A new decade saw the alignment of Launceston Juventus and the Western Suburbs Junior Soccer Club to create a pathway for junior players in the Western Suburbs of Launceston wanting to further their playing career into their late teenage and adult years and the Juventus Junior Soccer Club was formed playing in the NTJSA (Northern Tasmania Junior Soccer Association) out of Ogilvie Park, Invermay

Peter Savill led the 1990 State League side composed with the likes of: Warren Dent, Drew McNeil, Peter Savill, Peter Davidson, Liam Monagle, Branco Barac, Paul Gimpl and John Visentin to finish one place higher on the ladder than in 1989 and finish a respectable third place, however still 17 points adrift of the all-conquering White Eagles side.

‘Sav’ would again lead the State League men to a Steve Hudson Cup crown and third-place finish in ’91, seven points behind White Eagles. Roger Mies finishing as the club’s top goal scorer in the league with 11 goals.

But silverware came in the form of the Under 17 Northern League and Statewide Cup, knocking out White Eagles in a semi-final that went to extra-time. A young 16-year-old Jason Clayton bobbed up with two goals with one goal three minutes before the end of regulation time to make it 3 all and send the match into extra-time.

In the State-wide Cup Final held at Birch Avenue we’d face Devonport to claim our third Cup. Jason Clayton once again playing a big part in scoring two goals and setting up a third for Roger Mies.

Luigi Gugliotti would go onto represent Tasmanian for a match against the Australian Olympic Team (Olyroos) at KGV.

In ’92 under ‘Sav’ the State League side finished 5th while Devonport took out the honours. A highlight of the year was a 9 goal see-sawing match against White Eagles (2nd) in which Jason Clayton and Roger Mies once again showed their lethalness up front being involved in 4 of 5 goals in the 5-4 win.

Our State League Reserves would finish runners up to Hobart Juventus in the league and runners up in the U17 Northern Cup Final losing to Ulverstone 2-1.

The State League Reserves would go one better in ’93 and win the league title ahead of Croatia Glenorchy while the Seniors finished 5th but took out the preseason Steve Hudson Cup.

Roger Mies would represent Tasmania across 5 matches that included a match against Japanese J-League side Nagoya Grampus at North Hobart Oval in front of 2,400 spectators, ending in a 3-nil loss. While the other matches were against Victorian clubs’ South Melbourne and Heidelberg United.

A Tasmanian Reserve side would also be formed to play Nagoya Grampus Reserves and win 1 nil featuring Peter Saville, Luigi Gugliotti, John Visentin and David Craig.

The State League would trial a Summer League across 1993/1994 to put ‘bums on seats’ and fall in line with the schedule of the National Soccer League (NSL).

Devonport would go undefeated throughout the campaign in which we’d finish in second place under David Craig, 14 points off the champions.

The season would end on a higher note with Anthony Valentine taking out the Vic Tutting Medal (State League Player of the Season), making it the fourth time a Launceston Juventus player to achieve the feat.

In the Summer State League of 1994/1995 which would be the last summer edition running from November to June, the club would benefit from Devonport withdrawing from the competition allowing for the key signings from their Championship side the previous year of Charlie McCaffrey, John ‘Snowy’ Compagne and Tom McGinn.

Silverware wasn’t forthcoming however as White Eagles ran away with the title with an 11-point margin over us in second place.

We’d manage to make the final of the State League play-off series only to lose 3 nil at the hands of White Eagles at KGV.

However, the year would be capped off as a success with the installation of the floodlighting on our main pitch, which would extend to some part of the bottom training grounds. Enabling us as the only ground in the Launceston area to host night matches for the next decade.

In 1996 the senior men’s side would take out the Steve Hudson Cup once more and return to a State League winter roster which heralded a change of coach with Peter Davidson replacing David Craig. The side even with the acquisitions of John Frost from England and David Hill from Queensland finished 5th in the league, narrowly missing out on a top four finish, while White Eagles would once again finish top of the league.

1997 the club received directive off then football governing body Soccer Australia headed by Chairman David Hill’s “MARKETING MEETS MULTICULTURALISM: DAVID HILL’S NATIONAL MERCHANDISING PLAN, 1996-97” that the game in Australia wouldn’t allow for ethnic based names (Juventus) to be under Soccer Australia’s jurisdiction.

This led to the Launceston Juventus and Juventus Junior Soccer Club having to change names to non-ethnic names.

The senior club decided on Launceston Zebras initially in 1997 but a year later (1998) would decide to change once more to Launceston City while the junior club would be renamed as Westside Devils Junior Soccer Club, to which the names stayed until 2018 when Launceston City & Westside Devils aligned names to be known as Launceston City Devils FC.

Under a new name ‘The Zebras’ the club would finish in 5th position in the State League, 18 points behind champions New Town Eagles (White Eagles).

The side would fair a little better and reach the State-wide Cup Final however but once again falling at the hands of New Town Eagles in the final losing 5 nil.

In 1998 the club would finish in the top three of all the leagues entered, finishing third in the men’s State League 10 points behind champions Devonport, runner up and one point behind New Town Eagles in the State Youth League and runner up and one point behind Ulverstone in the Northern Women’s League.

To close out the decade in 1999 the State League men had their chance at winning the elusive State League going into the final match of the season only needing to beat bottom of the table Clarence United away at Wentworth Park.

University had won their match a day earlier to be two points ahead with our match still to be played against Clarence. A dogged Clarence outfit made the going tough and put up a fight which in the end was enough for them to register their second win and our third loss of the season to hand University their maiden State League championship.

Jason Clayton would finish the year as our top goal scorer on 14 goals, one ahead of Roger Mies.