2025 National Premier Leagues NSW

NPL NSW Men's
Season2025
Dates7 February – 31 August
ChampionsAPIA Leichhardt
PremiersNWS Spirit
RelegatedMt Druitt Town Rangers
Central Coast Mariners Youth
Matches247
Goals717 (2.9 per match)
Best PlayerNicholas Olsen (Wollongong)
Top goalscorerAlec Urosevski – 24 goals (Rockdale Ilinden)
Best goalkeeperDanijel Nizic (Sutherland)
Biggest home winRockdale Ilinden 8–1 Western Sydney Wanderers Youth (19th April 2025)
Biggest away winBlacktown City 0–5 Sydney FC Youth (11th May)
Highest scoringRockdale Ilinden 8–1 Western Sydney Wanderers Youth (19th April)
Longest winning run8 games –
Marconi (16th March – 2nd May)
NWS Spirit (21st June - 16th August)
Longest unbeaten run13 games – Marconi (8th February – 2nd May)
Longest winless run14 games – CCM Youth (15th March – 22nd June)
Longest losing run7 games – CCM Youth (23rd March – 11th May)
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The 2025 National Premier Leagues NSW was the 13th season of the National Premier Leagues (NPL) in New South Wales. The regular season was held between 7 February and 31 August, followed by a finals series.

Six teams (APIA Leichhardt, Marconi Stallions, Sydney Olympic, Sydney United, Wollongong Wolves and NWS Spirit (the 2025 NPL Premiers)) qualified for the inaugural season of the Australian Championship, which is scheduled to begin in October 2025.[1]

Marconi Stallions were the defending champions.

Teams

Pre-season changes

2024 League Promoted to league Relegated from league
NPL NSW Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC Hills United
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Locations of teams in the 2025 National Premier Leagues NSW

Stadiums and locations

Team Head coach Location Stadium Capacity
APIA Leichhardt Australia Franco Parisi Leichhardt Lambert Park 7,000
Leichhardt Oval 20,000
Blacktown City Australia Mark Crittenden Blacktown Landen Stadium 7,500
Central Coast Mariners Academy Brazil Lucas Vilela Gosford Pluim Park 2,000
Manly United Australia Jimmy Snedden (interim)[2] Dee Why Cromer Park 5,000
Marconi Stallions Australia Peter Tsekenis Fairfield Marconi Stadium 9,000
Mount Druitt Town Rangers Australia Andrew Montgomery Mount Druitt Popondetta Park 4,000
NWS Spirit Australia David Perkovic Macquarie Park Christie Park 1,000
Rockdale Ilinden Australia Paul Dee Rockdale Rockdale Ilinden Sports Centre 5,000
St George FC Australia Fabian Miceli[3] St George Barton Park 1,500
St George City Australia Manny Spanoudakis[4] Penshurst Park 1,000
Sutherland Sharks FC Australia Steven Zoric Sutherland Seymour Shaw Park 5,000
Sydney FC Youth Australia Jimmy Van Weeren Moore Park Rockdale Ilinden Sports Centre 5,000
Sydney Olympic Australia Labinot Haliti Belmore
Carlton 		Belmore Sports Ground 20,000
Jubilee Stadium 20,500
Sydney United Australia Ante Juric[5] Edensor Park Sydney United Sports Centre 12,000
Western Sydney Wanderers Youth Australia Richie Cardozo[6] Blacktown Wanderers Football Park 4,500
Wollongong Wolves Australia Julio Miranda (interim)[7] Wollongong WIN Stadium 22,000
Macedonia Park 10,000

Note: Sutherland Sharks FC announced that the club would re-brand as 'Sharks FC' on the 31st of January,[8] and played round 1 under the new name, before reverting to Sutherland Sharks FC a week later following widespread negative feedback for the new name.[9]

Managerial changes

Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Position in table Incoming manager Date of appointment
St George City Mirko Jurilj N/A 23rd September 2024 Pre-season Manny Spanoudakis 23rd September 2024
Wollongong Wolves David Carney Warren Grieve 4th October 2024
St George Steve Karavatakis 4th October 2024 Fabian Miceli
Sydney United Zeljko Kalac 29th October 2024 Ante Juric 29th October 2024
Western Sydney Wanderers Youth Andrew Christiansen 14th January 2025 Richie Cardozo 14th January 2025

Regular season

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 NWS Spirit (Q) 30 20 6 4 67 30 +37 66 Qualification to Australian Championship and Finals series
2 APIA Leichhardt[a] (C) 30 20 4 6 75 35 +40 64 Qualification to Finals series
3 Marconi Stallions[a] 30 19 5 6 48 29 +19 62
4 Rockdale Ilinden 30 15 10 5 68 41 +27 55
5 Blacktown City 30 15 5 10 50 50 0 50
6 Sydney United 58[a] 30 14 7 9 41 39 +2 49
7 Sydney Olympic[a] 30 12 7 11 50 38 +12 40[b]
8 Wollongong Wolves[a] 30 10 10 10 42 38 +4 40
9 St George City 30 10 7 13 37 42 −5 37
10 Sydney FC Youth 30 9 7 14 43 46 −3 34
11 Manly United 30 9 7 14 40 46 −6 34
12 St George FC 30 8 8 14 44 55 −11 32
13 Sutherland Sharks 30 7 5 18 28 53 −25 26
14 Western Sydney Wanderers Youth 30 7 7 16 29 51 −22 25[b]
15 Central Coast Mariners Academy (R) 30 5 8 17 29 62 −33 23 Qualification for the Relegation play-off
16 Mount Druitt Town Rangers (R) 30 5 7 18 24 60 −36 22 Relegation to 2026 NSW League One
Source: Dribl
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored; 4) head-to-head points; 5) head-to-head goals scored; 6) play-off.
(C) Champions; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ a b c d e Team pre-qualified to the Australian Championship as a Foundation club.
  2. ^ a b Western Sydney Wanderers Youth team and Sydney Olympic were deducted three points for breaches of administrative procedures.[10]

Fixtures and results

Home \ Away API BCT CCM MAN MAR MTD NWS ROC SGC STG SUT SFC SOL SUN WSW WOL
APIA Leichhardt — 0–2 5–0 0–3 3–4 3–3 2–0 2–0 6–1 3–3
Blacktown City 4–3 — 1–1 0–4 3–2 1–0 0–5 2–2 3–2
CCM Academy 2–6 1–4 — 1–3 1–3
Manly United 1–2 5–0 — 0–3 5–0 0–1 1–1 0–0 0–3 0–0 6–0
Marconi Stallions 1–1 3–0 — 3–1 1–1 1–1 1–0 0–3
Mount Druitt Town Rangers 2–3 1–1 0–2 — 2–3 0–1 0–0 0–4
NWS Spirit 1–2 5–0 — 2–0 2–2 1–1 3–2 1–1 1–0
Rockdale Ilinden 3–0 1–2 1–1 — 2–2 2–1 4–0 8–1 1–1
St George City 0–0 0–2 3–2 1–2 2–3 — 1–2 1–1 1–0
St George 2–0 1–2 — 3–0 5–0 2–4 0–3 2–1
Sutherland Sharks 0–2 1–0 0–2 2–3 0–3 — 1–5
Sydney FC Youth 1–0 0–0 0–1 0–2 2–0 — 3–1 2–2
Sydney Olympic 3–0 2–5 3–0 2–1 1–2 — 4–0 0–1 0–0
Sydney United 0–3 1–2 2–0 1–3 1–0 2–2 — 2–0
WSW Youth 0–4 2–2 2–0 1–1 2–3 0–1 0–0 —
Wollongong Wolves 0–1 2–2 2–1 3–0 4–0 1–2 4–0 —
Updated to match(es) played on 21 May 2025. Source: [1]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Finals series

Elimination semi-finals Preliminary finals Grand final
3 Marconi Stallions (p) 1 (3)
6 Sydney United 1 (2) 2 APIA Leichhardt 2
3 Marconi Stallions 0
2 APIA Leichhardt 2
4 Rockdale Ilinden 1 4 Rockdale Ilinden 1
5 Blacktown City 0 1 NWS Spirit 1
4 Rockdale Ilinden (a.e.t.) 2

Regular season statistics

Top scorers

Rank Player Club Goals
1 Australia Alec Urosevski Rockdale Ilinden 24
2 Australia Presley Ortiz APIA Leichardt 18
Australia Yu Okubo NWS Spirit
4 Australia Michael Konestabo 15
Australia Nicholas Olsen Wollongong Wolves

Hat-tricks

Player For Against Result Date Ref.
Presley Ortiz APIA Leichhardt Central Coast Mariners 6–2 (A) 16 February 2025
Alec Urosevski Rockdale Ilinden APIA Leichhardt 3–4 (A) 30 March 2025
Ali Auglah Rockdale Ilinden Western Sydney Wanderers Youth 8–1 (H) 19 April 2025
Patrick Antelmi Sydney United 58 St George FC 4–2 (A) 19 April 2025
Lachlan Scott Wollongong Wolves Marconi Stallions 3–0 (A) 10 May 2025
Alen Harbas Sydney FC Youth Blacktown City 5–0 (A) 11 May 2025
Mathias Macallister5 Sydney FC Youth Manly United 6–0 (A) 11 May 2025
Marc McNulty St George City St George FC 3–1 (A) 13 July 2025
Notes
  • (H) – Home team
  • (A) – Away team

Awards

Men's Team of the Year

Team of the Year
Goalkeeper Danijel Nizic
(Sutherland) 		Substitutes James Hilton
(Marconi) 		Nathan Grimaldi
(St George City)
Defenders Tyron Burnie
(Marconi) 		Lachlan Griffiths
(Marconi) 		Troy Danaskos
(St George FC) 		Jaden Casella
(St George FC) 		Jai Rose
(Central Coast Mariners)
Midfielders Seiya Kambayashi
(APIA) 		Takumi Ofuka
(NWS Spirit) 		Michael Konestabo
(NSW Spirit) 		Nicholas Olsen
(Wollongong) 		Carlos de Oliveira
(S. Utd 58) 		Cyrus Dehmie
(S. Olympic)
Forwards Mark McNulty
(St George City) 		Yu Okubo
(NWS Spirit) 		Alec Urosevski
(Rockdale) 		Presley Ortiz
(APIA)

References

  1. ^ "Football Australia unveils new format and start date for National Second Tier competition". Football Australia. 31 October 2024. Retrieved 14 December 2024.
  2. ^ "Thank you, Pat". www.manlyunitedfc.com.au. Manly United. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
  3. ^ "Fabian Miceli appointed new St George FC Head Men's coach". 8 October 2024.
  4. ^ "Mirko Jurilj steps down as St George City coach". 23 September 2024.
  5. ^ "United 58 bring back Ante Juric for tilt at Silverware". 28 October 2024.
  6. ^ "Young gun Wanderers set to unearth more stars in 2025".
  7. ^ "Warren Grieve Departs Wollongong Wolves by Mutual Agreement". 7 July 2025.
  8. ^ "Sharks FC Launch New Brand". Sharks FC (Australia). 31 January 2025.
  9. ^ "We Heard You... Sutherland Is Back". Sharks FC (Australia). 12 February 2025.
  10. ^ "Clubs Sanctioned for Compliance Breaches of the 2025 Application Process". Football NSW. 30 April 2025. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:2025_National_Premier_Leagues_NSW