A celebration marking 50 years of the Engadine Crusaders Football Club has been enhanced with the completion of upgrade works by Sutherland Shire Council.
The timing also coincides with the start of the 2017 football season which will see players from Engadine, Caringbah and throughout the shire compete.
Sutherland Shire Mayor Carmelo Pesce said council had worked closely with the Preston Park-based clubhouse to help it move ahead with plans to introduce the new facilities.
In so doing, she said, council had undertaken work on the storeroom and change room as well as updating the club’s public toilets and building a covered verandah.
Mayor Pesce said the new change room facilities followed a boost in the number of females playing football which contributed to a need for both male and female facilities at training and on match days.
Pesce said the Crusaders, who were last year granted a 21-year lease, raised $100,000 towards the new clubhouse and a further $27,500 grant from the New South Wales Government’s Building Community Partnerships helped fund the project.
Club president Mitch Pratt said members had worked extremely hard during their 50th anniversary year to ensure a great future for all at the club.
He said new sponsors had been welcomed, a new Logo Design introduced, a new website set up and members were wearing a new competition uniform.
Pratt added the completion of the Clubhouse extensions in time for the 2017 season topped off a great year.
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