Brunswick Zebras Football Club
Brunswick Zebras Football Club is an Australian semi-professional association football (soccer) club that is based in the northern Melbourne suburb of Brunswick East. Nicknamed the 'Zebras', the club fields both senior and reserves teams for men & women, and operates a junior academy under license from Football Victoria. For the 2019 Football Victoria season, the senior men finished seventh of the state league fourth division, and the senior women were premiers of the state league third division, both in the northern conferences. To date, the club have been national champions and premiers on one occasion each, Victorian state league premiers on eight occasions, state cup winners on six occasions, and winners of various lower state competitions throughout its existence.
| Full name | Brunswick Zebras Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Zebras | ||
| Founded | 1948 as part of Juventus 1964 as Brunswick United Juventus Juniors 1997 Brunswick Zebras Juniors | ||
| Ground | Sumner Park, Brunswick East | ||
| Chairman | Carlo Carli | ||
| League | Men: VSL 4 North Women: VWSL 1 North-West | ||
| 2022 | Men: 10th Women: 3rd | ||
| Website | Club website | ||
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The club was founded in 1948 as 'Juventus' by the Italian community of Melbourne and operates from the original clubrooms at Sumner Park. Under the name 'Brunswick Juventus', the club participated in the National Soccer League from 1984 to 1988, where they would be national champions in 1985 and southern conference premiers in 1986. The club again participated in the national competition for the 1993–94 and 1994–95 seasons under the names 'Brunswick Pumas' and 'Melbourne Zebras' respectively.