Blacktown Spartans FC

The Blacktown Spartans Football Club are an Australian semi-professional association football club currently playing in the NSW Premier League, the top tier of association football in New South Wales and the 2nd tier including the fully professional top tier, the A-League. They are based in Blacktown, located in the Greater Western Sydney area of Sydney, New South Wales.

Blacktown Spartans
Full nameBlacktown Spartans Football Club
Founded2002
GroundBlacktown International Sportspark,
Rooty Hill, Sydney
New South Wales, Australia
ChairmanNil
LeagueNPL NSW 2
20159th
WebsiteClub website

History

The Blacktown Spartans were formed in 2002 in the effort to field elite youth squads. Permission was granted to form a semi-professional team, and were included into the NSW State League Division Two, the then Third Division. In 2006 they were promoted to the NSW State League Division One after finishing first. After the 2010 season, they were promoted to NSW Super League. After finishing first in Super League in 2011 the club has been promoted to Premier League in 2012.

The 2010 season can be seen as successful for the Spartans, especially in the 2010 Waratah Cup as they have progressed to the semi-finals of the competition, and have been dubbed 'The Giant Killers' having knocked out the Rockdale City Suns in Round 3,[1] Sydney United in the Round of 16,[2] and Granville Rage in the Quarter Finals[3] to book a spot in the semi-finals against New South Wales Premier League side Marconi Stallions.

In 2010 the Spartans Women were promoted from the NSW Super League to the NSW Premier League after finishing on top of the Club Championship with all five teams making the semi-finals. The Under-12s and Under-14s both won their respective Grand Finals.

Club Officials
gollark: If you want more, YOU are to write it.
gollark: As you can see, centre-justification follows from the combination of left- and right-justification.
gollark: Left-justification:> Left-wing politics supports social equality and egalitarianism, often in critique of social hierarchy.[1][2][3][4] Left-wing politics typically involves a concern for those in society whom its adherents perceive as disadvantaged relative to others as well as a belief that there are unjustified inequalities that need to be reduced or abolished.[1] According to emeritus professor of economics Barry Clark, left-wing supporters "claim that human development flourishes when individuals engage in cooperative, mutually respectful relations that can thrive only when excessive differences in status, power, and wealth are eliminated."[5] No language (except esoteric apioforms) *truly* lacks generics. Typically, they have generics, but limited to a few "blessed" built-in data types; in C, arrays and pointers; in Go, maps, slices and channels. This of course creates vast inequality between the built-in types and the compiler writers and the average programmers with their user-defined data types, which cannot be generic. Typically, users of the language are forced to either manually monomorphise, or use type-unsafe approaches such as `void*`. Both merely perpetuate an unjust system which must be abolished.
gollark: Anyway, center-justify... centrism is about being precisely in the middle of the left and right options. I will imminently left-justify it, so centre-justification WILL follow.
gollark: Social hierarchies are literal hierarchies.

References
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  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 March 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)[pointer]=14&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=3853&tx_ttnews[backPid]=16&cHash=df554f7230
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 March 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)[tt_news]=3961&tx_ttnews[backPid]=76&cHash=010246032d
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