Where are Eastern jets from? Morwell?

Apparently four state league one clubs have missed out.

Football Federation Victoria (FFV) today announces that 30 National Premier Leagues (NPL) licences will be offered to the following clubs/entities commencing this season:

Avondale Heights
Ballarat Red Devils
Bendigo Amateur Soccer League
Bentleigh Greens
Box Hill United
Brunswick City
Dandenong City
Dandenong Thunder
Eastern Lions
FC Bulleen Lions
Goulburn Valley Suns
Green Gully Cavaliers
Heidelberg United
Hume City
Kingston City
Melbourne Knights
Moreland Zebras
North Geelong Warriors
Northcote City
Oakleigh Cannons
Pascoe Vale
Port Melbourne Sharks
Richmond
South Melbourne
Springvale White Eagles
St Albans Saints
Sunshine George Cross
Surf Coast
Werribee City
Whittlesea Ranges
All of these clubs/entities will be required to confirm their participation by returning a signed licence agreement to FFV by 5pm on Wednesday 19 February.

In addition to the licences listed above that will be offered, FFV will offer a licence to Eastern Jets and Border FC to start in the 2015 season.

“FFV recognises the tremendous level of effort and resources required to produce an NPL submission,” FFV President Nick Monteleone said.

“All applicants should be congratulated for their dedication in submitting an application. I would like to also thank the Assessment Panel for its hard work reviewing all 37 applications.

“The NPL will have a positive impact on players, coaches and club development across all of Victoria.”

The competition structure of the NPL will be announced next week, with fixtures to be released on Wednesday 26 February and NPL Rules of Competition on Tuesday 4 March.

FFV has appointed Liam Bentley, its former Competitions Manager, as the Head of NPL Victoria.
http://www.footballfedvic.com.au/index.php?id=17&tx_ttnews[year]=2014&tx_ttnews[month]=02&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=1774&cHash=fb29e773d2e7dc1b9e1fff05075b9c99

Representing Melbournes Eastern Suburbs

i think its nunawading and another team

Thx

No competition structure til next week ha? ffv took the CA$H by the looks. How may clubs will be quivering when they need to sign the licencing agreement by next week? Will the lawyers be back? Hallmarks of a great Underbelly episode...don't you think? Hope it works out though. I just want to see an even competitive league structure for all concerned.

Oh no! How will teams in an elite football competition cope!? If an under 17's team with no coaches in an amateur competition in Ballarat can stump up the cash through it's own players and travel two hours to both Warnambool and Horsham every year can do it I'm sure a National Premier League team can.

Where is Border Fc from?

So no representation from Gippsland, that's a shame.

Also are greater Geelong galaxy gonna submit an application at a later date?

I think it's a squad from Albury / Wadonga.

That's what I thought, but news sites aren't listing it as a regional club.

Hard to say, wouldn't count on it unless one of the two clubs from Geelong give back their licence or can't afford to run their club in the NPLV. Not enough talent in Geelong for three NPLV clubs. With two it will be stretching it!!!

Will try and get someone to send a tweet to them from me.

Of course all these teams listed above have such an abundance of highly skilled,highly talented players IN EACH AGE GROUP that parents will be falling over themselves to pay the big $$$ so they can say their "Elite little Johnny" plays with the best of the best .I can't wait to watch the best of the best in this dogs breakfast of the so called Elite competition .....While somebody in the back room will be counting the cash rolling in ...

Good luck with that. Once they split the league into two divisions you will soon see the same clubs that have been the mainstays of the VPL becoming the mainstays of the NPL. Regional teams, particularly as time goes on and recruitment is more closely linked with locality, will fall to the 2nd tier and stay there.

Honestly we can analyse it til the cows come home Benjamin. IMO they oversubscribed with the licences and there should have only been 24 clubs admitted in two tiers. Two up and two down for the first 3 years. 4 new clubs possibly added in 2015 and then build on the npl requirements in terms of program, admin, $$$ and coaching. If you can't comply you are out and replaced. My question is after 3 years of trying to get this shit off the ground in Victoria, has anything really changed? The clubs listed today would have been similar to what were the initial 44 EOI's in the first process and the licencing agreement is still exactly the same. Mixed feelings from my perspective on today's announcement.

Europe should be a model. Especially for the lower leagues.

The successful clubs or teams are:
Avondale Heights
Ballarat Red Devils
Bendigo Amateur Soccer League
Bentleigh Greens
Box Hill United
Brunswick City
Dandenong City
Dandenong Thunder
Eastern Lions
FC Bulleen Lions
Goulburn Valley Suns
Green Gully Cavaliers
Heidelberg United
Hume City
Kingston City
Melbourne Knights
Moreland Zebras
North Geelong Warriors
Northcote City
Oakleigh Cannons
Pascoe Vale
Port Melbourne Sharks
Richmond
South Melbourne
Springvale White Eagles
St Albans Saints
Sunshine George Cross
Surf Coast
Werribee City
Whittlesea Ranges

Read more at http://www.fourfourtwo.com/au/news/ffv-name-their-npl-clubs#RR7AhZdfvRYsbD9J.99

-PB

Ballarat to join elite state soccer league
By Tim O'Connor Feb. 7, 2014, 3 p.m.

BALLARAT will this afternoon be confirmed as a licence holder in the state's new and elite soccer competition.

The Red Devils are to be named as one of the inaugural clubs to play in the National Premier Leagues model in 2014.


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It has long been thought Ballarat would be successful in gaining a place in the competition and today's confirmation from Football Federation Victoria will be a massive boost for soccer in the region.

The news will follow a host of key appointments at the club, including former Australian goalkeeper Danny Milosevic as football director and A-League championship winner James Robinson as playing manager.

Ballarat was one of almost 40 clubs that lodged applications for a place in the Victorian NPL, which looked as though it would not come to fruition following an announcement late last year that it would not go ahead.

But it will progress after an agreement between FFV and its clubs on a model to be applied and agreement to stop proceedings in the Supreme Court of Victoria.

More or less total agreement on all of that. The only positives are that there's a little more geographical spread and the clubs have all agreed to transition to the requirements of the new league - so in another 2-3 years we'll start seeing genuine benefits from the bottom up... But I'm not going to hold my breath for Shepparton, Ballarat, Surf Coast, etc., to challenge for titles.

Very excited for this now, i don't have a state team and probably won't latch onto one but winter is coming and i've got Bulleen, Box Hill and Richmond all equal distance from me so i'll probably end up going to quite a few of their games against the bigger teams. Plus i get down to torquay a lot so i'll be just as likely to pop into a surf coast game.

Just hoping that the NPLV2 is a statewide division and not silly conferences and that we get match highlights of all NPLV and NPLV2 games put online.

Yeah I think I'll be going to some Torquay matches too, as I don't live too far away. Will be good to finally check out the NPL in person.

Have all these clubs got good enough grounds to met the criteria?

Have we figured out who the hell Borders FC are? Staff team for a bookshop, perhaps?

if you're in the stadium seating business, these are bumper times

Edited by CL: 10/2/2014 08:13:47 AM

Incorrect, EJFC is a stand alone Club that has at its charter the mission to work with all Clubs in the Eastern Suburbs.

Border FC is an Albury/Wadonga consortium I think? Eastern Jets has something to do with Nunawading.

Its all still grey, is there an NPL1 and 2, North-West and South East Division? Some of these grounds are shocking (State1) and not sure if they will last, most are chopped up by mid season. Looks like the FFV just wants the cash and will turn a blind eye to many things.