2025 Football NSW season

Football New South Wales

Season	2025
← 2024 2026 →

The 2025 Football NSW season was the 13th season of soccer in New South Wales under the banner of the National Premier Leagues. The season was the third under the revamped format which consisted of three senior divisions in the state of New South Wales. The official schedule was released on 19 December 2023. ^[1]

Competitions

2025 National Premier Leagues NSW

Main article: 2025 National Premier Leagues NSW

NPL NSW Men's

Season	2025
Dates	7 February – 31 August
Champions	APIA Leichhardt
Premiers	NWS Spirit
Matches played	118
Goals scored	374 (3.17 per match)
Top goalscorer	Alec Urosevski – 17 goals (Rockdale Ilinden)
Biggest home win	Rockdale Ilinden 8–1 Western Sydney Wanderers Youth (19th April 2025)
Biggest away win	Blacktown City 0–5 Sydney FC Youth (11th May)
Highest scoring	Rockdale Ilinden 8–1 Western Sydney Wanderers Youth (19th April)
Longest winning run	8 – Marconi (16th March – 2nd May)
Longest unbeaten run	13 – Marconi (8th February – 2nd May)
Longest winless run	9 – CCM Youth (15th March – )
Longest losing run	7 – CCM Youth (23rd March – 11th May)
← 2024 2026 →

Stadiums and locations

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

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. Team pre-qualified to the Australian Championship as a Foundation club.
2. Western Sydney Wanderers Youth team and Sydney Olympic were deducted three points for breaches of administrative procedures. ^[10]

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 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			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:
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

2025 National Premier Leagues NSW Women's

National Premier Leagues NSW Women's

Season	2025
Champions	Bulls FC Academy
Premiers	Bulls FC Academy
← 2024 2026 →

The 2025 National Premier Leagues NSW Women's was the 12th edition of the NPL NSW Women's competition to be incorporated under the National Premier Leagues banner. 14 teams competed, playing each other twice for a total of 26 rounds. The top four teams played-off in a finals series.

League Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Bulls FC Academy (C)	26	16	4	6	57	31	+26	52	2025 NPL NSW Women's Finals
2	APIA Leichhardt	26	15	4	7	52	32	+20	49
3	UNSW	26	15	4	7	52	40	+12	49
4	Mount Druitt Town Rangers	26	14	6	6	49	28	+21	48
5	Manly United	26	13	6	7	45	28	+17	45
6	Illawarra Stingrays	26	12	9	5	38	33	+5	45
7	NWS Spirit	26	12	5	9	44	36	+8	41
8	Gladesville Ravens	26	9	7	10	46	40	+6	34
9	Northern Tigers	26	9	6	11	49	43	+6	33
10	Sydney University	26	9	3	14	36	42	−6	30
11	Macarthur Rams	26	9	0	17	41	66	−25	27
12	Sydney Olympic	26	7	5	14	41	54	−13	26
13	Western Sydney Wanderers	26	6	5	15	39	58	−19	23
14	Newcastle Jets	26	4	0	22	28	86	−58	12

Source: Ladder
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions

Finals

	Semi-final					Grand final
	1	Bulls FC Academy	3
	4	Mount Druitt Town Rangers	1
						Bulls FC Academy		4 (a.e.t.)
						APIA Leichhardt		3
	2	APIA Leichhardt	2
	3	UNSW	0

References

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7. "Warren Grieve Departs Wollongong Wolves by Mutual Agreement". 7 July 2025.
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