Cooks Hill United FC

Cooks Hill United FC
Full name Cooks Hill United FC
Nickname(s) Cookers
Founded 1997
Ground Newcastle Athletics Field
Coordinates 32°55′49.7″S 151°45′33.4″E
President Jeff Evans
Head Coach Chris Zoricich
League NPL NNSW
2023 8th of 12
Website Club website

Cooks Hill United FC is a semi-professional football club based in Cooks Hill, New South Wales. Cooks Hill United FC currently competes in the Northern NSW Football National Premier Leagues Northern NSW competition.

History

Cooks Hill United FC was competes Northern NSW Football National Premier Leagues Northern NSW competition after being promoted from the Northern League 1 Division in 2021. The National Premier Leagues Northern NSW is the first tier of football in Northern New South Wales Football.

David Tanchevski was appointed head coach for Cooks Hill United for 2021. The club competed in the Northern League 1 Division from 2015–2021.

Former Newcastle Breakers and Socceroos striker Warren Spink was appointed head coach for Cooks Hill United in their inaugural year in NewFM for 2015.

Former Adamstown Rosebud FC Coach Graham Law was appointed head coach for Cooks Hill United for 2017. Graham led Cooks Hill United FC to 3 consecutive Northern League Division 1 Premierships from 2017 to 2019. On the back of this success, the club applied for admission to the National Premier Leagues Northern NSW. After this application was unsuccessful Graham Law resigned in order to pursue management opportunities at NPL level.

Former Newcastle Breakers & Hamilton Olympic NPL player Doug West has been appointed head coach for Cooks Hill United for 2020.

Committee

  • Jeff Evans - President
  • Warwick Sommer - Vice President
  • Di Spurway - Secretary
  • Sean Fitzgerald - Treasurer

First team squad

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 Lachlan Watson
67 GK AUS Liam Beazley
3 DF AUS Patrick Bond
4 DF AUS Alex Gillespie
5 MF AUS Daniel Clements
7 FW AUS James Byrnes
8 MF AUS Ash Balcomb
9 FW AUS Samuel Marr
10 MF AUS Cody Carroll
11 FW AUS Nick Russell
12 DF AUS Boaz Moir
No. Pos. Nation Player
14 DF AUS Jon Griffiths
15 FW AUS Kierry James
16 MF AUS Kobe Park
17 MF AUS Daniel Yaxley
18 DF AUS Liam Spurway
20 MF AUS Sam Anderson
21 MF AUS Jay Kitcher
23 DF AUS Tommy Smart
23 FW AUS Sakeel Balfour Brown
33 MF AUS Lachlan Pasquale
64 DF AUS Kevin Davison
FW AUS Sam Modderno