Football NSW takes out Outstanding Organisation award

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Football NSW was rewarded at the NSW Office Of Sport’s 2022-2023 Her Sport Her Way Event with the ‘Outstanding Organisation’ award.

In 2022, Football NSW secured a $10 million investment into female football as part of the NSW Football Legacy Program, ahead of the co-hosting of the FIFA Women’s World Cup later this year.

The legacy program has already delivered funding for 24 facility projects and 58 participation programs to meet the needs of the fast-growing female football community. Seventy-nine scholarships have been awarded to women to support their development in coaching, refereeing, and volunteer administration.

In addition, the Daughters and Dads Football pilot was filled to capacity, allowing 50 families to strengthen the bond between daughters and their father figures.

In 2022, female participation reached 26% and programs for women and girls such as the Girls Love Football program for 12–17-year-olds, and Kick-On for Women for those looking to fit social sport into a busy adult life. Female coaching numbers increased 9%, with a 39% increase in women completing advanced coaching courses.

Football NSW’s Strategic Plan launched in late 2022, has a goal of gender parity spanning all elements of the sport including player opportunities, non-playing participation, and visibility.

To top off the year, the first NAIDOC Cup event to showcase Aboriginal players was delivered in partnership with Northern NSW Football.  The cup featured Aboriginal male and female teams of players aged between 14 and 16 years along with Aboriginal coaches.

“Football NSW is proud to have accepted the Outstanding Organisation Award at the prestigious Her Sport Her Way Ceremony,” said Football NSW CEO John Tsatsimas.

“The growth of female football especially has been evident thanks to a number of exciting initiatives including the $10 million investment as part of the NSW Football Legacy Program along with the addition of the Daughters and Dads pilot which was a huge success.

“The organisation is continuing to think outside the box as well as working on continuing to ensure that there are better pathways for our female footballers.

“This award was thanks to the outstanding efforts of the football family in NSW.”

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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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