so with Notting Forrest through to the semis, where they will play Villa. Could they potentially win the Europa League, qualify for the Champions League & be relegated from the Premier League. wow.

well, good luck to them then, they'll end up in park football in no time.

I'm not sure what the solutions are tbh. There doesn't seem to be enough money or support from above for any solutions.

we only started to do that crowd counting clicker system this year. last year it was basically off online sales and not taking into consideration gate takings and when under 16s is free.

and on another side note and this is no dig at the WSW. I live in southwest Sydney, the "heart land" of WSW if you wanna call it that. People are just not interested in the WSW anymore, they feel bored of the A-League, they stopped attending. Whereas i have seen a spike in NPL football, im not...

it wasnt 900 you think you know more about my club then i do. lol funny everyone measures us cause of 3 home games in the championship, however in the last decade we have been steady, with the odd spike up and down. but now we are on the up and it's continuing to grow, 4k two weeks ago, 800+...

16k isnt just a reflection on WSW. there is two teams on the pitch, two sets of supporters in the crowd, plus neutrals. in the Championship APIA away there was just over 4k, Sydney United fans made up around 1500 of that crowd. We had the lowest average attendance for good reason. By one of...

i was just about to say the bigger shock is port melbourne. whats doing there? funds have dried up?

yeah i guess that was the exception. 9 players out and replacing them with kids didnt help. However, we talk our cup football seriously, its why we've won the waratah cup the most out of any club, (8 times)

thats more because of the money and tv deals. exciting doesnt neccessarily mean better, they got raped in europe this year

Here is context and facts. So after 20 years of the A-league, you have dwindling crowds, derbies from 60k to 40k to 16k. (mind you, inflated crowd numbers) and your comparison is semi-professional clubs in the NPL, like it's some achievement?! Oh my. You are mainstream, you compete with NRL...

i think they see it as a burden and financial headaches Our club always wants to win everything they enter. I prefer that mentality over fielding 20s in cup competitions for the sake of $$$ or tired legs.

The EPL fan boys will still say its the best league in da world. lol

Confirmed on the Syndey Olympic Socials. Michael Melito is appointed interim head coach. David is leaving the ship before it sinks.

https://mens.nplnsw.com.au/2026/04/15/round-11-preview-npl-mens-nsw-3/

its interesting, a lot of the 'bigger' clubs will field an experienced strong side, whereas a lot of these 'smaller' clubs throw in their 20s for games like this. we only rested 1 player in a 3 day turn around last week.

Newcastle in the 90s and 00s were massive despite there lack of success. Competing for EPL titles, Champions League, so when they got relegated it was a huge deal. Not to mention there fan base is massive, probably the best in England.

did the EPL get another 5 spots for next year's champions league? lol

Would spurs being relegated be bigger than when newcastle went down over a decade ago?

What did they do, chop down the goal posts down or something?

Shellharbour beat NWS Spirit 2-0 which is a shock, another NPL1 club out. Bulli currently 3-1 over Gunners Marconi currently 2-1 Dulwich Hill

What security concerns could there possibly be between an Italian and maco club with a couple hundred of people in attendance? Unless im missing something...

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@olympic are the rumours true, Sydney Olympic's coach got the sack?

Where do you get your news from? lol Fake news.

Gloating as if it's some achievement :LOL: 16K LOL.

https://mens.nplnsw.com.au/2026/04/12/round-10-review-npl-mens-nsw-3/

Yeah, all our 20s play after first grade, been like that for a couple years i believe.

FNSW fees go up every year, but the standards from them are getting worse.

Worst team we played this year so far, and they managed a draw. one positive is that there was just over 2k crowd at the game.

luckily they cant be relegated

Speaking post-match, United 58 coach Miro Vlastelica admitted his disappointment. “It was a nice double-decker bus by St George,” he said.

im still pissed off, i dont think i will be over it for a while. lol

The dumb fucks at Football NSW thought it would be a great idea to bring up the refs from NPL3 to NPL1 for experience.

Sick fans. not saying 3k, but defiantly not 16k. even if it was 16k, it goes down as the 3rd worst sydney derby crowd lol

WTF are you looking at, he was on by 2m lol

The disallowed goal was 71st min

This was called offside. Lol.

Robbed. They dont even show the disallowed goal on the highlights. Those referees were the worst ive seen in a while. Wada was a meter onside and they called it off. absolute joke. St George came with a game plan, 11 men behind the ball for 90min.

RBB Couldn't even fill one bay. 16k lol. They must of used the same bloke that counts the crowds at Macarthur.

From derbies that were getting 60k now 16k, while counting everyone and everything 5x. Tells you all you need to know about the current state of the game in this country.

APIA & Rockdale drop points. United have a chance to go 7 clear today. Olympic now with 6 league losses in a row.

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/a-league-2026-live-updates-wanderers-host-sydney-fc-in-derby-20260411-p5zn3e.html 16k is being too generous.

So the Preston Boys active have made an agreement with the club and are back just in time for the Hellas clash today. Looks like the club needs them more then they need the club.

No talk of it. That stems from the top, Football Australia. They are the ones that impose those restrictions etc. I doubt anything will change with them.

Thanks the plan, and if we can keep our players for that long. Already talk of Tilo & Dylan Rose going to A-League Clubs if we keep this squad, fully fit during the year, we will give the championship a shakeup. It's the least we can do after the shit that was dished up last year.

Marconi should get past Dulwich then they will play olympic. A few Championship federation sides will be out with Wollongong. Decent amount of all NPL1 Ties.

whens the round 5 draw? never mind lol

Im just happy to see the turn around and so many kids and families out on a Thursday night.

Wot?

Around 800 people in attendance too last night, which was wild to see.

Only one change from Monday in the starting 11. Tilo on, koko bench. We made the 5 changes when we went up 3-0 mid second half. I spoke to the players after the game, they are taking the cup run seriously like every other year.

Sydney United 3-0 Wollongong Wolves Top performance tonight, could of been more.

i hope we rotate the squad and rest players tonight, rather focus on the league now considering the position we are in. still have enough about us to beat Wollongong Wolves though.

When was that, 2014? when they bought the whole league through player regos. Association Clubs :sick:

Church, Lunch & United every Sunday, and it still happens to this day. We tried Saturday nights once, and it was a massive failure.

https://mens.nplnsw.com.au/2026/04/08/round-10-preview-npl-mens-nsw-3/ If we win this weekend, we will create history to become the first club to win 10 consecutive games at the start of the season. We are currently tied with Blacktown Spartans on 9 wins.

Club announced 3,958 official crowd for the Sydney United vs Marconi game. That was our biggest regular season fixture crowd since 2005 when we played Bonnyrigg at home.

I've been watching his videos, another example of people who come here and prefer our NPL football.

I'd agree with this. Post NSL i think knights only won the Dockerty Cup once. While we've won premierships, championships, waratah cups, NPL Australian Series twice, and had some good Australia Cup runs.

Still hurts. Especially the 97 final against Brisbane Strikers. We won the league by 12 points IIRC.

I think people prefer the pure, non fabricated, community club football. I havent watched A-League in a while, but with the crowds dwindling, Are people moving away from the A-League and going to watch NPL?

The stadiums are only 1.5kms apart. Its the real traditional local derby. Like a Merseyside derby (red v blue) The term derby gets overused these days especially in the A-League. But this is one of a kind and probably the closest derby in Australia? I'd like to find the all time stat's...

Even with 9 wins from 9, APIA are only 5 points behind. Gap isnt that big.

And Daniel starting mouthing off to the crowd. He should of picked some of them up, 10c a bottle and no clean sheet bonus

Agreed. There seems to be more interests in NPL these days, its showing in the crowds. Well they ran out of beer. A lot of drunken croats were not happy lol

9 from 9 and title contenders now you'd need to say. Took a set piece to win it, was always going to be a close game. Great day, great crowd, great atmosphere.

Yeah I think it was mentioned just under 4k.

Only Sydney United Vs Marconi left today to conclude round 9. Should be an epic day, if we win :ROFLMAO:

Lets be real, do you really think he would of got 16 weeks if it was a linesman and not a woman? Im not condoning it, however 16 weeks seems excessive.

"have a great holiday period, but you are all fucked soon"

https://mens.nplnsw.com.au/2026/04/01/round-9-preview-npl-mens-nsw-3/

Turkey's first world cup in 24 years

no way that was a penalty, fucken soft as. ref needed to please the Brazilian crowd. corrupt cunt

Assisted the first goal too. he looks like he is enjoying his time.

From our Corner kick to that counter attack goal. Fuck they are quick on the break these Brazilians