Southern FC

Southern Football Club
Nickname(s) Southern FC
Founded 1958 (as Rapid SC)
1997 (as Kingston Cannons)
League Southern Championship
2014 2nd (promoted)

Southern Football Club is a Football (Soccer) Club from Kingston. They play in the Tasmanian competition. The club was founded in 1958 as Rapid FC. Rapid was highly successful during its life winning the State Championship 4 times, and the Southern Premiership 5 times as well. For a brief period in the 1980s, they were known as Rapid-Wrest Point, before switching back. They played their final match in 1996, being relegated in the process to the Southern League 2.[1]

The name was changed and the club reformed as Kingston Cannons.[2] They immediately won the Southern League 2 and were promoted back to the League 1.[3] At the end of the 2009 season, Kingston Cannons merged with Christian United to form Southern FC. in 2013 they won the Southern League 1 title and were runners up in 2014 gaining promotion into the Southern Championship.

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