Glen Eira pavilion makeover to give community sport a boost

A $4 million investment package by the Victorian Government is set to transform three parks within the City of Glen Eira.

A $4 million investment package by the Victorian Government is set to transform three parks within the City of Glen Eira, building ageing pavilions into bigger and more modern female and family friendly community venues.

Two soccer clubs will be able to directly benefit from these upgrades – Glen Eira FC and Caulfield Cougars SC. A new pavilion will be built at Koornang Park with the adjacent Lord Reserve pavilion to get an upgrade featuring new female friendly change rooms for resident clubs, which will be shared amongst other resident clubs such as Carnegie Cricket Club and Monash Gryphons.

The third venue within the City of Glen Eira to benefit from the $4 million investment is Murrumbeena Park. It is home to the Murrumbeena Lions Football Netball Club, Murrumbeena Junior Football Club, Murrumbeena Cricket Club, Murrumbeena Bowls Club and Oakdale Angling Club, adding substantial positive changes for a variety of sports.

Across all pavilions, the project will also aim to deliver a community hub, including three meeting & multi-purpose rooms, a 140-seat function room with kitchen, fully accessible public amenities, a facelift & extension of club changeroom facilities, social space and a new car park.

The entire project is forecasted to be complete by mid-2022, enabling the opportunity for around 60 people to be employed – including trades, contractors and consultants, putting the best foot forward to meet the project deadline.

In an effort to increase overall participation at local grassroot clubs, especially for those to benefit from the Victorian Government’s upgrade investments, the State Government have designed a voucher program for eligible children to access in order to cover associated costs.

The Get Active Kids Voucher Program is a Victorian first and will be rolling out 100,000 sport vouchers across the state. This is to encourage families to have their children involved in organised sport and recreation activities, by reimbursing the cost of membership and registration fees, uniforms and equipment that would need to be covered on a yearly basis.

Those that are eligible may be able to receive of up to $200 of funds – applications can be found 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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