Ausco Modular to build clubhouse for Virginia United

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Ausco Modular will start production on a brand new custom designed clubhouse for Virginia United Football Club.

Ausco Modular will start production on a brand new custom designed clubhouse for Virginia United Football Club, based in the Queensland suburb of Nundah.

Construction is planned to begin this month in the club’s Riverview facility, to enhance the viewing experience on game day.

The clubhouse plan design features four female friendly changing rooms, two referee rooms, a social room for club events and a large canteen. Spectators will be able to catch all the action from the deck overlooking Field 1.

Ausco have been trusted as a modular building partner, being the perfect fit for clubs, councils, community & sporting groups across Australia.

By choosing modular building to create a new or upgraded clubhouse or facility, it solves many of the challenges that organisations face in the planning and implementation of construction.

Minimal groundworks are required and little space beyond the built area of the building preserves playing fields during works and limits the number of disruptions for the playing season, as well as the neighbouring community.

Their latest completed project at Underwood Park highlights what they bring to any club or organisation who wants an upgrade on their current set up.

“This project not only provides our community with the sort of facilites we need, but has also supported 450 local construction and manufacturing jobs,” Mick de Brenni said.

“Special recognition is earned by the team at Ausco Modular, their contracting partners, staff and excellent tradies.”

By choosing Ausco Modular, you will get a reliable supplier of infrastructure that can bring immediate benefits to your organisation:

  • You can be assured that our design teams have worked closely with national and state sporting codes to develop facilities that meet or exceed their minimum standards
  • Time-saving as installation can be up to 60% faster than conventional on-the-ground construction
  • The modular building methodology makes facilities suitable for the landfill and reclaimed substrates under many playing fields
  • We manage the project from beginning to end to mitigate the risk of scope, timeline and cost overruns and to lessen the burden on your staff and volunteers.
  • All Ausco Modular buildings comply with the National Construction Code of Australia.

You can find out more on Ausco including case studies on their dedicated sports facilities page here.

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Victory unites with Roasting Warehouse in culture-led partnership

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The Melbourne-based anf family-owned business will join the Victory family, uniting two institutions which represent the city’s culture and identity.

A partnership with local roots

As the newest partner of Melbourne Victory, Roasting Warehouse joins forces with a vital part of the city’s sporting landscape.

The club’s Managing Director, Caroline Carnegie, outlined why the partnership bears so much value to both parties.

“We are excited to collaborate with Roasting Warehouse, a community-oriented destination for high-quality coffee, proud of its foundations in Melbourne,” said Carnegie via official media release.

“Football and coffee sit at the epicentre of Melbourne’s culture. The two go hand-in-hand, consistently at the centre of the conversation that stirs Melburnians, which is no different to the conversation sport and Melbourne Victory stir in the State.”

Indeed, this is a partnership which combines the identity, passions and culture of an entire city, therefore giving it the foundations required for long-term, mutual success.

Representing the best of Melbourne

Both Victory and Roasting Warehouse are hugely successful in their respective industries. They are institutions with community-oriented philosphies, who pride themselves on craft and quality.

“We’re incredibly proud to partner with Melbourne Victory, a club that represents the heart, passion, and ambition of Melbourne,” revealed Roasting Warehouse Head of Brand, Alexander Paraskevopoulos.

“As a Melbourne-founded, family-run business, supporting a team that means so much to the local community feels very natural for us.”

Furthermore, through their high-quality blends, Roasting Warehouse will look to prepare Victory’s players and staff for high performances on the pitch as the seasons nears completion.

But this is about far more than just fueling athletes.

This is a partnership which embodies and unites two of Melbourne’s greatest strengths and cultural markers – a connection forged from the city’s very own DNA.

 

For more information about Roasting Warehouse, click here.

Football NSW supports Female Coaches CPD as Women’s Football Surges

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Football NSW has used the platform of the AFC Women’s Asian Cup to deliver a targeted professional development workshop for female coaches, bringing together scholarship recipients for an evening of structured learning and direct engagement with elite women’s football.

Held at ACPE last month, the session was open to female coaches who received C or B Diploma scholarships through Football NSW in 2025. Coaching accreditation carries a financial cost that disproportionately affects women, who are less likely to have their development subsidised by clubs or associations operating in underfunded community football environments. Scholarship access changes that equation at the point where many women exit the pathway.

Facilitated by Football NSW Coach Development Coordinator Bronwyn Kiceec, the workshop focused on goal scoring trends from the tournament’s group stage, with coaches analysing attacking patterns and exploring how those insights could translate into their own environments. The group then attended the quarter-final between South Korea and Uzbekistan at Stadium Australia.

The structure of the evening mattered as much as its content. Female coaches in community football rarely have access to elite competition environments as a professional resource. The gap between the level at which most women coach and the level at which the game is analysed and discussed tends to reinforce itself. Placing scholarship recipients inside a major tournament, as participants rather than spectators, closes that gap in a way that a classroom session cannot.

Female coaches remain significantly underrepresented across all levels of the game in Australia. The pipeline that will change that depends not only on accreditation access but on the professional networks, peer relationships and exposure to elite environments that male coaches have historically taken for granted.

The workshop forms part of Football NSW’s ongoing commitment to developing female coaches through scholarships and structured learning opportunities.

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