Australia - Nueva Gales del Sur - Premier League 03/23 08:00 7 [13] St George Saints v Apia L Tigers [4] D 2-2
Australia - Nueva Gales del Sur - Premier League 03/16 08:00 6 [12] St George Saints v Sydney United 58 [9] L 2-3
Australia - Nueva Gales del Sur - Premier League 03/10 08:15 5 [8] St. George City FA v St George Saints [13] D 1-1
Australia - Nueva Gales del Sur - Premier League 03/06 08:30 4 [2] Rockdale Ilinden FC v St George Saints [9] L 4-0
Australia - Nueva Gales del Sur - Premier League 03/02 08:00 3 [14] St George Saints v Sydney FC NPL [3] W 2-1
Australia - Nueva Gales del Sur - Premier League 02/24 08:00 2 [16] St George Saints v Blacktown City [2] D 0-0
Australia - Nueva Gales del Sur - Premier League 02/16 08:30 1 Manly Utd v St George Saints L 3-0
Australia - Nueva Gales del Sur - Premier League 09/09 04:30 1 Mt Druitt Town Rangers v St George Saints W 0-1
Australia - Nueva Gales del Sur - Premier League 09/03 05:00 1 St George Saints v Mt Druitt Town Rangers D 1-1
Australia - Nueva Gales del Sur - League One 08/26 09:00 - Mounties Wanderers v St George Saints D 2-2
Australia - Nueva Gales del Sur - League One 08/19 09:00 - St George Saints v Dulwich Hill W 4-0
Australia - Nueva Gales del Sur - League One 08/12 04:40 - Central Coast United FC v St George Saints W 1-6
Australia - Nueva Gales del Sur - League One 08/05 09:00 - St George Saints v Hills United FC W 2-0
Australia - Nueva Gales del Sur - League One 07/29 09:00 - Bonnyrigg White Eagles v St George Saints L 1-0
Australia - Nueva Gales del Sur - League One 07/22 09:00 - Rydalmere Lions FC v St George Saints W 2-3
Australia - Nueva Gales del Sur - League One 07/15 09:00 - St George Saints v Northern Tigers W 2-0
Australia - Nueva Gales del Sur - League One 07/08 09:00 - Canterbury Bankstown FC v St George Saints D 2-2
Australia - Nueva Gales del Sur - League One 07/01 09:00 - St George Saints v Dunbar Rover FC W 1-0
Australia - Nueva Gales del Sur - League One 06/24 09:00 - Blacktown Spartans v St George Saints W 1-4
Australia - Nueva Gales del Sur - League One 06/17 09:00 - St George Saints v Hakoah Sydney City East D 1-1
Australia - Nueva Gales del Sur - League One 06/10 09:00 - Inter Lions v St George Saints D 1-1
Australia - Nueva Gales del Sur - League One 06/03 09:00 - St George Saints v SD Raiders L 1-3
Australia - Nueva Gales del Sur - League One 05/27 09:00 - Bankstown City Lions FC v St George Saints W 0-1
Australia - Nueva Gales del Sur - League One 05/20 09:11 - Macarthur Rams v St George Saints L 2-1
Australia - Nueva Gales del Sur - League One 05/13 09:00 - St George Saints v Mounties Wanderers W 4-1
Australia - Nueva Gales del Sur - League One 05/06 09:00 - Dulwich Hill v St George Saints D 1-1
Australia - Nueva Gales del Sur - League One 04/29 09:00 - St George Saints v Central Coast United FC D 4-4
Australia - Nueva Gales del Sur - League One 04/22 09:23 - Hills United FC v St George Saints L 4-1
Australia - Nueva Gales del Sur - League One 04/15 09:00 - St George Saints v Bonnyrigg White Eagles W 4-2
Australia - FFA Cup - Clasificación 04/11 09:30 - Blacktown Spartans v St George Saints L 4-3

Wikipedia - St George FC

St George FC, commonly called Saints or Budapest, is a semi-professional Australian soccer club based in the St George district in the south of Sydney. The club was founded by Hungarian immigrants in 1957 as Budapest Club and by 1965 was renamed to St. George-Budapest Club.

One of the top clubs of Australia from the 1960s to the 1980s, St George currently competes in the second-highest tier of Australian soccer, the National Premier Leagues NSW. Their former home ground was the St George Stadium, but due to its dilapidated state, St George has played its youth and senior fixtures at Ilinden Sports Centre since 2018.

St George FC Women compete in the New South Wales League One Womens, third tier of Australian women's soccer. Their home ground is Ilinden Sports Centre from 2023 and Fraser Park for 2022 season, due to the dilapidated state of their former home ground, St George Stadium.

History

The club was formed shortly after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 by Hungarian Immigrants and was originally known as Budapest. In the 1960s, led by pioneering soccer administrator Alex Pongrass, it became one of the first ethnic clubs in NSW to search for a district to call home and it chose the St George district. It later became known as St George-Budapest before shortening its name to St George some years later. They opened a licensed club, named Soccer House, in the suburb of Mortdale in 1968. In 1969 Frank Arok, the first full-time coach in Australia was appointed, serving two stints as coach, the last ending in 1983 when he left to coach the Socceroos. In between Arok's two stints as coach, Rale Rasic was coach, coaching the club at the same time as he was coaching the Socceroos. In 1971 the club was invited to an international club tournament in Tokyo, Japan. It won and remained the highest ever international achievement by an Australian club side, until South Melbourne FC won the 1999 Oceania Club Championship. However this was surpassed by Sydney FC (Oceania champions) when they finished 5th at the FIFA World Club Cup where, before them, South Melbourne had finished 8th and Western Sydney Wanderers (Asian champions) 6th.

Such was the dominance of St George in those days that up to 10 players on the national team would be St George players. Five of their players were in the Australian side that started against East Germany in the World Cup that year in West Germany, including the vice-captain of the side, the Australian soccer legend Johnny Warren. Another notable player (albeit at a lower level), was football commentator Les Murray. Together with Warren they would become known as "Mr and Mrs Soccer" and would become the faces of soccer in Australia through their commentary work on SBS Television.

In 1975 at the urging of some former Hungarian soccer greats and youth coach Bob Szatmari, the meeting determined to establish the Australian National Soccer League took place at Soccer House with representatives from all founding clubs, including Hakoah Club (later known as Eastern Suburbs and Sydney City) president and Westfield Group founder and chairman Frank Lowy and Leslie Szatmari. The competition started in 1977 and St. George-Budapest won the competition in 1983. They played in the league until the 1990/91 season. Since then they have played in state competitions. In 2005 the side was controversially axed from the new look New South Wales Premier League and took legal action against the decision along with the Bonnyrigg White Eagles, but were unsuccessful.

Recent history

In 2012 St George competed in the New South Wales Super League, the second tier of state soccer, finishing seventh out of twelve clubs and missing out on the finals. In 2013, St George were promoted from the NPL NSW Men's 2 after taking out the league championship, finishing seven points ahead of the second placed Macarthur Rams FC. The club also won the Grand Final, beating the Rams in the semi-final 2–1 and then beating Mounties Wanderers FC 3–1 in the final. The joy was not to last long, though, as in 2014, the club was immediately relegated back to the second tier of soccer in NSW. Managing just four wins and four draws in 22 games, St George finished dead last in the top tier. The Saints endured another tough season in 2015, finishing third last in the NPL NSW Men's 2.

In 2017 the club played most senior home fixtures out of Seymour Shaw Park, also playing one game at St George Stadium, Fraser Park and Blacktown Football Park. This didn't seem to deter St George as the side finished in 2nd place, losing the semi-final to Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 4–2.

Due to the dilapidated state of St George Stadium, the club played senior fixtures out of Rockdale Ilinden Sports Centre in 2018 and 2019. In 2018, St George finished in 2nd place in the league and won the NPL NSW 2 grand final, but were not promoted due to the 'Club Championship' ranking which takes into consideration the performance of the U20 and U18 sides. In 2019, St George finished 10th in the 14-team NPL NSW 2 season.

During the 2019 season, St George reached the FFA Cup round of 32 after beating clubs such as SD Raiders, APIA Leichhardt Tigers and Dulwich Hill, but lost to Sydney United 58 in a 5–3 thriller after two goals from Mushi Kokubo and a stoppage time equaliser.

In 2023, St George FC were promoted back into the National Premier League by finishing 2nd place in League 1, then defeating and relegating Mt Druitt Rangers in a thrilling play-off series.

El St. George Saints Football Club es un club de fútbol australiano con sede en la ciudad de Sídney, Nueva Gales del Sur. El club se fundó en 1959 por inmigrantes italianos y actualmente compite en la Primera División de Nueva Gales del Sur, la liga estatal de fútbol más alta de Nueva Gales del Sur.

El St. George Saints es uno de los clubes más exitosos de la historia del fútbol australiano en Nueva Gales del Sur, habiendo ganado ocho títulos de Primera División y nueve Copas de Nueva Gales del Sur. El club también ha representado a Australia en varias competiciones internacionales, incluida la Liga de Campeones de la AFC.

El St. George Saints es conocido por su estilo de juego ofensivo y atractivo, y cuenta con una gran base de seguidores en Sídney y sus alrededores. El club también tiene una fuerte tradición de desarrollo de jugadores juveniles, y muchos de sus jugadores han pasado a jugar en la A-League, la liga de fútbol profesional más importante de Australia.

El St. George Saints es un club importante en el fútbol australiano de Nueva Gales del Sur, y su historia y éxitos lo convierten en uno de los clubes más respetados del estado.