The 2023 NPL NSW Men's is the eleventh season of soccer in New South Wales under the banner of the National Premier Leagues and the first season under the revised competition format. The season began on 3 February 2023 and is scheduled to conclude on 27 August.
Sydney Olympic are the defending premiers and Blacktown City are the defending champions.
Promotion and relegation Teams promoted from the 2022 NSW League One Central Coast Mariners Academy St George City Western Sydney Wanderers Youth NWS Spirit FC
Stadiums and locations Team Head coach Location Stadium Capacity APIA Leichhardt Franco Parisi Leichhardt Lambert Park 7,000 Blacktown City Mark Crittenden Blacktown Blacktown City Sports Centre 7,500 Bulls FC Academy Zeljko Kalac Northbridge Sydney United Sports Centre 12,000 Central Coast Mariners Academy Abbas Saad Gosford Pluim Park 2,000 Mt Druitt Rangers Stewart Montgomery Mount Druitt Popondetta Park 2,500 Marconi Stallions Peter Tsekenis Fairfield Marconi Stadium 9,000 Manly United Patrick Zwaanswijk Dee Why Cromer Park 5,000 NWS Spirit FC David Perkovic North Sydney Christie Park 1,000 Rockdale Ilinden Paul Dee Rockdale Rockdale Ilinden Sports Centre 5,000 Sydney FC Youth Jimmy Van Weeren Moore Park Valentine Sports Park 4,000 Sydney Olympic Labinot Haliti Belmore Belmore Sports Ground 20,000 Sutherland Sharks Damir Prodanovic Sutherland Seymour Shaw Park 5,000 St George City Mirko Jurilj St George Peakhurst Park 1,000 Sydney United Miro Vlastelica Edensor Park Sydney United Sports Centre 12,000 Western Sydney Wanderers Youth Andrew Christiansen Blacktown Wanderers Football Park 4,500 Wollongong Wolves David Carney Wollongong WIN Stadium 22,000
Managerial changes TeamOutgoing managerManner of departureDate of vacancyPosition in tableIncoming managerDate of appointmentBulls FC Academy Mile SterjovskiPromoted to full time23 January 2023Pre-season Zeljko Kalac28 January 2023CCM Academy Luke WilkshireSigned by Socceroos14 February 202312th Lucas Vilela (interim)17 February 2023CCM Academy Lucas Vilela (interim)End of caretaker spell24 February 202313th Abbas Saad25 February 2023
Foreign players TeamVisa 1Visa 2Non-visa foreigner(s)Former players APIA Leichhardt Florent Indalecio Jason Romero Diego Celis Blacktown City Charles Mendy Tatsuya Kato Danny Choi1 Mitchell Mallia2 Bulls FC Academy CCM Academy Zac Zoricich2 Mt Druitt Rangers Júnior Sena Kotaro Katsuta Marconi Stallions Hiroaki Aoyama Manly United Seiya Kambayashi Bruno Mendes Marcus Lal2 NWS Spirit FC Kôta Odakura Luiz Lobo Musashi Kokubo2 Rockdale Ilinden Diego Celis Loïc Puyo Nicola Kuleski2 Iain Ramsay2 Sydney FC Youth Sydney Olympic Ziggy Gordon Fábio Ferreira Roy O'Donovan1 Sutherland Sharks Takahide Umebachi Fumoto Kamada2 St George City Pedro Ferrari Franco Maya Sydney United Taisei Kaneko Leroy Jennings2 Western Sydney Wanderers Youth Wollongong Wolves Banri Kanaizumi Takumi Ofuka Chris McStay1 The following do not fill a Visa position: 1Those players who were born and started their professional career abroad but have since gained Australian citizenship 2Australian citizens who have chosen to represent another national team;
Regular season The 2023 season is a double round-robin format, with each team playing 30 games. The season started on 3 February, and is scheduled to conclude on 27 August. Table
Fixtures and results
Festival of Football The third edition of the Festival of Football was played on 23 April, featuring Inner West rivals and former NSL clubs APIA Leichhardt and Sydney Olympic with their playing against each other. This featured youth, women's and men's matches. Additionally, a legends match was also included, which featured former players such as Ernie Campbell, Marshall Soper, Jean-Paul de Marigny, Milan Blagojevic, John Buonavoglia, Nick Rizzo, Mark Byrnes, Robert Younis, Peter Katholos, Pablo Cardozo, Robbie Hooker, Zlatko Nastevski and Paul Henderson.
The feature match was the Men's NPL match, part of Round 12 of the National Premier Leagues NSW. Coming into the match APIA had won all eleven previous league matches.
Relegation play-offs All times are AEST (UTC+10).
First leg
Second leg
St George FC won 2–1 on aggregate. Therefore, St George are promoted to the NSW NPL, while Mt Druitt Town are relegated to the FNSW League One.
Regular season statistics Top scorers RankPlayerClubGoals1 Alec Urosevski Rockdale Ilinden272 Roy O'Donovan Sydney Olympic183 Jak O'Brien Blacktown City174 Jordan Swibel Marconi Stallions155 Jack Armson APIA Leichhardt14 Jack Stewart APIA Leichhardt Patrick Antelmi Sydney United8 Lachlan Scott Wollongong Wolves139 Christopher Payne Sydney United11 Presley Ortiz St George City Travis Major Blacktown City
Hat-tricks Player For Against Result Date Ref. Jason Romero4APIA Leichhardt FCRockdale Ilinden FC6–0 (H)12 February 2023 Jak O'BrienBlacktown City FCMt Druitt Town Rangers FC4–1 (H)5 March 2023 Sean SymonsAPIA Leichhardt FCNWS Spirit FC5–0 (H)6 May 2023 Harry McCarthyManly United FCAPIA Leichhardt FC4–0 (H)22 July 2023 Notes 4 Player scored 4 goals (H) – Home team (A) – Away team
See also 2023 National Premier Leagues
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