Ringwood City Soccer Club is an Australian soccer club from Ringwood, a suburb of Melbourne. The club was formed in 1953 as Wilhelmina by Dutch Australians. The club currently competes in Victorian State League 4 Men's - South-East, the seventh tier of Victoria football, where it has been since 2014.

History

Early history Wilhelmina D.S.C. (Dutch Soccer Club) entered the Fourth Division Reserves competition in 1953, wearing all-orange kits and playing on a paddock in North Balwyn, its home for three years. The club finished second despite having begun halfway through the season.

1954 saw the first official Wilhelmina senior side enter the Fourth Division competition. The side had many players who had played in higher divisions and won the league with ease, earning promotion to Division Three.

The following season, Wilhelmina earned promotion again with a perfect season of 18 consecutive wins. Wilhelmina relocated to Burnley Oval in Richmond in 1956. In 1956, the club won the Second Division and earned promotion to the first division. It took the club only four years to get promoted into the Victorian State League, losing only one game of the 54 played.

In 1957, Wilhelmina moved to McDonald Reserve in Hawthorn for its first season in the State League. The season ended with a fifth-place finish. The following season, Wilhelmina won the Dockerty Cup.

In 1966 they were relegated, but the following year they were again promoted as Ringwood City Wilhelmina. After many more years of an up-and-down State League campaign, they were relegated to Victorian State League Division 1 in 1990. This started the club's demise. After years of competition, the club found themselves relegated seven times, and found themselves in the lowest men's Victorian league, Metropolitan League South East.

Recent years In 2009 Ringwood City defeated St. Kevins Old Boys 3–0 in the final round of the 2009 FFV Metropolitan South East division to gain their first championship in 12 years.

In 2013, Ringwood City won the State League Division 5 East championship, with Nicholas Theodore taking out the league Golden Boot, scoring 27 goals.

Honours Victorian State League Champions 1959 Victorian State League Runner-Up 1958 Victorian State League Division 1 Champions 1956, 1967 Victorian State League Division 2 Champions 1955, 1997 Victorian League Division 4 Champions 1954 Victorian State League Division 5 East Champions 2013 Victorian Metropolitan League SE Champions 2009 Dockerty Cup Winners 1958 State League Cup Winners 1961 AMPOL Pre Season Cup Winners 1962 B.I.S.C. Winners 2002 Women's Teams 2000 – Women's Victorian Premier League Champions 2018 – Women's State League 3 East Champions 2019 – Women's State League 2 South East Runners-up 2022 – Women's State League 1 South East Champions

Notable players

Bobby Collins Brian Edgley Dick van Alphen Frans van Balkom Freddie Bunce Gary Cole George Campbell Jackson Irvine Ollie Norris Peter Aldis Peter Ollerton Selin Kuralay Sjel de Bruyckere Willem de Graaf Shaun Parton

Competition timeline SeasonLeagueDockerty Cup State CupTop scorerDivisionPositionPlayer(s)Goals1954 (P)Metro DIV 41st1955 (P)Metro DIV 318180011410104361stSF (2-4 Polomia)1956 (P)Metro DIV 2181620822458341stSF (2-4 Polomia)1957Metro Div 118828503614186thQF(2-3 Footscray)1958State League221354782454312ndWon (3-0 Juv)1959State League221723864046361stSF(1-3 Hakoah)1960State League221048503812244thR5 (2-3preston)1961State League221345492920303rdSF(0-1 polonia)1962State League221183542826303rdR1(0-1 croat)1963State League221021044404225thR2(0-0- hungaria)1964State League2284104048 -8208thQF(0-3 port melb)1965State League2266103143 -12189thR5 (2-2 Footscray)1966 (R)State League2272133346 -131612thR5 (2-1 Juv)1967 (P)Metro Div 1221813831667371st1968State League2286826242227th1969State League221345452124303rd1970State League22967432815246thQF (1-3 keilor)1971State League221048402812245thQF (0-3 Footscray)1972State League2273123544 -9178thR16 (0-3 melbourne)1973State League22877412615237thQF(0-1 melbourne)1974State League2275103134 -3197thRU (4-1 South Melb)1975State League2263132541 -1615111976State League224992735 -81791977State League2284102437 -13208RU (3-1 George Cross)1978 (R)State League2236132142 -211212Ampol cup (2 wins, 2 loss)1979Metro Div 1221246422715284R16 (1-3 Essendon)1980 (P)Metro Div 1221516371720312ndR16 (2-3 Western suburbs)1981State League2284103242 -10206QF(2-3 Altona)1982State League2667133351 -1819111983State League2662182458 -3414131984State League269710423932571985State League26761326382018111986 (R)State League26571419491732131987 (P)State league Div 1261934511441 -272nd1988State League3012711494131107th1989State League30781526522230131990 (R)State League34662240701852161991State league Div 1285131026352312101992State league Div 126661427451827121993State league Div 12696113940241681994 (R)State league Div 126571434561739141995 (R)State league Div 226651528462323131996 (P)State league Div 3261754732656 -302nd1997 (P)State league Div 2261934491860 -421st1998 (R)State league Div 126551633642044131999State league Div 226661433592435122000 (R)State league Div 2 S/E2222181571566122001State league Div 3 S/E229310333730762002State league Div 3 S/E221048454334942003 (R)State league Div 3 S/E22551224442024112004 (R)Prov Div 1 S/E22241623651055112005 (R)Prov Div 2 S/E2266102335241111Not played2006Prov Div 3 S/E2278738342957thNot played2007 (R)Prov Div 3 S/E2035121959144510Not played2008Metro2285939312656Not played2009Metro S/E181323452341 -181stNot played2010Metro S/E20848364327165Not played2011Metro S/E22114752423756R1 (1-3 Monash)2012 Prov 32245133962 -231411thR1 (0-1 eastern lions)N Theodore112013 (P)SL5211515552728461stR1 (1-2 Boorondara)N Theodore272014 SL422122846379384thR1 (0-3 Melton)J Oxley82015SL4221057543816355thK Roden162016SL42295833294325thR1 (3-4 Springhills)O Bridgford172017SL42086630246306thR2 (0-1 Boorondara)J Adeosun72018SL42165103958 -19237thR5 (0-7 Sydenham)I Sankoh122019SL42263133146-15219thR1 (0-1 Ashburton) W Ong62020SL400000000NANANANA2021SL41462624240206thR4 (0-4 Casey comets) M T Mamo52022SL4221129493811356thR2 (2-4 Monash)D Primerano162023SL41871103541-6256thR4 (0-3 Moorolbark)A Krstic92024SL422831144431279thR1 (1-3 Diamond Valley United)M Cintolo & M Murphy72025SL422155253193450 2ndR4 (0-3 Oakleigh Cannons FC)K Mcgeachy8

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