History
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The New South Wales Premier League has been contested annually since 1956 in various forms, with its early days remembered as Division One, as well as the Ampol Cup which ran as state based competitions until the formation of a national league in Australia being the National Soccer League which began in 1977. Today, many of the clubs are former national teams from the NSL, including Sydney Olympic FC and APIA Leichhardt with these clubs, and many others, being rejected from the revamped national competition in 2004, the A-League after the demise of the NSL forcing the teams once again into the state leagues. During the 1990s the highest level of football in New South Wales was known as the Super League, which today is the second-tier level of football in NSW.
In 2001, the top football divisions were revamped with the highest level of football being named the Premier League and the Winter Super League being the second. 2005 saw the return of the New South Wales NSL giants in Sydney Olympic, Sydney United FC, Wollongong Wolves and the Marconi Stallions FC which arguably brought the better days of a state league competition which many consider one grade lower than the A-League.
In 2008 the whole New South Wales men's, women's and youth competitions were reconstructed to align youth teams with their respective senior clubs along with women's teams.
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