Title: History of Melbourne Knights FC
Content:  Melbourne Knights FC is an Australian semi-professional soccer club based in the Melbourne suburb of Sunshine North. It was founded in 1953, and has had extensive success in its history, with the club's peak coming in the mid-1990s when it was crowned Australian champions, winning back-to-back National Soccer League titles. .
Title: Melbourne Knights FC
Content:  Melbourne Knights Football Club is an Australian semi-professional soccer club based in the suburb of Sunshine North, Melbourne, Victoria. The club currently competes in the National Premier Leagues Victoria. It is one of the most successful soccer clubs in Australia, being a two-time championship and four-time premiership winner in the now defunct National Soccer League (NSL). The club is based in the western suburbs of Melbourne and draws much of its support from the Croatian Australian community. The club's identification with its Croatian roots remains strong. It is a regular participant in the Australian-Croatian Soccer Tournament. The Melbourne Knights play matches at Knights Stadium, a 15,000 capacity venue (with approximately 4,000 seated) which the club has owned and operated since 1989. As well as fielding men's and women's sides, the Knight's field junior teams of all year levels.
Title: Melbourne Knights FC
Content:  Melbourne Knights FC was founded in 1953 as Croatia by a small group of Croatian immigrants in Melbourne's western suburbs. The club played its first match on 10 April 1953. The Knights became a member of the Victorian Soccer Federation in 1954, which saw the club join and compete in a league competition for the first time that same year in the newly created Victorian Provisional League. The club quickly moved up the state divisions and by the mid-1960s had become one of the strongest clubs in Victoria, winning the State League title in 1968, 1978 and 1979. In 1984 after a 
Title: Melbourne Knights FC
Content:  Victorian championships in 2007 Currently the club is home to over 250 players ranging in sides from the Under 8 to Under 18 level in the Victorian Milo leagues, as well as an Under 20 youth team which serves as the reserves side and plays in the Victorian Premier League Reserves competition. The club has played a particularly important role with the youth of the Croatian community in both Melbourne and Geelong, giving them a pathway in the sport. The result of this can be seen in the many great soccer players of Croatian heritage that have played for the Knights at the senior level over the past six 
Title: Melbourne Knights FC
Content: Games: 54 ; South wins:25 ; Knights wins: 13 ; Draws: 16 ; South goals: 88 ; Knights goals: 58 Games: 10 ; Knights wins: 5 ; South wins: 4 ; Draws: 1 Games: 54 ; Knights wins: 15 ; South wins: 28 ; Draws: 11 Games: 108 ; Knights wins: 28 ; South wins: 53 ; Draws: 27 Since the relegation of Footscray JUST from the NSL, the fiercest rivalry for the Melbourne Knights has been against South Melbourne. It has also been the longest running rivalry for both clubs, with the Knights having played South Melbourne more times than any other club. The first time the two sides met 
Title: History of Melbourne Knights FC
Content:  and cardio facility. The 2013 season was a welcome change for the Knights, finishing in second place in the regular season, but went down initially to Bentleigh Greens SC in the qualifying final and then to bitter rivals South Melbourne 1–0 in the semi-final. The South Melbourne derby was played in-front of 5,000 supporters at Knights Stadium. The bumper crowd was the result of the match falling in the middle of the Australian-Croatian Soccer Tournament hosted by the Knights. Marijan Cvitkovic took out the VPL's best-and-fairest player for 2013 as Melbourne Knights celebrated their 60th year of existence in style.
Title: Melbourne Knights FC
Content:  The Melbourne Knights is a club famous for its youth and junior development, it has one of the best set ups in Australia. Many great players have gone through the youth set up at the Knights, the most notable being Socceroo captain Mark Viduka. A highlight of this strong set-up came in the NSL years where the Melbourne Knights were a dominant force in the National Youth League, being champions 3 times. The club was also runner-up on two other occasions. The Knights have continued this winning tradition at the youth level in the VPL, with the club winning the double as it took out the Under 18 and Under 
Title: Melbourne Knights FC
Content: Royal Park, Royal Park, Melbourne: 1954: 1957 ; Separation St Geelong: 1958 ; Corio Oval, Geelong: 1959: 1961 ; Tracey's Speedway, Maribyrnong: 1962: 1967 ; Montgomery Park, Essendon: 1975 -1976 ; Olympic Park: permanent home from 1968 to 1972 and 1977–1988 The club's current home ground is the Knights Stadium in the suburb of North Sunshine, which has been the club's home since 1989. It has a capacity of 15,000. More information on the Knights Stadium page. Prior to 1989 the club had a number of venues it used as its home ground. The most significant ones were: 
Title: History of Melbourne Knights FC
Content:  In 2014, the Knights' squad was decimated by injuries in the first half of the season and struggled for results. A resurgence in the second half of the season saw the club pick up more points than most of the clubs above it to finish in 5th place. The major achievement was winning the 2014 Dockerty Cup, beating South Springvale in the final through a 121st-minute goal from captain Tomislav Uskok. On the way to the final, Melbourne beat rivals South Melbourne in the quarter finals in a riveting contest. The club also qualified for the inaugural 2014 FFA Cup through 
Title: Knights Stadium (Melbourne)
Content:  Knights Stadium is an Australian soccer stadium in Sunshine North, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. Built in 1989, it is used by the Melbourne Knights as a home ground in the NPL Victoria competition, and previously in the National Soccer League (NSL). The Knights were one of only a handful of clubs in the NSL to actually own their home ground. The land at Somers Street, which had been a Village drive through cinema, was bought and developed largely through donations and volunteer work from the local Croatian community. The idea was that if 1000 people each donated $300 that would equal $300,000, more than enough 

Question: What sport does history of Melbourne Knights FC play?
Answer: association football.
football.
soccer.