Holland Park Hawks FC

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Holland Park Hawks FC
Full nameHolland Park Hawks Football Club
Nickname(s)Hawks or Hawkies
Founded1977
GroundWhites Hill Reserve; Camp Hill
Head coachGabriel Hawash
League Football Queensland Premier League 1
2024Football Queensland Premier League 2 1st of 12 (Promoted)
Websitehttps://hphawksfc.com.au/

Holland Park Hawks FC is a football club based in Camp Hill, Queensland. They will be competing in the Football Queensland Premier League, the 3rd division on the football pyramid of Australia, after achieving promotion from Football Queensland Premier League 2 in 2024. The club has youth teams which also compete in Football Queensland Academy Leagues which starts at U9 and ends at U18's.

History

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Holland Park Hawks Football Club was formed in 1976 with its home ground located at Whites Hill Reserve in Camp Hill.[1] The club first entered senior competition in 2008 and achieved promotion by finishing top of the Metro League Division Two table in their first season.[2]

Further promotions occurred in 2010, 2014 and 2015 enabling the club to climb from fifth tier of the Football Brisbane structure to the first tier in just eight seasons. Holland Park Hawks won each of these promotions by topping the league table to become premiers, and were champions three time after grand final victories.[2] The three grand final wins were:

In 2010, Holland Park Hawks also had cup success, winning the Metro Cup competition (also known as the Veto Cup) after beating Souths United 2–1 in the Final.[4][5]

Holland Park Hawks FC had a successful debut in the 2016 Brisbane Premier League season, finishing in third place on the league table and qualifying for the finals series in which they reached the preliminary final.[6]

To build upon its success, the club applied to be part of the new National Premier Leagues structure which will commence in the 2018 season.[7] In May 2017, Football Queensland announced Holland Park Hawks were among the 14 clubs accepted to form the Football Queensland Premier League for its initial season in 2018.[8]

In their first season in the Football Queensland Premier League 1 (FQPL 1), the Hawks finished 10th out of the 13 teams in the competition. 3 years later though, in the 2021 season, they finished 10th out of 11, relegating them to Football Queensland Premier League 2 (FQPL 2).

In late 2022, club Technical Director, Gabriel Hawash was appointed as the Head Coach for the senior team. In the 2024 season, Hawash's second in charge, Hawks were premiers of FQPL2, winning the league and achieving promition back to FQPL1. Hawks lost just one league game and amassed a total of 57 points over the season, the equal highest ever points tally in a single season in FQPL2, tied with Broadbeach United S.C. who achieved the same points in the previous season. Holland Park's #9 Connor McAuley scored 23 league goals and was awarded the league's golden boot in this season, achieving the third highest individual goal tally ever in a single FQPL 2 season.[9][10]

Players

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First team squad

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As of 16 September 2024 [10]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK England ENG Tom Dixon
2 DF Australia AUS Martin Sandry
3 DF Australia AUS Noah Humphreys
4 DF Australia AUS Lewis Doci
5 DF Australia AUS Lachlan Gorry
6 MF England ENG Cameron Foulkes
7 FW Australia AUS Hunter Rutty
8 MF Australia AUS Matthew Capelo
9 FW Australia AUS Connor McAuley
10 FW Australia AUS Will Gullo
11 MF Australia AUS Kyle Wieser
12 DF Papua New Guinea PNG Rudolph Gabuogi
15 MF Republic of Ireland IRL Connor Doorman
16 MF Australia AUS Kieran Harrison
No. Pos. Nation Player
17 MF Australia AUS Matthew Zhong
18 MF Colombia COL Juan Esteban Aristizabal
19 DF Australia AUS Motoki Kuzuyama
20 GK Australia AUS Patrick Satorie
33 MF New Zealand NZL Ivan Alonso
— FW Australia AUS Michael Parker
— MF Australia AUS Tom Gane
— FW Australia AUS Ben Mcdonnell
— MF Australia AUS Huon Seelig
— GK Australia AUS Jake Watson-Roddy

Club officials

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Board

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Position Name [11]
President England Sharon Flannery
Vice-president Australia Nigel Hemer
Treasurer Stefan Keller
Secretary Navin D’Silva
Committee Member Lee Sawyer
Gary Wier
Chris Allmond

Staff members

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Position Name [11]
Technical Director (TD) Gabriel Hawash
Junior Technical Director Nick Hansen
Office Manager Ivana Barozzi
Community Director Jhonny Javier Olivares
Female Football Director Liam Murphy
Head of Analysis Alex Accini

Senior team staff

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Position Name
Head Coach Gabriel Hawash
First assistant Jhonny Javier Olivares
Second Assistant Jack Mestric
Physio Steve de Waard
Goalkeeper Coach Jason Kearton
Team Manager Carrie Simpson

Seasons

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Season League FFA Cup
Division (tier) Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Position Finals Series
2008 Metro League 2 (7) 22 17 1 4 74 22 52 52 1st ↑ Semi-final Not yet founded
2009 Metro League 1 (6) 20 8 1 11 45 44 1 25 6th DNQ
2010 Metro League 1 (6) 21 13 1 7 50 34 16 40 1st ↑ Champions
2011 Premier Division 2 (5) 26 13 6 7 58 39 19 45 3rd Preliminary Final
2012 Premier Division 2 (5) 22 14 3 5 47 23 24 45 3rd Semi-final
2013 Capital League 2 (5) 22 10 6 6 60 37 23 36 6th DNQ
2014 Capital League 2 (5) 22 17 1 4 91 27 64 52 1st ↑ Champions Preliminary Round 4
2015 Capital League 1 (4) 21 15 4 2 69 25 44 49 1st ↑ Champions Preliminary Round 3
2016 Brisbane Premier League (3) 22 12 3 7 51 34 17 39 3rd Preliminary Final Preliminary Round 4
2017 Brisbane Premier League (3) 22 8 6 8 56 45 11 30 7th DNQ Preliminary Round 6
2018 Football Queensland Premier League (3) 24 8 1 15 53 69 -16 25 10th DNQ Preliminary Round 4
2019 Football Queensland Premier League (3) 18 3 1 14 31 70 -39 10 10th DNQ Preliminary Round 6
2020 Football Queensland Premier League (3) 20 3 4 13 24 45 -21 13 9th DNQ COVID-19 pandemic

Source:[2]

Key: Premiers / Champions Promoted ↑ Relegated ↓

The tier is the level in the Australian soccer league system

Honours

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References

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  1. ^ "Club History". Holland Park Hawks FC official website. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  2. ^ a b c "Holland Park Hawks FC". Brisbane Football (Soccer) Tables. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  3. ^ Brisbane Metro Division One 2010 Fixtures/Results socceraust.co.uk
  4. ^ Brisbane Metro Cup 2010 Fixtures/Results socceraust.co.uk
  5. ^ "Cup Finals". Football Brisbane official website. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
  6. ^ Brisbane Premier League 2016 Fixtures/Results socceraust.co.uk
  7. ^ "Hawks spread wings with NPL/QPL 2018 application". Holland Park Hawks FC official website. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  8. ^ "Football Queensland Unveils Clubs For New Two-Tiered State Competition". Football Queensland website. 29 May 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  9. ^ https://websites.mygameday.app/comp_info.cgi?c=0-9385-0-582633-0&a=LADDER
  10. ^ a b https://footballqueensland.com.au/fqpl-2/
  11. ^ a b https://hphawksfc.com.au/our-club/our-team/
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