Albany Creek Excelsior FC

Albany Creek Excelsior was founded in 1963 by Hec Wolter, the headmaster of Albany Creek Primary School. The early years of the club focussed on providing teams for Brisbane's junior soccer competitions, with an emphasis on the development of local junior players.[1]

The club is first recorded as competing in senior competition in 1977 when it played in Brisbane's Division Seven.[2] The club slowly rose up the ranks and was promoted to Division Two after winning the 1995 Division Three Grand Final against Capalaba. For the next 14 seasons from 1996 to 2009, Albany Creek Excelsior remained at the second tier of Brisbane competition, just one level below the Brisbane Premier League.[2]

In 2007, Albany Creek Excelsior was the largest football club on Brisbane's northside with 63 junior teams, 5 senior squads and over 760 male and female players spanning the junior and senior ranks.[1]

After relegation in 2009, a season when the club failed to win a game,[3] Albany Creek Excelsior bounced back and narrowly missed promotion in 2010 Premier League Two,[4] and achieved the best cup run in their history by reaching the semi-finals of the 2010 Brisbane Premier Cup before being knocked out by Rochedale Rovers.[5][6]

Between 2007 and 2011, the club was able to invest heavily in infrastructure at Wolter Park and the South Pine Sports Complex, thanks to generous donations from supporters of the club together with government financial support. These investments contributed to the club being promoted to the Brisbane Premier League for the first time in 2013, and its associated club Moreton Bay United FC being selected into the National Premier Leagues Queensland.[1]

Albany Creek secured their first Brisbane Premier League Premiership in 2018.[7] They would fall short of the Championship to Grange Thistle losing 5–1 in the grand final.[7] In 2019, Albany Creek would complete the double winning both the Brisbane Premier League Premiership with 52 points and the Championship beating Toowong FC 2–0 in the grand final.[7] In 2022, Albany Creek were promoted to FQPL 2 after winning the 2021 FQPL 3 - Metro Premiership.

As of 14 June 2022[8]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  AUS Harrison Royley 2 DF  AUS Jay Brindell-South 3 DF  AUS Louis Irish 4 DF  AUS Sean Lewis 5 MF  JPN Yuya Ono 6 MF  AUS Steven Snaith 7 MF  AUS Ryan Shaughnessy 8 MF  AUS Joshua Masters 9 FW  AUS Alistair Russell 10 FW  AUS Carter Glockner

No. Pos. Nation Player 11 MF  AUS Liam Brown 12 MF  AUS Dylan Moore 14 MF  AUS Matthew Fox 15 MF  AUS Nicholas Clark 16 MF  AUS Jarod Lancaster 19 MF  AUS Ben Hering 21 FW  AUS Matthew Sanchez 21 DF  AUS Caleb Patterson

Youth

Players from the U23s who have been featured in a first-team matchday squad for ACE in a competitive match

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player - DF  AUS Kel Neil - DF  AUS Charlie Coster

No. Pos. Nation Player - FW  AUS Santiago Castro Marin - MF  AUS Liam Jordan

Source:[2]

* Shortened season due to COVID-19 pandemic
The tier is the level in the Australian soccer league system

• FQPL 3 − Metro / Brisbane Premier League [9]
  • Premiership
    • Winners (3): 2018, 2019, 2021
  • Championship
    • Winners (1): 2019
• Brisbane Premier Division 1 [9]
  • Premiership
    • Winners (1): 2012
• Brisbane Premier Division 2 [9]
  • Championship
    • Winners (1): 2011
• Brisbane Division 1 North [9]
  • Championship
    • Winners (1): 1998
• Brisbane Division 3 [9]
  • Championship
    • Winners (1): 1995
• Brisbane Division 4 [9]
  • Premiership
    • Winners (1): 1990

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