Marconi Stallions FC
| Full name | Marconi Stallions Football Club | ||
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| Nickname | Stallions | ||
| Founded | 1958 | ||
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| Owner | Club Marconi | ||
| Chairman | Vince Foti | ||
| Coach | Peter Tsekenis (men's) | ||
| League | NPL NSW (men's) | ||
| 2025 | 3rd of 16 | ||
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Marconi Stallions FC is a semi-professional soccer club based in the suburb of Bossley Park in Sydney, New South Wales (NSW). It is a section of Club Marconi, an Italian Australian social club. Its senior men's team plays in the National Premier Leagues NSW, while its senior women's team plays in the Football NSW League One Women's, in the second and third tiers of the Australian league system, respectively. It also competes in the Australian Championship as a foundation club. It plays its home games at Marconi Stadium.
One of many Italian Australian soccer clubs, Club Marconi first fielded a men's soccer team in 1958, and joined Football NSW in 1962, where it eventually gained promotion to its first division in 1970s and won back-to-back titles. It was a founding member of the National Soccer League (NSL), and competed in all 28 seasons from 1977 to 2004, winning four championships and an NSL Cup. During this time, the team was successively rebranded as the Marconi–Datsun Leopards, then Marconi Fairfield, and finally the Stallions. It returned to NSW's first division in 2005, where it has since remained, albeit for a brief spell in the second division in the mid-2010s. Its women's team last played in the first division in 2016.
The Marconi Stallions have won four NSW men's titles and two Waratah Cups. Its best performance in the Australia Cup is a round of sixteen appearance in 2019. Its rivalries include APIA Leichhardt, Sydney Olympic, and Sydney United. Its former players include Australia men's national team players Frank Farina, Paul Okon, and Mark Schwarzer; while Harry Kewell, Mathew Ryan, and Italy men's national team player Christian Vieri were products of its youth academy.