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Mid-season Girls Auskick Bursts onto the Sapphire Coast!

AFL Sapphire is excited to announce that our clubs are opening up NAB AFL Auskick for girls through our mid-season Burst program! Mid-season entry gives girls the chance to play Auskick for five weeks. Participants will receive the coveted Auskick

Bega & Tathra confirm 2024 partnership

Following several weeks of internal committee level discussion, and conversation with AFL Sapphire Coast, Bega Valley Bombers and Tathra Sea Eagles have made the decision to form a Joint Venture for the 2024 season. Both clubs currently are struggling to

Accessing NSW Active Kids vouchers in 2024

The following Memo to Clubs was sent to all AFL NSW/ACT clubs by Community Football Manager, John Boulous, on 31 January 2024. . As announced by the NSW Government in June 2023, the Active Kids Voucher (‘AKV’) program will expire

Play your way! A guide to playing footy in 2024

Footy season is just around the corner and with SO many options, here is a guide to playing NAB AFL Auskick or local footy in 2024. . Don’t forget there are tonnes more offerings including NAB AFL Superkick and AFL

EOIs Open for Sapphire Coast Representative Coach Positions

AFL Sapphire Coast are excited to announce that all representative coaching positions have been made vacant and are now open to community nominations. In 2023, the AFL Sapphire Coast representative sides travelled to Nowra participating against Central West and South

Registrations open for 2024 AFL Sapphire Coast Season

With the off-season in full-swing, AFL Sapphire Coast clubs have begun opening their registrations for the upcoming 2024 season. Whilst not without its challenges, the 2023 competition concluded in style, with a fantastic finals series including some high quality football.

Sapphire Stingrays Representative Teams

We are excited to announce our 2023 AFL Sapphire Coast Stingrays Representative Squads. Our U13 Mixed, U155 Boys, U17s Girls and U17s Boys teams will be playing in the Shoalhaven Representative Carnival on the weekend of 30th June-2nd July across

Senior Rep Footy Update

After Discussions between AFL Central West and AFL Sapphire Coast, it has been decided that the Senior Men’s and Senior Women’s Rep matches between the two leagues will not proceed on July 2 as planned.   Although we understand the

Update: Shoalhaven Rep Carnival

The Community Footy managers for each of the Shoalhaven Junior Carnival’s participating leagues met yesterday and decided that the 2022 Shoalhaven Junior Carnival scheduled for 1-3 July would be postponed with a date TBC.   This decision was made with

AFL Sapphire Coast Mens’ Competition Update

AFL Sapphire Coast Men’s Competitions   AFL Sapphire Coast wishes to provide an update on the status of our Senior Men’s Competitions. After a review of the current structures we have in place, and the withdrawal of two sides after