FootballSSG - Sydney's favourite small sided soccer football competition

Sydney’s fastest growing sport and favourite spring/summer small-sided football competition

Playing 5-a-side or 6-a-side soccer football is a brilliant way to keep fit and have fun

By playing FootballSSG you will notice the difference in your playing ability when the next Manly Warringah soccer season comes around

Enjoy your soccer football more - play Manly Warringah's favourite summer soccer/summer football competitions - play FootballSSG Small Sided Games

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FootballSSG competitions are held at Pittwater Rat Park, North Narrabeen and Brookvale Oval, Brookvale

FootballSSG are Manly Warringah summer soccer competitions run mid-week, on your choice of Tuesday or Thursday afternoons and evenings

We created the FootballSSG to aid in the ongoing growth and development of the game of football, and in particular, to aid in the natural development of player’s technical skills

The basics of FootballSSG and futsal are very similar. Most of the rules are similar including: the size of the field; the non-contact nature of play; and the length of the matches. The key and fundamental difference between FootballSSG and futsal is that we play on turf and use a turf ball (like you would use in your full-sized-field winter competition). This is because we want our players to improve their technical football skills, something we feel is best done using the ball and the surface they will experience in their regular winter competition.

You might just want to have fun. You might want to improve or enhance your fitness. All of these are valid reasons to play FootballSSG, Manly Warringah summer soccer.

The key and fundamental difference between FootballSSG and futsal is that we play on turf and use a turf ball (like you would use in your full-sized-field winter competition)

FootballSSG aids in the ongoing growth and development of the game of football, and in particular, aids in the natural development of player’s technical skills

Small sided football helps to improve technical skills such as ball control, short passing and dribbling. And it helps to improve tactical skills such as using space, passing and moving and playing a through ball.

Site updated July 03, 2026

Welcome to Sydney's favourite and fastest growing small sided football competitions

For the most up to date competition information, including WET WEATHER information ...

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The best summer football competitions - Football SSG "Small Sided Games"

Registrations are now open for Season 2026

Registrations for FootballSSG’s 2026 summer competition are now open.

The atmosphere at each of our venues promises to be absolutely electric ... we’ll have the capacity to have more games playing at once than ever before.

Depending on your age group, you can choose to play:
- at Curl Curl on Monday afternoons / evenings (all age groups)
- at Narrabeen on Wednesday afternoons / evenings (Under 10 and older)
- at Narrabeen on Friday afternoons (Under 6, Under 7, Under 8, Under 9)
- or during the day at Narrabeen on Sundays (all age groups)

Our Narrabeen competitions will be played at the Sydney Academy of Sport.

Our Curl Curl competitions will be played at Abbott Road, North Curl Curl.

Take advantage of our Early Bird discounted registration fee by registering before 22nd July ... more details here

What do you get when you play FootballSSG ?

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.

Sub Junior Coaching Handbook

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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.

Authored by Stuart Cole and available completely free of charge to anyone that wants some new ideas on coaching football ... download our Sub Junior Coaching Handbook for free.

Our favourite YouTube video ... have you got a FootballSSG video that you would like us to share?

If you’ve got 9 minutes spare, check this out (video produced by Matt Leiper in 2012 ... honestly I get a buzz every time I watch these superstars of the future)

Have you liked us on Facebook yet ?

We’re the most liked small-sided football competition in Sydney ... and we want to be the most liked community football-related Facebook page in Sydney too.

Why not check it out and, if you like FootballSSG ... show it on Facebook by liking us and sharing our Facebook page with your friends ... because we want EVERYONE to know about FootballSSG

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 we lost those 49 games.

We really were not happy about it, but the fact is that after our 2025 season we can only claim that over eighteen years and almost 35,000 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!