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The Club
Founded in 2023 by international students. Now in our third season, based at Highbury Park in Burwood, with 35+ active players.
Our story
The Eleventh Hour
The club mark
ಮೆಲ್ಬರ್ನ್ ಪಂಟರ್ಸ್
Melbourne Punters, written in Kannada. The club's second mark, and a nod to the tournaments it plays — the Karnataka Premier League and the Rockers Rajyotsava.
Club manager
Sanmath
Shetty
The Punters exist because somebody did the unglamorous part — booking the ground, chasing the numbers, and making sure eleven people actually turned up on a Sunday morning.
That first summer there were eleven of them and no guarantee of a twelfth. Three seasons on it is 35+ players and fifty-three matches, across the Karnataka Premier League and the Rockers Rajyotsava, at grounds on opposite sides of the city. None of it arranges itself, and holding it together between games is his job.
Nobody here is turned away for not being good enough. Ninety per cent of the list is under twenty-five, and the only thing asked of anyone is that they want a game — an easy thing to promise, and a harder one to keep every Sunday of a season.
What we're for
Vision & mission
On the field
Three seasons,
fifty-three games
Fifty-three matches across three seasons and three competitions, with a semi-final in each of the last two tournaments.
Who runs it
The committee
Sanmath Shetty runs the club. The remaining roles are still to be filled in.
Acknowledgement
of Country
Everyone gets a game
All ages, all abilities. Turn up at Highbury Park and have a hit.