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'''Nerang Eagles Soccer Club''' is
After forming in 1972, the club became one of the founding members of the [[Football Queensland South Coast|Gold Coast and District Soccer Association]] in 1975. Following the club's success in the first season of the Gold Coast senior competition, ''The Eagles'' would leave the Association in 1976 to join the lower divisions in [[Football Queensland Metro|Brisbane]], only a year after it had been established. The club saw success in Brisbane with various premierships, championships and promotions before rejoining the renamed Gold Coast Premier League in 1997. The club played at the Nerang Velodrome upon establishment until moving to Glennon Park in 1987, where ''The Eagles'' currently play.
== History ==
=== 1972−1997: Formation years ===
Nerang Soccer Club was founded in 1972 after a group of players from the Tweed District Soccer Association sought to base their team closer to the [[Gold Coast, Queensland|Gold Coast]] and pursue stronger football competition. The original home ground was located at the Nerang Velodrome site in Hope Street, Nerang. Initially the
From 1976 through to the mid-1980s the club ascended through the Brisbane soccer divisions, winning multiple premierships, grand finals and promotions. After consecutive years of growth and success the club abandoned its shared home ground in 1987 to move to its current location at Glennon Park, in Recreation Drive, Nerang. At the 1990 Brisbane Division Two Grand Final the Nerang senior men's team defeated [[Brisbane Knights FC|Brisbane Croatia]] three goals to one,<ref name="Nerang Soccer Club Results Archive">{{cite web |url= http://www.elitetograssroots.net/qbst/9_current_clubs/nerang.htm |title=Nerang Soccer Club Results Archive |year= 2019 |website= Elite To Grassroots |accessdate= 18 July 2020 }}</ref> securing the club's promotion into the [[National Premier Leagues Queensland|Brisbane XXXX League First Division (State League)]], which was considered to be the second tier of football in Australia at the time. In 1991 the club was relegated back to the second division, returning again at the end of the 1995 season to the XXXX League First Division.<ref name="Nerang Soccer Club Results Archive"/> In 1974 Nerang Soccer Club fielded its first women's team, beginning a long history of women's football success which produced notable representative players including [[Matildas]] player Kerrie Rowe.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.withtheballatherfeet.com.au/football/football-gold-coast/1980s |title=Gold Coast Women's Soccer Continues To Grow |year= 2019 |website= Queensland Women's Football History |accessdate= 18 July 2020 }}</ref> The Eagles won numerous men's, women's and junior premierships and grand finals during their formation years and featured regularly in Brisbane and Gold Coast newspapers and media.
===Return to the Gold Coast===▼
In 1997 a restructuring of football in Queensland resulted in Nerang's senior teams leaving the Brisbane competitions and returning home to enter their home city's leagues for the first time since its formative years. The club remains in the Gold Coast competitions and their men's teams currently compete in the South Coast QPL3 League (formerly Football Gold Coast Premier League) after securing promotion in 2017 to return to the top flight of Gold Coast Football. The club's various other men's, women's and junior teams all compete on the Gold Coast. On Sunday the 30th of May 2021 the Nerang Eagles Premier League men's first grade team won its first major trophy since returning to the Gold Coast in 1997, defeating Surfers Paradise Apollo Soccer Club for the 2021 Football Gold Coast President's Cup which ended a twenty three year drought for the Eagles with no major titles. The match was played at Lex Bell Oval in Isle of Capri on the Gold Coast, and was declared a draw at the end of regulation time with both teams having scored three goals, before going to a penalty shootout where Nerang won with four goals to Surfers Paradise's one goal.▼
▲===Since 1997: Return to the Gold Coast===
▲In 1997 a restructuring of
==Partnerships==
===Celtic FC===
In 2017 during a visit to the [[United Kingdom]], representatives from Nerang Soccer Club and the Academy Of Football Australia sought partnership opportunities with professional football clubs, which resulted in a formal partnership being secured with [[Celtic
===Pan Pacific Masters Games===
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***'''Winners (1)''': 1975
**President's Cup
***'''Winners (1)''': 2021<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Football Gold Coast - Congratulations to Nerang Eagles Soccer Club who win the 2021 President’s Cup over Surfers Paradise after winning 4-1 in the penalty shoot out.|url=https://www.facebook.com/FQSouthCoast/photos/a.480804258644875/4174117102646887/
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