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9 April - Get yourself and your team ready for the 2024 Spring season
We’re getting ready for the 2024 Spring season - we hope you are too!
Registrations for the Spring 2024 season will open midway through June
Early Bird discounted pricing is available (and will be automatically calculated on the registration form) until 19th July after which time the Standard registration fee will apply.
The season will kick off in September. The season will run for eleven games, concluding before school breaks up at the end of the year. We will play September/October school holidays.
We are organising competitions as follows (you choose your venue and day of play at the time of registering):
Mondays at Curl Curl
Mixed Under 6 Mixed Under 7 Mixed Under 8 Mixed Under 9
Girls Under 6/7 Girls Under 8/9 Girls Under 10 Girls Under 12 Girls Under 14 Girls Under 17
Boys * Under 10 Boys * Under 12 Boys * Under 14 Boys * Under 17
Ladies Over 35 Mens Over 35
Tuesdays at Narrabeen
Mixed Under 6 Mixed Under 9
Boys * Under 17
Mens Under 21 Mens Open Age
Wednesdays at Narrabeen
Mixed Under 7
Boys * Under 10 Boys * Under 12
Ladies Under 21 Ladies Open Age Ladies Over 35
Mixed Open Age
Thursdays at Narrabeen
Girls Under 6/7 Girls Under 8/9 Girls Under 10 Girls Under 12 Girls Under 14 Girls Under 17
Fridays at Narrabeen
Mixed Under 8 Boys * Under 12 Boys * Under 14
Interested in being a referee?
We’re always on the lookout for great referees. If you’re interested, get in touch with us for more details.
* Girls are permitted to play in the Boys competitions only as outfield players (not as goalies) and only so long as she and her parents both understand that she is unlikely to play with or against any other girls. We make this point only to ensure that there is no confusion or expectation that a Boys competitions might actually be a Mixed Gender competition.
If you want to know the moment that registrations have opened (and to get other time-critical information through the season) we strongly recommend that you follow us on Twitter.
Early bird registration bonuses
Teams that have at least the qualifying number of players registered before 19th July will receive two bonuses:
Every player that has registered before that date will get an (approximately) 10% discount on the standard registration fee. The discount is already calculated on the registration form and will revert back up to the standard fee on 20th July.
AND
The team will get to choose their playing colours from our ten available colour-ways. The way this works is: (1) We record the date and time that each player is registered (2) We grade all the teams in a particular age group and assemble them in to competitions (3) In each competition we look to see which teams qualified to choose their colours by having at least the qualifying number of players registered and, of those, we determine the order in which they were registered based on the date/time their last player was registered. (4) We then contact each team, in the order that they qualified, to obtain their colour choice. The team that qualifies first gets first choice, the team that qualifies second gets second choice, etc etc.
The (minimum) qualifying number of players is eight (8) in the following age groups: All Under 6, Under 7, Under 8, Under 9, Under 10, Under competitions plus Girls Under 14 and all Over 35 competitions.
The (minimum) qualifying number of players is seven (7) in the following age groups: Boys Under 14 competitions plus all Under 17, Under 20 and Open Age competitions
Change of venue for the 2024 Spring season
Council have advised us that our spiritual home, Rat Park, will not be available for our use in season 2024 as they have planned field maintenance and improvements. Instead, we will be playing at Narrabeen Sports High School this year and returning to Rat Park in 2025.
We will also be playing separate competitions at Curl Curl, as we have done for several years now.
Change of format for the 2024 Spring season
We are trialling a slightly different format in season 2024, reducing the number of players involved in a game for some age groups.
In season 2024, the following age groups will continue to play six-a-side (goalie plus five outfield players): All Under 6, Under 7, Under 8, Under 9, Under 10, Under competitions plus Girls Under 14 and all Over 35 competitions.
And the following age groups will play five-a-side (goalie plus four outfield players): Boys Under 14 competitions plus all Under 17, Under 20 and Open Age competitions
Sub Junior Coaching Handbook
Developed over many years and used by many coaches of sub junior and/or inexperienced players of any age who have a “weaker foot” or who are looking to improve their spacial awareness.
I’ve personally used many of the drills with ages including Under 6, Under 7, Under 8, Under 9, Under 10, Under 12, Under 13, Under 14, Under 15, Under 16, Open Age Men and Over 35 Men and Women with great success.
FootballSSG is the Northern Beaches’ longest-running, best organised and most fun 6-a-side football competition.
Included in your registration fee is, well, pretty much everything. We provide every player with a full playing kit (jersey, shorts and socks) plus a goalkeeper jersey for each team. We provide referees for every game, plenty of match footballs on every field for every game, official time keepers, on site assistance and the best, clear, accurate, relevant and timely communications that you’ll experience in a community-based sporting organisation.
You simply need to organise your team of 8-10 players and a manager. We look after everything else.
The role of the manager at FootballSSG is very, very simple. Your tasks are: - at the advised time before the season starts, collect (or have someone else collect) your team’s player kits - distribute your team’s player kits to the players - before the start of each game, complete the team’s details on the Match Record Sheet - during the game, organise (or have someone else organise) the player substitutions such that every player gets a fair go - at the conclusion of each game, sign the Match Record Sheet to confirm your agreement with the score as recorded
When we established the competition back in 2007, we wanted to create a place where players could just come and have fun, where parents could enjoy themselves and not feel pressured to ‘volunteer’ and where the referees and field officials felt safe and supported as they learn to be the best they can be. All these years later, with various ‘tweaks’ along the way, we’re confident we’ve got things just about as right as they can be.
NSW Active Kids Voucher Redemptions
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We have NEVER missed a game due to wet weather
This is a claim that we can no longer make. After twelve years and almost 20,000 games scheduled, in our Spring 2019 season we were unable to re-schedule and play 49 games that we chose not to play on the day that Sydney was placed under a State Of Emergency due to extreme heat and bushfire activity/threat. The weeks that followed that day we were affected by rain and so welost those 49 games.
We really were not happy about it, but the fact is that after our 2023 season we can only claim that over sixteen years and 30,000 scheduled games we have only missed 0.1% of games due to extreme weather events.
We still know you just want to play, so we only use the best quality fields with the best irrigation and drainage systems, so you get to play. After all, that is what you want, isn’t it? When you register to play, you just want to be able to play!
STILL Sydney’s favourite small-sided football competition
- 760 players in 2008 (our first year) - - Over 2,500 players in 2013 - - 4,500 players in 2017 - That’s 35% growth, year on year!
Be a part of the best organised and best fun small sided football competition in Sydney. We’ve got something for everyone:
- Boys, Girls, Men’s & Ladies’ competitions - - All age groups from Under 6 to Over 35 -
