Morwell Pegasus SC

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Morwell Pegasus are among the most successful clubs in the history of the Latrobe Valley Soccer League, winning five league championships and eight Battle of Britain Cups. They have also won three Victorian State League divisional titles during their 25 years in the Victorian metropolitan leagues (1997-2020).

Pegasus were accepted into the Victorian State League in 1996 and spent over two decades in the Metropolitan leagues before returning to the LVSL in 2020.^[1] Pegasus were successful in the Metropolitan leagues, rising as high as the Victorian State League 1, at one point just one division below NPL Victoria.

In 2000, the club recruited former Morwell Falcons striker Carlo Villani, who scored 17 goals in his first season with Pegasus to help guide them to promotion from the Victorian State League Division Three South-East. Villani would go on to score 39 league goals and remains the Club's all-time leading scorer.

During the 2015 Australia Cup, Pegasus achieved their most significant result at a national level by defeating top-tier NPL Victoria side Murray United FC 6–2.^[2]

The club was originally formed to be unaligned to any ethnic identity, however, it gradually became associated with the Maltese community after taking over the Melita club in 1959.

Morwell Pegasus was the junior club of John Hutchinson, who was the A-League all-time games record holder when he retired in 2014 - and remains the Central Coast Mariners all-time games record holder, with 271 appearances.

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