Sydney FC Youth

Sydney Youth

Full name	Sydney Football Club Youth
Nickname(s)	Sydney Youth
Founded	2008
Ground	Lambert Park
Capacity	7,000
Owner	David Traktovenko
Chairman	Scott Barlow
Head coach	Rob Stanton
League	NYL NPLNSW2
2013–14	NYL, 1st
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

Sydney FC Youth is an Australian semi-professional association football team based in Sydney, New South Wales. Founded in 2008, it is the youth and reserve team of Sydney FC. The team currently plays in National Youth League and they will compete in the National Premier Leagues NSW 2 in 2016.

History

The youth team was founded in 2008, as a Sydney FC representative team for the National Youth League competition. In its first season Sydney FC won the NYL Championship in 2008/2009 with former Socceroo & NSL stalwart, Steve O'Connor as the coach. The club repeated the feat by winning the Foxtel National Youth League Championship in 2013/2014 under Head Coach and club legend, Steve Corica. In 2015/2016 Sydney FC Youth took out the Conference B Premiership and then went on the be crowned Foxtel National Youth League Champions for the third time defeating Adelaide United 5-2 in the Grand Final played at Central Coast Stadium under the leadership of Head Coach, Robert Stanton. In early 2015, it was confirmed that Sydney FC would compete in the NPL NSW 2 competition from the 2016 season onwards.^[1] This followed a competition review by Football NSW that recommended the youth teams of Sydney FC, Western Sydney Wanderers and Central Coast Mariners join the National Premier Leagues. Along with a team playing first grade, an under-20 and under-18 team would also compete in their appropriate age groups. The team forms the top level of the Sydney FC academy, unveiled in January 2016.^[2]

Stadium

The team's home ground is Lambert Park in the suburb of Leichhardt where they will play both NYL and NPL matches. The teams also shares Sydney FC's club's training base at Macquarie University in North Ryde.

Current squad

National Youth League

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Anthony Bouzanis 20 GK Nicholas Sorras 3 DF Aaron Calver 2 DF George Timotheou 8 DF Max Burgess 14 DF Cristian Gonzalez 5 MF Yianni Spyrakis 6 MF Nicola Kuleski

No. Position Player 7 MF Daniel Araujo 11 MF Lachlan Hughes 17 MF Chris Zuvela 9 FW Bai Antoniou 10 FW George Blackwood 12 FW Charles Lokoli-Ngoy 18 FW Emmanuel Gonzalez 19 FW Juan Zapata

National Premier Leagues First Grade squad

As of 15 March 2016 ^[3]

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

No. Position Player GK Duro Dragicevic GK Nicholas Sorras DF Max Burgess DF Patrick Flottman DF Cristian Gonzalez DF Liam McGing DF George Timotheou DF Christian Trovato MF Daniel Araujo MF Daniel Arzani MF Aaron Avery

No. Position Player MF Brendan Curtis MF Matthew Green MF Lachlan Hughes MF Nicola Kuleski MF Yianni Spyrakis MF Chris Zuvela FW Bai Antoniou FW Emmanuel Gonzalez FW Charles Lokoli-Ngoy FW Daniel Maskin FW Tom Slater

National Premier Leagues U-20's squad

As of 15 March 2016 ^[4]

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

No. Position Player GK Mitch Evans DF Andrea Agamemnonos DF Cooper Coskerie DF Leo Malfara DF Ben Van Meurs MF Chris Arditti MF Finn Ballard-McBride

No. Position Player MF Jay Foster MF John Iredale MF Jordan Koton MF Will Todd FW Sam McIllhatton FW Juan Zapata

Technical staff

Position	Name
Head Coach	Robert Stanton
Assistant Youth Coach	Miro Vlastelica
Goalkeeping Coach	Brody Crane
Physiotherapist	Anthony Demasi
Team Manager	Michael Swibel

Head Coaches

Name	Period	Honours
Steve O'Connor	2008–10	2008–09 NYL
Steve Corica	2010–11
Ian Crook	2011–12
Brian Dene	2012–13
Steve Corica	2013–15	2013–14 NYL
Robert Stanton	2015–present	2015–16 NYL

Seasons

Correct as of the end of the 2015–16 season.

Season	NYL / NPL NSW2											International	Top scorer^1
	Div	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Position	Finals		Player(s)	Goals
2008–09	NYL	18	13	2	3	43	22	+21	41	1st	Champions		Sean Rooney	9
2009–10	NYL	24	11	6	7	43	33	+10	39	5th	DNQ		Kerem Bulut	13
2010–11	NYL	20	9	3	8	36	31	+5	30	4th	N/A		Kofi Danning	8
2011–12	NYL	18	7	4	7	40	31	+9	25	6th	N/A		Mitchell Mallia	11*
2012–13	NYL	18	6	3	9	41	46	–5	21	9th	N/A	3rd	Alec Urosevski	12
2013–14	NYL	18	13	2	3	49	29	+20	41	1st	N/A	2nd	Mitchell Mallia	13
2014–15	NYL	18	8	4	6	40	27	+13	28	4th	N/A	5th	George Blackwood	6
2015–16	NYL	8	6	0	2	21	11	+10	18	1st	Champions		Max Burgess	4
2016	NPL2

¹ Top scorer only includes goals scored from league matches (National Youth League and NYL Finals).

Honours

Domestic

• National Youth League
  • Premiers (3): 2008–09, 2013–14, 2015–16^{[nb 1]}
  • Champions (2): 2008–09, 2015–16

International

• International U-21 Thanh Niên Newspaper Cup
  • Runners-Up (1): 2013
  • Third-place (1): 2012

Notes

1. Conference B.

See also

• Sydney FC

References

1. "Sydney FC and Western Sydney Wanderers take rivalry to new level with plans for youth academies". smh.com.au. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
2. "Sydney FC Academy Expression of Interest". SydneyFC.com. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
3. "National Premier Leagues Squad Confirmed". SydneyFC.com. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
4. "National Premier Leagues Squad Confirmed". SydneyFC.com. Retrieved 14 March 2016.

External links

• Official website