Melbourne Victory Youth
Full nameMelbourne Victory Football Club Youth
Nickname(s)Victory, Victory NYL
Short nameMVC
Founded2008
GroundEpping Stadium
Capacity10,000
ChairmanJohn Dovaston
ManagerJoe Palatsides
LeagueVictoria Premier League 1
A-League Youth
WebsiteClub website

Melbourne Victory Football Club Youth is the youth system of Melbourne Victory based in Melbourne, Victoria. The team plays in the National Premier Leagues, the second level of Australia's soccer pyramid in Australia. The club also competes in the under-23s Y-League competition.

Youth team history

The team was founded in 2008, as a Melbourne Victory representative team for the inaugural season of the National Youth League competition, along with six other youth squads, and finished a disappointing sixth. The development side has had three managers, Mehmet Durakovic, who was promoted to manager of the senior squad in 2011, and current managers Darren Davies and John Aloisi. Davies led the youth side to its first silverware victory in winning the premiership plate, finishing first on the National Youth League ladder in the 2012-13 season. It would be current club chairman Anthony Di Pietro's first silverware victory as well. On 7 November 2014, it was confirmed that the team would compete in the National Premier Leagues Victoria 1 competition for 2015 season onwards.[1] Victory managed promotion at their first attempt, placing second in the NPL1 East division, going on to beat Moreland Zebras FC in the qualification playoff and then North Geelong Warriors FC in the promotion playoff. For the club's first season in the top tier of football in Victorian state football, Matt Hennessey and Ryan Lambert were signed from Hume City FC and Richmond SC respectively.[2]

Youth/NPL current squad

As of 15 March 2023[3]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Australia AUS Christian Siciliano
3 DF Australia AUS Joshua Inserra
5 DF Australia AUS Franco Lino
8 MF Australia AUS Alexander Menelaou
9 FW Australia AUS Adem Duratovic
10 MF Australia AUS Jordi Valadon
11 FW Australia AUS Timothy Atherinos
12 FW Australia AUS Nathan Stamatelos
13 FW Australia AUS Tommaso Minutoli
14 FW Australia AUS Austin Ganino
16 MF Australia AUS Noah Spaseski
No. Pos. Nation Player
17 FW Australia AUS Alexander Tsimopoulos
19 MF Australia AUS Jack Pope
20 GK Australia AUS James Siekris
21 MF Australia AUS George Karvounis
22 MF Australia AUS Kayne Razmovski
26 MF Australia AUS Alexander Kapaklis
30 GK Australia AUS Ahmad Taleb
41 DF Australia AUS Damien Bozinovski
DF North Macedonia MKD Matthew Bozinovski
DF Australia AUS Jackson Lino

Current staff

Head Coaches:

Joe Palatsides1st Grade Head Coach
Rodrigo VargasU21 Head Coach
Andreas PapanicolaouU18 Head Coach
Joaquín MorenoU16 Head Coach
Matthew SultanaU15 Head Coach
Rob WielaertU14 Head Coach
Tom PatonPre Academy Head Coach
Mark TopicPre Academy Head Coach
Isabella SantilliPre Academy Head Coach
Matt FletcherPre Academy Head Coach
Brad RobertsPre Academy Head Coach
Reide MulhollandPre Academy Head Coach

Staff:

Joe PalatsidesHead of Academy Coaching
Andrew KentepozidisAcademy Operations Manager
Jayden AndersonAcademy Sports Science Lead
Amelia ThomasAcademy Medical Lead
Sebastian BechaudHead of Academy Goalkeeping
Agim SherifovskiAcademy Assistant Coach
Piotr RutkowskiAcademy Assistant Coach
Mark SpiteriPre Academy Head Goalkeeping Coach
Ashley WisneskePre Academy Goalkeeping Coach
Archie ThompsonAcademy Development Coach
Fahid Ben KhalfallahAcademy Development Coach
Gaby GartonAcademy Development Coach
Joey DidulicaAcademy Development Coach
Sasa OgnenovskiAcademy Development Coach

Honours

Youth
  • La Ionica Community Cup
Winners (1): 2015

National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 Premiership

    • Runners-up (1): 2015
Under-23s
Academy

National Premier Leagues Victoria U-18 Premiership

Stadiums

The team play their home matches at Epping Stadium in Melbourne's northern suburb of Epping. The stadium has a total capacity of 10,000, with a single grandstand of approximately 1,000 seats. Past venues used as a home ground by the club have been South Melbourne FC home ground Lakeside Stadium in Albert Park, Bentleigh Greens' Kingston Heath in Cheltenham and Northcote City's John Cain Memorial Park in Thornbury; however, with the side now competing the top division of Victorian football, along with all three of these sides, ground-sharing with any of the sides was not a preferred option, with Epping Stadium providing the club with the facilities required. The team has also played competitive matches at Victory's senior team home venues, AAMI Park and Etihad Stadium.

Former players

This is a list of former Melbourne Victory Youth players, who have played at least 20 A-League competitive matches for the first team.

As of 22 December 2021
NameNationalityPositionMelbourne careerAppearancesGoals
Nick Ansell AustraliaDefender2011–17, 2018–19, 2020–21921
Thomas Deng AustraliaDefender2015–2020712
Mate Dugandzic AustraliaForward2009–11367
Diogo Ferreira AustraliaMidfielder2010–13522
Matthew Foschini AustraliaDefender2009–13530
Petar Franjic AustraliaDefender2010–13310
Scott Galloway AustraliaDefender2013–16541
Jason Geria AustraliaDefender2012–18, 2021–1100
James Jeggo AustraliaMidfielder2011–14302
Mitchell Langerak AustraliaGoalkeeper2007–10210
Dylan Murnane AustraliaDefender2013–16240
Andrew Nabbout AustraliaForward2012–15375
Sebastian Ryall AustraliaDefender2007–09240
Connor Pain AustraliaForward2013–16533
Stefan Nigro AustraliaMidfielder2015–18, 2021–290
  • Bold denotes players still playing in Melbourne Victory
  • Appearances only consist of competitive domestic league appearances

Managerial history

Dates Name Notes Honours
2008 – 12 March 2011 AustraliaMontenegro Mehmet Durakovic Inaugural manager
First dual-nationality manager
First manager to be directly promoted to manager of the senior squad
20 March 2011 – 30 May 2016 Wales Darren Davies[4] First official foreign manager
First manager to earn honours
2012–13 NYL Premiership[5]
30 May 2016 – 22 February 2020[6] AustraliaEngland Gareth Naven[7]

See also

References

  1. "Four More Clubs Granted NPL Licences". foxsportspulse.com. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  2. Kounelis, Jordan. "Kokolakis signs for Richmond, Tom Cahill yet to re-sign". MFootball. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
  3. Melbourne Victory NPL Squad 2023
  4. "Home Page | Football Victoria". 3 October 2018.
  5. "Darren Davies Delighted With NYL Championship Especially For His Boys That Have Been Through The Ups And Downs". Breathing Football.com. 5 March 2013. Archived from the original on 10 April 2013. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
  6. "Gareth Naven returns to Perth". Melbourne Victory FC. 21 February 2020. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  7. "Victory appoints Gareth Naven as NPL/NYL Head Coach". Melbourne Victory. 30 May 2016.
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