Melbourne Victory Youth

Full name	Melbourne Victory Football Club Youth
Nickname(s)	Victory, Victory NYL
Short name	MVC
Founded	2008
Ground	Epping Stadium
Capacity	10,000
Chairman	John Dovaston
Manager	Joe Palatsides
League	Victoria Premier League 1 A-League Youth
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Active departments of Melbourne Victory FC
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Melbourne Victory Football Club Youth is the youth system of Melbourne Victory based in Melbourne, Victoria. The team plays 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.

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 15 March 2023^[3]

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 3 DF  AUS Joshua Inserra 5 DF  AUS Franco Lino 8 MF  AUS Alexander Menelaou 9 FW  AUS Adem Duratovic 10 MF  AUS Jordi Valadon 11 FW  AUS Timothy Atherinos 12 FW  AUS Nathan Stamatelos 13 FW  AUS Tommaso Minutoli 14 FW  AUS Austin Ganino 16 MF  AUS Noah Spaseski

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 FW  AUS Alexander Tsimopoulos 19 MF  AUS Jack Pope 20 GK  AUS James Siekris 21 MF  AUS George Karvounis 22 MF  AUS Kayne Razmovski 26 MF  AUS Alexander Kapaklis 30 GK  AUS Ahmad Taleb 41 DF  AUS Damien Bozinovski — DF  MKD Matthew Bozinovski — DF  AUS Jackson Lino

Current staff

Head Coaches:

Staff:

Honours

Youth

• La Ionica Community Cup

Winners (1): 2015

National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 Premiership

• • Runners-up (1): 2015

Under-23s

• Y-League Premiership
  • Premiers (1): 2012–13

Academy

• National Premier Leagues Victoria U-20 Premiership
  • Premiers (1): 2015

• National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 U-20 Premiership
  • Premiers (2): 2017, 2019
  • Runners-up (1): 2018

National Premier Leagues Victoria U-18 Premiership

• • Premiers (1): 2019

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 Park 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

Name	Nationality	Position	Melbourne career	Appearances	Goals
Nick Ansell	Australia	Defender	2011–17, 2018–19, 2020–21	92	1
Thomas Deng	Australia	Defender	2015–2020	71	2
Mate Dugandzic	Australia	Forward	2009–11	36	7
Diogo Ferreira	Australia	Midfielder	2010–13	52	2
Matthew Foschini	Australia	Defender	2009–13	53	0
Petar Franjic	Australia	Defender	2010–13	31	0
Scott Galloway	Australia	Defender	2013–16	54	1
Jason Geria	Australia	Defender	2012–18, 2021–	110	0
James Jeggo	Australia	Midfielder	2011–14	30	2
Mitchell Langerak	Australia	Goalkeeper	2007–10	21	0
Dylan Murnane	Australia	Defender	2013–16	24	0
Andrew Nabbout	Australia	Forward	2012–15	37	5
Sebastian Ryall	Australia	Defender	2007–09	24	0
Connor Pain	Australia	Forward	2013–16	53	3
Stefan Nigro	Australia	Midfielder	2015–18, 2021–	29	0

• 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[4]	First official foreign manager First manager to earn honours	2012–13 NYL Premiership[5]
30 May 2016 – 22 February 2020[6]	Gareth Naven[7]

See also

• Melbourne Victory FC
• Melbourne Victory FC (W-League)

References

External links

• Official website