Melbourne Victory FC Reserves

Melbourne Victory Reserves
Full name	Melbourne Victory FC Reserves
Nickname(s)	Victory NYL
Founded	2008
Ground	Epping Stadium
Capacity	10,000
Chairman	Anthony Di Pietro
Manager	Gareth Naven
League	NYL (Oct-Feb); NPLV (Mar-Sep)
Website	Club website
Home colours	Away colours

Melbourne Victory FC Reserves is an Australian semi-professional association football team based in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 2008, it is the reserve and youth team of Melbourne Victory. The team currently plays in the National Premier Leagues Victoria which is the second level of Australia's football pyramid and in the National Youth League. They play home matches at Epping Stadium.

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

Stadiums

The team play their home matches at Epping Stadium in Melbourne's northern suburb of Epping. The stadium has a total capacity of 10,000, with a single grandstand of approximately 1,000 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 and Northcote City's John Cain Memorial Reserve in Thornbury; however, with the side now competing the top division of Victorian football, along with all three of these sides, ground-sharing with any of the sides was not a preferred option, with Epping Stadium providing the club with the facilities required. The team has also played competitive matches at Victory's senior team home venues, AAMI Park and Etihad Stadium.

Players

National Youth League squad

As of 31 May 2018

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

No.	Position	Player
8	FW	Kenny Athiu
10	MF	Birkan Kirdar
	GK	Stephen Hatzikourtis
	GK	Majak Mawith
	GK	Matt Sutton
	DF	Andrew Visciglio
	DF	Aaron Anderson
	DF	Ben Carrigan
	DF	Jonathan Vakirtzis
	MF	Jack Palazzolo

No.		Position	Player
		DF	Callum Goulding
		DF	Josh Kelic
		MF	Nicholas Hatzigeorgiou
		MF	Brandon Lauton
		MF	Josh Hope
		MF	Brady Quinn
		MF	Thierry Iradukunda
		MF	Maker Maker
		FW	Nuh Sehavdic
		FW	Nicholas Sette
		FW	Yazid Said

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 8 Aug 2018.

Name	Nationality	Position	Melbourne career	Appearances	Goals
Nick Ansell	Australia	Defender	2011–17, 2018–	71	1
Thomas Deng	Australia	Defender	2015–	34	1
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	107	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–	23	0

Bold denotes players still playing in Melbourne Victory
Appearances only consist of competitive domestic league appearances

NPL personnel

Position	Staff
Team Manager	Ryan Timmins
Coach	Gareth Naven
Assistant Coach	Vaughan Coveny
Goalkeeping Coach	Dean Anastasiadis
Physiotherapist	Michael Giakoumis

Source: "Y-League: Players & Staff". Melbourne Victory FC. 10 November 2014.

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^[3]	First official foreign manager First manager to earn honours	2012–13 NYL Premiership^[4]
30 May 2016 –	Gareth Naven^[5]

Honours

National Youth League Premiership

Winners (1): 2012–13

La Ionica Community Cup

Winners (1): 2015

U20 - NPL1 East VIC