Newcastle Jets FC Youth

Newcastle Jets Youth
Full nameNewcastle Jets Football Club Youth
NicknamesJets, Jets Youth
Short nameNEW
Founded2008 (2008)
GroundLake Macquarie Regional Football Facility
OwnerMaverick Sports Partners
ChairmanMaurice Bisetto
ManagerChris Zoricich
LeagueNSW League One
A-League Youth
20255th of 16

Newcastle Jets Youth is the youth system of Newcastle Jets Football Club based Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. The academy teams compete in NSW League One (in youth team & U20) and Football NSW Youth League Two (U18, U16, U15, U14 & U13 age brackets).

Youth team history

The team was founded in 2008, as a Newcastle Jets representative team for the inaugural season of the National Youth League/Y-League/A-League Youth competition. On 19 September 2013, it was confirmed that the team would compete in the National Premier Leagues Northern NSW competition from 2014 to 2019.[1] They played in the National Premier Leagues Northern NSW from 2014 to 2019, with the majority of their home games at Jack McLaughlan Oval.

For the 2020 season onwards, they transferred to the National Premier Leagues NSW, within the newly created NPL4 Division.[2] They were promoted to the NPL2 Division mid-season, when the 2020 season resumed in July.[3]

From the 2023 season onwards, they competed in the Football NSW League Two competition. In 2023 they came third, missing out on promotion. In 2024, they went through the entirety of the NSW League Two season unbeaten, winning 23 games and drawing 5 as they won the league by 13 points. As a result of this season, they were promoted to the Football NSW League One competition for the 2025 season.

Youth team results by season

Season (Competition) Position
2014 NPL Northern NSW 1st
2015 NPL Northern NSW 7th
2016 NPL Northern NSW 5th
2017 NPL Northern NSW 10th
2018 NPL Northern NSW 7th
2019 NPL Northern NSW 8th
2020 NPL 2 NSW 11th* (Promoted mid-season due to COVID-19
2021 NPL 4 NSW 1st* Season cancelled due to COVID-19
2022 Football NSW League Three 1st
2023 Football NSW League Two 3rd
2024 Football NSW League Two 1st (Promoted)
2025 Football NSW League One 5th

Youth current squad

As of 26 February 2025

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  AUS Jordan Baylis
2 DF  AUS Makye Buettner
3 DF  AUS Cory Everett
4 DF  AUS Ben Van Dorssen
5 DF  AUS Meliwethu Nkomo
6 MF  AUS Nicholas Badolato
7 MF  AUS Janni Rafty
8 MF  AUS Dallo Sandy
9 FW  AUS Oliver Cockle
10 MF  AUS Ethan Debono
11 FW  AUS Lucas Johnson
15 DF  AUS Angus Reid
16 FW  AUS Jake Goodwin
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 MF  AUS Archie Brideson
20 GK  AUS Oscar Archbold
21 DF  AUS Callan Prestwidge
22 MF  AUS Kaiden Walshe
23 MF  AUS Mitchell McDonald
24 FW  AUS Noah Peacock
25 MF  AUS William Thurlow
26 FW  AUS Luka Bennell
28 FW  AUS Max Wettig
33 MF  AUS Harry Butcher
34 FW  AUS Kai Thompson
35 DF  AUS Roman Della Bosca
37 DF  AUS Jake Guest
38 MF  AUS Dash Baker

Notable Academy graduates

  • Players who have at least 5 first-team appearances for Chelsea or have represented a country at full international level, are categorised by the decade in which they were graduated from the academy.

2000s

2010s

2020s

Stadium

The team hosted its home matches at Lake Macquarie Regional Football Facility in Speers Point, previously the team played at Wanderers Oval in Broadmeadow and Adamstown Oval in Adamstown, both within the city of Newcastle. For the 2017–18 season, both the Youth and A-League Women teams moved to the No.2 Sportsground in Newcastle West, though the youth team would continue to train out of their training base at the University of Newcastle.[4]

Current staff

Position Name
Head coach Chris Zoricich
Team & kit Manager Dave Cleary
Goalkeeper Coach Greg Lowe

Honours

Youth
Under-23s
Academy

Football NSW

Football Northern NSW

References

  1. ^ "Northern NSW Board Confirms Clubs To Contest Inaugural National Premier Leagues (NPL)". northernnswfootball.com.au. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  2. ^ "NPL NSW". footballnsw.com.au. 26 September 2019. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  3. ^ "NPL NSW". footballnsw.com.au. 15 July 2020. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  4. ^ Michael Parris (7 September 2017). "Newcastle Jets' W-League, youth teams move into No.2 Sportsground". Herald Sun. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
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