The Soccer Club change rooms are near completion, just some finishing touches and we will have one of the best soccer facilities in the State.

We have achieved a major goal set out by the Croatian Sports Centre, something that the soccer club has been aspiring to for several years. In conjunction with the change rooms, work is also under way to complete the interior of the club rooms. The area under the grandstand will be the new home of the Adelaide Croatia Soccer Club and it will house bar and entertaining facilities as well as offices for the various committees. At present the bar area is being used on game day to serve food and drinks to the public and the visiting teams to our new facilities have expressed their approval. They are extremely impressed with the professional layout and amount of space provided. Also a favourite with crowd on game day is the new grandstand which seats around 400 people, it’s perfectly positioned behind the Croatia bench which gives inspiration to our boys on the park.

The club rooms have already been christened by popular Croatian singer JOLE, when he performed over a month ago. The new area can cater for approximately 300 people with kitchen and bar facilities. Already the new bar is proving a real hit, we have taken on suggestions from our members and have provided them with the longest bar possible!

As many of you already know, Mate Kulas has been working extremely hard collecting pledges of $1000 of more from people wishing to see a roof over the grandstand. Well that wish has just become a reality and work has commenced and the steelwork is going up. It is planned to completed by October long weekend ready for the soccer tournament along with courtyard at the side of the club rooms. This will assist in catering for the large amount of interstate guests when they converge on Adelaide once again. It can be viewed as a milestone in the history of the Croatian Community in South Australia to stage such an event using our very own facilities. Something which past organises of the tournament could have only dreamt of. Many thanks to all whom have donated funds and to all of those who have designed, fabricated and installed the roof and walls so far.

The Croatian Sports Centre is embarking on a new project, to plant olive trees on our land at Gepps Cross. We have purchased 500 trees and we are giving people the opportunity to claim a tree for themselves. For $5 per tree you can purchase and plant your own tree at the Croatian Sports Centre.