The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) men’s football team takes on Adelaide United in their opening National Youth League (NYL) game at the AIS in Canberra on Saturday 26 September.

The Institute will be looking to secure their first competition points of the season after they went down to last year’s champions Sydney FC, one nil in round one.

Preview of round three of the NYL:

Newcastle Jets v Perth Glory

Friday 25 September
EnergyAustralia Stadium, Newcastle
Local kick off: 5.15pm
Referee: Tim McGilchrist

Newcastle Jets squad: Will Angel, Scott Balderson, Damien Brosque, Jon Griffiths, Fabian Iacovelli, Adrian Karakolevski, Robbie Kolak (goalkeeper), Mirjan Pavlovic, Jesse Pinto, Taylor Regan, Jarrad Ross, Dion Shaw (goalkeeper), Matt Sim, Mario Simic

Unavailable: James Virgili (international duty)

Perth Glory NYL squad: Ludovic Boi, Scott Bulloch (over age), Million Butshiire, Eugene Dadi (over age), Jimmy Downey (over age), Tim Doyle, Howard Fondyke, Brent Griffiths, Steve Hesketh, Alex Pearson (goalkeeper), Ryan Pearson, David Price, Glen Trifiro, Reece Vittiglia

One to be included

Unavailable: Hayden Doyle (knee injury — indefinite), Cameron Edwards (local club commitments), Dean Evans (groin injury — 2 weeks), Nick Feely (local club commitments), Mario Marcinko (local club commitments), Sam Mitchinson (groin injury — 2 weeks), Joshua Risdon (hip injury — 1 week), Adam Taggart (foot injury — 2 weeks)

Brisbane Roar v Sydney FC

Saturday 26 September 2009
Goodwin Park, Brisbane
Local kick off: 3.00pm
Referee: Matthew Skinner

Brisbane Roar squad: Matthew Acton (goalkeeper), Daniel Bowles, Luke Brattan, Matthew Byrne, Kenneth Dougall, Timothy Dunn, Jordan Farina, Jordan Mason, Joshua Mcvey, Luke Muir (goalkeeper), Calum O’connell, Michael Ryan, Antony Schiavo, Matthew Thurtell, Tyler Thurtell, Stefan Vrbesic

One to be omitted

Unavailable: nil

Sydney FC squad: Hussein Akil, Luke Austin, Kerim Bulut, Zac Cairncross, Samuel Chapple (replacement player — Nswis), Joel Chianese, Tim Mcgowan, Ray Miller, Dimitri Petratos, Mark Pullman (goalkeeper), Iain Ramsay, Mitchell Speer, Steve Tibbetts, Nenad Vekic (goalkeeper)

One to be added

Unavailable: Sam Gallagher (international duty), Joe Gibbs (foot stress fracture — indefinite), Sam Munro (international duty)

AIS v Adelaide United

AIS Athletics Track, Canberra
Saturday 26 September 2009
Local kick off: 3.00pm
Referee: Gary Vandeburgt

AIS squad: Terry Antonis, Jake Barker-Daish, Christopher Bush, Patrick Dixon, Stephen Domenici, Jason Geria, Curtis Good, Brendan Hamill, Aaron Lennox (goalkeeper), Dado Lokvancic, Jared Lum, Trent Sainsbury, Nikola Stanojevic, David Talevski, Lawrence Thomas (goalkeeper)

Unavailable: Marc Warren (foot injury — indefinite), Sam Gallaway (knee injury — indefinite), Musti Amini (hip flexor injury — indefinite)

Adelaide United squad: Joel Allwright, Andrew Ciarla, Michael Doyle, Kingsley Francis, Evan Kostopoulos, Codey Larkin (goalkeeper), Dane Milovanovic, Perry Mitris, Matthew Mullen, Nick Munro (goalkeeper), Brett Rayner, Alex Sunasky, Liam Wooding, Joe Wright, Francesco Monterosso, Fabian Barbiero

One to be omitted

Unavailable: Joe Costa (knee injury — 6 months), Nathan Farrell (ankle injury — 2 weeks)

Gold Coast United v Melbourne Victory

Sunday, 27 September 2009
Southport Tigers, Southport
Local kick off: 3.00pm
Referee: Alan Milliner

Gold Coast United squad: Jerrad Tyson (goalkeeper), Steven Topalovic, Ben Wearing, Zachary Anderson, Chris Harold, Koh Satake, Ben Halloran, Callum Hare, Joshua Brillante, Reuban Way, Steven Lustica, Richard Greer, Andrew Barisic (over age), James Brown, Tim Anderson (goalkeeper)

Unavailable: Ben Harrison (groin injury — 2 weeks), Neko Vujevich (groin injury — 2 weeks), Mitchell Bevan (pelvic injury — 3 weeks)

Melbourne Victory squad: Aziz Behich (captain), Matthew Demo, Diogo Ferreira, Petar Franjic, Stephen Hatzikostas, Antonio La Verde, Sebastian Mattei (goalkeeper), Bradley Norton, Stefaan Sardelic (goalkeeper), Craig Sweeney, Kliment Taseski, Simon Tolli, Tedros Yabio

Two to be included

Unavailable: Luke Pilkington (stress fractures — 5 weeks)

Central Coast Mariners — bye