Football NSW is the governing body for football (soccer) and futsal in the Australian state of New South Wales with the exception of the northern regions of NSW (the governing body for which is Northern New South Wales Football).
Football NSW is a member of the national governing body, the Football Federation Australia. Football NSW's premier football competition is the New South Wales Premier League. The premier futsal competition is the Refund Futsal Premier League.
In 2008 there will be a shake-up of the whole New South Wales Men's, Women's and Youth competitions. There will be a restructuring of the youth teams so they're aligned with their senior clubs. There will be also a restructuring of the men's senior competitions including new teams added to the NSW Premier League and a new Promotion/Relegation system.
Prior to 1 April 2007 Football NSW was known as Soccer NSW.[1]
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The headquarters of Football NSW are located at Valentine Sport Park[1].Valentine Sports Park is a multipurpose sporting complex which caters for various groups, as well as individuals. The complex consists of twin, triple and quad rooms accommodating up to 180 people, 5 playing fields, lecture rooms, indoor sports hall, 20 metre outdoor pool, sports medicine centre and a dining room open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It also contains the offices of the Football NSW staff.
The majoriy of Football NSW's time goes into the football competitions they oversee and run. There are 7 different youth representative leagues and 7 different Men's & Women's non-amateur leagues they directly run. They also oversee the countless club and amateur competitions run by the associations around the state. For a detailed rundown of the various leagues and systems run in New South Wales see Football (soccer) in New South Wales.
Football NSW is also the governing body for Futsal is New South Wales. There are two representative leagues named the "Futsal Premier League" (Known as Refund Futsal Premier League for sponsorship reasons) and the "Futsal Super League". Originally there was only one representative league with 16 teams. In the 06/07 season the competition was cut into 2 separate divisions of 8 teams each. In the 07/08 season the top 8 clubs in the club championship (aggregate points of all teams) from that season were put in the First Division while the last 8 were put in the second division. Now in 09/10 there is 8 premier league teams and 14 super league teams.
The Futsal leagues cater for the following age groups:
This is a breakup of the teams in the Futsal leagues as of the end of the 08/09 season:
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