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Central Coast Mariners Academy (CCMA) is the youth system of Central Coast Mariners FC based in Gosford, Australia. The academy teams play the Y-League and the National Premier Leagues, the highest level of youth football in Australia. Senior players occasionally play in the academy side, as in the case when they're recovering from injury. Ray Junna is the current academy manager. They train at the Central Coast Mariners Centre of Excellence and play the majority of their home games there. On occasion, they also play at Pluim Park.

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Central Coast Mariners Academy

Full name	Central Coast Mariners Football Club Academy
Nickname(s)	Mariners
Founded	2008 (as Central Coast Mariners Youth) 2012 (as Central Coast Mariners Academy)
Ground	Central Coast Mariners Centre of Excellence Pluim Park
Capacity	2,000 (Pluim Park)
Majority owner	Mike Charlesworth
Chairman	Mike Charlesworth
Academy director	Ken Schembri
League	NSW League One Y-League
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Departments of Central Coast Mariners
Football (Men's) Football (Youth Men's) Football (Women's)

Academy team history

First Academy (2012–2014)

Central Coast Mariners Academy was formed as a joint venture between the Mariners and Central Coast Football to provide a junior development pathway to the NYL and A-League sides. Prior to 2012 the academy existed solely as a junior side; however in 2012 it was accepted to participate in the New South Wales Premier League.[1] In October 2012 the club announced that Joey Peters had been appointed as senior coach. The club finished tenth from twelve clubs in its first two seasons.

CCMA prided themselves on producing talented young players and providing a pathway for Central Coast Mariners in the Hyundai A-League. Based on appearances for CCMA 15 year old Daniel McFarlane earned trials in the UK with Swansea City and Birmingham City. Patrick Zwaanswijk signed up McFarlane up for the CCMA in the National Youth League. Local players Steve Whyte, Josh Forbes, Bradley Wilson and Nathan Verity also made sufficient impressions in the NSWPL season to earn them a contract in the NYL squad.

Following disputes between the Mariners and Central Coast Football over technical and financial aspects of the program, the Football NSW licence to run the representative side on the Central Coast was handed back to Central Coast Football in August 2014 and the Academy program was closed.[2]

2015–present

A competitions review conducted by Football NSW in 2015 recommended that academy sides from Sydney FC and Western Sydney Wanderers be included in the National Premier Leagues NSW competitions, with the inclusion of a Central Coast side to be determined between the Mariners and Central Coast Football. The Mariners subsequently applied for entry to the NPL and SAP in August 2015[3] and were accepted from the 2016 season onwards,[4] replacing Central Coast FC.

Players

As of June 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 Marko Bulic 2 DF  AUS Sasha Kuzevski 3 DF  AUS Joshua Hong 4 DF  AUS Dean Larson 5 DF  AUS Jakob Cresnar 6 MF  AUS Brad Tapp 7  AUS Nicholas Duarte 8 FW  AUS Lachlan Bayliss 9 FW  AUS Dor Jok 10 MF  AUS Harry McCarthy 11 MF  AUS Jackson Khoury

No. Pos. Nation Player 12  AUS Aidan Milicevic 12  AUS Stefan Nikolic 14 MF  AUS Teng Kuol 15  AUS Jordan Segreto 16  AUS Harry Talbot 20 GK  AUS Alexander Parkes 21 MF  AUS Maksim Kasalovic 22 DF  AUS Cameron Windust 27  AUS Ben Duncan 32  AUS Ezra Palombini

Seasons

Season	Youth / Under-23s											Top scorer1
	Div	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Position	Finals	Player(s)	Goals
2008–09	NYL	18	6	2	10	20	36	−16	20	5th	DNQ	Bradley Smith Nik Mrdja Greg Owens	3
2009–10	NYL	24	12	8	4	48	34	+14	44	1st	SF	Panni Nikas	12
2010–11	NYL	20	11	2	7	43	28	+15	35	2nd	N/A	Bernie Ibini-Isei	12
2011–12	NYL	18	11	3	4	41	16	+25	36	1st	N/A	Justin Hayward	5
2012–13	NYL	18	12	1	5	38	28	+10	37	2nd	N/A	Patrick Dixon	6
2013–14	NYL	18	1	3	14	20	43	−23	6	10th	N/A	Josh Bingham Patrick Dixon Adam Kwasnik	3
2014	NPL2	22	10	7	5	30	25	+5	37	2nd	QF	Unknown
2014–15	NYL	18	8	2	8	38	34	+4	26	6th	N/A	Anthony Kalik	9
2015	NPL2	22	12	1	9	43	36	7	37	4th	EF	Unknown
2015–16	NYL	8	3	0	5	24	22	+2	9	4th	DNQ	Trent Buhagiar	5
2016	NPL2	26	10	3	13	52	52	−10	33	10th	DNQ	Trent Buhagiar	16
2016–17	NYL	8	3	3	2	15	13	+2	12	3rd	DNQ	Duncan Stewart	4
2017	NPL2	26	12	4	10	70	49	+21	40	4th	QF	Brenton Fox	20
2017–18	NYL	8	2	1	5	14	17	−3	7	4th	DNQ	Matias Paz	5
2018	NPL2	26	12	8	6	51	33	+18	44	4th	EF	Charles M'Mombwa	13
2018–19	Y-L	8	5	0	3	14	12	+2	15	3rd	DNQ	Dylan Ruiz-Diaz Charles M'Mombwa Jordan Smylie	2
2019	NPL2	26	10	7	9	47	36	+11	37	8th	DNQ	Jordan Smylie	9
2020	NPL2	10	7	2	1	38	20	+18	23	1st	1st	Matthew Cahill	9

Honours

Youth

• NPL 2/NSW League One Premiership
  • Runners-up: 2014
  • Premiers: 2020, 2022
  • Champions: 2020

Under-23s

• Y-League Premiership
  • Premiers: 2009–10, 2011–12
  • Runners-up: 2010–11, 2012–13

Academy

• Football NSW League One Youth U-20 Premiership
  • Premiers: 2015, 2018, 2022
  • Runners-up: 2019
  • Champions: 2020
• Football NSW League One Youth U-20 Championship
  • Champions: 2015
• Football NSW League One Youth U-18 Premiership
  • Premiers: 2014, 2017, 2018
  • Runners-up: 2019
• Football NSW League One Youth U-18 Championship
  • Champions: 2014, 2015, 2018
  • Runners-up: 2017

See also

• Central Coast Mariners FC
• Central Coast Mariners FC (W-League)

References

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