Newcastle Olympic host Edgeworth Eagles in the last home game of the season

Newcastle Olympic host Edgeworth Eagles in Round 20 of the 2025 NPL season of Northern NSW Football. This will also be the last home game for the two senior men’s teams with Reserve Grade, having secured a top 5 birth, will be playing to secure the Premiership while First Grade will be trying to claw its way back into the top 5.

Newcastle Olympic Reserve Grade will be taking on bottom of the table Edgeworth Eagles in the last home game of the season at Darling St Oval. Olympic boast 13 wins from 17 games and are the league leaders with 40 points while Edgeworth have won just 3 games and have 13 points!

The difference between the two teams is enormous on paper and Olympic need to win this match against the Eagles and then their next game against Cooks Hill in ten days time to secure the Premiership! Olympics’ biggest opponent isn’t the Edgeworth team but their own availability of players. Last week they faced Adamstown with a depleted line up but managed to win without dominating play. This week they need a competitive line up to secure the 3 points.

If they win against Edgeworth they have 10 days to prepare for the Wednesday night clash against 2^nd placed Cooks Hill on the 30^th July at Fearnley Dawes Athletics Field. Cooks Hill is the only team which can challenge for the Premiership and a win on that evening gives the boys in blue the title!

Kick off at 12:00pm on Sunday 20th July at Darling St Oval.

Newcastle Olympic First Grade have won 5 times in 17 games and are in 7^th place on 22 points while Edgeworth have won 15 times, are in equal first place and have 47 points. The difference in strength between the two teams is enormous on paper and the encounter with Olympic comes after Edgeworth’s first defeat of the season against Weston at home on Wednesday night!

Another defeat by Olympic will make it very hard for them to claw their way back into the top 5 in the remaining 4 away games of the season. Edgeworth have not had it all their way since the departure of their star player Ryan Feutz who scored 24 goals in 13 games before joining Sydney Olympic. Despite this, after dropping 3 points to Weston midweek they will be itching to get back to their winning ways to try and edge out Broadmeadow Magic for the title.

Can Olympic create another upset on Sunday and become the second team to take away a point or points against Edgeworth in one week or will the later steamroll their way past Darling St Oval?

Kick off at 2:00pm on Sunday 20th July at Darling St Oval.