hay Park, South Bunbury, Western Australia | ||
South West Phoenix Football Club is an Australian semi-professional association football club based in Bunbury, Western Australia. The club currently (2016) competes in the Football West State League Division 1.
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History
The first club from the Bunbury region to join the Perth-based State League was Bunbury City FC from 1979–1987.
Bunbury Tricolore FC entered the State Amateur League in 1990, and participated there for the following 5 seasons. In 1996 they amalgamated with Ashfield to form Ashfield-Bunbury and entered the State League Division One; in 1999 this combined club won promotion to the Premier League after three seasons in Division One. The amalgamation with Ashfield was brought about mainly because of the costs involved in playing in the State League.
The club in its present form was founded in 2001 after the departure of Ashfield-Bunbury from the State League. The club's name came from a competition in the Bunbury-based newspaper The South-West Times. The club entered the WA State League Division 1 and finished 6th in their first season.
The club's name was changed to the Bunbury Forum Force in 2010, due to sponsorship arrangements, and they then won their first Division 1 title the year after in 2011, and therefor promoted to the WA Premier League for the 2012 season. In their two seasons in the Premier League they finished 9th and 7th, however they were not selected as one of the 12 initial teams in the newly formed National Premier Leagues WA for the 2014 season. In the 2015 season the club reverted to the name South West Phoenix FC after sponsorship arrangements expired.