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Melbourne City Football Club Youth is the youth system of Melbourne City Football Club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The youth team plays in the NPL Victoria 3, the third tier of Victorian football in Australia. The club also competes in the under-21s A-League Youth competition. The under-21s and under-19s teams play also play in the NPL Victoria 3 in their respective age level.

Melbourne City Youth

Full name	Melbourne City Football Club Youth
Nickname(s)	City Youth
Short name	MCY
Founded	2011
Ground	CB Smith Reserve (A-League Youth) Casey Fields (Soccer) Parade College, Bundoora (NPL VIC)
Capacity	2,000
League	A-League Youth NPL Victoria 3
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Active departments of Melbourne City F.C.
Men's football Women's football Youth Esports

History

Early years (2011–2014)

The team was founded in 2011 as Melbourne Heart Youth, the season after their senior side Melbourne City (then known as Melbourne Heart FC), made their A-League debut. The inaugural manager was John Aloisi before he accepted the role as head manager at the end of the 2011–12 season. From 2012 onwards, Joe Palatsides had been the manager. The youth team's first match was played in the 2011–12 against local rivals Melbourne Victory in a 2–0 win at John Cain Memorial Park.[1]

Entry into National Premier Leagues (2014–2018)

On 7 November 2014, it was confirmed that Melbourne City would compete in the NPL Victoria 1 competition from the 2015 season onwards. The team consists mainly of Melbourne City's youth team, which also competes in the A-League Youth.[2] On top of this, Melbourne City opted to send a U-20 team to enter the concurrently-run development-level U-20 NPL league competition.[3]

The team finished on top of the table of the 2014–15 National Youth League, tied with Brisbane Roar FC Youth on both points and goal difference but were awarded the title having scored a greater number of goals.[4]

After several seasons competing in the NPL, Melbourne City announced they were expanding their participation to also enter teams into the U-18 and U-15 competitions, with the U-18 side notably being managed by former manager John van 't Schip's brother Davey.[5] In February 2018, the two new youth teams had joined the National Premier Leagues for the under-20s and under-18s side.[5]

Players

Youth current squad

These players can also play with the senior squad and compete in the A-League Youth and the NPL Victoria 3.

As of 30 April 2022[6][7]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF  AUS Tim Boke 3 DF  AUS Kerrin Stokes 4 DF  AUS Dom Folino 5 DF  AUS Jordan Bos 6 MF  AUS Jordi Valadon 7 FW  AUS Lucas Byrns 8 MF  AUS Luke Oresti 9 FW  AUS Max Caputo 10 FW  AUS Raphael Borges Rodrigues 11 FW  AUS Arion Sulemani 12 DF  AUS Harry Politidis 13 DF  AUS Jordan Dellidis 14 FW  AUS Moonib Adus 16 MF  AUS Taras Gomulka

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 DF  AUS Jacob Herbert 18 MF  AUS Mathew Grimaldi 19 FW  AUS Kasra Karamad 21 MF  AUS Emin Durakovkic 22 DF  AUS Kur Arob 26 MF  AUS Justin Paolilli 27 MF  AUS Sebastian Eposito 28 MF  AUS Dante Siccita 30 GK  AUS Michael Vonja 40 GK  AUS James Nieuwenhuizen 41 GK  AUS Luke Saunders 42 GK  AUS Ahmad Taleb 99 FW  AUS Giorgio Serdenes

Under-21s current squad

These players can also play with the Youth squad and senior squad.

As of 11 April 2021.[8]

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  AUS James Nieuwenhuizen 2  AUS Tim Boke 7  AUS Lucas Byrns 13  AUS Daniel Lucente 14  AUS Alexander Menelaou 15  AUS Charbel Shamoon 18  AUS Matthew Grimaldi 19  AUS Max Caputo 20  AUS Christian Cogo 21  AUS Moonib Adus 22  AUS Kur Arob 23  AUS Jordan Dellidis

No. Pos. Nation Player 25  AUS Rhys Dufton 27  AUS Liam Farrugia 28  AUS Domenic Folino 29  AUS Khoder Kaddour 30  AUS Milos Marinkovic 31  AUS Saad Moukachar 34  AUS Giorgio Serdenes 35  AUS Dante Siccita 41  AUS Dante Avian 42 GK  AUS Ahmad Taleb 53  AUS Justin Paolilli

Under-18s current squad

As of 11 April 2021.[9]

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  AUS James Nieuwenhuizen 20  AUS Christian Cogo 25  AUS Rhys Dufton 29  AUS Khoder Kaddour 30  AUS Milos Marinkovic 35  AUS Dante Siccita 40  AUS Luca Tasevski 41  AUS Dante Avian 43  AUS Alec Becvinovski 44  AUS Jae Ciarma 45  AUS Giordano Giacomantonio 46  AUS Marcus Humbert

No. Pos. Nation Player 47  AUS Joshua Inserra 48  AUS Kasra Karamad 49  AUS Sebastian Lo Monaco 50  AUS Leon Martin 53  AUS Justin Paolilli 54  AUS Noah Ryan 55  AUS Harrison Shillington 56  AUS Lucas Smaragdiou 57  AUS Zac Taweel 58  AUS Kai Wenzel

Honours

Youth

• A-League Youth Premiership
  • Winners (2): 2016–17, 2017–18
  • Runners-up (1): 2018–19
• A-League Youth Championship
  • Winners (2): 2015, 2017
  • Runners-up (1): 2018

Under-21s

• National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 U-21
  • Winners (4): 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019
  • Runners-up (1): 2018

Under-19s

• National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 U-19
  • Runners-up (2): 2018, 2019

Stadium

The team hosts its home matches at CB Smith Reserve. In previous years, home games have also been played at Epping Stadium, John Cain Memorial Reserve, John Ilhan Memorial Reserve and La Trobe University.

Seasons

As of 31 January 2016

Season	League								Grand Final	Top scorer
	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Position		Player(s)	Goals
2011–12	18	8	2	8	35	37	26	5th	–	Zac Walker	7
2012–13	18	8	1	9	32	34	25	6th	–	Joshua Groenewald	8
2013–14	18	8	4	6	40	30	28	5th	–	Marcus Schroen	5
2014–15	18	10	5	3	40	27	35	1st	–	Wade Dekker	9
Conference format
2015–16	8	3	1	4	18	23	10	3rd	Did not qualify	Wade Dekker / Christopher Cristaldo	4
2016–17	8	5	1	2	18	12	16	1st	Champions	Yusuf Ahmed	5

See also

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

References

External links

• Official website

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