Melbourne Victory FC Youth

Melbourne Victory Football Club Youth is the youth system of Melbourne Victory based in Melbourne, Victoria. The team players in the National Premier Leagues, the second level of Australia's soccer pyramid in Australia. The club also competes in the under-23s Y-League competition.

Melbourne Victory Youth
Full nameMelbourne Victory Football Club Youth
Nickname(s)Victory, Victory NYL
Short nameMVC
Founded2008
GroundEpping Stadium
Capacity10,000
ChairmanAnthony Di Pietro
ManagerJoe Palatsides
LeagueNPL Victoria 3
A-League Youth
WebsiteClub website
Active departments of Melbourne Victory FC
Football
(Men's)		 Football
(Men's Youth)		 Football
(Women's)		 Football
(Women's AWT)

Youth team history

The team was founded in 2008, as a Melbourne Victory representative team for the inaugural season of the National Youth League competition, along with six other youth squads, and finished a disappointing sixth. The development side has had three managers, Mehmet Durakovic, who was promoted to manager of the senior squad in 2011, and current managers Darren Davies and John Aloisi. Davies led the youth side to its first silverware victory in winning the premiership plate, finishing first on the National Youth League ladder in the 2012-13 season. It would be current club chairman Anthony Di Pietro's first silverware victory as well. On 7 November 2014, it was confirmed that the team would compete in the National Premier Leagues Victoria 1 competition for 2015 season onwards.[1] Victory managed promotion at their first attempt, placing second in the NPL1 East division, going on to beat Moreland Zebras FC in the qualification playoff and then North Geelong Warriors FC in the promotion playoff. For the club's first season in the top tier of football in Victorian state football, Matt Hennessey and Ryan Lambert were signed from Hume City FC and Richmond SC respectively.[2]

Youth/NPL current squad
As of 1 May 2022

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  AUS Christian Siciliano
2 DF  AUS Zaydan Bello
3 FW  AUS Ryan Lethlean
4 DF  AUS Aaron Anderson
5 DF  AUS Jackson Lino
6 MF  AUS Anthony Leban
7 FW  AUS Darcy Anastovski
8 MF  AUS Luka Prso
9 FW  AUS Binyam Kebede
10 MF  AUS Alexander Menelaou
No. Pos. Nation Player
11 FW  AUS Kasper Hallam
12 FW  AUS Adem Duratovic
13 MF  AUS William Wilson
14 MF  AUS Jay Barnett
16 MF  AUS James Paneras
17 MF  AUS Lleyton Brooks
20 GK  AUS James Siekris
— DF  AUS Aydin Mustedanagic
— MF  AUS Stefan Ristic

Current staff
Position Staff
Team Senior Manager Joe Palatsides
Coach Jonathan Maclou
Assistant Coach Agim Sherifovski
Goalkeeping Coach Vacant
Physiotherapist Vacant

Source:

Honours
Youth
  • La Ionica Community Cup
Winners (1): 2015

National Premier Leagues Victoria Premiership

    • Runners-up (1): 2015
Under-23s
Academy

National Premier Leagues Victoria U-18 Premiership

Stadiums

The team play their home matches at Epping Stadium in Melbourne's northern suburb of Epping. The stadium has a total capacity of 10,000, with a single grandstand of approximately 1,000 seats. Past venues used as a home ground by the club have been South Melbourne FC home ground Lakeside Stadium in Albert Park, Bentleigh Greens' Kingston Heath in Cheltenham and Northcote City's John Cain Memorial Reserve in Thornbury; however, with the side now competing the top division of Victorian football, along with all three of these sides, ground-sharing with any of the sides was not a preferred option, with Epping Stadium providing the club with the facilities required. The team has also played competitive matches at Victory's senior team home venues, AAMI Park and Etihad Stadium.

Former players

This is a list of former Melbourne Victory Youth players, who have played at least 20 A-League competitive matches for the first team.

As of 22 December 2021
NameNationalityPositionMelbourne careerAppearancesGoals
Nick Ansell AustraliaDefender2011–17, 2018–19, 2020–21921
Thomas Deng AustraliaDefender2015–2020712
Mate Dugandzic AustraliaForward2009–11367
Diogo Ferreira AustraliaMidfielder2010–13522
Matthew Foschini AustraliaDefender2009–13530
Petar Franjic AustraliaDefender2010–13310
Scott Galloway AustraliaDefender2013–16541
Jason Geria AustraliaDefender2012–18, 2021–1100
James Jeggo AustraliaMidfielder2011–14302
Mitchell Langerak AustraliaGoalkeeper2007–10210
Dylan Murnane AustraliaDefender2013–16240
Andrew Nabbout AustraliaForward2012–15375
Sebastian Ryall AustraliaDefender2007–09240
Connor Pain AustraliaForward2013–16533
Stefan Nigro AustraliaMidfielder2015–18, 2021–290
  • Bold denotes players still playing in Melbourne Victory
  • Appearances only consist of competitive domestic league appearances

Managerial history
Dates Name Notes Honours
2008 – 12 March 2011 Mehmet Durakovic Inaugural manager
First dual-nationality manager
First manager to be directly promoted to manager of the senior squad
20 March 2011 – 30 May 2016 Darren Davies[3] First official foreign manager
First manager to earn honours		 2012–13 NYL Premiership[4]
30 May 2016 – 22 February 2020[5] Gareth Naven[6]

See also

References
  1. "Four More Clubs Granted NPL Licences". foxsportspulse.com. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  2. Kounelis, Jordan. "Kokolakis signs for Richmond, Tom Cahill yet to re-sign". MFootball. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
  3. "Home Page | Football Victoria". 3 October 2018.
  4. "Darren Davies Delighted With NYL Championship Especially For His Boys That Have Been Through The Ups And Downs". Breathing Football.com. 5 March 2013. Archived from the original on 10 April 2013. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
  5. "Gareth Naven returns to Perth". Melbourne Victory FC. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  6. "Victory appoints Gareth Naven as NPL/NYL Head Coach". Melbourne Victory. 30 May 2016.
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