Newcastle Jets FC Youth


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 and Football NSW Youth League Two.

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.

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

2010s

2020s

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.

Honours

;YouthNational Premier Leagues Northern NSW Premiership
;Under-23sY-League/A-League Youth Premiership
;Academy
Football NSWNSW League Two U-20
Football Northern NSWNational Premier Leagues Northern NSW U-20 Premiership