Green Island FC
football club
Green Island is an amateur association football club in Green Island, Dunedin, New Zealand. They play in the Southern Premier League and most recently won the league in 2020. From 2021-23 they played in the Southern League (tier 2)
The Green Island Association Football Club was first formed and accepted into the Otago Football Association in 1896 as the Green Island Football club situated at Harroways ground, Burnside. Disbanded during the war years and reformed in the late 1940s. The clubrooms were situated at Miller Park until the Abbotsford slip in 1979 forced the club to move to its present site at Sunnyvale.
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