Sydney Swans champion and icon of the game Lance Franklin has called time on his remarkable career, announcing his retirement, effective immediately. The champion forward has decided to hang up the boots, after 354 games over 19 seasons at the…
The Paul Kelly Cup Final will return on 29 August 2023 at GIANTS Stadium. The Paul Kelly Cup is the biggest school competition run by AFL NSW/ACT and has seen more than 10,000 competitors from across Canberra and NSW take…
AFL NSW/ACT is pleased to announce two four-week all girls NAB AFL Auskick programs will kick off in August at the homes of the GIANTS and the Sydney Swans. For just $50, girls aged five to eight years can kick…
By Rod Gillett . NSW won the expanded Teal Cup under 17 national championships in 1975 by convincingly beating Victoria in the final game of the series by 90 points in Brisbane. Victoria had joined the competition that year while…
Pictured: Christine Burrow There are some fantastic Female Umpire Coaches across our Community Football Leagues in NSW/ACT. Here are just some of our influential Female Coaches! Janelle Biden: Hunter Central Coast Whilst coaching a youth girls 17’s team some of…
The 2023 Diversity Talent Leadership Program Boys was held over the weekend at Sydney Academy of Sport and Recreation, Narrabeen. The program includes a Multicultural Youth Leadership squad and a First Nations Youth Leadership squad who came from all across…
Queensland will host the 2023 Toyota AFL National Inclusion Carnival when the event takes place in Brisbane from October 8-13. The annual carnival for the most talented male footballers with an intellectual disability will again see representative teams from eight States and…
Singleton Roosters’ senior women’s and men’s sides returned to the field on Saturday, 15 July for the first time since the Greta bus tragedy claimed the lives of nine people connected with the club and injured many more. On a…
, By Rod Gillett . The Allies’ win at this year’s national championships begs the question: when did NSW last win a championship given that the Allies, made up under 18 players from NSW, ACT, Queensland, Tasmania and the Northern…
AFL NSW/ACT is pleased to announce Errol Gulden of the Sydney Swans as the code’s new Diversity Talent Ambassador. He joins Aliesha Newman (Sydney Swans) in the role to guide and support First Nations and multicultural participants in AFL NSW/ACT…
