Parramatta Power were a
football (soccer)Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
team which was based in western Sydney. They played in the National Soccer League from season 1999/2000 until the league folded in 2004. The Power were runners up to
Perth GloryPerth Glory Football Club is a professional football club in Perth, Western Australia, Australia, competing in Australia's top football competition the A-League. Perth Glory is one of only three clubs to survive from the now defunct National Soccer League...
in the 2003/04 season of the NSL after Perth made the Grand Final look easy in horrendous weather to become the final NSL champion. The club has since folded due to financial difficulties.
The club was backed by the Parramatta Leagues club which also owns the
Parramatta EelsThe Parramatta Eels are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta. The Parramatta District Rugby League Football Club was formed in 1947, with their First Grade side playing their first season in the New South Wales Rugby Football League...
rugby leagueRugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...
team. The club played at
Parramatta StadiumParramatta Stadium is a sports stadium situated in Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia.The stadium is used primarily as the home ground of Australian National Rugby League club the Parramatta Eels...
(the home of the Eels) and played in blue and yellow (the Eels colours). The club suffered from poor attendances throughout its existence, partly because of its links to the Eels, as well as it being in the already crowded western Sydney soccer market.
Notable former players
 Australia
- Michael Beauchamp
Michael Francis Beauchamp is an Australian football player. He currently plays for Sydney FC. He was a member of the Australian 2006 World Cup squad.-Club career:...
- Milan Blagojevic
Milan Blagojevic is a retired Australian soccer player.-Playing career:During a long and distinguished professional career, Blagojevic made 31 appearances for the Socceroos, 255 National Soccer League appearances as well as playing overseas for Germinal Ekeren , SC Heerenveen , Johor...
- Clint Bolton
Clint Brian Bolton is an Australian football player who plays as a goalkeeper for Melbourne Heart in the Australian A-League. He was one of the most experienced goalkeepers in the history of the National Soccer League, which preceded the A-League...
- Mark Bridge
Mark Bridge is an Australian football player. He currently plays as a striker for Australian A-League club Sydney FC.-Newcastle United Jets FC:...
- Damien Brown
Damien Brown is an Australian football player and former school teacher. He most recently played as a left midfielder for the Australian A-League club the Central Coast Mariners....
- Jacob Burns
Jacob Geoffrey Burns is an Australian football player. He currently plays for A-League club Perth Glory.-Club career:...
- Mark Byrnes
Mark John Byrnes is an Australian football defender who currently plays for the APIA Leichhardt Tigers in the New South Wales Premier League.-Club career:...
- Alvin Ceccoli
Alvin Warren Ceccoli is an Australian football player of Sammarinese heritage who played for three A-League clubs and was capped internationally for Australia.-Club career:Alvin started his National Soccer League career at Wollongong Wolves in 1995 as a 21 year old...
- Lukas Lizacevic
- Andrew Clark
Andrew Clark is an Australian football player. He is currently the Fitness and Conditioning coach for the Central Coast Mariners.-External links:* *...
- Simon Colosimo
Simon Colosimo is an Australian football player who plays as a central defender for Melbourne Heart. He has represented the Australia national team on over twenty-five occasions.-Club career:...
- Travis Dodd
Travis Dodd is an Indigenous Australian football player who plays for Perth Glory in the A-League. He plays as an attacking midfielder or winger.-Club career:...
- Andrew Durante
Andrew Durante is an Australian football player. He currently plays as a central defender and Captain for the New Zealand based A-League club Wellington Phoenix.- Newcastle Jets :...
- Steve Eagleton
Stephen Eagleton is a retired Australian association football player, who most recently played for the Newcastle Jets.-Biography:...
- Ahmad Elrich
- Steve Fitzsimmons
Steve Fitzsimmons is an Australian professional football player who plays as a Right back for in the A-League.-Club career:...
- Joel Griffiths
Joel Griffiths is an Australian football player who currently plays for Beijing Guoan.-Club career:He played for Sydney United, Parramatta Power and Newcastle United in the now defunct National Soccer League...
- Brett Holman
Brett Trevor Holman is an Australian professional football player. He currently plays as a attacking midfielder or left winger for the Dutch Eredivisie club AZ and the Australia national football team.-Early life:...
- Liam Reddy
Liam Reddy is an Australian football player who is currently on a three year contract with the Hyundai A-League team, Sydney FC-Club career:...
- Brendon Santalab
Brendon Šantalab is an Australian football player, currently playing as striker for Chengdu Blades.-Club career:...
- Naum Sekulovski
Naum Sekulovski is an Australian football player. He last played as a left winger for the A-League club Perth Glory.- A-League career statistics :...
- Mile Sterjovski
Mile Sterjovski is an Australian football player, who currently plays for Perth Glory and played for the Australian national team from 2000 to 2010, before he retired from international football after his non-selection for the 2010 FIFA World Cup...
- Matt Thompson
- Alex Tobin
Alexander Hugh Tobin is a former Australian football player. Tobin is the second most capped player for the Australia national football team with 87 'A' appearances, including many as captain...
- Danny Vukovic
Danny Vukovic is an Australian football player of Serbian decent. Who has recently signed a three year contract with the Perth Glory, an Australian-based A League franchise.-Club career:...
- Brendan Renaud
Brendan Renaud is an Australian footballer who plays as a left back. He made his debut for Sydney FC coming on in the second half against Adelaide United FC which Sydney won 3-1. He has previously played for Blacktown City, Marconi and Parramatta Power...
- Lucas Pantelis
Lucas Pantelis is a Greek Australian football player. He currently plays for Wellington Phoenix in the Hyundai A-League.-Club career:...
- Sasho Petrovski
Sasho Petrovski is an Australian football player. He is a striker who last played for the Newcastle Jets in the Hyundai A-League. Petrovski has two caps for the Australian national team...
- Adam Kwasnik
Adam Kwasnik is an Australian football player. He currently plays as a striker for the Australian A-League club the Central Coast Mariners.-Club career:...
- Ante Milicic
Ante Milicic is an Australian former football player. He is currently one of the assistant managers of A-League club Melbourne Heart. He is of Croatian Australian origin....
- Paul O'Grady
Paul James Michael O'Grady MBE is an English comedian, television presenter, actor, writer and radio DJ. He is best known for presenting the daytime chat television series, The Paul O'Grady Show and, more recently, Paul O'Grady Live, as well as his drag queen comedic alter ego, Lily Savage, as...
- Pedj Bojic
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 Brazil
- Fernando Rech
Fernando Rech is a Brazilian former football player. He played either as a striker or an attacking midfielder.-Life and career:...
 England
 Germany
- Andre Gumprecht
André Gumprecht is a former German football player who is currently playing for Australian club Lake Macquarie City FC-Club career:...
 Ireland
 Scotland
- Joe Miller
Joseph "Joe" Miller is the current assistant manager at Dundalk FC. He is also a former Scottish footballer and a former manager of Scottish Football League club Clyde.-Playing career:...
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