Football NSW

The first soccer association in New South Wales was the "South British Football Soccer Association", formed in 1882. It was succeeded in 1898 by the "New South Wales British Football Association" and eventually, in 1921, by the "Australian Soccer Football Association".

The first state competition in New South Wales was formed in 1928. By 1943, an association was formed to oversee the competition, called "New South Wales Soccer Football Association", which was incorporated as a company in 1945.^[3][4]

By 1957, many clubs in New South Wales were left disgruntled by the way soccer was organised by the NSW Soccer Football Association, due to numerous factors. Some migrant communities had created their own clubs when they were faced with closed doors by already established suburban clubs.^[5] After a meeting led by Hakoah president, Walter Sternberg in his Bellevue Hill home, a new association was formed, called the NSW Federation of Soccer Clubs. This federation displaced the former NSW Soccer Football Association.^[3][5][4]

The events of 1957 also led to a change in management nationally. With the Australian Soccer Football Association (ASFA) suspended by FIFA over player poaching disputes and the creation of Federations in other states, the Australian Soccer Federation (ASF) was created in 1961 to replace the old association. However, the ASF gained FIFA affiliation and recognition only after it paid ASFA's £5000 penalty bond to FIFA in 1963.^[4]

In 1995, "Soccer Australia Limited" replaced the "Australian Soccer Federation" and so the New South Wales federation was renamed "Soccer NSW Limited".^[4] In 2005, Soccer Australia Limited changed its name to "Football Federation Australia".^[4] and, on 1 April 2007, Soccer NSW changed its name to "Football NSW".^[1]

The headquarters of Football NSW are located at Valentine Sports Park, Glenwood. Valentine Sports Park is a multipurpose sporting complex which caters for various groups, as well as individuals. The complex consists of twin, triple and quad rooms accommodating up to 180 people, 5 playing fields, lecture rooms, indoor sports hall, 20 metre outdoor pool, sports medicine centre and a dining room open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It also contains the offices of the Football NSW staff.

See Football (soccer) in New South Wales. Football NSW oversees numerous representative youth, men's and women's soccer competitions and cups, a number of which are non-amateur. It also oversees numerous club and amateur competitions run by the affiliated associations around the state.

Football NSW also operates two Futsal competitions, the "Futsal Premier League" (Known as the CARBIZ Futsal Premier League for sponsorship reasons) and the "Futsal Premier League 2" (Known as the CARBIZ FPL2). Originally there was only one representative competition with 16 teams. In the 2006/07 season the competition was split into 2 separate divisions of 8 teams each. In the 2007/08 season the top 8 clubs in the club championship (aggregate points of all teams) from that season were put in the First Division while the last 8 were put in the second division. In 2026, there are 8 premier league teams and 8 premier league 2 teams. The Current season format is a 14 week regular season with a 2 week finals series. It has usually started in mid-September and ended before Christmas with the first few rounds overlapping with the A Leagues and youth leagues finals.

Listed below are the men's all member clubs of Football NSW for the National Premier Leagues competitions and Football NSW League One and Two for 2026.

There are four men's competition levels in NSW, with promotion and relegation between the top 3 levels. It includes the Sydney Amateur League, which is not formally part of the competition system. In total, there are 259 clubs/teams across 28 divisions in New South Wales.

The women's soccer pyramid in New South Wales comprises 3 levels, with promotion and relegation between the top 2 levels.

As one of two organising bodies for soccer in New South Wales, Football NSW operates within the southern part of the state. At a local level, Football NSW works with 15 regional-based constituent association members which operate within their respected region. Three regional Football NSW branches exist.^[7]

Branches^[10]

• Southern NSW Football
• Football Riverina
• Western NSW Football

The sections below list previous league winners. League winners are listed as first place in the standings at the end of the regular section, not winners of the finals series (when held).