2025 National Premier Leagues NSW

NPL NSW Men's

Season	2025
Dates	7 February – 31 August
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 →

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

Teams promoted from the 2024 NSW League One

• Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC

Teams relegated from the 2024 National Premier Leagues NSW

• Hills United

Teams

Mariners

Wolves

APIA

Blacktown City

Manly

Stallions

Rangers

Spirit

Ilinden

St George

St George City

Sharks

Sydney FC

Olympic

Sydney United

Wanderers

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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	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) [4]	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 [5]	St George	Barton Park	1,500
St George City	Manny Spanoudakis [6]		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 [7]	Edensor Park	Sydney United Sports Centre	12,000
Western Sydney Wanderers Youth	Richie Cardozo [8]	Blacktown	Wanderers Football Park	4,500
Wollongong Wolves	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 to Sutherland Sharks FC a week later following widespread negative feedback for the new name. ^[11]

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)	29	20	5	4	66	29	+37	65	Qualification to Australian Championship and Finals series
2	APIA Leichhardt [a] (Q)	29	19	4	6	74	35	+39	61	Qualification to Finals series
3	Marconi Stallions [a] (Q)	29	18	5	6	45	29	+16	59
4	Rockdale Ilinden (Q)	29	15	9	5	66	39	+27	54
5	Blacktown City (Q)	29	14	5	10	49	50	−1	47
6	Sydney United 58 [a] (Q)	29	13	7	9	39	39	0	46
7	Sydney Olympic [a]	29	12	7	10	50	37	+13	40 [b]
8	Wollongong Wolves [a]	29	10	10	9	42	37	+5	40
9	St George City	29	10	7	12	37	40	−3	37
10	Sydney FC Youth	29	9	6	14	41	44	−3	33
11	St George FC	29	8	8	13	43	53	−10	32
12	Manly United	29	8	7	14	38	45	−7	31
13	Sutherland Sharks	29	7	5	17	28	50	−22	26
14	Central Coast Mariners Academy	29	5	8	16	29	59	−30	23
15	Western Sydney Wanderers Youth	29	6	7	16	26	51	−25	22 [b]	Qualification for the Relegation play-off
16	Mount Druitt Town Rangers	29	5	6	18	23	59	−36	21	Relegation to 2026 NSW League One

Updated to match(es) played on 24 August 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.
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated
Notes:

1. Team pre-qualifies 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. ^[12]

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 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
	6					1	NWS Spirit
	4	Rockdale Ilinden
	5					2

Regular season statistics

Top scorers

Correct as of 21 May 2025

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Alec Urosevski	Rockdale Ilinden	17
2	Presley Ortiz	APIA Leichardt	9
3	Michael Konestabo	NWS Spirit	8
	Mitchell Mallia	Blacktown City
	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 Macallister 5	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

References

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