NSW Premier League

The New South Wales Premier League is the highest state-level men's soccer competition in New South Wales, Australia. Nationally, it is considered one grade lower than the A-League. The competition is conducted by Football NSW, the organising body in New South Wales.

In 2008 the whole New South Wales men's, women's and youth competitions were reconstructed to align youth teams with their respective senior clubs along with women's teams.

History

The New South Wales Premier League has been contested annually since 1956 in various forms, with its early days remembered as Division One, as well as the Ampol Cup which ran as state based competitions until the formation of a national league in Australia being the National Soccer League which began in 1977. Today, many of the clubs are former national teams from the NSL, including Sydney Olympic and A.P.I.A. Leichhardt Tigers with these clubs, and many others, being rejected from the revamped national competition in 2004, the A-League after the demise of the NSL forcing the teams once again into the state leagues. During the 1990s the highest level of football in New South Wales was known as the Super League, which today is the second-tier level of football in NSW. In 2001, the top football divisions were revamped with the highest level of football being named the Premier League and the Winter Super League being the second. 2005 saw the return of the New South Wales NSL giants in Sydney Olympic, Sydney United, Wollongong Wolves and the Marconi Stallions^[1] which arguably brought the better days of a state league competition which many consider one grade lower than the A-League.

Current Season

For more details on the current season, see 2011 NSW Premier League season.

Teams

The map below indicates the locations of teams currently competing in the New South Wales Premier League competition. The inset is of greater Sydney.

The following 12 clubs are competing in the New South Wales Premier League during the 2010 season.

League table

Top 5 qualify for the Finals Series

_{Source:NSW Premier League^[2]}

• _{(C)=Regular season champions}
• _{(R)=Relegated to NSW Super League}
• _{(Q)=Qualified for the Finals Series}

NSW Gold Medal Dinner

The NSW Gold Medal Dinner is held annually after each season, highlighting the performances of clubs, players and coaches.

2009

2008 ^[3]

2007

2006

Notable players

Past or present notable players include:

• Brendan Gan
• Bernie Ibini-Isei
• Mark Milligan
• Sasho Petrovski
• Chad Gibson
• Alen Stajcic
• Luka Glavas
• Mark Rudan
• Scott Jamieson
• Sean Rooney
• Robert Cattanach
• Tolgay Ozbey
• Ali Abbas Mshehid
• Shannon Cole
• Ivan Necevski
• Ante Milicic
• Mark Bosnich
• Luke Casserly
• Stelios Giannakopoulos

References

External links

• New South Wales Premier League
• Oz Football NSW Statistics
• Weltfussballarchiv