Abbreviation FNSW Headquarters Valentine Sports Park | Legal status Active Location Sydney | |
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Formation 2005 (1957 as Soccer NSW) Type State Sporting Association | ||
Football NSW is the governing body for soccer 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 National Premier Leagues NSW. The premier futsal competition is the Futsal Premier League. Prior to 1 April 2007, Football NSW was known as Soccer NSW.
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History
The New South Wales federation was founded 1882 as the "South British Football Soccer Association". It was succeeded in 1898 by the "New South Wales British Football Association", which was succeeded in 1921 by the "Australian Soccer Association", which was itself succeeded in 1957 by the "New South Wales Federation of Soccer Clubs".
Headquarters
The headquarters of Football NSW are located at Valentine Sports Park, Glenwood. 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.
Football
The majority of Football NSW's time goes into the football competitions they oversee and run. Football NSW oversees the running of numerous representative youth, Men's & Women's association football leagues and cups, a number of which are non-amateur. They also oversee the countless club and amateur competitions run by the affiliated 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.
Futsal
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.
National Premier Leagues and NSW State League clubs
Below are listed the member clubs of Football NSW for the National Premier Leagues and NSW State League competitions for 2016.
Associations and Branches
As one of two state governing body for football in New South Wales, Football NSW oversees all aspects of the sport within the southern part of the state. At a local level, Football NSW works with 16 regional-based constituent association members which oversee in all aspects of the sport within their respected region. Three Football NSW branches also exist in a similar capacity.
Past League Winners
The sections below list previous league winners. League winners are listed as first place in the standings at the end of the regular section, not winners of the finals series (when held).
1957–1958
The first season of the newly formed Soccer NSW began with two divisions. Canterbury-Marrickville were the inaugural premiers of Division One.
1959–1962
After two seasons, a third division was added.
1963–1970
Division Three disbanded to form lower grade Amateur Leagues.
1971–1976
Amateur Leagues/Inter suburban leagues reformed to create another Division Three.
1977–1978
Another division was then added in 1977, creating four divisions.
1979–1982
The top four divisions were renamed for a few seasons.
1983–1988
State League reverted back to Division One naming, while Division Three disbanded back to lower Inter Urban leagues, leaving three premier divisions.
1989–1991
Division Four was re-introduced.
1992–2000
Again the premier division was renamed, this time to the "Super League". Lower divisions were renamed accordingly from Division One.
2000–2012
2000 saw another shake-up of the league structures. The Super League was brought forward to become a summer competition and be aligned with the National Soccer League (NSL). It was called the "Premier League". Division One was then changed to the "Winter Super League", starting and finishing in 2001. Divisions Two and Three were renamed States League 1 and 2 respectively, and were also conducted over the winter of 2001. During the demise of the NSL and rise of the A-League, the Premier League reverted back to playing over winter for the 2006 season. This meant there was approximately nine months break between competitions.
2013–2015
Another overhaul of the league structure occurred with the introduction of the nation-wide National Premier Leagues. State Federations were required to name their premier leagues as such. For Football NSW, the meant the "Premier League" was to be called "National Premier Leagues NSW" instead. The "Super League" also had to follow suit, becoming the "National Premier Leagues NSW 2". State Leagues remained the same.
2016–present
Another minor change occurred for the 2016 season, with State League 1 adopting the "NPL NSW 3 moniker", thus State League 2 was reverted to simply State League.