meet our head coach
Pete Nowakowski

Coaching History:

2025 - Present: Head Coach of U23s at Sydney Olympic Women’s FC
2025 - Present: Head Coach of NSW Para Football Program
2025 - Present: Equipment Manager of U17 Joeys Australian National Team
2024/2025 - Perth Glory FC A-League Women Team Manager and Second Assistant
2020 - 2024: Head Coach of Reserve Grade at Macarthur Rams Women’s FC

Additional Previous Coaching Experiences:
Coach at Eastern Suburbs Hakoah Futsal Club
Technical Assistant for Deaf Football Australia Men’s National Team
Assistant Coach for Australian Blind (B1) Football Men’s National Team
Football NSW Coach at National Futsal Championships and Futsal State Championships

Previously: NWS Koalas Football Club, Bankstown City FC, Sydney Futsal Club, West City Crusaders Futsal, Met North U12s Coach for Football NSW, Met South U14s Head Coach at Football NSW State Titles

Coaching Vision:

My vision is light, bright, and clear - allowing my philosophy to develop and evolve over time. I believe in enabling people to become the best version of themselves in a high-performance environment.

My experiences in football, my desire to learn, and my ecological approach to coaching, creating an appetite for success. Working as a teacher and an elite football coach means I have developed excellent communication skills, and evaluative tools to ensure learning and growth is always taking place.

When coaching a team, I believe in starting with the end in mind - preparing for long-term and short-term goals which clearly define expectations. I believe in order to achieve excellence, we need to have a learning environment where people are allowed to make mistakes and learn from them, prioritising decision-making in a variety of settings.