On Episode 16 of Soccerscene’s Off the Pitch Podcast, it was a special episode with FQ CEO Rob Cavallucci ahead of the all-important 2025 Queensland Football Convention.
Many topics around the issues in Queensland football were discussed including Futsal’s incredible growth, update on Perry Park’s upgrade plan and driving player retention in certain youth age groups.
On the topic of administration, FQ’s new Future Club+ is a ground-breaking initiative designed to strengthen the foundations of football clubs across the state.
The concept of this began after last year’s convention and through interactive club lab sessions and ongoing consultation, FQ are continuing those discussions and driving practical change.
Cavallucci discussed the current volunteering and administration issues that are plaguing local football clubs.
“Future Club+ is in line with what I talked about earlier in regard to what we need to do to best position this sport for the next 20 years,” he said.
“Clubs are run by volunteers and volunteerism is waning. A lot of clubs can’t get the administration right because they also can’t get the governance right.
“The sport is run by volunteers and when you look at the fact that volunteerism is declining in Australia across every sport, you know it’s a problem we have to solve right now.
“From a governing body point of view, when you look at that, that’s actually a limiting factor on the success of our sport.”
He also gave a solution on how FQ are going to tackle this in the future, specifically in regards to what Future Club+ will offer in the 2025 Queensland Football Convention and beyond.
“We need to start to work with clubs to transform how they manage themselves and that means a whole series of things. Hence the Future Club+ concept is looking at that and rethinking about best practice of how a club should operate,” he said.
“What we’ve been doing over the last 18 months through a series of webinars and in the last convention, and even in this upcoming one, there’s three Future Club+ sessions and it’s all about best practice at a club.”
In this convention, the three Future Club+ sessions are:
#1 What data reveals about your club future
#2 The amalgamation playbook: Real stories from the clubs forging the future
#3 The growth engine: your tool kit to fund staff and empower volunteers.
“Those three subjects should be very appealing to any club.”
Click hear the full interview with Rob Cavallucci, on Episode 16 of Soccerscene’s Off the Pitch Podcast – available on all major podcasting platforms.
