Monaro Pantherss

Riverside Stadium (Capacity: 1.000)

Monaro Panthers - Canberra Olympic (0:2) (ACT Premier League, 22. April 2012)
0:1 H. Tanoski (14.), 0:2 J. Ugranic (87.)

Attendance: 70
Cost: Free
Programme: Nil

AT the end and to the left is the entrance

 

Olympic on the attack as they were all game long

 

View from the top of the hill

 

And from behind the goals

 

The  subs bench and the clubhouse in the background

 

Olympic celebrating the first goal

 

Half time should equal beer time, but none for sale :-(

 

Ready for kickoff in the 2nd half

 

Olympic should have put more than 2 past Monaro

 

The grandstand could do with some replacement wood

 

Another view of the pitch

CLUB HISTORY: (club webpage)

Monaro Panthers is synonymous with excellence in Football in the Canberra Queanbeyan region. Monaro and football has an origin dating back many decades in the then form of Inter Monaro. Inter Monaro played football at the highest level in their time from winning the NSW State League and having a brief spell in the eighties in the National League before it fell away and disappeared from the football landscape for a almost ten years.

In 1995 it was revived by a new group, independent from the past as Monaro FC and entered the ACT Premier League which it won in 2001. It continued its transformation to become Monaro Panthers FC and began its journey of re-establishing itself as a club dedicated to the development of junior football.
Today the club boasts approximately 900 juniors, boy and girls aged 5 to 18 playing for the green and black.

With its growth have come many obstacles in catering for such a large club. The strain on our volunteers and facilities are the underlying areas of concern as we continue to grow. The club committee over the course of the past eight year has steered the club to a position of financial independence and stability, a name recognised with excellence and development and as a provider of a junior football program catering for both social and elite footballers.
The clubs achievements in past years have been both at the local and international level. We continually are represented across the state in various tournaments and are major participators in the Kanga Cup, a local football tournament with participants from all over the country as well as overseas.
Monaro is the only club in the ACT that has a relationship and exchange program with an international team and country. Over the past five years Monaro has successfully hosted Singok PS, a school with an elite football program from South Korea, and Monaro sending an U12’s team in 2008 to participate in the MBC International Youth Tournament.

The journey still continues. Monaro continually strives for excellence as well a expanding the opportunity to our juniors and later this year the club will endeavour to gain entry back in the ACT Premier League. This will crystallize the vision from 2001 that one united club in Queanbeyan, catering for both senior and junior football for boys and girls, from social to elite will promote and develop this great game into the twenty-first century.

Parramatta FC

Melita Stadium (Capacity: 10.000)

Parramatta FC - Marconi Stallions (0:0) (NSW Premier League, 15. April 2012)

Attendance: 400
Cost: $10AUD
Programme: Free

Entry to the ground

 

The teams warming up on an adjacent oval

 

Make sure you read this before entering!

 

Today's teams

 

And we have kickoff

 

View from the grandstand

 

A nice mural inside the clubhouse

 

View of the pitch

 

The grandstand and changerooms

 

Looking across the halfway line

 

The Wentworth Rd end

 

Another view of the pitch

 

Marconi on the attack

CLUB HISTORY: (wiki)
Parramatta FC, officially PCYC Parramatta FC but known commonly as Parramatta Melita Eagles, are an Australian football (soccer) club established by Maltese migrants in 1956 that played several seasons in the National Soccer League winning the NSL Cup twice in 1990/1991 and 1993/1994 and later the New South Wales Premier League which the club has won in various forms on six occasions 1985, 1988, 1989, 1996, 1997, 2001/2002. Due to various levels of mismanagement at the club it was demoted at the end of 2006. With backing from NSW Police and Citizen Youth Clubs it evolved into PCYC Parramatta Eagles, competing in the New South Wales Winter Super League and Super Youth League from the 2007 season.
The club has now returned as a new club in the Super League. The New club name is PCYC Parramatta Eagles which played in the 2007 NSW Super League. It had a good start to its club's first season & subsequently finished 3rd in the Competition.
The club continued playing in the NSW Super League until and including 2010, when it was sold to the Granville & Districts Soccer Football Association (GDSFA). After several years of rebuilding, the First Grade team finished as 2010 Premiers and, as a result, the club became eligible for promotion to Premier League, an opportunity that was too good to let slip. The 2011 season was played under the slightly changed name, Parramatta FC (nickname the Eagles).
Even though the Parramatta FC First Grade team finished at the bottom of the ladder in 2011, strong performances by the Under 20 and Under 18 teams ensured that the club remained eligible to play Premier League for 2012. As an Association-owned 'State League' club, a clear pathway for the 13,000 GDSFA players was established with the intention of returning the Eagles to its former status as the club of choice for all.

HONOURS:
National Soccer League Cup Winners - 1990/1991, 1993/1994

National Soccer League Cup Runners Up - 1992/1993

NSWPL/NSW 1st Division Champions - 1985, 1988, 1989, 1996, 1997, 2001/2002

STADIUM HISTORY: (wiki)
Melita Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Chester Hill, New South Wales, Australia. It is mainly used for football (soccer) and is the home ground for the Parramatta Eagles team and the Parramatta Ladyhawks Women's Super League team. The stadium has a capacity of 10,000 people.

Melita Stadium is home to the Maltese national rugby league team.

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Berliner AK 07

Poststadion (Capacity: 10.000)

Berliner AK 07 - Energie Cottbus II (2:1) (Regionalliga Nord, 11. April 2012)
1:0 R. Nikol (16.), 1:1 C. Schulze (59.), 2:1 P. Fardjad-Azad (76.)

Attendance: 138
Cost: 10 Euro (Sitplatz)
Programme: Sold Out

Todays teams entering the field

And posing for the fans

Time for kickoff

BAK just shoot wide

The old stands are well and truly grown over

Construction continues in the greandstand

Just testing out the new lens ;-)

Ready for the second half

Corner for BAK

Free kick for BAK

Full time and victory for the hosts

CLUB HISTORY: (wiki) Berliner AK 07 is a German football club based in Berlin. The club was founded in 1907 and has since evolved into a multi-cultural German-Turkish association with ties to professional football in Turkey.
The association was established on 15 December 1907 in the Wedding district of Berlin as an athletics club interested primarily in running. A football department was formed in 1908 which has since remained a largely anonymous side playing in lower tier city competition. In the early 90s AK 07 played in the sixth division Landesliga Berlin and advanced to the Verbandsliga Berlin (V) on the strength of a 1995 championship there. A 1999 Verbandsliga title saw the club further promoted to the Oberliga Nordost-Nord (IV) where they play today. In 2006–07 matched its best ever result at this level with a fourth place finish.
AK 07 merged with BSV Mitte in 2004: Mitte had earlier been formed out of the merger of the ethnically Turkish sides BFC Güneyspor and Fenerbahce Berlin. The re-structured association formed a co-operative relationship with Turkish first division club Ankaraspor in June 2006 which focuses on player development in Germany.
On 6 July 2006 the club adopted the name Berlin Ankaraspor Kulübü 07 and selected Ahmet Gökcek, son of the mayor of Ankara, as Chairman. With the name change the club also abandoned its traditional colours of red and white to don the blue and white kit of Ankaraspor, but later reverted to its old name and colors.
During the season 2007/08 Ankaraspor with a strengthened youth club just managed to avoid relegation. The 2008/09 season was the same and the team managed to avoid relegation on the last match day. In the 2009/10 season BAK finished second in the league. However, the highlight of the season was winning the Berlin Pokal Cup, with a 1-0 final victory over BFC Dynamo. This qualified the club for the first time in the national DFB Cup. There, BAK met in the first round the Bundesliga club 1.FSV Mainz 05 , but lost a tight match 1:2.
By decision of 15 April 2011 took the club back to its old name.
After a third place position in the 2010/11 Oberliga season, BAK rose to the Regionaliga, because the teams placed in front of them, Torgelower SV Greif and FC Hansa Rostock II, for financial reasons, had waived the rise. To meet the expectations in the Regionaliga, Jens Härtel was hired as new head coach, who until then was an assistant coach at SV Babelsberg 03.

HONOURS:
Landesliga Berlin (VI) champions: 1995
Verbandsliga Berlin (V) champions: 1999
Berlin Pokal Champion: 2010/11

STADIUM HISTORY: (wiki) The Poststadion is a multi-use stadium in the Moabit district of Berlin, Germany, built in 1929 for the sports club of the German Reichspost at the site of a former Prussian Uhlan parade ground. A designated landmark since 1990, its stands and terrace are currently under reconstruction. The fields are used mostly for regional football and host the home matches of SC Minerva 93 Berlin and SC Union 06 Berlin, since 2008 also of SV Yeşilyurt Berlin and Berlin AK 07.
The stadium today holds 15,005 people and is all-seater. Before, it held up to 45,000 spectators, who on 10 May 1930 saw the German national football team playing 3-3 against England, one of the first encounters of the two teams. Richard Hofmann scored all three goals for Germany before England's David Jack finally equalised.
After the Deutsches Stadion in Charlottenburg had been closed in 1934, the Poststadion became the site of the German championship final. FC Schalke 04 won with 2-1 over 1. FC Nuremberg, who themselves gained the title two years later in a 2-1 match against Fortuna Düsseldorf. The stadium was also used as a boxing arena, when on 7 July 1935 Max Schmeling won against Paulino Uzcudun after twelve rounds.
Several football matches during the 1936 Summer Olympics were held at the Poststadion, where on 7 August outsider Norway in front of 55,000 spectators kicked Germany out of the tournament by a 2-0 win in the quarter finals. The Nazi leadership including Adolf Hitler witnessed the defeat, whereafter team manager Otto Nerz was dismissed and replaced by Sepp Herberger. Major football events afterwards were held at the Olympiastadion.

Tottenham Hotspur FC

White Hart Lane, England (Capacity: 36.310)

Tottenham Hotspurs - Norwich (1:2) (English Premier League, 9. April 2012)
0:1 A. Pilkington (13.), 1:1 J. Defoe (33.), 1:2 E. Bennett (66.)

Attendance: 36.126
Cost: 53GBP
Programme: Spurs (3.50GBP)

That's our match!

 

Compulsory pre-match beers at the supporters pub

 

Why, thankyou

 

Looking across to the East Stand

 

The South Stand

 

The Family North Stand

 

The Media have all the comforts!

 

Todays teams

 

Tottenham on the attack in the first half

 

Both coaches were quite animated

 

The away fans celebrating after the 2nd goal!

 

My birthdate is indicated on the board ;-)

 

Full time and victory to Norwich

 

View of the stadium on the way out

CLUB HISTORY: (wiki)

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, commonly referred to as Spurs, is an English football club based in Tottenham, London, that plays in the Premier League. The club's home stadium is White Hart Lane.

Founded in 1882, Tottenham won the FA Cup for the first time in 1901, making it the only non-League club to do so since the formation of the Football League. Tottenham was the first club in the 20th century to achieve the League and FA Cup Double, winning both competitions in the 1960–61 season. After successfully defending the FA Cup in 1962, in 1963 it became the first British club to win a UEFA club competition – the European Cup Winners' Cup. In 1967 it won the FA Cup for a third time in the 1960s. In the 1970s Tottenham won the League Cup on two occasions and was the inaugural winner of the UEFA Cup in 1972, becoming the first British club to win two different major European trophies. In the 1980s Spurs won several trophies: the FA Cup twice, FA Community Shield and the UEFA Cup in 1984. In the 1990s the club won the FA Cup and the League Cup. When it won the League Cup once more in 2008, it meant that it had won a major trophy in each of the last six decades – an achievement only matched by Manchester United.

The club's Latin motto is Audere est Facere (lit: "To Dare Is to Do"), and its emblem is a cockerel standing upon a football. The club has a long-standing rivalry with near neighbours Arsenal. Matches between the two teams are known as the North London derby.

The club was formed in 1882, as Hotspur F.C., and played in the Southern League until 1908, when it was elected into the Football League Second Division. Before this promotion Tottenham had won the FA Cup in 1901, making it the only non-League club to do so since the formation of the Football League.
Since then, Tottenham have won the FA Cup a further seven times, the Football League twice, the Football League Cup four times, the UEFA Cup twice and also the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. The Cup Winners' Cup victory in 1963 made Tottenham the first English team to win a UEFA competition. In 1960–61 it became the first team to complete The Double in the Twentieth Century.

HONOURS:
League
Football League First Division (champions) 2 1950–51, 1960–61
Football League First Division (runners-up) 4 1921–22, 1951–52, 1956–57, 1962–63
Football League Second Division (champions) 2 1919–20, 1949–50
Football League Second Division (runners-up) 2 1908–09, 1932–33
Southern League (champions) 1 1899–1900
Western League (champions) 1 1903–04

Domestic cups
FA Cup (winners) 8 1901, 1921, 1961, 1962, 1967, 1981, 1982, 1991
FA Cup (runners-up) 1 1987
League Cup (winners) 4 1971, 1973, 1999, 2008
League Cup (runners-up) 3 1982, 2002, 2009
FA Charity Shield (winners) 7 (3 shared) 1921, 1951, 1961, 1962, (1967, 1981, 1991)
FA Charity Shield (runners-up) 2 1920, 1982

European cups
UEFA Cup (winners) 2 1972 (inaugural winners), 1984
UEFA Cup (runners-up) 1 1974
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (winners) 1 1963
Anglo-Italian League Cup (winners) 1 1971

STADIUM HISTORY: (wiki)
White Hart Lane is an all-seater football stadium in Tottenham, London, England. Built in 1899, it is the home of Tottenham Hotspur and, after numerous renovations, the stadium has a capacity of 36,230.

Along with housing Tottenham, the stadium, which is known amongst fans as the Lane, has also been selected for England national football matches and England under-21 football matches. White Hart Lane held capacity records in the early 1960s with numbers entering the 70,000s but as seating increased in popularity, the stadium has leveled out to a modest number in relation to other Premier League clubs. The record attendance remains an FA Cup tie on 5 March 1938 against Sunderland with the attendance being recorded at 75,038.

Plans are afoot for Tottenham to move to a new stadium with an estimated capacity of 56,000, with the new stadium being built on the current site instead of moving from the borough of Haringey. The new stadium has been designed by KSS Design Group, whose other work includes Stamford Bridge.

Tottenham Hotspur moved to White Hart Lane in 1899, renovating it from a disused nursery owned by the brewery chain Charringtons, with the help of local groundsman, John Over, into a substandard football pitch. The first game at White Hart Lane resulted in a 4–1 home win against Notts County with around 5,000 supporters attending and witnessing the first game and first victory at the new ground, although referred to at the time as either High Road ground or White Hart Lane.
White Hart Lane underwent redevelopment in the early 20th century with stadium developer, Archibald Leitch, designing a mainly square stadium seating 15,300 and incorporating a standing paddock for another 700 fans along with the famous cockerel being placed on the mock-Tudor apex at the end of the 1909–1910 season. Redevelopments continued in the 1910s, with the wooden eastern stand replaced with an enlarged concrete stadium, vastly increasing the stadium capacity to over 50,000. The ground continued to be renovated and in 1925, thanks to the FA Cup win in 1921, both the Paxton Road Stand and Park Lane Stand were enlarged and mostly covered from the elements.

The pitch was overlooked by a bronze fighting cock (the club mascot) that still keeps an eye on proceedings from the roof of the West Stand.
In the 1930s, football had a popular following, and despite Tottenham's lack of success, at the time, 75,038 spectators squeezed into White Hart Lane in March 1938 to see Spurs' performance against Sunderland in the FA Cup. The venue hosted some of the football preliminaries for the 1948 Summer Olympics. 1953 saw the introduction of floodlights with their first use being a friendly against Racing Club de Paris in September of that year. These were renovated again in the 1970s and steadily replaced with new technology since. By this stage, Tottenham were firmly established as one of England's best clubs which attracted some of the highest attendances in the country on a regular basis. Between 1908 and 1972, White Hart Lane was one of very few British football grounds that featured no advertising hoardings at all.
Perimeter fencing was erected between the stands and the pitch during the 1970s to combat the threat of pitch invasions from hooligans; however this was removed on 18 April 1989 for safety reasons in reaction to the Hillsborough disaster three days earlier, in which 96 Liverpool fans were fatally injured, most of them crushed to death against the perimeter fencing in an overcrowded standing area.
The West Stand was again renovated in the early 1980s, however the project took over 15 months to be completed with cost overruns having severe financial implications. This West Stand is parallel with Tottenham High Road and is connected to it by Bill Nicholson Way.

The early 1990s saw the completion of the South Stand (on Park Lane) and the introduction of the first Jumbotron video screen, of which there are now two, one above each penalty area. The renovation of the Members' (North) Stand which is reached via Paxton Road was completed in 1998, leaving the ground in its present form. At the turn of the millennium, after falling behind in stadium capacity, talks began over the future of White Hart Lane and Tottenham Hotspur's home. Over the years, many stadium designs and ideas were rumoured in the media. Most recently a move to Wembley Stadium was ruled out by the club, as was talk of moving to the future stadium of the 2012 Olympic Games.