With grounds across the region closed due to the wet weather, the Northern Heat and North Coast Academy of Sport (NCAS) squads became the first AFL users of Coffs Harbour City Council’s new synthetic fields. Only recently opened, the synthetic…
TWO-time AFL North West Golden Whistle winner Travis Brown looks back on his playing career mainly in South-West Sydney with great fondness. But umpiring has made him realise one important thing. “If it wasn’t for umpires I wouldn’t have been…
As the 2022 community footy season edges closer and closer, CoachAFL is excited to announce the return of their AFL Community Camp Coaching Webinar Series! Introduced last year, the series gave local coaches unprecedented access to their elite counterparts. Following…
Northern NSW has had five clubs benefit from the 2022 Toyota Good for Footy Gear Grant program. For the third year running, Toyota is providing 100 female football teams around the country the funding required to supply new uniforms to…
Work is underway to build the Sydney Swans AFLW list ahead of their introduction to the competition next season, and six Northern NSW women are front and centre, pushing their claim for consideration. The Swans and Giants have kicked off…
Nominations are now open for coaches and managers wishing to be involved in the AFL North West Junior representative program for 2022. Teams will be fielded at Under 13, Under 15, Under 17, and Youth Girls (Under 17) age groups.…
A summer of doing the tough slog while no-one was watching has paid dividends for the players in the Northern Heat squads based on testing results achieved in Saturday’s first session of 2022. The two squads were put through their…
An exciting new partnership between the QBE Sydney Swans Academy and both AFL North Coast and AFL North West will provide greater opportunities for local players to make it to the big time. The partnership will see the North West,…
AFL North West will be more accessible than ever for younger players, with all juniors matches to be played on a Sunday in 2022 and, for the first time in league history, there will be a Youth Girls competition.…
On behalf of the entire team at AFL NSW/ACT we’d like to wish our Northern NSW footy family a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year! 2021 turned out to be another challenging season as a result of the…
