KICKOFF ROUND 16 • LILY SUNDAY HOMES STADIUM V 25TH JUNE 2017

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n behalf of Blacktown City FC, we would The 18s recorded a 2-0 victory, their second Olike to welcome our members, supporters, win on the trot. Coach Nick Verdos said that he and players to our home ground Lily Homes was very happy with the win and the players Stadium for today’s Round 16 match against fought hard, he also said that the side is gaining Sydney FC. momentum at the right time of the season.

To our Under 9s players who are acting as ball In other news, the club will be holding its annual boys & also to the parents who are volunteering corporate night and would like to invite parents, a big thank you from the club. members and supporters to the evening First Grade recorded a 3-1 win last week against that will be held on Friday 28th of July at Lilys Wollongong Wolves FC. Coach Mark Crittenden Function Centre. For more information you can said that he was pleased with the victory and contact our office on 9674 5763 and speak with happy with the boys performances considering Chris to reserve your tickets. most of the players were backing up from We would also like to welcome Peter Cjeka & Wednesday night’s match. He also Tomi Romic to our club. We wish them all the said that he was pleased that Peter Cjeka scored best for the rest of the season. his first goal for the club. Again thanks to all our sponsors and partners On Wednesday 14th June we played for their continued support. our Waratah Cup quarter final against Hills Brumbies and the boys recorded a Best of luck to our Youth teams who are playing comprehensive 5-0 victory despite the score against Sutherland Sharks FC and also our SAP being 0-0 at half time. We now play APIA in teams who are playing against Hawkesbury City the semi-finals at Lily Homes Stadium on FC this weekend. Wednesday 28th June at 7.30pm. Enjoy a great day of football and we hope to Our 20s had a 2-0 victory against Wollongong see you again at our next home game in Round Wolves. Coach John Carnevale said it was a 18 on Sunday 16th July, when we host Sydney great response from the side considering their Olympic FC. loss the week before against Bonnyrigg White Eagles. He also said that it was a very physical Kind Regards match but the boys had set the platform in the Chris Michael first half scoring 2 goals and dominating the Business Development & Marketing Manager second half. Blacktown City Football Club

Website: bcfc.com.au Phone: (02) 9674 5763 Twitter: @blacktowncityfc Facebook: fb.com/blacktowncityfc Instagram: @blacktowncityfc

2 MAJOR SPONSORS S B # NAME S B # NAME 1 PRENDERGAST Tristan 1 EVANS Mitchell 3 SPERANZA Giorgio 2 CURTIS Brendan 4 SPERANZA Roberto 3 FLOTTMANN Patrick 5 LYNCH Grant 5 GREEN Matt 6 LEWIS Matt 6 KULESKI Nicola 8 ARAUJO Daniel 7 MASKIN Daniel 9 GIBBS Joey 8 ZAPATA Juan 10 EVANS Connor 10 AVERY Aaron 12 ANDREW James 11 ARDITTI Chris 14 MALLIA Mitchell 12 LOKOLINGOY Charles 17 BEUMIE Lewis 13 MCGING Liam 19 CAIRNCROSS Zach 14 GONZALEZ Cristian 20 ROMIC Tomislav 15 MCILLHATTON Sam 21 CHUN Ken 16 MUTCH William 22 KONAGAYA Yuta 17 ZUVELA Chris 23 CEJKA Peter 18 DEVLIN Cameron 19 IREDALE John 20 HEWARD-BELLE Thomas 21 AGAMEMNONOS Andrea

Coach: Mark Crittenden Head Coach: Rob Stanton Assistant Coach: Luke Roodenburg Asst. Coach: David Zdrilic Manager: Graham Crawhall Manager: Michael Swibel

Referee: C. Young Assistant Referees: N. Backo & D. Horstead 4th Official: T. Plasto FIRST GRADE NPLNSW.COM.AU MATCH

lacktown City FC will look to build on their The young Sky Blues will have a mighty test Blead at the top of the competition ladder ahead of them this week but anything can when they host Sydney FC on Sunday. happen on a football field. Mark Crittenden’s side took advantage of APIA Leichhardt’s shock loss last round to take a three point lead from their nearest rival. Blacktown is in fine form and will pose an almighty challenge to competition new boys Sydney FC. Mitch Mallia, Joey Gibbs and James Andrew have become one of the most potent strike forces in the competition and will once again be the players to watch on Sunday. Sydney FC will need a big performance to challenge at Lily’s Football Centre and they will need to ensure they can remain disciplined for the whole 90 minutes

1ST GRADE - PLAYSTATION 4 NPL NSW MEN’S POS TEAM P W D L F A GD PTS

1 Blacktown City FC 15 11 3 1 31 14 17 36

2 APIA Leichhardt Tigers FC 15 11 0 4 32 13 19 33

3 Sydney Olympic FC 15 9 3 3 25 13 12 30

4 Rockdale City Suns FC 14 8 3 3 29 20 9 27

5 Sydney United 58 FC 15 8 2 5 30 18 12 26

6 Manly United FC 15 7 3 5 35 27 8 24

7 Wollongong Wolves FC 15 7 1 7 19 21 -2 22

8 Hakoah Sydney City East FC 15 4 4 7 21 26 -5 16

9 Sydney FC 15 4 1 10 22 34 -12 13

10 Sutherland Sharks FC 15 4 0 11 21 36 -15 12

11 Bonnyrigg White Eagles FC 15 3 2 10 24 43 -19 11

12 Parramatta FC 14 1 2 11 15 39 -24 5

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Wollongong Wolves FC 1 - Blacktown City FC 3 a WIN Stadium Blacktown City FC were at their ruthless best to defeat Wollongong Wolves 3-1 in a physical PlayStation®4 NSW Men’s fixture at WIN Stadium. The reigning champions are only the second side to win away at Wollongong this season and climbed into top spot on the ladder as goals from Joey Gibbs, Mitchell Mallia and Peter Cejka helped the visitors clinch victory. The hosts were left to rue a slow start for their defeat and a goal from Peter Simonoski proved little consolation when all was said and done.

Sydney FC 2 - Manly United FC 4 at Lambert Park Manly United FC has returned to the winners circle with an entertaining 4-2 PlayStation®4 National Premier Leagues NSW Men’s victory against Sydney FC at Lambert park. A double to Nikola Taneski, as well as goals to Leigh Egger and captain Brendan Cholakian ensured the Northern Beaches side kept in the race for a spot in the top five. For Sydney FC it was a result which could’ve very easily been different with the young Sky Blues taking an early lead through Christian Gonzalez and then equalising with more than 30 minutes to play courtesy of Nikola Kuleski. However, it wasn’t to be for Robbie Stanton’s side with Manly scoring twice late in the match to wrap up the result.

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The CEO’s of the governing bodies for the Stuart Hodge acknowledged the initiative State’s largest club based sport, Northern would encourage more young children to NSW Football (NNSWF) and Football NSW participate in the world’s most popular sport (FNSW) who collectively represent 400,000 across NSW. participants, have applauded today’s “The health and lifestyle benefits of announcement by the State Government participation in sport are well known, both in the NSW Budget to establish a ‘sports for individuals and for communities, so rebate’ and provide additional investment in any initiative that makes more children regional infrastructure. participate in the sport is welcomed by Parents of school aged children across everyone,” Eland said. the State will benefit from the ‘Active Kids “The state bodies applaud the State Rebate’, a new $100 rebate for sporting Government’s initiative in establishing the and fitness related costs announced today Active Kids Rebate, which will greatly assist by Treasurer Dominic Perrottet with $207 parents to encourage their children to adopt million set aside over four years from 2017- active lifestyles. 2018 for families with children in school from early next year. “The rebate will make the State’s largest sport even more accessible as a direct result Northern NSW CEO David Eland and and we anticipate incremental growth to newly appointed Football NSW CEO

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continue in 2018 and beyond,” NNSWF CEO Growth Fund will facilitate much needed David Eland concluded. investment in football facilities throughout Regional NSW. Football has the unique As well as acknowledging the benefits of ability to break down social and cultural the ‘Active Kids Rebate’, Football NSW CEO barriers. The game’s 1000 plus clubs are Stuart Hodge also recognised the valuable committed to serving their communities and commitment by the NSW Government to facilitating opportunities for their members community sports facilities in the Budget, to meet, interact and develop enduring with $1.3 billion allocated to regional friendships,” Hodge concluded. infrastructure. The Active Kids Initiative follows on from the “Football is well positioned to take announcement last week of the $4 million- advantage of the $1.3 billion Regional dollar rollout of defibrillators at sports clubs Growth Fund,” Hodge said. to address the risk of cardiac arrest whilst “The NSW Football Facilities and Advocacy attending sporting events. Unit has identified facility enhancement Furthermore, football will most likely benefit and development projects totalling $330m from the $2 million dollar ‘Modernise through the Future Needs of Football and Optimise Regional Sport’ Initiative in Blueprint. Improving lighting, drainage conjunction with other regional initiatives. and amenities are priorities, particularly in response to the boom in female This shows yet another major win for the participation. Football is committed to ‘world game’ following the overall sport partnering the State Government to ensure participation figures eclipsing 397,000 community football facilities are welcoming, including Northern NSW, as the code inclusive and safe. Good facilities are crucial continues to dominate as being the number to building better communities by improving one played sport in not only NSW but the the quality of life in our regional towns and country. cities. The direct beneficiaries of the newly “Ironically, the Active Kids Rebate has the announced ‘active kids rebate’ will be the potential to place further stress on football 116,290 ALDI MiniRoos youngsters aged 5 to facilities, which in many cases are already 11 years and the 74, 548 Youth footballers bursting at the seams. The $1.3b Regional aged 12 to 17 years.

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23 Samuel HAMILTON 24 Nikola UJDUR 24 Jake MAMONE 25 Jack STEWART 25 Ben PARKINSON 26 Leo MALFARA 26 Mason IRELAND 27 Cooper COSKERIE 27 Anthony GALLO 28 Finn BALLARD-MCBRIDE 29 Lewis FRASER 29 Ben VAN MEURS 30 Adolph KOUDAKPO 31 Paolo BONNANI 31 Lachlan ROSE 32 Harry VAN DER SAAG 32 John AZAR 33 Guiseppe TILIO 33 Isaac DANDAN 34 Perry THOMAS 34 Jarrod DODDS 35 Alex GOLLAN 35 Dan BACHARA 36 Daniel BLACHURA 36 Mark RODIC 40 Jerry SKOTADIS 38 Evan PATRAMANIS 51 David MALISHEV 39 Mason INGRAM Duro DRAGICEVIC

Coach: John Carnevale Head Coach: David Zdrilic Assistant Coach: Andrew Montgomery Assistant Coach: Rob Stanton Manager: Aaron Bywater Manager: Ian McKenzie

UNDER 20s - PLAYSTATION 4 NPL NSW MEN’S POS TEAM P W D L F A GD PTS 1 Sutherland Sharks FC 15 10 2 3 43 17 26 32 2 Blacktown City FC 15 9 2 4 24 16 8 29 3 Sydney FC 15 8 4 3 29 14 15 28 4 APIA Leichhardt Tigers FC 15 8 1 6 38 23 15 25 5 Sydney Olympic FC 15 7 3 5 27 24 3 24 6 Hakoah Sydney City East FC 15 6 2 7 20 20 0 20 7 Sydney United 58 FC 15 6 2 7 19 22 -3 20 8 Bonnyrigg White Eagles FC 15 6 2 7 20 42 -22 20 9 Rockdale City Suns FC 14 5 3 6 13 24 -11 18 10 Wollongong Wolves FC 15 5 2 8 23 29 -6 17 11 Manly United FC 15 4 2 9 29 36 -7 14 12 Parramatta FC 14 2 1 11 13 31 -18 7

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econd plays third in Seven Hills on Sunday It will nevertheless be an intriguing matchup Swhere Blacktown City host Sydney FC in the with some of the season’s standout players like Match of the Round fixture at Lily’s Football City’s Mason Ireland (eight goals from midfield) Centre. and Sydney’s highly rated Sam Mcillhatton (a first grade debutant in last weekend’s defeat to Both sides are looking to close the gap on Manly) sure to catch the eye. competition leaders Sutherland and with only seven rounds of the regular season remaining this clash looms as a potentially decisive one in the premiership race. The match will feature the two best defensive sides in the competition so far with David Zdrilic’s Sky Blues boasting just 14 goals conceded, while hosts Blacktown City are a close second in that category with 16. Blacktown may sense an opportunity to complete a league double over the visitors with Sydney leaking five goals in their last two encounters against fifth-placed Sydney Olympic and struggling Manly United.

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1 Dylan NISKI 1 Tom FAY 2 Alen AGANOVIC 2 Evan TSAKOS 3 Jared DULAURENT 3 Aaron GURD 5 Kristin PEREIRA 4 Phil CANCAR 6 Kye SOARES 5 Mitch MATTISON 7 Suleyman BANGURA 6 Jake HOLLMAN 8 Alex PURVES 7 9 Franco MAYA 8 Leo ABDO 10 Daniel SALINAS 9 Jacob VASILIOU 11 Matthew JOSEPH 10 Rocco CHISARI 12 Mitchell WHALLEY 11 Alex MASCIOVECCHIO 13 Daniel ZAHRA 12 Jay HIRSCHOWITZ 14 Dean PELEKANOS 13 Paolo LAXAMANA 15 Patrick IDAIRE 14 Benjamin KOOP 16 Robert SUDZUM 16 Bailey KUBECKA 28 Harry KHAMIS

Head Coach: Jimmy Van Weeren Coach: Nick Verdos Assistant Coach: Jason Rea Manager: David Bransdon Manager: Richard Paddle

UNDER 18s - PLAYSTATION 4 NPL NSW MEN’S POS TEAM P W D L F A GD PTS 1 Sydney FC 15 12 1 2 42 13 29 37 2 Manly United FC 15 8 4 3 23 17 6 28 3 Sydney United 58 FC 15 8 3 4 25 19 6 27 4 Rockdale City Suns FC 14 8 2 4 32 12 20 26 5 Sutherland Sharks FC 15 7 2 6 24 25 -1 23 6 Wollongong Wolves FC 15 6 3 6 25 17 8 21 7 Blacktown City FC 15 6 2 7 22 15 7 20 8 Parramatta FC 14 5 5 4 17 21 -4 20 9 Hakoah Sydney City East FC 15 3 5 7 19 33 -14 14 10 APIA Leichhardt Tigers FC 15 2 5 8 19 33 -14 11 11 Sydney Olympic FC 15 2 4 9 19 38 -19 10 12 Bonnyrigg White Eagles FC 15 1 6 8 15 39 -24 9

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HOMESUBHEAD GROUND - LILY HOMES STADIUM 5 Quinn Avenue, Blacktown

ROUND 02 SAT 18TH MARCH 2 - 1 VS Sutherland Sharks FC

ROUND 04 SAT 1ST APRIL 2 - 0 Wollongong Wolves FC

ROUND 06 SAT 15TH APRIL 2 - 2 Parramatta FC

ROUND 08 SAT 29TH APRIL 3 - 2 VS Manly United FC

ROUND 11 SUN 21ST MAY 0 - 0 VS Sydney United 58 FC

ROUND 12 SUN 28TH MAY 2 - 0 VS Hakoah Sydney City East FC

ROUND 14 SUN 11TH JUNE 3 - 2 VS Bonnyrigg White Eagles FC

ROUND 16 SUN 25TH JUNE 15:00 VS Sydney FC

ROUND 18 SUN 16TH JULY 15:00 VS Sydney Olympic FC

ROUND 20 SUN 30TH JULY 15:00 VS Rockdale City Suns FC

ROUND 21 SUN 6TH AUGUST 15:00 VS APIA Leichhardt Tigers FC

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