# Melbourne Victory FC Youth

Active departments of Melbourne Victory FC :
| Football (Men's) | Football (Men's Youth) | Football (Women's) | Football (Women's AWT) |
Melbourne Victory Football Club Youth is the youth system of Melbourne Victory based in Melbourne, Victoria. The team plays in the National Premier Leagues, the second level of Australia's soccer pyramid in Australia. The club also competes in the under-23s Y-League competition.

## Youth team history

The team was founded in 2008, as a Melbourne Victory representative team for the inaugural season of the National Youth League competition, along with six other youth squads, and finished a disappointing sixth. The development side has had three managers, Mehmet Durakovic, who was promoted to manager of the senior squad in 2011, and current managers Darren Davies and John Aloisi. Davies led the youth side to its first silverware victory in winning the premiership plate, finishing first on the National Youth League ladder in the 2012-13 season. It would be current club chairman Anthony Di Pietro's first silverware victory as well. On 7 November 2014, it was confirmed that the team would compete in the National Premier Leagues Victoria 1 competition for 2015 season onwards. Victory managed promotion at their first attempt, placing second in the NPL1 East division, going on to beat Moreland Zebras FC in the qualification playoff and then North Geelong Warriors FC in the promotion playoff. For the club's first season in the top tier of football in Victorian state football, Matt Hennessey and Ryan Lambert were signed from Hume City FC and Richmond SC respectively.

## Youth/NPL current squad

    As of 11 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 | Yonathan Sultan |
| 2 | DF | AUS | Linus Bourke |
| 3 | DF | AUS | Joshua Inserra |
| 4 | DF | AUS | Damien Bozinovski |
| 5 | DF | AUS | William Mcintosh |
| 6 | MF | AUS | Kayne Razmovski |
| 7 | FW | AUS | Austin Ganino |
| 8 | MF | AUS | Alex Menelaou |
| 9 | FW | AUS | Tommaso Minutoli |
| 10 | MF | AUS | Jack Mihailidis |
| 11 | FW | AUS | Daniel Lazarevski |
| 12 | DF | PNG | Raymond Diho |
| 13 | DF | AUS | John Paikopoulos |
| 14 | FW | AUS | Jordan Hoey |
| 15 | DF | AUS | Nikolas Cevizovic |
| 16 | DF | AUS | Stasi Georgakopoulos |
| 18 | DF | AUS | Lucas Alessi |
| 19 | FW | AUS | Jing Reec |
| 20 | DF | AUS | Parker Williams |
| 20 | FW | AUS | Patrick Wall |
| 23 | FW | AUS | Jesse Hoey |
| 24 | DF | AUS | James Lackay |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 25 | DF | AUS | Mason O’Neil |
| 26 | MF | AUS | Luka Kolic |
| 27 | FW | AUS | Alex Lee |
| 28 | MF | AUS | Charlie Gorevski |
| 29 | DF | AUS | Tobenna Obani |
| 30 | GK | AUS | Daniel Graskoski |
| 31 | MF | AUS | James Houridis |
| 32 | DF | AUS | Aaron Bazenski |
| 33 | FW | AUS | Phin Harbinson |
| 35 | DF | AUS | Fin Crompton |
| 35 | MF | AUS | Marcus Peretin |
| 36 | DF | AUS | John Radimisis |
| 37 | FW | AUS | Malik Olukhale |
| 38 | MF | AUS | Alexi Houridis |
| 39 | FW | AUS | Edon Ajrovski |
| 40 | GK | AUS | Christian Siciliano |
| 41 | GK | AUS | Kasper Fonsboel |
| 42 | GK | AUS | Oskar Von Schrenk |
| 43 | FW | AUS | Mush Sawiz |
| 44 | MF | AUS | Noah Tanfara |
| 46 | DF | AUS | Luka Didulica |
| 47 | FW | AUS | Kaelan Galea |

## Current staff

Head Coaches:
| Joe Palatsides | 1st Grade Head Coach |
| Rodrigo Vargas | U21 Head Coach |
| Andreas Papanicolaou | U18 Head Coach |
| Joaquín Moreno | U16 Head Coach |
| Matthew Sultana | U15 Head Coach |
| Rob Wielaert | U14 Head Coach |
| Tom Paton | Pre Academy Head Coach |
| Mark Topic | Pre Academy Head Coach |
| Isabella Santilli | Pre Academy Head Coach |
| Matt Fletcher | Pre Academy Head Coach |
| Brad Roberts | Pre Academy Head Coach |
| Reide Mulholland | Pre Academy Head Coach |
Staff:
| Joe Palatsides | Head of Academy Coaching |
| Andrew Kentepozidis | Academy Operations Manager |
| Jayden Anderson | Academy Sports Science Lead |
| Amelia Thomas | Academy Medical Lead |
| Sebastian Bechaud | Head of Academy Goalkeeping |
| Agim Sherifovski | Academy Assistant Coach |
| Piotr Rutkowski | Academy Assistant Coach |
| Mark Spiteri | Pre Academy Head Goalkeeping Coach |
| Ashley Wisneske | Pre Academy Goalkeeping Coach |
| Archie Thompson | Academy Development Coach |
| Fahid Ben Khalfallah | Academy Development Coach |
| Gaby Garton | Academy Development Coach |
| Joey Didulica | Academy Development Coach |
| Sasa Ognenovski | Academy Development Coach |

## Honours
### Youth

* La Ionica Community Cup
       Winners (1): 2015
National Premier Leagues Victoria 2/ Victoria Premier Leagues 1 Premiership
** Champion (1): 2024
** Runners-up (1): 2015
National Premier Leagues Victoria 3 Premiership
* Runners-up (1): 2023

### Under-23s

* Y-League Premiership
** Premiers (1): 2012–13

### Academy

* National Premier Leagues Victoria U-20 Premiership
** Premiers (1): 2015
* National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 U-20 Premiership
** Premiers (2): 2017, 2019
** Runners-up (1): 2018
National Premier Leagues Victoria U-18 Premiership
** Premiers (1): 2019

## Stadiums

The team play their home matches at The Home of the Matildas in Melbourne's northern suburb of Bundoora. The stadium has a total capacity of 3,000, with a single grandstand of approximately 800 seats. Past venues used as a home ground by the club have been South Melbourne FC home ground Lakeside Stadium in Albert Park, Bentleigh Greens' Kingston Heath in Cheltenham, Northcote City's John Cain Memorial Park in Thornbury and Whittlesea Ranges' Epping Stadium in Epping. The team has also played competitive matches at Victory's senior team home venues, AAMI Park and Etihad Stadium.

## Former players

This is a list of former Melbourne Victory Youth players, who have played at least 20 A-League competitive matches for the first team.
    As of 22 December 2021
| Name | Nationality | Position | Melbourne career | Appearances | Goals |
| Nick Ansell | Australia | Defender | 2011–17, 2018–19, 2020–21 | 92 | 1 |
| Thomas Deng | Australia | Defender | 2015–2020 | 71 | 2 |
| Mate Dugandzic | Australia | Forward | 2009–11 | 36 | 7 |
| Diogo Ferreira | Australia | Midfielder | 2010–13 | 52 | 2 |
| Matthew Foschini | Australia | Defender | 2009–13 | 53 | 0 |
| Petar Franjic | Australia | Defender | 2010–13 | 31 | 0 |
| Scott Galloway | Australia | Defender | 2013–16 | 54 | 1 |
| Jason Geria | Australia | Defender | 2012–18, 2021– | 110 | 0 |
| James Jeggo | Australia | Midfielder | 2011–14 | 30 | 2 |
| Mitchell Langerak | Australia | Goalkeeper | 2007–10 | 21 | 0 |
| Dylan Murnane | Australia | Defender | 2013–16 | 24 | 0 |
| Andrew Nabbout | Australia | Forward | 2012–15 | 37 | 5 |
| Sebastian Ryall | Australia | Defender | 2007–09 | 24 | 0 |
| Connor Pain | Australia | Forward | 2013–16 | 53 | 3 |
| Stefan Nigro | Australia | Midfielder | 2015–18, 2021– | 29 | 0 |
* Bold denotes players still playing in Melbourne Victory
* Appearances only consist of competitive domestic league appearances

## Season by season history
### Y League

| Season | League | Tms. | conf. size | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Pos | Finals | ref |
| 2008-09 | National Youth League | 7 | N/A | 18 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 20 | 36 | -16 | 20 | 6th | DNQ | |
| 2009-10 | National Youth League | 9 | N/A | 24 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 36 | 37 | -1 | 29 | 6th | DNQ | |
| 2010-11 | National Youth League | 9 | N/A | 19 | 7 | 0 | 12 | 29 | 42 | -13 | 21 | 8th | N/A | |
| 2011-12 | National Youth League | 10 | N/A | 18 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 15 | 34 | -19 | 15 | 10th | N/A | |
| 2012-13 | National Youth League | 10 | N/A | 18 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 57 | 20 | +37 | 37 | 1st | N/A | |
| 2013-14 | National Youth League | 10 | N/A | 18 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 50 | 36 | +14 | 31 | 3rd | N/A | |
| 2014-15 | National Youth League | 10 | N/A | 18 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 34 | 33 | +1 | 27 | 5th | N/A | |
| 2015-16 | National Youth League | 10 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 17 | 22 | -5 | 9 | 4th | DNQ | |
| 2016-17 | National Youth League | 10 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 23 | -10 | 5 | 5th | DNQ | |
| 2017-18 | National Youth League | 10 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 25 | -8 | 13 | 2nd | DNQ | |
| 2018-19 | Y-League | 10 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 22 | -14 | 4 | 5th | DNQ | |
| 2019-20 | Y-League | 10 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 16 | +1 | 16 | 1st | Runner up | |
| 2020-21 | Y-League | Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic |
| 2021-22 | A League Youth | Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic |
| 2022-23 | A League Youth | No tournoment | No tournoment | No tournoment | No tournoment | No tournoment | No tournoment | No tournoment | No tournoment | No tournoment | No tournoment | No tournoment | No tournoment | No tournoment |
| 2023-24 | A League Youth | No tournoment | No tournoment | No tournoment | No tournoment | No tournoment | No tournoment | No tournoment | No tournoment | No tournoment | No tournoment | No tournoment | No tournoment | No tournoment |

### National Premier Leagues

| Season | League | Tms. | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Pos | Pro/Rel | NPL Finals | ref |
| 2015 | NPL VIC 1 East | 10 | 28 | 17 | 4 | 7 | 87 | 44 | +43 | 55 | 2nd | Pro (play off) | DNQ | |
| 2016 | NPL Victoria | 14 | 26 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 24 | 68 | -44 | 4 | 14th | relegated | DNQ | |
| 2017 | NPL VIC 2 West | 10 | 28 | 8 | 5 | 15 | 55 | 56 | -1 | 29 | 9th | n/a | DNQ | |
| 2018 | NPL VIC 2 West | 10 | 28 | 11 | 4 | 13 | 48 | 54 | -6 | 34 | 7th | n/a | DNQ | |
| 2019 | NPL VIC 2 West | 10 | 28 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 36 | 48 | -12 | 25 | 9th | relegated | DNQ | |
| 2020 | NPL Victoria 3 | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. |
| 2021 | NPL Victoria 3 | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. |
| 2022 | NPL Victoria 3 | 12 | 22 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 38 | 27 | +11 | 38 | 4th | n/a | DNQ | |
| 2023 | NPL Victoria 3 | 12 | 22 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 47 | 22 | +25 | 42 | 2nd | Promoted | DNQ | |
| 2024 | VPL 1 | 14 | 26 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 66 | 39 | +27 | 52 | 1st | Promoted | DNQ | |

## Managerial history

| Dates | Name | Notes | Honours |
| 2008 – 12 March 2011 | Mehmet Durakovic | Inaugural manager First dual-nationality manager First manager to be directly promoted to manager of the senior squad | |
| 20 March 2011 – 30 May 2016 | Darren Davies | First official foreign manager First manager to earn honours | 2012–13 NYL Premiership |
| 30 May 2016 – 22 February 2020 | Gareth Naven | | |