The wait is over and Australia’s national men’s youth football tournament has returned for its second season, with the Australian Institute of Sport taking on Sydney Football Club at the Sydney Football Stadium on Saturday.  

This is the official Football Federation Australia preview for National Youth League round 1.

Adelaide United v Central Coast Mariners

Friday 11 September 2009
Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide
Local kick off: 4.45pm
Referee: Regis Queffelec

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

Unavailable: nil

Central Coast Mariners squad: Nikodin Matic, Andrew Redmayne, Gavin Forbes, Matthew Liddall, Nick Fitzgerald, Mitchell Mallia, David Gullo, Wolry Wolfe (over age), Matthew Lewis, Emmanuel Giannaros, Adam Ormsby, David D’apuzzo, Brady Smith, Luka Dukic, Graz Trimboli

Unavailable: nil

Newcastle Jets v Brisbane Roar

Saturday 12 September
EnergyAustralia Stadium, Newcastle
Local kick off: 2.45pm
Referee: Stuart Wolfe

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

Unavailable: Jon Griffiths (knee injury — 1–2 weeks)

Brisbane Roar squad: Matt Acton (goalkeeper), Luke Muir (goalkeeper), Michael Ryan, Daniel Bowles (captain), Calum O’Connell, Matt Byrne, Ken Dougall, Luke Brattan, Stefan Vrbesic, Josh Mcvey, Jordan Farina, Tyler Thurtell, Adam Sarota, Matt Mundy (over age), Isaka Cernak

Unavailable: nil

Sydney FC v AIS

Saturday 12 September
Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney
Local kick off: 4.45pm
Referee: Kris Griffiths-Jones

AIS squad: Musti Amini, Terry Antonis, Eli Babalj, Christopher Bush, Patrick Dixon, Stephen Domenici, Sam Gallaway, Curtis Good, Brendan Hamill, Kamal Ibrahim, Ersin Kaya, Aaron Lennox (goalkeeper), Jared Lum, Scott Mellish, Trent Sainsbury, Nikola Stanojevic, David Talevski, Lawrence Thomas (goalkeeper)

Three to be omitted

Unavailable: Marc Warren (broken foot)

Sydney FC squad: Hussein Akil, Luke Austin, Kerim Bulut, Zac Cairncross, Joel Chianese,  Sam Gallagher, Antony Golec, Ray Miller, Sam Munro, Chris Payne, Dimirti Petratos, Mark Pullman (goalkeeper), Iain Ramsay, Nenad Vekic (goalkeeper)

One to be added

Unavailable: Joe Gibbs, Tim Mcgowan, Mitchell Speer, Steve Tibbetts

Perth Glory v Gold Coast United

Sunday, 13 September 2009
ME Bank Stadium, Perth
Local kick off: 12.15pm
Referee: Steven Gregory

Perth Glory NYL squad: Scott Bulloch (over age), Million Butshiire, Ryan Edwards, Nick Feely (goalkeeper), Howard Fondyke, Brent Griffiths, Matthew Izzo, Andrija Jukic (over age), Mario Marcinko, Alex Pearson (goalkeeper), Ryan Pearson, David Price, Joshua Risdon, Anthony Skorich, Reece Vittiglia, Stephen Warmsley

One to be omitted

Unavailable: Ludovic Boi (local club commitments), Hayden Doyle (knee injury — indefinite), Cameron Edwards (local club commitments), Dean Evans (local club commitments), Steve Hesketh (local club commitments), Sam Mitchinson (groin injury — 2 weeks), Adam Taggart (foot injury — 1 Week)

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

One to be omitted

Unavailable: Jerrad Tyson (goalkeeper) (quad injury — 1 week), Ben Harrison (groin injury — 4 weeks), Neko Vujevich (groin injury — 2 weeks), Mitchell Bevan (pelvis injury — 4 weeks), Ben Halloran (knee injury — 1 week)