General Updates
Bellarine Football Netball League
A form is currently open for BFNL Clubs to complete requests for the 2025 Fixture. The form was emailed to Senior Football and Netball contacts in the form of a link on Tuesday 12th November.
Please refer to the email and complete any requests by COB Thursday 20th November.
Geelong Football Netball League
The AFL Barwon Operations team are working in the background to finalise communication regarding the GFNL 2025 fixture requests pending the AFL fixture release.
Player Registrations commenced on the 1st of October allowing Clubs to register new or returning participants earlier should they wish to, noting that the decision on when to open these registrations remains at the discretion of your Club.
November Player Transfer Period will be reintroduced in 2024 allowing for Player Transfer Requests to be lodged between 1 November and 30 November.
Clubs setting up a registration form
Please ensure that you are making your registration form visible understanding some clubs will hide their registration form if you are, for example, at capacity or offering registration initially to previous participants before making it visible.
Rego fee set >$0.
As a follow-up to the recent email, please remember to submit your club's completed Standard Chart of Accounts and 2024 Annual Report, including financials, within 14 days of your club’s Annual General Meeting.
These documents should be emailed to
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AFL Barwon, along with the Geelong Falcons are excited to invite you to take up a unique opportunity at the upcoming Geelong Region ‘Athlete Performance Profiling Event’ hosted by our Regional Partner, and verified testing body of the AFL, Rookie Me.
The event will be held at Geelong Grammar on Sat Dec 7th 2024, and is open to all Boys and Girls from our region born in years 2007 to 2012.
Spots are limited and your registration needs to be completed by the 2nd of December 2024 to ensure Rookie Me can set up and allocate time slots for the event accordingly.
Registration and payment can to be made through the following link:
Seeking more ways to collaborate and opportunities to innovate with like-minded people?
Seeking flexibility with no lock in contracts?
Seeking a centrally-located professional meeting space?
Kardinia Park Stadium Trust is thrilled to launch the new Sports House Memberships that are now available to the sport and recreation sector.
Designed with and for the sector, Sports House Memberships offer more than just an office space or meeting rooms; they provide a unique community.
Sports House membership is available to organisations involved in the development and administration of sport and recreation from grass roots participation to high performance.
Located at GMHBA Stadium Kardinia Park, Sports House offers open plan and office desks, three meeting rooms and break out space.
Members have the flexibility to move up or down the 4 Membership Levels on a monthly basis.
For more information please see below and visit Sports House online.
Club Development
Nominations for the Good Sports Awards 2024 are now open to all community sporting clubs who are part of the Good Sports program.
The Awards shine the spotlight on success, celebrate the volunteers who are the backbone of Good Sports clubs and provide clubs with the recognition they deserve for reducing harms from alcohol and drugs in their communities, and creating even healthier sporting environments.
There are cash prizes of up to $2000 for winning clubs!
Wanting to make changes to City-owned community assets? Submit a proposal for works to enhance or upgrade one of our facilities.
Proposed works include anything that might potentially be fixed to an asset or ground, for example: sports lights, facility or pavilion, sporting infrastructure, turf management etc.
The proposal for works must be approved before the commencement of any project.
Thanks to the many clubs under the COGG Local Government Authority (LGA) that took the opportunity to have your say around future facilities & recreational needs.
It is not to late to have your say with the census closing at 5pm 30th November.
Why should you contribute?
The City of Greater Geelong’s growing population and continued passion for sport means that it’s time to evaluate the use of our facilities and levels of participation in sport, to plan for our future recreational needs.
By completing the Sport and Recreation Census you’ll provide us with a clearer understanding of your club and its members. The results will inform us to better support your organisation and sport into the future.
Along with helping us understand sport and recreation trends, completing the census will assist in recognizing constraints on pavilions and reserves, understanding where gaps and opportunities exist, and identifying who, when and how people are using our facilities and reserves.
We thank you in anticipation of your support of growing Geelong’s reputation as an active, healthy, and engaged community by completing the survey. Please see our 2024 Sport and Recreation Census attached.
Eligible kids can receive up to $200 to cover the costs of memberships and registration fees for programs like local club footy, Auskick and Superkick.
Local club fundraising opportunity through new Container Deposit Scheme partnership
Local football clubs across the state will be supported to raise funds and become more sustainable through a new partnership between AFL Victoria and Victoria's Container Deposit Scheme (CDS Vic). CDS Vic provides the opportunity for Victorians to return eligible drink containers for a 10-cent refund.