| Full name | Inner West Hawks Football Club (Formerly Stanmore Hawks) | |
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| Nicknames | Hawks, Kypriaki | |
| Ground | Arlington Oval | |
| Capacity | 6000 | |
| League | NSW League Two | |
| 2025 | 10th of 15 | |
| Website | http://www.stanmorehawksfc.com.au/ | |
Inner West Hawks Football Club (formerly known as Stanmore Hawks FC) is an Australian Semi-Professionalfootball club based inStanmore, New South Wales. The club was founded in 1978 by the Greek-Cypriot community of Sydney, originally playing under the name Cyprus United. Inner West Hawks Fc currently competes in theNSW League Two.
After playing in the lower leagues of NSW football for the early 1980s, Cyprus United were introduced into the New South Wales Inter Urban Division Five for the 1985 season.[1] In their first season in the Inner Urban league, they won two-thirds of their matches, finishing the season with twelve wins and gaining promotion.[2] This was further followed by a string of seven consecutive promotions,.[3]
The club was promoted to the NSW 2nd Division after winning the NSW 3rd Division in 1990. In 1992, the club experienced a magnificent season, winning the NSW 2nd Division that year, leading to Stanmore's promotion into the1993 NSW Premier League season.[3]
Stanmore finished 9th in 1993 and 12th in 1994, avoiding relegation as the league was set to expand to 14 teams for 1995. By the halfway mark of the 1995 season, Stanmore won just two games, drawing four others whilst having lost seven, including a 7–3 defeat to their fellow relegation zone rivals,Mount Druitt Town Rangers. Stanmore were able to pick up three more wins from their final thirteen fixtures, which wasn't enough to save them from relegation. They finished 10 points behind thirteenth placedAdamstown Rosebud.[4]
After stagnating in the second division ofNSW Football for the next decade, Stanmore went through a lean phase, wherein they were relegated again in 2007 to thethird division.[5] They stayed in the State League until the end of the 2012 season,[6] whenFootball NSW created theirnew competition format for 2013. Because of this, Stanmore were effectively relegated to theNSW State League Division 2.
Despite losing their first match of the 2013 season,[7]Stanmore dominated the league, winning 16 games, including a 16–0 defeat of Schofield Scorpions, before going on to win theGrand Final 1–0 over Fairfield City.
2021 NPL 3 Men's SquadNote: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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