Jeez Minmi is on a roll. Or are Westlakes and Azzuri not that great?Originally Posted by Wandering
Jeez Minmi is on a roll. Or are Westlakes and Azzuri not that great?
Uni v Olympic
3rd 0-2
Res 3-1
1st 0-2
Suns v Warners Bay
Firsts 4-0
Ressies 4-1
Thirds 0-1
Last edited by Lofty; 02-07-2023 at 12:23 PM.
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Cardiff v Kotara
Firsts 2-2
Ressies 1-1
Thirds 4-0
Credit to Kotara for playing against both Cardiff and Suns yesterday! Big day
Hahaha my apologies! I've said it before, don't drink and forum. Fixed.
It's football, not s***er!!
I?ve watched a lot of footy in my day, them Kotara blokes need to concentrate on playing instead of constant whining to the referee, if you don?t like getting tackled go play tennis, credit to Cardiff who applied good pressure all game.
Kotara & Warners Bay both dropping off a bit the last few weeks. Despite losing yesterday Mayfield have jumped right back into the top 3 race.
Swansea seem to be flying under the radar. They upset the suns recently.
Very surprising that they are 4th. Cardiff out muscled them in the second half. And yes constantly winging to the ref but what can you expect they are a team full of 20 year olds.
The top 5 race and relegation battle is heating up
Rumours are large portion of Bay top squad are sunning their d**ks in the euro sun currently
Major announcement on Zone Football Leagues coming this afternoon..
It's football, not s***er!!
Only going to be one division of Zone League, the top sides will be invited to NNSW NL1 with those who miss out on the the one ZPL to drop off to all age.
Croatia - from their rebirth and the 6th tier of Newy football in 2022, to the 2nd tier in 2 years. All you haters - believe! This is the world game.
Yet they still haven't won a comp. 😂
What was the announcement
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Northern NSW Football and the Joint Interdistrict Zones are delighted to announce the return of promotion and relegation to NNSWF’s senior men’s premier competitions from the 2024 season as well as the connection between NNSWF’s premier competitions and the Zone Football League for the first time. This follows on from the forming of a working group at the beginning of 2023, after the Northern NSW Football board made promotion and relegation a key priority for football in the region.
The new structure for NNSWF’s senior men’s football has been designed to enhance player development, increase overall club development, improve fan engagement and provide more competitive matches. NNSWF will continue to fully administer the NPL Men’s NNSW and HIT106.9 Northern League competitions while the Interdistrict Member Zones, Newcastle Football, Macquarie Football and Hunter Valley Football, will remain responsible for the Zone Football League.
But with the connection of the Zone Football League to NNSWF’s premier competitions there will be a fully- functioning football pyramid in northern NSW for the first time, allowing aspirational clubs to move up to higher levels based on sporting performance.
How it will work
The 12 clubs competing in the 2023 NPL Men’s NNSW will remain in the competition for 2024, while HIT106.9 Northern League One will remain a nine-team competition at this stage.
The Zone Premier League, Zone League One and Zone League Two will remain 12, 10 and 10-team competitions respectively, but will be renamed Zone League One, Zone League Two and Zone League Three.
At the end of the 2024 season, the team that comes 12th in NPL Men’s NNSW will be relegated to HIT106.9 Northern League One, while the team that finishes first in HIT106.9 Northern League One will be promoted to NPL Men’s NNSW.
Promotion Play-off
The team that finishes 11th in NPL Men’s NNSW will join the teams that finish second, third and fourth in HIT106.9 Northern League One in a promotion/relegation play-off series to determine the 12th team in NPL Men’s NNSW in 2025.
This will involve the 11th team from NPL Men’s playing the fourth team from HIT106.9 Northern League One, and the second and third teams from HIT106.9 Northern League One, playing each other in two-legged home and away matches. The two winners will then meet in one match to decide who will play in the NPL Men’s NNSW competition.
Connecting the pyramid
The team that finishes ninth in HIT106.9 Northern League One will not be relegated to Zone League One at the end of 2024 due to the current bye. Relegation from Northern League One will commence from the 2025 season. But the team that finishes first in Zone League One in 2024 will be promoted to HIT106.9 Northern League One to make a 10-team league in 2025.
There will remain five-team finals series’ in the Zone Football League, with a straight one club up/one club down promotion-relegation model to come into effect between Northern League One, Zone League One, Zone League Two and Zone League Three.
Draft League Criteria
With the introduction of Football Australia Club Licencing later this year, the new criteria – which can be found HERE – outlines the minimum base requirements for each level of our football pyramid. The NPL level of this criteria is required to reflect the new National Licensing Criteria for NPL developed in conjunction with Football Australia. As the NPL criteria will be our highest standard, the criteria for all levels will remain in draft form until the national criteria is confirmed.
The criteria focuses on five key areas: sporting, infrastructure, personnel, legal and financial.
For NPL Men’s NNSW and Northern League One clubs this criteria, while formatted differently, will be similar to the previous criteria in terms of key requirements with some more flexibility given in relation to matchday venues and coaching requirements.
For Zone Football League clubs, this criteria will simply formalise many of the things your club are already doing and provide a more solid framework for running your club. This criteria is included to assist club development. Northern NSW Football and the Interdistrict zones will help clubs meet this criteria over the coming years.
Further Information
NNSWF have developed a specific landing page which includes an explainer video and graphic and in depth answers to FAQs, which will be live on the NNSWF website on Wednesday morning.
Collectively, we genuinely believe this a hugely positive step for football in northern NSW and will work with all clubs involved to help them thrive in this new league system.
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I guess that the byproduct of this will be no third grade in ZL?
It'll also be interesting for clubs that have a side in NPL and the Zone Leagues.
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