Moorabbin City Soccer Club History

Trevor Bishop, a great player and truly the nicest bloke you could hope to meet, passed away late last year after enduring the terrible motor neurone disease (MND) for a number of years. He will be remembered for his blistering shooting strength, and his booming laugh. He played in every senior team at Moorabbin City, from the firsts to the reserves and thirds and even the fourths. He was denied the 1982 Metropolitan League Division Four Best and Fairest award on countback after tying with North Geelong's Drago Krajina in the days when the V.S.F. wouldn't issue multiple medals as they do now.  Living opposite Bailey Reserve, he was often helping out around the club in ways other than scoring goals on the park.  A true gentleman with a cheerful disposition that made everyone enjoy being in his company. It is a blessing to have known him. Click on images to enlarge. Click on video to play

Following last week's Golf Trip/Reunion I've been able to make substantial updates to the site. Several Matchday Programmes have been added to the appropriate seniors Seasons pages. They are: 1987  May 30 v Clarinda August 22 v Port Melbourne 1988 April 30 v Seaford United August 20 v Hawthorn Citizens 1989 April 15 v Chelsea May 20 v Hawthorn Citizens August 5 v Springvale United August 12 v Clarinda Also the 1989 Presentation Night Matchday has been added to the Library . Many new photos have been added to the various galleries: Seniors - 1977 & 1996 Reserves - 1977 & 1997 There are additions to the Miscelleneous Mystery galleries for the 1990's whilst similar galleries have now been added for the 1970's and 1980's . The glaring hole in the banner image has been filled with the arrival of the original The Dominoes club emblem. Three senior team line-ups and three reserve team line-ups for 1975 have been added to the respective Seasons pages. On the m...

The piles of photos given to me be Thommo at the 2023 Golf Trip have finally been scanned and added to the galleries on the blog . The senior team photo section has had pics from 1952, 1975, 1978 & 1992 added. The reserves photo gallery has seen 1976, 1984 and 1996 added. The thirds photo gallery has been updated with pics for 1991 and 1997. A massive gallery has been added with pictures from a gathering at the club's regular pub, the McKinnon Hotel, in the 1960's. It can be viewed here . Another new gallery are some shots from the junior game between Moorabbin City and Croatia in March 1972, played at Cheltenham High School. It can be viewed here . Also now available are pictures from a game at Monbulk between the local juniors and a Moorabbin team. It is available here . There is also now a Junior Teams gallery which I still have photos to add to. It can be found here . A golf day in the 1960's also has it's own gallery of photos, which can be found here . Finally...

This site has been created to maintain the memory of the Moorabbin City Soccer Club. The CLUB HISTORY page contains an overall summary of the club's history since the foundation in 1949.  It contains the known records of the senior, reserve, thirds and colts teams from 1950-2002. They can be found in the SEASONS section. Many seasons results and details are incomplete, if you have any additional information, please get in touch. Research to complete the records is ongoing. Clicking on a yearbook or match programme cover will give you access to the full publication, which can also be downloaded to keep. There are also a few games which have some video footage available. The HONOURS page lists the successes of the club's teams in league and cup competitions. Inside the AWARD WINNERS page are further pages detailing known winners of Best & Fairest, Player's Player of the Year, Top Goalscorers and Coach's Award winners of the club's various teams, as well as a l...