Melbourne Victory FC Youth

Melbourne Victory Football Club Youth is the youth system of Melbourne Victory based in Melbourne, Victoria. The team plays in the National Premier Leagues (NPL), the second level of the Australian soccer league system.

Melbourne Victory Youth

Full name	Melbourne Victory Football Club Youth
Nickname(s)	Victory, Victory NYL
Short name	MVC
Founded	2008
Ground	The Home of the Matildas
Capacity	3,000
Chairman	John Dovaston
Manager	Boris Seroshtan
League	NPL Victoria A-League Youth
2024	1st of 14 Victoria Premier League 1 (Champions & Promoted)
Website	http://www.melbournevictory.com.au
Home colours Away colours

History

The youth 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 11 February 2025^[3]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  AUS Yonathan Sultan 2 DF  AUS Linus Bourke 3 DF  AUS Joshua Inserra 4 DF  AUS Damien Bozinovski 5 DF  AUS William Mcintosh 6 MF  AUS Kayne Razmovski 7 FW  AUS Austin Ganino 8 MF  AUS Alex Menelaou 9 FW  AUS Tommaso Minutoli 10 MF  AUS Jack Mihailidis 11 FW  AUS Daniel Lazarevski 12 DF  PNG Raymond Diho 13 DF  AUS John Paikopoulos 14 FW  AUS Jordan Hoey 15 DF  AUS Nikolas Cevizovic 16 DF  AUS Stasi Georgakopoulos 18 DF  AUS Lucas Alessi 19 FW  AUS Jing Reec 20 DF  AUS Parker Williams 20 FW  AUS Patrick Wall 23 FW  AUS Jesse Hoey 24 DF  AUS James Lackay

No. Pos. Nation Player 25 DF  AUS Mason O’Neil 26 MF  AUS Luka Kolic 27 FW  AUS Alex Lee 28 MF  AUS Charlie Gorevski 29 DF  AUS Tobenna Obani 30 GK  AUS Daniel Graskoski 31 MF  AUS James Houridis 32 DF  AUS Aaron Bazenski 33 FW  AUS Phin Harbinson 35 DF  AUS Fin Crompton 35 MF  AUS Marcus Peretin 36 DF  AUS John Radimisis 37 FW  AUS Malik Olukhale 38 MF  AUS Alexi Houridis 39 FW  AUS Edon Ajrovski 40 GK  AUS Christian Siciliano 41 GK  AUS Kasper Fonsboel 42 GK  AUS Oskar Von Schrenk 43 FW  AUS Mush Sawiz 44 MF  AUS Noah Tanfara 46 DF  AUS Luka Didulica 47 FW  AUS Kaelan Galea

Current staff

Head Coaches:

Joe Palatsides	1st Grade Head Coach
Rodrigo Vargas	U21 Head Coach
Andreas Papanicolaou	U18 Head Coach
Joaquín Moreno	U16 Head Coach
Matthew Sultana	U15 Head Coach
Rob Wielaert	U14 Head Coach
Tom Paton	Pre Academy Head Coach
Mark Topic	Pre Academy Head Coach
Isabella Santilli	Pre Academy Head Coach
Matt Fletcher	Pre Academy Head Coach
Brad Roberts	Pre Academy Head Coach
Reide Mulholland	Pre Academy Head Coach

Staff:

Joe Palatsides	Head of Academy Coaching
Andrew Kentepozidis	Academy Operations Manager
Jayden Anderson	Academy Sports Science Lead
Amelia Thomas	Academy Medical Lead
Sebastian Bechaud	Head of Academy Goalkeeping
Agim Sherifovski	Academy Assistant Coach
Piotr Rutkowski	Academy Assistant Coach
Mark Spiteri	Pre Academy Head Goalkeeping Coach
Ashley Wisneske	Pre 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

• La Ionica Community Cup

Winners (1): 2015

National Premier Leagues Victoria 2/ Victoria Premier Leagues 1 Premiership

• • Champion (1): 2024
  • Runners-up (1): 2015

National Premier Leagues Victoria 3 Premiership

• Runners-up (1): 2023

Under-23s

• Y-League Premiership
  • Premiers (1): 2012–13

Academy

• National Premier Leagues Victoria U-20 Premiership
  • Premiers (1): 2015

• National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 U-20 Premiership
  • Premiers (2): 2017, 2019
  • Runners-up (1): 2018

National Premier Leagues Victoria U-18 Premiership

• • Premiers (1): 2019

Stadiums

The team play their home matches at The Home of the Matildas in Melbourne's northern suburb of Bundoora. The stadium has a total capacity of 3,000, with a single grandstand of approximately 800 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, Northcote City's John Cain Memorial Park in Thornbury and Whittlesea Ranges' Epping Stadium in Epping. 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 3 June 2025

Name	Nationality	Position	Melbourne career	Appearances	Goals
Nick Ansell	Australia	Defender	2011–17, 2018–19, 2020–21	92	1
Thomas Deng	Australia	Defender	2015–2020	71	2
Mate Dugandzic	Australia	Forward	2009–11	36	7
Diogo Ferreira	Australia	Midfielder	2010–13	52	2
Matthew Foschini	Australia	Defender	2009–13	53	0
Petar Franjic	Australia	Defender	2010–13	31	0
Scott Galloway	Australia	Defender	2013–16	54	1
Jason Geria	Australia	Defender	2012–18, 2021–2025	189	4
James Jeggo	Australia	Midfielder	2011–14	30	2
Mitchell Langerak	Australia	Goalkeeper	2007–10	21	0
Dylan Murnane	Australia	Defender	2013–16	24	0
Andrew Nabbout	Australia	Forward	2012–15	37	5
Sebastian Ryall	Australia	Defender	2007–09	24	0
Connor Pain	Australia	Forward	2013–16	53	3
Stefan Nigro	Australia	Midfielder	2015–18, 2021–2024	69	0
Lleyton Brooks	Australia	Midfielder	2020–2023	31	3
Nishan Velupillay	Australia	Forward	2021–	106	15
Kasey Bos	Australia	Defender	2023–	28	4

• Bold denotes players still playing in Melbourne Victory
• Appearances only consist of competitive domestic league appearances

Season by season history

Y League

Season	League	Tms.	conf. size	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Pos	Finals	ref
2008-09	National Youth League	7	N/A	18	6	1	11	20	36	-16	20	6th	DNQ	[4]
2009-10	National Youth League	9	N/A	24	7	8	9	36	37	-1	29	6th	DNQ	[5]
2010-11	National Youth League	9	N/A	19	7	0	12	29	42	-13	21	8th	N/A[notes 1]	[6]
2011-12	National Youth League	10	N/A	18	4	3	11	15	34	-19	15	10th	N/A[notes 1]	[7]
2012-13	National Youth League	10	N/A	18	12	1	5	57	20	+37	37	1st	N/A[notes 1]	[8]
2013-14	National Youth League	10	N/A	18	9	4	5	50	36	+14	31	3rd	N/A[notes 1]	[9]
2014-15	National Youth League	10	N/A	18	8	3	7	34	33	+1	27	5th	N/A[notes 1]	[10]
2015-16	National Youth League	10	5	8	3	0	5	17	22	-5	9	4th	DNQ	[11]
2016-17	National Youth League	10	5	8	1	2	5	13	23	-10	5	5th	DNQ	[12]
2017-18	National Youth League	10	5	8	4	1	3	17	25	-8	13	2nd	DNQ	[13]
2018-19	Y-League	10	5	8	1	1	6	8	22	-14	4	5th	DNQ	[14]
2019-20	Y-League	10	5	8	5	1	2	17	16	+1	16	1st	Runner 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
2024-25	A League Youth

National Premier Leagues

Season	League	Tms.	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Pos	Pro/Rel	NPL Finals	ref
2015	NPL VIC 1 East	10	28	17	4	7	87	44	+43	55	2nd	Pro (play off)	DNQ	[18]
2016	NPL Victoria	14	26	3	1	22	24	68	-44	4[notes 2]	14th	relegated	DNQ	[19]
2017	NPL VIC 2 West	10	28	8	5	15	55	56	-1	29	9th	n/a	DNQ	[20]
2018	NPL VIC 2 West	10	28	11	4	13	48	54	-6	34[notes 3]	7th	n/a	DNQ	[21]
2019	NPL VIC 2 West	10	28	6	7	15	36	48	-12	25	9th	relegated	DNQ	[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	12	22	11	5	6	38	27	+11	38	4th	n/a	DNQ	[25]
2023	NPL Victoria 3	12	22	13	3	6	47	22	+25	42	2nd	Promoted[26]	DNQ	[27]
2024	VPL 1	14	26	15	7	4	66	39	+27	52	1st	Promoted[28]	DNQ	[29]
2025	NPL Victoria	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	TBD	TBD	TBD

Managerial history

Dates	Name	Notes	Honours
2008 – 12 March 2011	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	Darren Davies[30]	First official foreign manager First manager to earn honours	2012–13 NYL Premiership[31]
30 May 2016 – 22 February 2020[32]	Gareth Naven[33]

See also

• Melbourne Victory FC
• Melbourne Victory FC (W-League)

Notes

1. No National Youth League Finals
2. 6 point deduction
3. 3 point deduction