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2025 National Premier Leagues NSW

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NPL NSW Men's
Season2025
Dates7 February – 31 August
Matches played118
Goals scored374 (3.17 per match)
Top goalscorerAlec Urosevski - 17 goals (Rockdale Ilinden)
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 - Marconi (16th March - 2nd May)
Longest unbeaten run13 - Marconi (8th February - 2nd May)
Longest winless run9 - CCM Youth (15th March - )
Longest losing run7 - CCM Youth (23rd March - 11th May)
2024
2026

The 2025 National Premier Leagues NSW is the 13th season of the National Premier Leagues (NPL) in New South Wales.

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

Marconi Stallions enter the season as defending champions, having won the 2024 NPL NSW Grand Final.[2] The season kicked off on 7 February 2025, with Manly United hosting the Central Coast Mariners Academy at Cromer Park.[3]

Promotion and relegation

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Teams promoted from the 2024 NSW League One

Teams relegated from the 2024 National Premier Leagues NSW

Teams

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Stadiums and locations

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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)[4] Dee Why Cromer Park 5,000
Marconi Stallions Australia Peter Tsekenis Fairfield Marconi Stadium 9,000
Mount Druitt Town Rangers Australia Andrew Montgomery Mt 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[5] St George Barton Park 1,500
St George City Australia Manny Spanoudakis[6] 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[7] Edensor Park Sydney United Sports Centre 12,000
Western Sydney Wanderers Youth Australia Richie Cardozo[8] Blacktown Wanderers Football Park 4,500
Wollongong Wolves Australia Julio Miranda (interim)[9] 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,[10] and played round 1 under the new name, before reverting back to Sutherland Sharks FC a week later following widespread negative feedback for the new name.[11]

Managerial changes

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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

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League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Rockdale Ilinden 22 15 4 3 59 26 +33 49 Qualification to Australian Championship and Finals series[a]
2 Marconi Stallions[b] 22 15 4 3 35 16 +19 49 Qualification to Finals series
3 NWS Spirit 22 14 4 4 43 22 +21 46
4 APIA Leichhardt[b] 22 14 3 5 57 29 +28 45
5 Blacktown City 22 12 3 7 37 37 0 39
6 Sydney United 58[b] 22 10 3 9 31 35 −4 33
7 Sydney Olympic[b] 22 10 5 7 37 26 +11 32[c]
8 Wollongong Wolves[b] 22 7 7 8 33 31 +2 28
9 Sydney FC Youth 22 8 3 11 33 33 0 27
10 St George FC 22 7 6 9 35 36 −1 27
11 St George City 22 7 5 10 29 34 −5 26
12 Manly United 22 6 6 10 29 29 0 24
13 Sutherland Sharks 22 5 5 12 19 36 −17 20
14 Western Sydney Wanderers Youth 22 4 5 13 18 44 −26 14[c]
15 Central Coast Mariners Academy 22 3 5 14 21 49 −28 14 Qualification for the Relegation play-off
16 Mount Druitt Town Rangers 22 3 4 15 16 49 −33 13 Relegation to 2026 NSW League One
Updated to match(es) played on 6 July 2025. 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.
Notes:
  1. ^ The second-placed team will qualify to the Australian Championship if the Premier is one of the five NSW teams that have already qualified as "Foundation Clubs".
  2. ^ a b c d e Team pre-qualifies to the Australian Championship as a Foundation club.
  3. ^ a b Western Sydney Wanderers youth team and Sydney Olympic were deducted three points for breaches of administrative procedures.[12]

Fixtures and results

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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 FC 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 [a] 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.
Notes:
  1. ^ Postponed due to washout.

Regular season statistics

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Top scorers

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Correct as of 21 May 2025

Rank Player Club Goals
1 Australia Alec Urosevski Rockdale Ilinden 17
2 Australia Presley Ortiz APIA Leichardt 9
3 Australia Michael Konestabo NWS Spirit 8
Australia Mitchell Mallia Blacktown City
Australia Nicholas Olsen Wollongong Wolves

Hat-tricks

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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
Notes
  • (H) – Home team
  • (A) – Away team

References

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