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.

澳大利亚新南威尔士联赛3 (New South Wales Federation League Division 3) 是澳大利亚足球联赛体系中第三级别的职业足球联赛,仅次于新南威尔士州联赛1和2。该联赛成立于2004年,旨在为新南威尔士州内低级别足球俱乐部提供一个联赛平台,同时也为业余球员提供一个晋升到职业足球的通道。

该联赛的参赛队伍数量在每年年初由足球委员会决定,一般会在40至50之间。这些队伍被分为10个小组,每组4至5支队伍。每个小组将进行单循环比赛,胜一场得3分,平局得1分,失利则不得分。比赛结束后,每个小组的第一名将晋级到下一年度联赛3,而最后两名则将被降级到更低级别的联赛中。

该联赛的冠军和亚军将与新南威尔士州联赛2的冠军和亚军进行总决赛,获胜者将获得参加澳大利亚足总杯的资格。此外,联赛3的冠军和亚军还可以获得参加澳大利亚职业联赛预备队的比赛。

澳大利亚新南威尔士联赛3以其优秀的竞技水平和多样化的参赛队伍而闻名,为澳大利亚足球培养了许多优秀的球员,同时也是一些退役球员重返赛场的选择。该联赛也吸引了来自中国、越南、泰国等国家的球员前来参赛,进一步扩大了其国际影响力。