Melbourne Victory FC Youth

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Melbourne Victory Youth
Full nameMelbourne Victory Football Club Youth
Nickname(s)Victory, Victory NYL
Short nameMVC
Founded2008
Ground Epping Stadium
Capacity10,000
ChairmanJohn Dovaston
Manager Joe Palatsides
League Victoria Premier League 1
A-League Youth
2023 2nd of 12
(promoted) NPL Victoria 3
Website Club website
Active departments of Melbourne Victory FC
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Football
(Men's) 		Football
(Men's Youth) 		Football
(Women's) 		Football
(Women's AWT)

Melbourne Victory Football Club Youth is the youth system of Melbourne Victory based in Melbourne, Victoria. The team plays in the National Premier Leagues, the second level of Australia's soccer pyramid in Australia. The club also competes in the under-23s Y-League competition.

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Youth team history

The team was founded in 2008, as a Melbourne Victory representative team for the inaugural season of the National Youth League competition, along with six other youth squads, and finished a disappointing sixth. The development side has had three managers, Mehmet Durakovic, who was promoted to manager of the senior squad in 2011, and current managers Darren Davies and John Aloisi. Davies led the youth side to its first silverware victory in winning the premiership plate, finishing first on the National Youth League ladder in the 2012-13 season. It would be current club chairman Anthony Di Pietro's first silverware victory as well. On 7 November 2014, it was confirmed that the team would compete in the National Premier Leagues Victoria 1 competition for 2015 season onwards. [1] Victory managed promotion at their first attempt, placing second in the NPL1 East division, going on to beat Moreland Zebras FC in the qualification playoff and then North Geelong Warriors FC in the promotion playoff. For the club's first season in the top tier of football in Victorian state football, Matt Hennessey and Ryan Lambert were signed from Hume City FC and Richmond SC respectively. [2]

Youth/NPL current squad

As of 13 February 2024 [3]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.Pos.NationPlayer
3 DF Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Joshua Inserra
4 DF Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Damien Bozinovski
6 MF Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Kayne Razmovski
7 FW Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Kasey Bos
8 MF Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Alex Menelaou
9 FW Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Adem Duratovic
15 DF Flag of North Macedonia.svg  MKD Matthew Bozinovski
16Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Jack Mihailidis
17Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Victor Muhindo
18 MF Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Fabian Monge
19Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Luka Kolic
20 GK Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Oskar Von Schrenk
23Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Jesse Hoey
25 MF Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Alexander Kapaklis
34Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Marc Petheriotis
— FW Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Eli Adams
—Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Lucas Alessi
—Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Linus Bourke
—Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Nikolas Cevizovic
No.Pos.NationPlayer
— GK Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Daniel Duvnjak
—Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Riley Foxe
—Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Giani Galanos
— FW Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Austin Ganino
—Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Jordan Hoey
— MF Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS George Karvounis
—Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS William Kennedy
—Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Daniel Lazarevski
—Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Owen McCloskey
— FW Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Tommaso Minutoli
—Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS John Paikopoulos
—Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Dimitri Palatsides
—Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Thomas Pennisi
—Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Anton Primorac
—Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Zach Puhalovich
— GK Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Christian Siciliano
— GK Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Yonathan Sultan
— MF Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Ryan Teague
— MF Flag of Australia (converted).svg  AUS Jordi Valadon

Current staff

Head Coaches:

Joe Palatsides 1st Grade Head Coach
Rodrigo Vargas U21 Head Coach
Andreas PapanicolaouU18 Head Coach
Joaquín MorenoU16 Head Coach
Matthew SultanaU15 Head Coach
Rob Wielaert U14 Head Coach
Tom PatonPre Academy Head Coach
Mark TopicPre Academy Head Coach
Isabella SantilliPre Academy Head Coach
Matt FletcherPre Academy Head Coach
Brad RobertsPre Academy Head Coach
Reide MulhollandPre Academy Head Coach

Staff:

Joe PalatsidesHead of Academy Coaching
Andrew KentepozidisAcademy Operations Manager
Jayden AndersonAcademy Sports Science Lead
Amelia ThomasAcademy Medical Lead
Sebastian BechaudHead of Academy Goalkeeping
Agim SherifovskiAcademy Assistant Coach
Piotr RutkowskiAcademy Assistant Coach
Mark SpiteriPre Academy Head Goalkeeping Coach
Ashley WisneskePre Academy Goalkeeping Coach
Archie Thompson Academy Development Coach
Fahid Ben Khalfallah Academy Development Coach
Gaby Garton Academy Development Coach
Joey Didulica Academy Development Coach
Sasa Ognenovski Academy Development Coach

Honours

Youth
Winners (1): 2015

National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 Premiership

Under-23s
Academy

National Premier Leagues Victoria U-18 Premiership

Stadiums

The team play their home matches at Epping Stadium in Melbourne's northern suburb of Epping. The stadium has a total capacity of 10,000, with a single grandstand of approximately 1,000 seats. Past venues used as a home ground by the club have been South Melbourne FC home ground Lakeside Stadium in Albert Park, Bentleigh Greens' Kingston Heath in Cheltenham and Northcote City's John Cain Memorial Park in Thornbury; however, with the side now competing the top division of Victorian football, along with all three of these sides, ground-sharing with any of the sides was not a preferred option, with Epping Stadium providing the club with the facilities required. The team has also played competitive matches at Victory's senior team home venues, AAMI Park and Etihad Stadium.

Former players

This is a list of former Melbourne Victory Youth players, who have played at least 20 A-League competitive matches for the first team.

As of 22 December 2021
NameNationalityPositionMelbourne careerAppearancesGoals
Nick Ansell Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Defender 2011–17, 2018–19, 2020–21921
Thomas Deng Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Defender 2015–2020712
Mate Dugandzic Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Forward 2009–11367
Diogo Ferreira Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Midfielder 2010–13522
Matthew Foschini Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Defender 2009–13530
Petar Franjic Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Defender 2010–13310
Scott Galloway Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Defender 2013–16541
Jason Geria Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Defender 2012–18, 2021–1100
James Jeggo Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Midfielder 2011–14302
Mitchell Langerak Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Goalkeeper 2007–10210
Dylan Murnane Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Defender 2013–16240
Andrew Nabbout Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Forward 2012–15375
Sebastian Ryall Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Defender 2007–09240
Connor Pain Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Forward 2013–16533
Stefan Nigro Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Midfielder 2015–18, 2021–290

Season by season history

Y League

SeasonLeagueTms.conf. sizePWDLGFGAGDPtsPosFinalsref
2008-09 National Youth League 7N/A1861112036-16206thDNQ [4]
2009-10 National Youth League 9N/A247893637-1296thDNQ [5]
2010-11 National Youth League 9N/A1970122942-13218thN/A a [6]
2011-12 National Youth League 10N/A1843111534-191510thN/A a [7]
2012-13 National Youth League 10N/A1812155720+37371stN/A a [8]
2013-14 National Youth League 10N/A189455036+14313rdN/A a [9]
2014-15 National Youth League 10N/A188373433+1275thN/A a [10]
2015-16 National Youth League 10583051722-594thDNQ [11]
2016-17 National Youth League 10581251323-1055thDNQ [12]
2017-18 National Youth League 10584131725-8132ndDNQ [13]
2018-19 Y-League 1058116822-1445thDNQ [14]
2019-20 Y-League 10585121716+1161stRunner up [15]
2020-21 Y-League Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic [16]
2021-22 A League Youth
2022-23 A League Youth No tournoment [17]
2023-24 A League Youth

^a No Y-League Finals Held

National Premier Leagues

SeasonLeagueTms.PWDLGFGAGDPtsPosPro/RelNPL Finalsref
2015 NPL VIC 1 East 102817478744+43552ndPro (play off)DNQ [18]
2016 NPL Victoria 142631222468-444 b 14threlegatedDNQ [19]
2017 NPL VIC 2 West 102885155556-1299thn/aDNQ [20]
2018 NPL VIC 2 West 1028114134854-634 c 7thn/aDNQ [21]
2019 NPL VIC 2 West 102867153648-12259threlegatedDNQ [22]
2020 NPL Victoria 3 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. [23]
2021 NPL Victoria 3 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. [24]
2022 NPL Victoria 3 122211563827+11384thn/aDNQ [25]
2023 NPL Victoria 3 122213364722+25422ndPromoted [26] DNQ [27]
2024 VPL 1 tbdtbd

^a No Y-League Finals Held

^b 6 point deduction

^c 3 point deduction

Managerial history

DatesNameNotesHonours
2008 – 12 March 2011 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Flag of Montenegro.svg Mehmet Durakovic Inaugural manager
First dual-nationality manager
First manager to be directly promoted to manager of the senior squad
20 March 2011 – 30 May 2016 Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Darren Davies [28] First official foreign manager
First manager to earn honours		 2012–13 NYL Premiership [29]
30 May 2016 – 22 February 2020 [30] Flag of Australia (converted).svg Flag of England.svg Gareth Naven [31]

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