New recruit and first-year captain Enzo Inglesi has seen rare unity since joining at the start of the Football Federation Victoria provisional league 1 north-west season after stints with Moreland United, Brimbank and Avondale Heights.

The midfielder-turned-sweeper believes the togetherness has turned the young club into an instant success.

"It's like a community," he said. "Everyone is on an equal level and everyone is moving in the same direction. It's a camaraderie that is priceless and it's pretty special for a club that's only been around for a short period of time."

A prime example is coach Norm Mancuso. A hands-on operator, he will not ask his players to take part in training that he will not complete.

Inglesi pointed to his side's superior fitness as the secret to its climb up the ladder.

"We had a really good preseason," he said. "Our fitness base has won us lots of games.

"He put together the pre-season and gets involved in pre-season himself and does the running with the boys."

United - the club that wooed former Socceroo Con Boutsianis for a three-week stint earlier in the season - took its time to reach its peak this winter.

Four wins in the opening 10 matches left question marks over its ability to press for promotion.

It has been at its breathtaking best since a round 11 derby victory over FC Strathmore at Strathnaver Reserve.

It has all clicked into place since the neighbourhood stoush. "We've have some new players introduced to the side," Inglesi explained.

"I think there's been five or six new players come to the club. It's been a process of us all gelling together and that was always going to take a period of time to understand the way each other is thinking."

United - enthusiastically presided over by Spiro Thalassinos - will attempt something no club has achieved in the FFV since the turn of the millennium. It is gunning for four straight promotions, a process which started in the men's metropolitan league in 2006.