Avondale

Avondale FC is an Australian semi-professional association football club, with the men's and women's teams based in Parkville and the junior sides based in Avondale Heights, suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria. The club currently competes in the National Premier Leagues Victoria, having reached the top tier of Victorian football in 2015.

History

Early years

Avondale FC was founded in 1984 as Keilor I.C.K.A. ICKA stood for Italian Community of Keilor Assoc Inc. (I.C.K.A. Club), the football team having been founded originally by Italian immigrants.

Keilor ICKA competed in the Victorian Amateur League Division 3 in 1986, but achieved two consecutive promotions in '86 and '87 to rise to the Amateur League Division 1 by '88. Keilor competed in the Provisional Leagues for the first time in 1991, with the federation placing the club into Victorian Provisional League Division 4 that year, the ninth tier of football in Victoria. The club was promoted the following year, a third-place finish enough to see the club rise to Provisional League Division 3. Keilor was to spend the next eight years at that level.

After moving to Doyle Street Reserve in Avondale Heights in 1999, the club was renamed to Avondale Heights SC in 2000. That year proved to be a memorable one for the Melbourne club, finally achieving promotion to Provisional League Division 2 North-West, by taking out the Division 3 North-West title, losing just one game all season. The next year was even better, with the club taking out the Div 2 Nth-West title in their first season at that level, finishing five points clear at the top of the table ahead of Mill Park.

Avondale Heights' next promotion was to come in 2006, when the club finished second in the Provisional League Division 1 North-West. This promotion meant that the club would compete in the Victorian State Leagues for the first time, entering State League Division 3 North-West for the 2007 season. Devastatingly, the club were relegate

Australia. Victorian. League Table. Season 2023/2024
Pos	Team	Home	Away	Total	GD	Goals
P	W	D	L	GS	GC	Pts	P	W	D	L	GS	GC	Pts	P	W	D	L	GS	GC	Pts
1	South Melbourne	5	3	1	1	7	4	10	9	8	1	0	24	7	25	14	11	2	1	31	11	35	20	2.2
2	Avondale FC	6	3	1	2	13	8	10	8	7	0	1	19	7	21	14	10	1	3	32	15	31	17	2.3
3	Heidelberg United	5	4	1	0	18	3	13	8	4	4	0	12	6	16	13	8	5	0	30	9	29	21	2.3
4	Oakleigh Cannons	9	6	2	1	21	8	20	4	2	2	0	5	2	8	13	8	4	1	26	10	28	16	2
5	Hume City	8	4	2	2	14	9	14	5	4	0	1	12	5	12	13	8	2	3	26	14	26	12	2
6	Port Melbourne	8	4	3	1	17	8	15	5	2	0	3	6	14	6	13	6	3	4	23	22	21	1	1.8
7	Melbourne Knights	8	1	2	5	11	16	5	6	4	0	2	9	3	12	14	5	2	7	20	19	17	1	1.4
8	Dandenong City	7	1	2	4	7	14	5	7	3	2	2	14	13	11	14	4	4	6	21	27	16	-6	1.5
9	Altona Magic	6	2	0	4	5	10	6	7	3	1	3	16	19	10	13	5	1	7	21	29	16	-8	1.6
10	Green Gully	6	3	1	2	13	8	10	8	1	2	5	7	18	5	14	4	3	7	20	26	15	-6	1.4
11	Dandenong Thunder	6	1	0	5	5	17	3	7	2	2	3	8	14	8	13	3	2	8	13	31	11	-18	1
12	Manningham United Blues	7	2	0	5	15	19	6	6	1	0	5	6	18	3	13	3	0	10	21	37	9	-16	1.6
13	ST Albans Saints	5	2	0	3	9	10	6	8	0	1	7	3	22	1	13	2	1	10	12	32	7	-20	0.9
14	Moreland City	8	2	0	6	10	13	6	6	0	0	6	6	17	0	14	2	0	12	16	30	6	-14	1.1