Nerang Soccer Club was founded in 1972,withafter itsa group of players from the Tweed District Soccer Association sought to base their team closer to the Gold Coast and pursue stronger football competition. The original home ground beingwas located at the Nerang Velodrome site, in Hope Street, Nerang. Initially the club’s senior teams played in various lower divisions within the Brisbane soccer competitionscompetition, considered to be a much stronger level of competition and more established football environment than the Tweed District could provide at the time. From 1972 through to the mid 1980s the club ascended through the Brisbane soccer divisions, winning multiple premierships, grand finals and promotions. [[File:Nerang Soccer Club 1972 First Team.jpg|thumb|left|Nerang Soccer Club's first team in 1972, pictured in the original black and white striped uniform]] After consecutive years of growth and success the club abandoned its 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>{{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]], 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 1994 season to the XXXX League First Division.<ref>{{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> 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. The club remains in the Gold Coast competitions and their men's teams currently compete in the Football Gold Coast Premier League,withafter 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 competingall compete on the Gold Coast as well.
