Moreland F.C.
Moreland is a now-defunct association football (soccer) team that competed in various leagues in Victoria, Australia between 1934 and 1985. The team was also known as Moreland Victoria and as Moreland Thistle between 1965 and 1970.
After the 1985 season, Moreland merged with Park Rangers to form Moreland Park Rangers. In 1990 Moreland Park Rangers merged with Coburg to form the team now known as Moreland City.
The team played its home matches at Campbell Reserve, Coburg. In a history spanning 50 years, Moreland won the Victorian Division 1 title, then the top tier of soccer in the state, three times.
In 1934 Moreland Soccer Club was formed by a breakaway from what was then known as the Brunswick Soccer Club and trophy success came to Moreland early in its history.
The team won the Victorian Division Three title in its very first season and Division Two in 1935. Despite losing just one game in 1935 it was Moreland's superior goal difference that handed them the title ahead of Navy, who finished with the same points.
The following season, 1936, Moreland won the first of its Victorian Division 1 championship titles.
Moreland topped the eight-team league finishing the season on 20 points, one ahead of Royal Caledonians. Royal Caledonians had finished on 21 points but were penalised 2 points and were, therefore, denied the title.
In 1937, Moreland won its third consecutive title and second top-tier trophy in a row finishing with 21 points, one ahead of Prahran in second.
The club also won the Dockerty Cup on four occasions, three times as Moreland and once, in 1945, as Moreland Hakoah.
The club's first Dockety Cup victory came in 1941, a 1–0 win over Prahran at Olympic Park, Melbourne.
In the first round of that year's tournament, Moreland beat Heidelberg 10–2.
The second Dockerty Cup final victory came against Box Hill in October 1945 and was followed the next season with a third Division One championship. As with its previous two championships, Moreland topped the table by just one point.
The Dockerty Cup victory of 1945 came under the name of Moreland Hakoah. During World War II, there was a temporary merger between Moreland and Hakoah, a club who had a predominantly Jewish supporter base.
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