Inner West Hawks Football Club (formerly known as Stanmore Hawks FC) is an Australian Semi-Professional football club based in Stanmore, 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 the NSW League Two.

History

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. 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. This was further followed by a string of seven consecutive promotions,.

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 the 1993 NSW Premier League season.

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 placed Adamstown Rosebud.

After stagnating in the second division of NSW Football for the next decade, Stanmore went through a lean phase, wherein they were relegated again in 2007 to the third division. They stayed in the State League until the end of the 2012 season, when Football NSW created their new competition format for 2013. Because of this, Stanmore were effectively relegated to the NSW State League Division 2.

Despite losing their first match of the 2013 season, Stanmore dominated the league, winning 16 games, including a 16–0 defeat of Schofield Scorpions, before going on to win the Grand Final 1–0 over Fairfield City.

Current squad

2021 NPL 3 Men's Squad Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.Pos.NationPlayer
No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK AUS Tom Sutton 2 AUS Nicolas Zamora Arias 3 AUS Sidhya Malhotra 4 AUS Christopher Phillips 5 AUS Marcus Naoum 6 AUS 7 AUS Peter Yannopoulos 8 AUS Radwan Jirjnazi 9 AUS Diego Cuadros 10 AUS Nikita Andricopoulos 11 AUS Gabriel Antoniades 12 AUS Oliver Kovarik 13 AUS 14 AUS Jordan Seib 15 AUS Riccardo Lo Russo 16 AUS Reece Kilpin 17 AUS Thomas Sutton 18 AUS Heo WookbumNo. Pos. Nation Player 19 AUS Aydin Kumburlu 20 AUS 21 AUS 22 AUS 23 AUS 25 AUS 26 AUS 27 AUS 28 AUS Gus Higgins 30 AUS 31 AUS 33 AUS 34 AUS 35 AUS Jordan Polyzos 36 AUS 38 AUS 39 AUS 40 AUS
1GKAUSTom Sutton
2AUSNicolas Zamora Arias
3AUSSidhya Malhotra
4AUSChristopher Phillips
5AUSMarcus Naoum
6AUS
7AUSPeter Yannopoulos
8AUSRadwan Jirjnazi
9AUSDiego Cuadros
10AUSNikita Andricopoulos
11AUSGabriel Antoniades
12AUSOliver Kovarik
13AUS
14AUSJordan Seib
15AUSRiccardo Lo Russo
16AUSReece Kilpin
17AUSThomas Sutton
18AUSHeo Wookbum
No.Pos.NationPlayer
19AUSAydin Kumburlu
20AUS
21AUS
22AUS
23AUS
25AUS
26AUS
27AUS
28AUSGus Higgins
30AUS
31AUS
33AUS
34AUS
35AUSJordan Polyzos
36AUS
38AUS
39AUS
40AUS

Honours

  • NSW League One/NSW 2nd Division

Premiers (1): 1992

  • NSW Super League/NSW 2nd Division

Champions (3): 1992, 1997, 2004

  • National Premier Leagues NSW 3/NSW 3rd Division

Premiers (1): 2019

  • NSW State League 2/NSW 4th Division

Champions (1): 2013

  • NSW State League 2/NSW 4th Division

Premiers (1): 2013

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