The NSW League One Men is an Australian semi-professional
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
league comprising teams from
New South Wales
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. The league sits at Level 2 on the New South Wales league system, behind the
National Premier Leagues NSW
The National Premier Leagues NSW is a semi-professional soccer competition in New South Wales, Australia. The competition is conducted by Football NSW, the organising body in New South Wales (the other being the National Premier Leagues Northern ...
, (Level 3 of the overall
Australian league system). The competition is administered by
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 ...
, the governing body of the sport in the southern region of the state (the northern region governed by
Northern NSW Football
Northern NSW Football (NNSWF) is the governing body of soccer in the north of New South Wales, Australia. It is a member of the national governing body, Football Australia. The Federation was established the 9 September 1884 as the Northern Dist ...
). Prior to 2013, the league was formerly known as the NSW Super League and in 2022 seasons onwards, the league name change again from National Premier Leagues NSW 2 to NSW League One.
History
Following a review by the FFA of state league competitions in Australia, it was announced that they would nationalise the competitions under the one national banner, 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 ...
from the 2013 seasons onwards.
This saw the first and second-tier leagues of the state renamed under the banner.
The inaugural NSW NPL2 winners in 2013 were
St George FC
St George FC, commonly called Saints or Budapest, is a semi-professional Australian soccer club based in the St George district in the south of Sydney. The club was founded by Hungarian immigrants in 1957 as Budapest Club and by 1965 was renam ...
.
Format
The regular season consists of 26 rounds with each team playing each other twice-home and away. Following the regular season the top six teams on the table play in a finals series using the following format:
* First week –
preliminary semi-final – 2nd vs 3rd +
elimination semi-final – 4th vs 5th
* Second week –
major semi-final – 1st vs winner PSF +
minor semi-final – loser PSF vs winner ESF
* Third week –
preliminary final – loser of MJF vs winner of MNS
* Final week –
grand final – winner of MJF vs winner of PF
Promotion/relegation
Up to the 2019 season, promotion and relegation was based on the Club Championship table (for the performances of the Seniors, U20 and U18 teams).
Due to a restructure of men's and boys' competitions for the 2020 season, 2019 was the last season that the Club Championship determined the teams for promotion and relegation.
Clubs
The following 16 clubs competed in the NSW League One Men during the 2023 season.
Seasons
Source
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Honours
Notes
References
External links
Football NSW League One Official
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