2024 National Premier Leagues NSW

The 2024 National Premier Leagues NSW was the 12th season of the National Premier Leagues in New South Wales and the second season under the revised competition format. The season began on 16 February 2024 and concluded on 25 August. APIA Leichhardt are the defending champions.

NPL NSW Men's

Season	2024
Dates	16 February – 25 August
Champions	Marconi Stallions
Premiers	Rockdale Ilinden
Relegated	Hills United
Matches played	231
Goals scored	778 (3.37 per match)
Top goalscorer	Alec Urosevski (Rockdale Ilinden) 31
← 2023 2025 →

The 2024 season was a double round-robin format with each team playing 30 games for the regular season. The top-six teams qualified to the finals series.^[1][2] The competition's matches were broadcast free and live on YouTube with the addition of the 2024 Waratah Cup.^[3]

Rockdale Ilinden were Premiers, receiving the club's first major title in over four decades.^[4]

Promotion and relegation

Promoted from 2023 NSW League One	Relegated from 2023 National Premier Leagues NSW
St George Hills United	Mt Druitt Town Rangers Bulls FC Academy

Stadiums and locations

Team	Head Coach	Location	Stadium	Capacity
APIA Leichhardt	Franco Parisi[5]	Leichhardt	Lambert Park	7,000
			Leichhardt Oval[5]	20,000
Blacktown City	Mark Crittenden	Blacktown	Blacktown City Sports Centre	7,500
Central Coast Mariners Academy	Lucas Vilela[6]	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		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

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Sutherland Sharks	Panny Nikas	Mutual consent	September 2023	Pre-season	Steven Zoric[7]	8 September 2023
Sydney United	Miro Vlastelica		November 2023		Zeljko Kalac[8]	15 November 2023
Central Coast Mariners	Abbas Saad	N/A	2024		Lucas Vilela[6]	2024
St George	Jané Talcevski	Mutual consent	July 2024	11th	Steve Karavatakis[9]	2 July 2024

Foreign players

Team	Visa 1	Visa 2	Non-visa foreigner(s)	Former players
APIA Leichhardt	Seiya Kambayashi
Blacktown City			Danny Choi1 Mitchell Mallia2 Jacob Maniti2
Central Coast Mariners			Lucas Scicluna2
Hills United	Nicolai Müller	Yu Okubo
Manly United	Miguel Bauzà
Marconi	Franco Maya			Hiroaki Aoyama
NWS Spirit	Gianni Bouzoukis			Luiz Lobo1:[10]
Rockdale Ilinden	So Kataoka			Moudi Najjar2
St George FC
St George City	Fumoto Kamada	Jason Romero
Sutherland Sharks	Takahide Umebachi	Kotaro Katsuta	Chris Lindsay1
Sydney FC Youth
Sydney Olympic	Ziggy Gordon		Roy O'Donovan1 Abraham Majok1 Zac Zoricich2
Sydney United			Luiz Lobo1 Stephan De Robillard2	Shunta Nakamura
Western Sydney Wanderers	Joseph Banza		Ryan Devine2
Wollongong Wolves	Banri Kanaizumi	Takumi Ofuka	Yagoub Mustafa1 Chris McStay2

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

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^[12]
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Western Sydney Wanderers were deducted six points for breaches of the grievance and disciplinary regulations.^[11] In addition, they were fined $33,500 and given 'restricted access' for away supporters.

Fixtures and 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

The relegation play-offs took place on 31 August and 6 September 2024.

Overview

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

Matches

31 August 2024

15:00

Bulls FC Academy	2–1	Central Coast Mariners Academy
Madden 10' Debono 67'	Report	Hedley 47'

Sydney United Sports Centre, Edensor Park

Referee: Kelly Jones

6 September 2024

19:30

Central Coast Mariners Academy	4–0	Bulls FC Academy
Duarte 7' (pen.), 55' (pen.) Niyonkuru 17' Brandtman 45'	Report

Pluim Park, Gosford

Referee: Kurt Ams

Central Coast Mariners Academy won 5–2 on aggregate, and therefore both clubs remained in their respective leagues.

Regular season statistics

Top scorers

^[13]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Alec Urosevski	Rockdale Ilinden	31
2	Marko Jesic	Marconi Stallions	20
	Roy O'Donovan	Sydney Olympic
4	Ben Gibson	APIA Leichhardt	19
	Jak O'Brien	Blacktown City
6	James Temelkovski	Marconi Stallions	18
7	Nathanael Blair	Western Sydney Wanderers	13
	Yu Okubo	Hills United
9	Takumi Ofuka	Wollongong Wolves	12
	Jack Stewart	APIA Leichhardt

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref.
Jak O'Brien4	Blacktown City	APIA Leichhardt	6–3 (H)	17 February 2024	[14]
Takumi Ofuka	Wollongong Wolves	Hills United	4–0 (H)	15 March 2024	[15]
Alec Urosevski	Rockdale Ilinden	Wollongong Wolves	3-1 (H)	28 April 2024
Ben Gibson	APIA Leichardt	Western Sydney Youth	6–0 (A)	28 April 2024
Rory Jordan	APIA Leichardt	Sydney FC Youth	7-1 (A)	5 May 2024
Taye Ashton Hedley	Central Coast Mariners Youth	St George FC	3–3 (H)	29 May 2024
Dom Costanzo	Marconi Stallions	Rockdale Ilinden	9-0 (H)	19 June 2024
Alec Urosevski	Rockdale Ilinden	Hills United	5-0 (H)	30 June 2024
Jack Armson	APIA Leichardt	Sutherland	3-2 (H)	7 July 2024
Yu Okubo	Hills United	NWS Spirit	4-1 (H)	20 July 2024
Takeru Sugita	NWS Spirit	Blacktown City	4-2 (H)	10 August 2024
Arthur De Lima	Central Coast Mariners Youth	Wollongong Wolves	3-2 (H)	11 August 2024
James Temelkovski	Marconi Stallions	Blacktown City	6–2 (H)	1 September 2024

Notes

• (H) – Home team
• (A) – Away team

See also

• 2024 National Premier Leagues