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Olympic Kingsway SC

football club in Perth, Western Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ2021558
Source-derived summary

The Olympic Kingsway Sports Club, often referenced as Kingsway Olympic, is an association football (soccer) club from Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1953 by Macedonian Greek immigrants from Greece Region of Macedonia. They moved to their current location at the Kingsway Sporting Complex in Madeley in 1973. Currently, they have 400 players in teams ranging from Under 6 to under 16, as well as senior Saturday and Sunday Teams. The club is currently competing in the 2025 season in the National Premier Leagues Western Australia.

History

The club was founded in 1953 and was promoted to the top division of the State of Western Australia in 1959. For the 1978 season, the club was renamed Olympic Kingsway. They won both the 1978 and 1980 Western Australian State League titles, which qualified them for the 1979 and 1981 NSL Cups. During this period, they also won the Top 4 Cup three times in succession (1978–1980).

They moved back to the Amateur Premier Division for six seasons (2006–2011).

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Olympic Kingsway SC” is football club in Perth, Western Australia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Olympic, Kingsway and football, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1953, 1973, 2025, 1959—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1953. For this dossier, Olympic, Kingsway and football is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “football club in Perth, Western Australia” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2021558. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1953, 1973, 2025 and 1959.

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This entry incorporates text from Olympic Kingsway SC” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.