General Updates
Key Updates
Connect your child’s passion with their education and complete Years 11 & 12 at SEDA College. SEDA College is an Independent Senior secondary school and our model places student interest at the forefront of their Senior Secondary education, alongside a practical connection to the sport & recreation industry.
We are currently following up on a few outstanding submissions to for this year’s award across all Senior Male and Female Football, and A Grade Netball competitions.
To maintain the integrity of the results and ensure players across all clubs are recognised appropriately, we kindly remind all coaches to submit their votes if they haven't already.
These votes provide a valuable opportunity for coaches to acknowledge standout performances, both from within their own teams and from the opposition.
At this stage, we are holding off on publicly releasing the leaderboards to ensure all data is complete and accurate.
If you have any questions or require assistance with submitting your votes, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
GFNL
Senior Football
12/7/25 - Lara vs St Albans - 2:10pm
A Grade Netball
12/7/25 - Lara vs St Albans - 1:40pm
Reminders
The Real MVP – Marathon Foods Volunteer Program recognises and rewards the unsung heroes who make community football and netball possible.
This initiative honours the volunteers who represent the heart and soul of their clubs — the ones who go above and beyond to keep things running behind the scenes.
AFL Barwon has teamed up with global sauce and condiments brand Lee Kum Kee to launch the Lee Kum Kee Community Initiative for the 2025 season!
This exciting new program invites clubs to take part in a fun and creative video challenge using Lee Kum Kee products, with a $4,000 prize up for grabs to support a club improvement project.
If clubs are wanting product to support your ssubmission, please email
ENTRIES DEADLINE CHANGED UNTIL JULY 30TH!
Commercial Partnerships
Registrations Are Now Open! Serenity in the Stadium 2025 is back-bigger, brighter, and more mindful than ever.
Join us at GMHBA Stadium 8am on Sunday 19 October for a powerful morning of yoga, connection, and community. Whether you're a seasoned yogi or just starting out, this event is about moving your body, calming your mind, and celebrating wellbeing in a space that brings us together.
Early bird tickets are on sale on the link below
Club Development
Nominations are now open for the 2025 Chemist Warehouse AFLW Community Ambassadors Program.
Each year, women and girls in the footy community are nominated and recognised for the outstanding efforts within our great game.
Ambassadors will receive a $1,000 grant, and a money can’t buy 2025 NAB AFLW Final experience.
Nominations close July 20
As we approach finals the AFL Vic Coaching and Umpiring teams will collaborate on an online webinar for Junior Coaches across Victoria who are competing in finals competitions at the end of this season. The webinar will take place on Wednesday 30 July from 7pm – 8pm.
The workshop will be named “Your Actions, Their Game” with the aim to help “Shape Finals Football Environments”.
- We would love to see all Junior Head Coaches online, however a minimum of 1 per club competing in finals + a member of the clubs Executive Committee.
- Junior Coordinators, Assistant Coaches and Team Managers are also encouraged to join where possible
Please register HERE
Some of the key outcomes your club will be achieve from this webinar are below:
- Walk away with a ‘charter’ of what they as a team and club are going to do in the final part of the season.
- Ensuring that coaches provide a positive experience forALL players who participate in finals regardless of scoreboard outcome.
- Provide an Umpires perspective on the field and how that differs from a coaches/parent’s position
- Ensuring we as Coaches are supporting an Umpires finals experience
- This workshop will be aiming to help aid retention of both playersand umpires following the conclusion of the season, heading towards 2026.
These are the key points; however, there will be other important elements that will be covered beyond this throughout the workshop.
Enquires can be directed to Tim Secombe
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Officially opening on the 03/06/25 closing on the 25/08/25.
Clubs can now register to participate in the mission to eliminate deaths and serious injuries on our roads and share in the chance to earn up to $10k.
The Toyota Good for Footy Raffle is back for 2025! If a club has never engaged with the program, they can now register for free via the link below.
Clubs who have previously registered are automatically re-registered and can start fundraising Immediately.
Netball
General Netball
With the League Bye occurring this weekend, with the only fixture being Lara vs St Albans, we hope all clubs and teams are able to enjoy a quick breather from netball before get into the tail end of things.
BFNL & GFNL Netball
Please be reminded of the relevant qualification requirements and restrictions. These inclusions are not exhaustive, and clubs should refer to the 2025 AFL Barwon Handbook for all detail.
4.11 Players who play 6 games in a lower senior grade automatically qualify for any senior grade higher. (Players must still adhere to all other applicable competition regulations that restrict player movement eg: 4.9).
15.7 Senior players are only eligible to play in one final, per weekend.
5.1 Players must take the court in at least 6 games to be eligible to participate in that division’s finals series. If the minimum number of games is not played, the player is ineligible to play finals.
5.2 Junior players qualified in Division 2 of their age group automatically qualify to play in Division 1 finals of that age group.
5.3 Once a player takes the court in the 9th game, they are ineligible to play in a lower grade/ division in the same age group.
5.4 A player can only play in one senior game over one weekend of finals.
5.5 Any junior is eligible to play in two finals (one junior and one senior) over one weekend of finals as long as they are qualified as per 5.1.
5.6 Players from the Friday night competition must adequately qualify in a Saturday competition in order to be eligible for that competition’s finals. No automatic qualification from Friday competition to Saturday is permitted.
15.5 In the GFNL ONLY any junior is eligible to play in two finals – one junior and one senior – over one weekend of finals as long as they are qualified as per rule 5.
6.1 Players must take the court in at least 6 games to be eligible to participate in that division’s finals series. If the minimum number of games is not played, the player is ineligible to play finals
6.2 Once a player takes the court in the 9th game, they are ineligible to play in a lower grade/ division in the same age group.
6.3 A player can only play in one senior game over one weekend of finals.
6.4 Any junior is eligible to play in two finals over one weekend (one junior and one senior, or two junior not in the same age group)
6.5 Players from the Friday night competition must adequately qualify in a Saturday competition in order to be eligible for that competition’s finals. No automatic qualification from Friday competition to Saturday is permitted.
15.6 In the BFNL ONLY any junior is eligible to play in two finals on the same day but not in the same age group. All players must be qualified as per rule 6.
Junior Netball
A reminder that AFL Barwon Junior Netball has season byes due to school holidays with no games to be played on Tuesday 8th July, Friday 11th July, Tuesday 15th July.
Enjoy the break and see you on Friday 18th July when we return.
There have been some changes to the 11&U mid-week competition fixture due to facility needs.
If everyone could please double check their fixtures, especially court allocation and time before the break concludes and communicate accordingly that would be greatly appreciated.
Just a friendly reminder to please select team line-up on PlayHQ prior to 10am match day.
Due to the Geelong cats home game at GMHBA there will be no games played at Kardinia Park on August 8. The fixture for this has now been published on PlayHQ.
Please be reminded of the qualifications and criteria requirements for AFL Barwon Mid-week Junior Netball finals
7.1 Players must take the court in at least 4 games to be eligible to participate in that division’s finals series. If the minimum number of games is not played, the player is ineligible to play finals. (Once a player takes the court in the 6th game, they are ineligible to play in a lower grade/division in the same age group).
8.8 In AFL Barwon JN any player is only allowed to play in one final over the night.
CDFNL Netball
With the league bye this weekend, please enjoy a break from your regularly fixtured netball.
