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NPL 2025

melbcityguy said:
I'm not being funny but does things like this happen on other sports in Australia?
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Probably not at this level.

Closest I've seen first-hand is the outrage/backlash at a local Rugby League competition folding in country NSW years ago. A mate of mine from one of the towns who lost their only sporting team in that competition folding was a driving force in the past few years at reforming it.
 
NicCarBel said:
Disgusting news out of Canberra this morning:

capitalfootball.com.au

NPL REVIEW - Capital Football

capitalfootball.com.au capitalfootball.com.au

Key summary:
  • Abolishing of 2nd division (Capital Premier League)
  • Expansion of National Premier League from 8 to 10 clubs
  • Removal of Riverina clubs (Yoogali SC and Wagga City Wanderers) from Capital Football
  • Introduce a representative weekend (juniors and first grade)
  • Player payment cap to be introduced into NPL Men and Women
  • NPL M & W promotion/relegation play off introduced
  • CF to engage with FA about developing our own NPL criteria.
Key takeaway from me is this one:

Mostly that the review committee obviously has decided to follow the lead of specific clubs (not named above), to exclude the Riverina clubs. Apparently because they don't like to travel.

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Understand why they'd say this for youth level (which at the moment was only Wagga anyways) and womens level - as Wagga had already pulled out - but they specifically say why it shouldn't be an issue at Men's / NPL level, and gone and rejected that anyways.

Someone just pointed this out to me that I missed as well. Considering 'travel' is cited as the main reason that Yoogali + Wagga will be removed from Capital Football competitions - this is thrown in as a recommendation:

Sorry.. this gets even more hilarious the more I read into it/discuss locally.
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For reference - and you all know I'll defend referees until the end of the world - Capital Football pays NPL referees $250 per game
(Assistant Referees get half of that each on top).

Oh, and now I've read how the promotion system works - so convoluted ffs
  • Community League 1 (CL1) clubs need to declare interest for promotion prior to the start of the season. They then have until 1 March to meet NPL club licensing criteria.
  • If the CL1 Premier is not eligible for promotion (as above), there will be no automatic promotion.
  • If the CL1 Premier is not promoted, but the 2nd placed CL1 team meets NPL club licensing criteria, a single-legged promotion playoff will be scheduled after the NPL Grand Final between the 10th places NPL team and the 2nd places CL1 team (first grade only)
  • If both 1st and 2nd in CL1 do not meet NPL club licensing criteria, there will be no promotion/relegation
again - contradicts things they say earlier in the review, because they say:


essentially, no one outside the 10 clubs will meet NPL licencing club criteria ever, so there never will be any of this promotion/relegation




Very clear this is a ploy from clubs who don't want to travel, and have openly said so in the past (from memory - O'Connor Knights, Canberra Olympic) and clubs that have been relegated, and haven't been able to earn their way back in yet (Belconnen United, West Canberra Wanderers, Canberra Olympic). Based off the engagement on social media to this announcement, can probably add Brindabella Blues to either/both of those lists.
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Classy response from the club on this.

 
NicCarBel said:
Disgusting news out of Canberra this morning:

capitalfootball.com.au

NPL REVIEW - Capital Football

capitalfootball.com.au capitalfootball.com.au

Key summary:
  • Abolishing of 2nd division (Capital Premier League)
  • Expansion of National Premier League from 8 to 10 clubs
  • Removal of Riverina clubs (Yoogali SC and Wagga City Wanderers) from Capital Football
  • Introduce a representative weekend (juniors and first grade)
  • Player payment cap to be introduced into NPL Men and Women
  • NPL M & W promotion/relegation play off introduced
  • CF to engage with FA about developing our own NPL criteria.
Key takeaway from me is this one:

Mostly that the review committee obviously has decided to follow the lead of specific clubs (not named above), to exclude the Riverina clubs. Apparently because they don't like to travel.

View attachment 1882
Understand why they'd say this for youth level (which at the moment was only Wagga anyways) and womens level - as Wagga had already pulled out - but they specifically say why it shouldn't be an issue at Men's / NPL level, and gone and rejected that anyways.

Someone just pointed this out to me that I missed as well. Considering 'travel' is cited as the main reason that Yoogali + Wagga will be removed from Capital Football competitions - this is thrown in as a recommendation:

Sorry.. this gets even more hilarious the more I read into it/discuss locally.
View attachment 1884
For reference - and you all know I'll defend referees until the end of the world - Capital Football pays NPL referees $250 per game
(Assistant Referees get half of that each on top).

Oh, and now I've read how the promotion system works - so convoluted ffs
  • Community League 1 (CL1) clubs need to declare interest for promotion prior to the start of the season. They then have until 1 March to meet NPL club licensing criteria.
  • If the CL1 Premier is not eligible for promotion (as above), there will be no automatic promotion.
  • If the CL1 Premier is not promoted, but the 2nd placed CL1 team meets NPL club licensing criteria, a single-legged promotion playoff will be scheduled after the NPL Grand Final between the 10th places NPL team and the 2nd places CL1 team (first grade only)
  • If both 1st and 2nd in CL1 do not meet NPL club licensing criteria, there will be no promotion/relegation
again - contradicts things they say earlier in the review, because they say:


essentially, no one outside the 10 clubs will meet NPL licencing club criteria ever, so there never will be any of this promotion/relegation




Very clear this is a ploy from clubs who don't want to travel, and have openly said so in the past (from memory - O'Connor Knights, Canberra Olympic) and clubs that have been relegated, and haven't been able to earn their way back in yet (Belconnen United, West Canberra Wanderers, Canberra Olympic). Based off the engagement on social media to this announcement, can probably add Brindabella Blues to either/both of those lists.
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Just checking, because I don’t know anything about capital football. Am I understanding this right, that the Canberra clubs don’t want to travel a couple of times per season, but the regional clubs are happy to travel to Canberra every second week? If so, and the federation is backing them, then that is very poor.
 
Keeper66 said:
Just checking, because I don’t know anything about capital football. Am I understanding this right, that the Canberra clubs don’t want to travel a couple of times per season, but the regional clubs are happy to travel to Canberra every second week? If so, and the federation is backing them, then that is very poor.
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That's a bingo.

I don't mind if I publicly name clubs now - but basing off what I've heard/seen in the past, and the engagements on the social media posts announcing this, it's a combination of clubs not wanting to travel (in the past, openly being Canberra Olympic and O'Connor Knights), and clubs that have either been relegated from first tier to second tier, or failing in promotion to the first tier over recent years (Belconnen United, West Canberra Wanderers, Canberra Olympic, Brindabella Blues).

They do say it's mainly the juniors that are unable to travel/be locked out this way - I tend to agree with that assessment. But they've locked out these two regional clubs (and Hanwood - another Griffith club - who they've now publicly saying has applied to join and been rejected on the same basis) on the basis that because they now require SAP linked entities playing in Canberra to play in the NPL, they won't be invited to play from 2026 onwards. Which is a crock of shit to me, because Capital Football purposely split the Senior and Junior premier categories because the local teams couldn't even do this.

If the federation is going to back this, then I would call for Capital Football's exclusion from the NSD. Since they clearly don't want to travel or earn things on merit.
 
NicCarBel said:
That's a bingo.

I don't mind if I publicly name clubs now - but basing off what I've heard/seen in the past, and the engagements on the social media posts announcing this, it's a combination of clubs not wanting to travel (in the past, openly being Canberra Olympic and O'Connor Knights), and clubs that have either been relegated from first tier to second tier, or failing in promotion to the first tier over recent years (Belconnen United, West Canberra Wanderers, Canberra Olympic, Brindabella Blues).

They do say it's mainly the juniors that are unable to travel/be locked out this way - I tend to agree with that assessment. But they've locked out these two regional clubs (and Hanwood - another Griffith club - who they've now publicly saying has applied to join and been rejected on the same basis) on the basis that because they now require SAP linked entities playing in Canberra to play in the NPL, they won't be invited to play from 2026 onwards. Which is a crock of shit to me, because Capital Football purposely split the Senior and Junior premier categories because the local teams couldn't even do this.

If the federation is going to back this, then I would call for Capital Football's exclusion from the NSD. Since they clearly don't want to travel or earn things on merit.
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The word on the street I just heard is the 4 people that drove this review are linked to Canberra Olympic, Belconnen United, Brindabella Blues and West Canberra Wanderers. All from CPL, and 3 all (except for Brindabella) relegated from NPL to CPL in the past 3 seasons.

Says it all really
 
Keeper66 said:
Just checking, because I don’t know anything about capital football. Am I understanding this right, that the Canberra clubs don’t want to travel a couple of times per season, but the regional clubs are happy to travel to Canberra every second week? If so, and the federation is backing them, then that is very poor.
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Thanks for the idea



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