2024 Football NSW season

National Premier Leagues NSW Women's
Season	2024
Champions	Macarthur Rams
Premiers	Macarthur Rams
	← 2023 2025 →

NPL NSW Men's
Season	2024
Dates	16 February – 25 August
Champions	Marconi Stallions
Premiers	Rockdale Ilinden
Relegated	Hills United
Matches	231
Goals	778 (3.37 per match)
Top goalscorer	Alec Urosevski (Rockdale Ilinden) 31

Football New South Wales
Season	2024
	← 2023 2025 →

The 2024 Football NSW season is the 12th season of soccer in New South Wales under the banner of the National Premier Leagues. The season was the second under the revamped format which consisted of three senior divisions in the state of New South Wales. The official schedule was released on 12 December 2023.^[1]

Competitions

2024 National Premier Leagues NSW

Stadiums and locations

Team	Head coach	Location	Stadium	Capacity
APIA Leichhardt	Franco Parisi^[2]	Leichhardt	Lambert Park	7,000
APIA Leichhardt	Franco Parisi^[2]	Leichhardt	Leichhardt Oval^[2]	20,000
Blacktown City	Mark Crittenden	Blacktown	Blacktown City Sports Centre	7,500
Central Coast Mariners Academy	Lucas Vilela^[3]	Gosford	Pluim Park	2,000
Hills United	Luke Casserly	Hills District	Blacktown City Sports Centre	7,500
Marconi Stallions	Peter Tsekenis	Fairfield	Marconi Stadium	9,000
Manly United	Patrick Zwaanswijk	Dee Why	Cromer Park	5,000
NWS Spirit	David Perkovic	North Sydney	Christie Park	1,000
Rockdale Ilinden	Paul Dee	Rockdale	Rockdale Ilinden Sports Centre	5,000
St George	Steve Karavatakis	St George	Rockdale Ilinden Sports Centre	5,000
St George City	Mirko Jurilj	St George	Penshurst Park	1,000
Sutherland Sharks	Steven Zoric	Sutherland	Seymour Shaw Park	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
Sydney United	Zeljko Kalac	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

Table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Rockdale Ilinden	30	23	3	4	76	40	+36	72	Qualification for the Finals series
2	Marconi Stallions (C)	30	21	2	7	70	35	+35	65
3	APIA Leichhardt	30	18	3	9	78	48	+30	57
4	Blacktown City	30	17	6	7	66	37	+29	57
5	St George City	30	16	3	11	46	40	+6	51
6	Sydney United	30	15	5	10	45	40	+5	50
7	Wollongong Wolves	30	13	5	12	55	41	+14	44
8	Sydney Olympic	30	13	3	14	51	42	+9	42
9	Manly United	30	10	5	15	33	50	−17	35
10	NWS Spirit	30	10	4	16	39	53	−14	34
11	Western Sydney Wanderers Youth	30	12	2	16	62	68	−6	32^[a]
12	St George FC	30	8	8	14	37	58	−21	32
13	Sutherland Sharks	30	7	8	15	32	49	−17	29
14	Sydney FC Youth	30	8	5	17	39	67	−28	29
15	Central Coast Mariners Academy (O)	30	8	4	18	42	67	−25	28	Qualification for the Relegation play-off
16	Hills United (R)	30	8	0	22	35	71	−36	24	Relegation to 2025 NSW League One

Source: Football NSW
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goals scored; 6) Play-off match^[5]
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Western Sydney Wanderers were deducted six points for breaches of the grievance and disciplinary regulations.^[4] In addition, they were fined $33,500 and given 'restricted access' for away supporters.

Results

Home \ Away	API	BCT	CCM	HIL	MAN	MAR	NWS	ROC	SGC	STG	SUT	SFC	SOL	SUN	WSW	WOL
APIA Leichhardt	—	3–1	3–1	4–1	4–0	1–4	1–0	3–2	4–1	5–0	3–2	1–5	2–0	1–5	5–3	1–1
Blacktown City	6–3	—	3–1	4–0	2–0	3–0	3–1	1–2	3–0	1–2	3–2	8–0	1–0	2–2	3–0	0–1
CCM Academy	3–2	1–1	—	5–3	2–2	0–1	3–0	1–2	0–3	3–3	3–2	1–1	0–2	1–2	2–5	3–2
Hills United	1–2	0–2	2–0	—	2–1	1–3	4–1	0–3	2–0	2–3	2–3	4–2	2–1	2–3	1–2	0–2
Manly United	1–0	1–1	2–0	0–2	—	0–1	3–2	1–1	1–2	3–0	1–1	1–0	0–2	1–1	0–5	2–1
Marconi Stallions	1–2	6–2	2–0	4–0	2–1	—	2–1	9–0	2–1	4–0	3–3	3–0	0–4	2–1	3–1	2–1
NWS Spirit	0–2	4–2	1–2	3–1	4–2	1–0	—	1–2	1–2	1–3	1–3	0–0	1–2	1–1	1–0	1–0
Rockdale Ilinden	2–1	2–3	4–1	5–0	4–0	2–2	3–1	—	2–0	4–0	4–0	3–1	3–2	1–1	3–2	3–1
St George City	1–0	0–2	2–0	3–1	3–1	2–1	3–4	1–2	—	1–1	1–1	1–2	1–0	2–1	5–0	0–2
St George FC	2–2	0–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	0–1	0–2	1–4	0–2	—	3–1	2–1	2–1	2–3	2–2	2–2
Sutherland Sharks	0–7	2–0	0–1	2–1	1–2	1–2	0–0	0–3	0–1	3–1	—	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	0–4
Sydney FC Youth	1–7	1–2	4–1	3–1	2–0	0–4	1–3	1–2	1–3	2–1	0–0	—	1–3	0–2	2–5	1–5
Sydney Olympic	1–1	3–3	1–2	1–2	2–1	1–2	2–1	2–1	0–1	0–3	1–1	1–2	—	6–0	4–1	4–3
Sydney United	2–0	0–2	1–0	3–0	0–2	3–2	3–0	1–2	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–1	—	3–2	1–2
WSW Youth	0–6	3–0	3–5	2–0	0–1	2–5	4–1	2–3	6–1	4–2	3–1	0–3	3–2	0–2	—	0–2
Wollongong Wolves	1–2	2–2	5–1	4–0	1–2	1–2	0–0	1–2	1–1	1–0	2–1	3–2	1–2	3–2	0–2	—

Updated to match(es) played on 25 August 2024. Source: footballnsw.com.au
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	APIA Leichhardt	1
6	Sydney United	2	1	Rockdale Ilinden	3
			6	Sydney United	1
						1	Rockdale Ilinden	0
4	Blacktown City	4				2	Marconi Stallions	3
5	St George City	2	2	Marconi Stallions	6
			4	Blacktown City	2

Relegation play-off

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Central Coast Mariners Academy	5–2	Bulls FC Academy	1–2	4–0

2024 National Premier Leagues NSW Women's

The 2024 National Premier Leagues NSW Women's was the 11th 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	Macarthur Rams (C)	26	17	5	4	63	23	+40	56	2024 NPL NSW Women's Finals
2	APIA Leichhardt	26	15	6	5	55	37	+18	51
3	Illawarra Stingrays	26	14	5	7	53	34	+19	47
4	Sydney Olympic	26	14	4	8	48	40	+8	46
5	Northern Tigers	26	13	5	8	65	49	+16	44
6	NWS Spirit	26	11	8	7	46	36	+10	41
7	Gladesville Ravens	26	12	4	10	51	37	+14	40
8	Bulls FC Academy	26	12	4	10	60	49	+11	40
9	Manly United	26	11	5	10	45	42	+3	38
10	Sydney University	26	7	7	12	41	51	−10	28
11	UNSW	26	6	7	13	38	45	−7	25
12	Football NSW Institute	26	7	1	18	38	66	−28	22
13	Emerging Jets	26	5	5	16	38	94	−56	20
14	Blacktown Spartans	26	4	2	20	32	70	−38	14

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

Finals

Semi-final			Grand final

1	Macarthur Rams	2

4	Sydney Olympic	0
			Macarthur Rams (p)	2 (4)

			APIA Leichhardt	2 (2)
2	APIA Leichhardt	1

3	Illawarra Stingrays	0

References

^ "Official: Football NSW 2024 Match Schedules Announced". Football NSW. 12 December 2023.
^ ^a ^b Stavroulakis, Mark (13 December 2023). "High expectations set as APIA chase more glory in 2024". NPL Men's NSW. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
^ Stavroulakis, Mark (8 February 2024). "New look Mariners ready to roll in 2024". NPL Men's NSW. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
^ "Football NSW statement regarding Western Sydney Wanderers FC". Football NSW. 2 July 2024. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
^ "Competition Regulations 2024" (PDF). Football NSW. Retrieved 12 July 2024.

[table_hth_WSW0.13824698521674-5] Western Sydney Wanderers were deducted six points for breaches of the grievance and disciplinary regulations.^[4] In addition, they were fined $33,500 and given 'restricted access' for away supporters.

[1] "Official: Football NSW 2024 Match Schedules Announced". Football NSW. 12 December 2023.

[APIA1-2] Stavroulakis, Mark (13 December 2023). "High expectations set as APIA chase more glory in 2024". NPL Men's NSW. Retrieved 15 July 2024.

[vilela-3] Stavroulakis, Mark (8 February 2024). "New look Mariners ready to roll in 2024". NPL Men's NSW. Retrieved 15 July 2024.

[4] "Football NSW statement regarding Western Sydney Wanderers FC". Football NSW. 2 July 2024. Retrieved 19 August 2024.

[6] "Competition Regulations 2024" (PDF). Football NSW. Retrieved 12 July 2024.

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