The 2023 NPL NSW Men's is the eleventh season of

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in New South Wales under the banner of the National Premier Leagues and the first season under the revised competition format. The season began on 3 February 2023 and is scheduled to conclude on 27 August.

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are the defending premiers and Blacktown City are the defending champions.

Promotion and relegation

Teams promoted from the 2022 NSW League One *

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* Western Sydney Wanderers Youth * NWS Spirit FC

Stadiums and locations

Managerial changes

Foreign players

The following do not fill a Visa position:
¹Those players who were born and started their professional career abroad but have since gained Australian citizenship
²Australian citizens who have chosen to represent another national team;

Regular Season

The 2023 season is a double round-robin format, with each team playing 30 games. The season started on 3 February, and is scheduled to conclude on 27 August.

Table

Fixtures and results

Festival of Football

The 3rd edition of the Festival of Football was set on the 23rd of April between 9am to 9pm and featured Inner West rivals and former NSL clubs APIA Leichhardt and

with their youths, women and men squads playing against each other. Additionally, a legends match was also included, which featured former players such as

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, Milan Blagojevic, John Buonavoglia,

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, Peter Katholos,

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, Robbie Hooker, Zlatko Nastevski and

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. The 1st Grade Men's team featured at 6pm at

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for Round 12 of the National Premier Leagues NSW. Prior to the match APIA remained unbeaten in all eleven previous league matches whilst Olympic won two out of their last five games.

Relegation play-offs

''All times are

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( UTC+10).''

First leg

Second leg

''St George FC won 2–1 on aggregate. Therefore, St George are promoted to the NSW NPL, while Mt Druitt Town are relegated to the FNSW League One.''

Regular season statistics

Top scorers

Hat-tricks

;Notes *⁴ Player scored 4 goals *(H) – Home team *(A) – Away team

References

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