[size=7]Four More Clubs Granted NPL Licences[/size]


Football Federation (FFV) wishes to advise that Moreland City, Eastern Lions and the Melbourne Victory and Melbourne City National Youth League clubs have been accepted into the Playstation 4 National Premier Leagues (NPL) Victoria competition.

The four clubs will compete in the PS4 NPL 1 (second division) in 2015, and will be joined by fellow newcomers Murray United and Nunawading City.

As State League 1 North-West and South-East champions respectively, Moreland City and Eastern Lions took the opportunity to apply for entry into the NPL 1.

Following a thorough review process including club interviews, FFV decided to grant Moreland City and Eastern Lions two-year NPL participation licences to bring them in line with existing NPL clubs.

Melbourne Victory NYL and Melbourne City NYL have also been granted two-year licences.

FFV will announce the league structure for the NPL 1 2015 by Friday November 14, with draft fixtures for both the NPL and NPL 1 2015 competitions to be supplied to clubs by the end of November.

Would have been awesome if Preston went up. They have support at least!

Bendigo away ;)

While i agree, they are also in serious debt and paying the licence fee up front would be irresponsible.

They have paid off their debt.


Plus Shepperton, Ballarat and Albury away.

You also have fun inner city ones that are easy to get to like Box Hill, Richmond, Bulleen, St Albans and two ex NSL clubs in Sunshine George Cross and Moreland Zebras (Brunswick Juve).

It's going to be a fun year. Can't wait till we get our own facilities so we can host games as well.

Edited by melbourne_terrace: 6/11/2014 11:04:54 PM

Whilst the other states NPL has been successful Victoria continues to send clubs broke.

In what ways is the NPL successful in other states?

How and in what ways is the NPL in Victoria sending clubs broke?

The addition of 6 teams this brings 30 clubs into an NPL model. I also am aware there is a movement to create a parallel body.
What kind of parrallel body do you mean?
There are clubs that are lacking with facilities and it's putting the players safety at risk.
Which Clubs are you speaking about, because I don't know of any?
Games are being played at open fields and they just place pickets around the ground. What a joke. There should only be one NPL league with 14 teams.

This is a joke. Existing clubs were threatened with expulsion if they didn't accept Victory and City being in NPL.

NPL has strict rules for every other club about junior teams being filled, with clubs even being docked points because of it, yet Victory and City can just compete without any of these conditions.

NPL Clubs voted 27-3 to accept the HAL Franchises.

Preston should be in. It's complete bs why they are kept out and I'm not even maco ffs

I'd like to have seen City and Victory Youth teams play at the top NPL level.

I've recently seen South Melbourne play Tassie champs , South Hobart.

South Melbourne weren't that good. In Tassie we expected them to be a lot better. Matt Theodore looked good, but few others did.

If the HAL youth teams had about 3-4 senior players to organise them in the starting eleven , I wonder if they would be competitive in the top NPL division in Victoria?

Preston should be in. It's complete bs why they are kept out and I'm not even maco ffs

At the time when applications were asked for Preston was approx $150K-$200K in debt. They were not in a position to apply.

This year they have paid off all debt and if they have a good season in 2015 they will have money in the bank and maybe get their junior program upto scratch.

Did they apply?

I'd like to have seen City and Victory Youth teams play at the top NPL level.

I've recently seen South Melbourne play Tassie champs , South Hobart.

South Melbourne weren't that good. In Tassie we expected them to be a lot better. Matt Theodore looked good, but few others did.

If the HAL youth teams had about 3-4 senior players to organise them in the starting eleven , I wonder if they would be competitive in the top NPL division in Victoria?

Possibly with 3-4 quality players they would survive, I have seen enough Victory Youth practice matches this year to say they are best served being in NPL1, they can develop at a better level where they can actually dominate games with possesion.
Being in NPL they will be forced to play a much more counter attacking and defensive football.

I would have thought they did but if I recall, they werent in a promotion position regardless. The argument will go on for another day

Does this mean the City and Victory NYL teams are eligible for the FFA cup?

So potentially the could play their senior teams in a fixture?

The interesting thing will be what grounds they both use to play home matches. Currently both seem to use a variety of grounds for NYL season matches from what I have seen.