History
Melbourne Knights FC was founded in 1953 as SC Croatia by a small group of Croatian immigrants in Melbourne's western suburbs. The club played its first match on 10 April 1953. The Knights became a member of the Victorian Soccer Federation in 1954, which saw the club join and compete in a league competition for the first time that same year in the newly created Victorian Provisional League. The club quickly moved up the state divisions and by the mid 1960s had become one of the strongest clubs in Victoria. In 1984 after a number of years of lobbying the Knights finally joined Australia's elite football competition, the National Soccer League. By the 1990s the club had become the premier football club in Australia as it made the NSL Grand Final 5 out of 6 seasons, winning it twice in 1994/95 and 1995/96. Following the disbanding of the NSL in 2004 the Knights dropped back down to the Victorian Premier League, making the Grand Final in 2008.
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