AUSTRALIA'S best young talent will assemble in Sydney in November, with the Harbour City named as the venue for the next two NAB AFL drafts.

As flagged by AFL.com.au in January, recruiting managers from the AFL's 18 clubs and some of the game's brightest prospects will gather in the city for the first time since 2011, the year before Greater Western Sydney played made its AFL debut.

The draft had been a Melbourne institution since its inception in 1986, with Adelaide (1997) the only different venue used until 2010, when the event was taken to the Gold Coast to celebrate the Suns' admission to the League the following season.

Perth and Brisbane remain the only two major AFL cities never to host the showpiece.

The news comes after four NSW players were taken in the top 20 at last year's draft at the Adelaide Convention Centre.

The academy system allowed the Sydney Swans to take midfield gun Callum Mills with pick No.3, while Greater Western Sydney used all four of its selections on academy players Jacob Hopper (No.7), Matthew Kennedy (No.13) Harry Himmelberg (No.16) and Matthew Flynn (No.41). 

Key defender Harrison Macreadie – from the Riverina region of NSW – is part of the GWS academy and has already been touted as one of the best tall prospects in the country ahead of this year's draft. 

Zach Sproule, Will Setterfield and Kobe Mutch are other talented locals who the Giants will get first crack at in 2016.