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List of Newcastle Breakers FC seasons

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Newcastle Breakers Football Club was an Australian semi-professional association football club based in Newcastle. The club was formed in 1991 and joined the National Soccer League in the 1991–92, season until they became defunct in 2000. The club's first team spent eight seasons in the National Soccer League. The table details the club's achievements in major competitions, and the top scorers for each season.

History

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With no representing team from Newcastle in the National Soccer League since Newcastle Rosebud United (now Adamstown Rosebud) in 1986, the Newcastle Breakers joined the league in the 1991–92 season and finished 11th out of 14 while only being eliminated in the first round of the NSL Cup. The team would go closer to the Finals series spot the next season finishing 8th, but until then more failures started to qualify for the Finals series in the next few seasons. Although the team did not participate in the league in the 1994–95 season; the 1995–96 campaign saw new manager John Kosmina,[1] the team finishing bottom of the league and having the most losses in an NSL season of 24, however reaching the NSL Cup Final defeated by South Melbourne in the same season. The next two seasons were also fails to qualify for the Finals series as the NSL Cup had been demised from 1997 onwards. From the 1998–99 season, it would be the last two seasons of the club's existence with better league finishes but still missing the Finals series meaning that the club had never qualified for the Finals series of every eight seasons played which caused the demise of the club leading to the formation of new club Newcastle United (now Newcastle Jets).[2]

Key

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Key to league competitions:

Seasons

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Results of league and cup competitions by season
Season Division Pld W D L GF GA Pts Pos Finals NSL Cup Name(s) Goals
League Top goalscorer(s)
1991–92 NSL 26 7 8 11 28 39 22 11th DNQ R1 John Koch 7
1992–93 NSL 26 10 8 8 38 29 38 8th DNQ R1 Warren Spink 15
1993–94 NSL 26 5 8 13 30 47 23 12th DNQ R1 Warren Spink 13
1995–96 NSL 33 4 5 24 35 77 17 12th DNQ RU Jason Bennett 8
1996–97 NSL 26 7 9 10 40 46 30 11th DNQ QF Jason Bennett
Robert Ironside
7
1997–98 NSL 26 4 9 13 30 50 21 13th DNQ Clayton Zane 8
1998–99 NSL 28 11 7 10 29 33 40 8th DNQ John Buonavoglia 6
1999–2000 NSL 34 14 9 11 44 44 51 7th DNQ John Buonavoglia 16

References

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Specific

  1. ^ Howe, Andrew. "History of Newcastle Breakers". OzFootball.net. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
  2. ^ Hall, Matthew (5 May 2002). "Steel City proves it has iron will". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 17 April 2018.