Across rounds seven and eight, the entire competition will recognise and celebrate the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island women and girls to Australian Football and the broader community. With only 4 games left of the home and away…
Bellingen Bulldogs player Deja Barlow is one of just 21 players from across NSW and the ACT to be selected in the 2023 AFL Diversity Academies. The 17 year-old has been picked in the AFL Indigenous Academy for Girls. The…
Two of Northern NSW’s finest young female Indigenous talents have shone in a match played between the AFL NSW/ACT Indigenous and Multicultural teams in Sydney on Sunday. Deja Barlow (North Coast) and Ruby Spark (North West) have both participated in…
In a real coup for the region, the Sydney Swans launched their inaugural First Nations Academy in Coffs Harbour last night with a strong contingent of new and current players taking part. The second Academy program launches in Port Macquarie…
The Sydney Swans are set to launch the newly created First Nations Academy to help identify the next wave of Indigenous stars, with Academy centres to be based in two North Coast locations. The Swans are renowned for having an…
Dozens of football clubs in NSW and the ACT are throwing their support behind the AFL’s annual Sir Doug Nicholls Round which kicks off this weekend. More commonly known as Indigenous Round, this week of footy celebrates Aboriginal and Torres…
The pathway to Indigenous and multicultural representative teams may have been postponed due to COVID-19, but that isn’t stopping AFL NSW/ACT providing opportunities for football development to players like Jaxon Mawson Gulliford. Although there’s no opportunity to play or train…
AFL North Coast is throwing its support behind former Sawtell Juniors President Jade Collon in her project to provide footy boots to kids in a remote Indigenous community in the Northern Territory. Jade has been working as a Community and…
Article reproduced from www.aflnswact.com.au. For season 2021, the Lismore Swans decided that for the first time in its 37-year history it would part ways with the Northern Rivers competition and join AFL North Coast. The new kids on the…
Football is the gateway to a good community. It’s a sport that unites and includes regardless of a player’s background or personal circumstance. As custodians of the sport, AFL NSW/ACT is committed to ensuring everyone can play footy and feel…
