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. 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. They were promoted to the NPL2 Division mid-season, when the 2020 season resumed in July.
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)Position2014 NPL Northern NSW1st2015 NPL Northern NSW7th2016 NPL Northern NSW5th2017 NPL Northern NSW10th2018 NPL Northern NSW7th2019 NPL Northern NSW8th2020 NPL 2 NSW11th* (Promoted mid-season due to COVID-192021 NPL 4 NSW1st* Season cancelled due to COVID-192022 Football NSW League Three1st2023 Football NSW League Two3rd2024 Football NSW League Two1st (Promoted)2025 Football NSW League One5th
Youth current squad
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
Ben Kantarovski Jesse Pinto James Virgili Sean Rooney Brodie Mooy
2010s
Taylor Regan Mario Šimić Sam Gallaway Jacob Pepper Mitchell Oxborrow Radovan Pavicevic Brandon Lundy Nick Cowburn Angus Thurgate Patrick Langlois Noah James
2020s
Blake Archbold Archie Goodwin Pharrell Trainor Alex Nunes Will Dobson Christian Bracco Xavier Bertoncello Max Cooper
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.
Current staff PositionNameHead Coach Chris ZoricichU20s Head Coach/Youth Team Assistant David RosewarneGoalkeeper Coach Greg LoweGoalkeeper Coach Blake RedmanTeam & kit Manager Dave Cleary
Honours Youth National Premier Leagues Northern NSW Premiership Premiers (1): 2014 NSW League Two Premiership Premiers (1): 2024 NSW League Three Premiership Premiers (1): 2022 NSW League Three Championship Champions (1): 2022
Under-23s Y-League/A-League Youth Premiership Runners-up (1): 2013–14
Academy Football NSW NSW League Two U-20 Premiers (1): 2023 NSW League Three U-20 Premiers (1): 2022 Champions (1): 2022 FNSW Boys Youth League One U-16 Premiers (1): 2023 Football Northern NSW National Premier Leagues Northern NSW U-20 Premiership Premiers (1): 2014 Runners-up (2): 2016, 2019 National Premier Leagues Northern NSW U-20 Championship Champions (1): 2016 Runners-up (1): 2014 National Premier Leagues Northern NSW U-18 Premiership Premiers (3): 2017, 2018, 2019 Runners-up (1): 2015 National Premier Leagues Northern NSW U-18 Championship Champions (1): 2018 Runners-up (2): 2015, 2017
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