Adelaide Comets Football Club Inc

The Adelaide Comets Soccer Club was formed in 1994 (as the Adelaide Raiders Soccer Club) by Jim Tsouvalas and seven  close  friends with the view to create a club with a family atmosphere. Already with a vision for the future, the founding Committee set themselves the objective to commence junior teams by the year 2000.

As Adelaide Raiders, the club won the South Australia Amateur Soccer League (SAASL) Saturday Division 2 Championship in its inaugural year and gained promotion to the SAASL Saturday Division 1 competition. In 1997, they also became Champions in Div 1.

In 2001, the club registered 5 teams in the South Australian Soccer Federation's (SASF) Junior  Premier League . Achieving this goal was the catalyst for the club changing its name to Adelaide Comets, to avoid confusion with another federation soccer club, Adelaide Raiders (Formerly Adelaide Croatia Raiders).

During this time, the clubs senior team continued to enjoy success in the SAASL winning consecutive Championships in 2001, 2002 and 2003. This ongoing success at the highest level of amateur competition generated the push for a move to a higher league for the Adelaide Comets. The club made several attempts over a number of years to find a place for itself within the SASF competition with no success.

Finally, with the implementation of a new governing body for the sport in South Australia, Adelaide Comets entered the newly formed State League in 2006 under the banner of the Football Federation South Australia (FFSA).

In 2007, its second year in the FFSA State League competition, the club took out their first semi-professional Championship, coming first in the competition and earning promotion to the FFSA Premier League.

In 2011 the club continued its tradition of growth, by  introducing  an U11 Junior Girls team to its Open Age Women's team within the FFSA Women and Girls Competition. In 2012 the club will field three Junior Girls teams in the FFSA competitions.

Since commencing in the FFSA competitions, the club has maintained a philosophy of striving for success and this approach has been rewarded by the performances on the field, and the clubs steady progression through the leagues. The culmination of this progression came in August 2011, when in its sixth year playing under the FFSA, the Adelaide Comets Senior Men's team finished the season with a 1-0  win over Enfield City to finish top of the FFSA Premier League as Minor Premiers, earning direct promotion to the highest possible level in South Australian competition the FFSA Super League for the 2012 season.

About to commence the 2012 season, the Adelaide Comets can boast 370 junior players, three FFSA Super League teams (Seniors, Reserves and U19), three SAASL Amateur men's teams and FFSA Open Age Women's thus totalling an impressive number of nearly 500 registered players across the club.