Wikipedia - NSW League Three

The NSW League Three Men is a defunct regional Australian semi-professional association football league comprising teams from New South Wales. The league was sits at Level 4 on the New South Wales league system (Level 5 of the overall Australian league system). The competition is administered by Football NSW, the governing body of the sport in the southern region of the state (the northern region governed by Northern NSW Football). At the conclusion of the 2019 season it was announced that the NSW State League would become the NPL NSW 4. and in 2022 seasons onwards, the league name change again from "National Premier League 4 NSW" to "Football NSW League Three".

History

The Men's former State League One competition originally sat on the fourth tier of the NSW football league structure and is the lowest division connected to the NPL NSW 1. The league generally consists of 12 teams competing in a round-robin structure where each side plays one another twice. The top four sides at the end of the regular season compete in the Championship Series.

In 2007 the competition was divided in two – New South Wales Conference League North and the New South Wales Conference League South – with this format only used for two years.

In 2009 the competition was combined, and called the New South Wales State League Division Two.

In 2013 when the FFA launched the National Premier Leagues, State League 2 was not rebranded under this banner; this was to ensure that the teams competing at this level did not have to fulfil the strict financial and club-based criteria that would have resulted in some smaller teams having to withdraw from the league.

In 2016, with the 3rd division (then State League 1) of NSW being incorporated into the National Premier Leagues (as NPL NSW 3), State League 2 became known as the NSW State League.

In 2019 a number of changes occurred. This included Wagga City Wanderers leaving the competition to join the newly formed Capital Football NPL 2 competition.

In 2020, the competition was rebranded under the NPL banner to NPL 4 with (generally) a 12 team format. In that year, however, Newcastle Jets Youth were temporarily promoted to the NPL2 mid-season due to the withdrawal of NPL2 team Mounties Wanderers.

In 2022, the competition was rebranded again from NPL 4 to NSW League Three Men with (generally) a 11 team format, Western NSW FC will no longer have a senior presence in the NSW league three, after the club announced the folding of its men's first grade, under 20s and under 18s teams ahead of the 2022 season.

**Australsk fodboldturnering - New South Wales - League 3**

New South Wales League 3 er den tredje højeste række i det australske fodboldligasystem. Ligaen består af 12 hold, der spiller en dobbeltrunde alle mod alle i løbet af sæsonen.

**Historie**

New South Wales League 3 blev etableret i 1968 som State League 3. Ligaen har gennemgået flere omorganiseringer i årenes løb og fik sit nuværende navn i 2013.

**Klubber**

Klubberne i New South Wales League 3 er hovedsageligt baseret i Sydney storbyområde, med nogle få klubber fra regionale områder. De mest succesfulde klubber i ligaens historie har været:

* Blacktown City FC
* Rockdale City Suns FC
* Sydney Olympic FC

**Format**

Ligaen spilles over 22 runder, hvor hvert hold spiller to kampe mod hvert andet hold. De to hold, der slutter på første- og andenpladsen, rykker op til New South Wales League 2, mens de to nederste hold rykker ned til State League 1.

**Vindere**

Nylige vindere af New South Wales League 3:

* 2022: Blacktown City FC
* 2021: Sydney Olympic FC
* 2020: Rockdale City Suns FC

**Betydning**

New South Wales League 3 spiller en vigtig rolle i udviklingen af australsk fodbold. Ligaen giver yngre spillere en platform til at få erfaring på et konkurrencedygtigt niveau og udvikle deres færdigheder.