Pascoe Vale FC

Pascoe Vale Football Club (formerly Pascoe Vale Soccer Club) is a semi-professional football club located in north-west Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. The club was established in 1966, and features both junior boys, girls and senior men soccer teams. Pascoe Vale's home ground is at Hosken Reserve in Coburg North, but the senior facility is based at CB Smith Reserve in Fawkner. Pascoe Vale's club colours are blue and white. The club currently competes in the National Premier Leagues Victoria 2.

History

The first known Pascoe Vale Soccer Club was formed in 1932 by British migrants.

In 1966, immigrants from Macedonia of Aromanian descent reformed the club. The new immigrants renamed the club to Pascoe Vale Pelister, after the mountain where their home village of Nizepole is located.

Victorian State Leagues

The club made a surge through the Provisional Leagues in the early 1980s, achieving three successive promotions between 1982 and 1984, taking Pascoe Vale from Victorian Provisional League Division 4 to Provisional League 1. The club was again promoted in 1986, competing in the State Leagues for the first time in 1987. The club remained in Victorian State League Division 4 for the next six years until they were promoted to State League 3 in 1992, where the club spent the next nine years. In 2001, the club achieved promotion to State League Division 2 for the first time in its history.

Despite coming close in 2003, losing to Langwarrin SC on penalties, and in 2004, losing to Kingston City FC again on penalties in the promotion playoff match, the club didn’t achieve promotion to State League 1 until 2008, when it won the State League 2 championship under the guidance of Luciano Trani. In 2011, Vitale Ferrante took over as senior head coach, taking over from George Karkaletsis after seven rounds.

Pascoe Vale were promoted to the Victorian Premier League in 2012, finishing top of State League One, five points ahead of Port Melbourne.