2024 National Premier Leagues NSW

67th season of the NSW Premier League Football league season

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)
← 2023 2025 →

The 2024 National Premier Leagues NSW is 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 is scheduled to conclude on 25 August. APIA Leichhardt are the defending champions.

The 2024 season is a double round-robin format with each team playing 30 games for the regular season. The top-six team qualifies to the finals series which returned after the format was omitted from last season. The competition's matches were broadcast free and live on YouTube with the addition of the 2024 Waratah Cup.

After 28 matches, closing towards the end of the season, Rockdale Ilinden were named premiers on 18 August, the club's first major title in over four decades. During the campaign, Western Sydney Wanderers were sanctioned for alleged breaches in relation to "several incidents on 5 and 11 May" according to Football NSW. The Wanderers were fined AU$33,500, deducted six points and given 'restricted access' for away supporters.

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	Leichhardt	Lambert Park	7,000
APIA Leichhardt	Franco Parisi	Leichhardt	Leichhardt Oval	20,000
Blacktown City	Mark Crittenden	Blacktown	Blacktown City Sports Centre	7,500
Central Coast Mariners Academy	Lucas Vilela	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	Peakhurst 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	8 September 2023
Sydney United	Miro Vlastelica	Mutual consent	November 2023		Zeljko Kalac	15 November 2023
Central Coast Mariners	Abbas Saad	N/A	2024		Lucas Vilela	2024
St George	Jané Talcevski	Mutual consent	July 2024	11th	Steve Karavatakis	2 July 2024

Foreign players

Team	Visa 1	Visa 2	Non-visa foreigner(s)	Former players
APIA Leichhardt	Seiya Kambayashi
Blacktown City			Danny Choi Mitchell Mallia Jacob Maniti
Central Coast Mariners			Lucas Scicluna
Hills United	Nicolai Müller	Yu Okubo
Manly United	Miguel Bauzà
Marconi	Franco Maya			Hiroaki Aoyama
NWS Spirit	Gianni Bouzoukis			Luiz Lobo
Rockdale Ilinden	So Kataoka			Moudi Najjar
St George FC
St George City	Fumoto Kamada	Jason Romero
Sutherland Sharks	Takahide Umebachi	Kotaro Katsuta	Chris Lindsay
Sydney FC Youth
Sydney Olympic	Ziggy Gordon		Roy O'Donovan Abraham Majok Zac Zoricich
Sydney United			Luiz Lobo Stephan De Robillard	Shunta Nakamura
Western Sydney Wanderers	Joseph Banza		Ryan Devine
Wollongong Wolves	Banri Kanaizumi	Takumi Ofuka	Yagoub Mustafa Chris McStay

The following do not fill a Visa position:
Those players who were born and started their professional career abroad but have since gained Australian citizenship;
Australian 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
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
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Western Sydney Wanderers were deducted six points for breaches of the grievance and disciplinary regulations.

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 202415:00

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

Sydney United Sports Centre, Edensor ParkReferee: Kelly Jones 6 September 202419:30

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

Pluim Park, GosfordReferee: 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

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

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Jak O'Brien	Blacktown City	APIA Leichhardt	6–3 (H)	17 February 2024
Takumi Ofuka	Wollongong Wolves	Hills United	4–0 (H)	15 March 2024
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

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