KICKOFF 2021 - ROUND 17

ROCKDALE SUNDAY ILINDEN SPORTS 20TH JUNE CENTRE 6.30PM MEN’S PHOTO GALLERY

2 #NPLNSW CORPORATE PARTNERS

NPLNSW.COM.AU 3 1ST GRADE TEAM LISTS

1 Levi Kaye 2 Kieren Paull 2 Cameron Fong 3 James Georgaklis 3 Aaron Gurd 4 Jimmy Oates 5 Tom Fay 5 Sam Gallagher 7 Jack Fulton 6 Thomas Main 8 Dom Ferguson 8 Patrick Yazbek 9 Ben Koop 9 Antonio Saracino 10 Richie Cardozo 10 Jaiden Kucharski 11 Daniel Fabrizio 11 Adrian Segecic 12 Luka Kmet 12 Jake Girdwood-Reich 13 Scott Balderson 14 Aiden Mostofi 14 Dejan Pandurevic 15 Scott Browning 15 Jesse Piriz 17 Jayden Trenkoski 16 Seiya Kambayashi 19 Joseph Calusic 17 Ronan Connolly 20 Max Vartuli 18 Lucas Rainbird 19 Sam Benton (GK) 21 20 Alen Aganovic 22 21 Jordan Segreto 23 Callum Talbot 22 Zach Forsyth 24 23 Jordan Devries 25 Harry van der Saag 24 Finn Ashton 26 Patrick Flottman 31 Ben Gibson 27 Jordan Swibel Head Coach: Adam Griffiths 30 Tom Heward-Belle Assistant Coach: Dylan Macallister Assistant Coach: Marty Judge Goalkeeper Coach: Trinity Allen Head Coach: Jim Van Weeren Physio: Steve Felsher Assistant Coach: Howard Fondyke Team Manager: Ida Rigoni Physio: PHYSIO4ALL – Christian Bate Strength and Conditioning: Alex Berger

Referee: M. Weiner Assistant Referees: A. Giev and M. Allum Fourth Official: L. Jones

*TEAM LISTINGS SUBJECT TO CHANGE MATCH PREVIEW

Sydney FC will be looking to move off the bottom Manly snatched a late victory against APIA in round of the ladder with a win against Manly United on 16 to make it back-to-back wins for the Northern Sunday night at Rockdale Ilinden Sports Centre. Beaches club. The Young Sky Blues suffered a heartbreaking 1-0 Coach Adam Griffiths has his Manly side firing on loss to Sydney Olympic after conceding deep in all cylinders and made them one of the toughest added time. teams to beat, especially at their Cromer Park home ground. Despite the loss, Sydney FC has shown improvement in recent weeks and coach Jim van Weeren will want While they won’t have the comforts of home this to inspire his troops to a much-needed win. week, Manly will be just as much of a handful. Cameron Fong starred last week and made a brilliant Luka Kmet and Jordan Devries were on the goal-line save to keep his side in the contest. scoresheet last week with the young attackers continuing their recent form. Another player who has impressed recently has been Thomas Fay who has been a solid presence in Goalkeeper Sam Benton suffered an injury last week the middle of the park over the past few weeks. and could face time on the sideline with youngster Jacob Madden stepping in. Van Weeren will need all his players to step up this week if they are to take home the three points. Manly will be favourites for this match as they look to continue their climb up the competition ladder. They will be up against a Manly United side flying high in third position on the ladder.

1ST GRADE LADDER

POS TEAM P W D L F A GD PTS 1 Blacktown City FC 16 10 3 3 33 15 18 33 2 Sydney United 58 FC 16 9 4 3 30 16 14 31 3 Manly United FC 16 7 5 4 22 21 1 26 4 Rockdale Ilinden FC 16 6 6 4 27 22 5 24 5 Sydney Olympic FC 16 7 3 6 22 18 4 24 6 Wollongong Wolves FC 16 6 4 6 23 32 -9 22 7 APIA Leichhardt FC 16 6 3 7 20 20 0 21 8 Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 16 5 5 6 20 25 -5 20 9 Marconi Stallions FC 16 2 10 4 23 25 -2 16 10 Northbridge Bulls FC 16 3 6 7 31 30 1 15 11 Sutherland Sharks FC 16 3 5 8 17 29 -12 14 12 Sydney FC 16 3 4 9 27 42 -15 13

NPLNSW.COM.AU 5 FIRST GRADE REVIEWS

Sydney Olympic 1 – Sydney FC 0 at Belmore Manly United 2 – APIA Leichhardt 1 at Cromer Sports Ground Park Yu Hasegawa goal deep into added time has helped A last-gasp header from young gun Jordan Devries Sydney Olympic snatch a dramatic 1-0 win against snatched all three points for Manly United in a hotly- Sydney FC at Belmore Sports Ground on Saturday. contested 2-1 victory over fellow finals aspirants APIA Leichhardt at Cromer Park on Friday night. Hasegawa headed home from a Michael Glassock cross in the 93rd minute to give Olympic their The young attacker’s late heroics ensured Paul Dee’s second win on the trot and extend their unbeaten return to Cromer Park was not a positive one and run to four. prevented APIA from climbing into the top five for the first time this season. It was a heartbreaking result for the Young Sky Blues, who had their chances to take the lead throughout In a tit-for-tat battle, the sides were level at the the second half but paid the price for their poor interval as Blake Powell’s fourth goal of the season finishing. cancelled out Luca Kmet’s opener. The result boosts Olympic’s finals hopes with another vital three competition points with only six games left to play in the regular season.

OFFICIAL MATCH BALL OF NPL NSW

PURCHASE FROM:

6 #NPLNSW TOP GOAL SCORERS

Patrick Antelmi Sydney United 58 13 Alec Urosevski Rockdale Illinden 11 Travis Major Blacktown City 10 Kyle Cimenti Northbridge Bulls 9 James Andrew Sutherland Sharks 8 Jack Stewart Mt Druitt Town Rangers 8 Marko Jesic Marconi 8 Dejan Pandurevic Manly United 7 Leroy Jennings Wollongong Wolves 6 Chris Payne Sydney United 58 6 Patrick Antelmi Mo Adam Sydney Olympic 6 Lachlan Scott Wollongong Wolves 6

NPLNSW.COM.AU 7 U20 TEAM LISTS

4 Nathan Grimaldi Lachlan Mills 7 Aidan Simmons Nathan Paull 13 Clayton Taylor Nikola Skataric 16 Stevan Stanic-Floody Phillip Gigliotti 18 Oscar Priestman Aleksandar Duricic Corey Hollman Andrew Vlahadamis Hunter Elliott Brae Ovens Kai Kamikura Hayden Matthews

Coach: Howard Fondyke *Sydney FC have indicated that all Under 20’s Assistant Coach: Liam Fitz-Gerald shirt numbers will change weekly.

25 Harry Aquilina 32 George Kriezis 26 Jack Berte 34 Harry Lomas 27 Hugo Cornish 36 Matt O’Donoghue 28 Tom Chidiac 37 Nick Rainbird 29 Alex Demarco 38 Ping Tsai 30 Harry Eland 39 Liam Tachjian 31 Ben Gibson 40 Mitch Mattison Head Coach: Andrew Christiansen Physio: Steve Felsher Assistant Coach: Nick Robb

U20 LADDER

POS TEAM P W D L F A GD PTS 1 Manly United FC 16 12 0 4 34 16 18 36 2 Sydney Olympic FC 16 8 3 5 28 17 11 27 3 Sydney FC 16 7 6 3 19 11 8 27 4 Wollongong Wolves FC 16 8 2 6 28 25 3 26 5 Blacktown City FC 16 7 3 6 32 18 14 24 6 Marconi Stallions FC 16 7 3 6 26 19 7 24 7 Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 16 7 3 6 32 32 0 24 8 Sutherland Sharks FC 16 6 3 7 24 28 -4 21 9 Sydney United 58 FC 16 5 3 8 27 38 -11 18 10 APIA Leichhardt FC 16 4 4 8 20 31 -11 16 11 Northbridge Bulls FC 16 4 3 9 20 30 -10 15 12 Rockdale Ilinden FC 16 2 5 9 15 37 -22 11

8 #NPLNSW CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP

CLUB PLAYED U20’s 1st TOTAL Blacktown City FC 32 48 132 180 Manly United FC 32 72 104 175 Sydney United 58 FC 32 36 124 160 Sydney Olympic FC 32 54 96 150 Wollongong Wolves FC 32 52 88 140 Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC 32 42 80 122 Rockdale Ilinden FC 32 22 96 118 APIA Leichhardt FC 32 32 84 116 Marconi Stallions FC 32 48 64 112 Sydney FC 32 60 52 112 Sutherland Sharks FC 32 42 56 98 Northbridge Bulls FC 32 30 60 90

Club championships for all NPL Men’s and Women’s are available online: Men’s: https://mens.nplnsw.com.au/club-championship/ Women’s: https://womens.nplnsw.com.au/club-championship-nsw-womens/

NEXT ROUND FIXTURES SUTHERLAND SHARKS FC VS WOLLONGONG WOLVES FC VS SYDNEY FC SYDNEY UNITED 58 FC 3:30 PM / SAT 26 JUN 2:30 PM / SUN 27 JUN SEYMOUR SHAW ALBERT BUTLER MEMORIAL PARK

MARCONI STALLIONS FC VS ROCKDALE ILINDEN FC VS APIA LEICHHARDT FC NORTHBRIDGE BULLS FC 6:00 PM / SAT 26 JUN 3:00 PM / SUN 27 JUN MARCONI STADIUM ROCKDALE ILINDEN SPORTS CENTRE

MT DRUITT TOWN RANGERS FC VS SYDNEY OLYMPIC FC VS BLACKTOWN CITY FC MANLY UNITED FC 7:00 PM / SAT 26 JUN 4:00 PM / SUN 27 JUN POPONDETTA PARK BELMORE SPORTS GROUND

NPLNSW.COM.AU 9 PHOTO GALLERY PHOTO GALLERY

NPLNSW.COM.AU 11 2021 HOME FIXTURES HOME GROUND - Ilinden Sports Centre 468 West Botany St, Rockdale sydneyfc.com

ROUND 3 14/03/21 (Sun) 18:30 Northbridge Bulls FC ROUND 5 28/03/21 (Sun) 18:30 Sydney Olympic FC ROUND 7 11/04/21 (Sun) 18:30 Sutherland Sharks FC ROUND 8 18/04/21 (Sun) 18:30 APIA Leichhardt FC ROUND 10 02/05/21 (Sun) 18:30 Wollongong Wolves FC ROUND 12 16/05/21 (Sun) 18:30 Marconi Stallions FC ROUND 13 23/05/21 (Sun) 18:30 Sydney United 58 FC ROUND 15 06/06/21 (Sun) 18:30 Mt Druitt Town Rangers FC ROUND 17 20/06/21 (Sun) 18:30 Manly United FC ROUND 20 11/07/21 (Sun) 18:30 Blacktown City FC ROUND 22 25/07/21 (Sun) 15:00 Rockdale Ilinden FC

FOR MORE INFO VISIT NPLNSW.COM.AU FACEBOOK.COM/NPLNSW #NPLNSW

F/SydneyFootballClub I @sydneyfootballclub T @SydneyFC W sydneyfc.com