The

Football NSW Football NSW is the governing body for soccer in the Australian state of New South Wales, with the exception of the northern regions of NSW (the governing body for which is Northern New South Wales Football). Football NSW is a member of the nat ...

2014 season was the second season under the new competition format for state-level

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in New South Wales. The competition consisted of four divisions across the State of

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. The overall premier for the new structure qualified for the

National Premier Leagues The National Premier Leagues (NPL) is a national association football competition in Australia which acts as the second tier of the sport in the country below the A-League. The NPL consists of the highest level state league in each state-based ...

finals series, competing with the other state federation champions in a final knockout tournament to decide the National Premier Leagues Champion for 2014.

League Tables

2014 National Premier League NSW Men's 1

The National Premier League New South Wales 2014 season was played over 22 rounds, from March to August 2014.

Results

Finals

2014 National Premier League NSW Men's 2

The 2014 National Premier League NSW Men's 2 was the second edition of the new NPL NSW 2 as the second level domestic

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competition in

. 12 teams competed, all playing each other twice for a total of 22 rounds, with the top team at the end of the year being promoted to the NPL NSW Men's 1 competition.

Finals

2014 NSW State League Division 1

The 2014 NSW State League Division 1 was the second edition of the State League to be incorporated under the

banner. 12 teams competed, all playing each other twice for a total of 22 rounds. ^NBThe final round match between Northbridge FC and Inter Lions was not played, as it had been postponed and had no effect on the finals series.

Finals

2014 NSW State League Division 2

The 2014 NSW State League Division 2 was the second edition of the State League to be incorporated under the

banner. 9 teams competed, all playing each other twice for a total of 16 matches.

Finals

2014 National Premier League NSW Women's 1

The 2014 National Premier League NSW Women's 1 was the first edition of the new NPL NSW Women's competition to be incorporated under the

banner. 9 teams competed, all playing each other three times for a total of 27 rounds.

Finals

2014 Waratah Cup

Football NSW soccer clubs competed in 2014 for the

Waratah Cup The Waratah Cup is a knockout cup competition in New South Wales, run by the governing body of football in NSW, Football NSW. Teams competing in the Waratah Cup come from the National Premier Leagues NSW, National Premier Leagues NSW 2, Natio ...

. The tournament doubled as the NSW qualifier for the

2014 FFA Cup The 2014 FFA Cup was the inaugural season of the FFA Cup, the main national soccer knockout cup competition in Australia. 631 teams in total from around Australia entered the competition. Only 32 teams competed in the competition proper (Round o ...

, with the top seven clubs progressing to the Round of 32. 100 clubs entered the qualifying phase, with the clubs entering in a staggered format (with NPL and NPL 2 clubs seeded to a later round). The four quarter-final winners were randomly drawn to create the semi-final fixtures of the competition. The competition was won by

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, their 4th title, defeating

Manly United Manly United Football Club is an Australian football club based in the northern beaches area of Sydney. The club competes in the National Premier Leagues NSW and their home ground is Cromer Park, in the suburb of Dee Why, approximately 15 minute ...

by six goals to two. In addition to the three

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clubs (

Central Coast Mariners Central Coast Mariners Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Gosford, on the Central Coast of New South Wales. It competes in the A-League Men, under licence from the Australian Professional Leagues (APL). The Ma ...

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and

Western Sydney Wanderers Western Sydney Wanderers Football Club (colloquially known as Western Sydney, or simply as Wanderers) is an Australian professional soccer club based in the Western Sydney region of Sydney, New South Wales. It competes in the country's premier ...

), seven qualifiers (

Hakoah Sydney City East Maccabi Hakoah Sydney City East FC, commonly known as Maccabi Hakoah, is an Australian semi-professional soccer club based in Sydney, New South Wales. The club was formed in 1939 as Sydney Hakoah by members of Sydney's Jewish community. They pla ...

Parramatta FC Parramatta Football Club, commonly known as Parramatta Melita Eagles or just Melita, are a semi-professional Australian soccer club based in South Granville, New South Wales. The club was established by Maltese migrants in 1956 and played sever ...

Sydney Olympic Sydney Olympic Football Club is an Australian semi-professional association football, soccer club, based in Belmore, New South Wales, Belmore, Sydney, New South Wales, that plays in the National Premier Leagues NSW. The Club was founded as Pan- ...

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and South Coast Wolves) competed in the final rounds of the

. Of these qualifying clubs, only

and

progressed to the Round of 16.

References

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