Heidelberg United FC

Heidelberg United Football Club (commonly referred to as Alexander, Warriors, or Bergers) is an association football club based in the northern Melbourne suburb of Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia. The team currently competes in the Victorian Premier League.

History

Foundation and beginnings (1958–1977)

The Heidelberg United Alexander Football Club was founded in 1958 by Greeks from Florina. The Three years earlier (1955) the founding members of "Alexander The Great" dissociated themselves from the petty politics and the unbalanced ideological strife which characterised the Northcote Florinian Social Club in the late 1940s and early 1950s. They decided to form their own social club, the Clifton Hill Social Club. It was at that time when families, mainly immigrants wives and their unmarried children, began to arrive in Australia in great numbers.

In May 1955 the founding members, George Baniscas, Nicholas Themelkos, Nick Romanidis, Tryphon Rakovalis, Tryphon Avramopoulos, Chris Samartzis and Peter Economidis commenced their meetings at the residence of Tryphon Rakovalis in Fairfield. Their successful gathering attracted mostly Florinians, as well as from other regions. In 1957 discussions to establish "Alexander The Great" began.