Please see the below link to the club live stream schedule for the 2026 season.

Clubs are reminded that the cameras need to be picked up from the office each week by the home club.

We are excited to welcome work experience participants into our team and provide a valuable learning and development experience. Our program is designed to give students or recent graduates real-world exposure to the operations of a dynamic organisation, hands-on opportunities to contribute, and the ability to explore different areas of our business.

What We Offer

As part of your time with us, you’ll gain hands-on experience working alongside a passionate and experienced team, allowing you to contribute meaningfully to our day-to-day operations. You’ll also gain insight into all areas of the business, including (but not limited to)

• Operations and Administration
• Events and Competitions
• Community Engagement
• Governance and Compliance

Please click here for the position description and for more information.

Please see below a list of teams that to date (April 28), contain players who do not consent to the use of photos. 

This list does not mean you cannot take photos when playing these teams, but when completing the required photography form to gain consent, you must work with these clubs to identify the players who do not consent to their photo being captured/used, and honour the player’s consent status.

You can find the photography permission form on the Netball Resources page, or linked HERE.

A reminder to all BFNL and GFNL contacts that it is a requirement that ALL A GRADE MATCHES are live scored. We have seen that there were a number of games over the weekend that were not live scored.

A reminder that:

• E-scoring admins can be granted access via the admin site
• na.score.playhq.com is the correct URL – sometimes people end up on the cricket scoring site, which won’t work.
• You create a pin each time you start a session – this can be the same or different for each week. You need to remember this pin to finalise the scoring session.

This is in addition to the formal scoring process, which must still be undertaken and is the official documentation. 

Best Players

A number of clubs across ALL grades have not been selecting their best players. This is a requirement for our media partners, and as such require all teams to complete this step.

On our updated position tracking templates, there is room for this at the bottom of the page. Please ensure you are recording this and entering on PlayHQ

Club Budgets and player contracts (declared and non-declared) are due to AFL Barwon by COB April 30^th – TOMORROW!!. 

I hope you are all well underway with this task, however if you need a refresher, please review the below video

Player Payments and Points Webinar - WATCH HERE

If you are unsure on any part of this process however, please let me know, and I would be more than happy to organise a time to catch up and work through this together. 

If you feel you are unable to meet this deadline, please reach out ASAP! 

Player Payment Rule Guidelines provides detail on other payments that may be included or excluded from the calculation of player payments. 

All clubs must submit a budget at the beginning of the season. The budget can exceed your club’s allowable player payments (as it is only a budget), but clubs must remain under their permitted player payment limit at the conclusion of the season.

All players who take the court in A Grade must also have either: 

• A Standard Player Declaration 
• Non-Declared player statement

Each of these Allowable Player Payment reporting documents MUST be submitted NO LATER THAN April 30th.  

These can be submitted to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  

For all player payment and player points documentation, you can download this from the AFL Barwon website HERE.

In addition to the above key items, there are several resources available via the AFL Barwon Netball Resources page that may be helpful for you. Please ensure you review these if there is anything you are unclear about, or keep them printed by the scorebench.

• Scorers and Timekeepers Information
• Match Day Operations Manual
• Game/Match Management Log

Please visit https://aflbarwon.com.au/netball-resources for all information.

Registration cross checking between PlayHQ and Netball Connect will be sent out to clubs next week. Please ensure you are registering your players across both platforms.

Penalties as outlined in the AFL Barwon by-laws may apply.

Our midweek competition has commenced!

The venues we will be using for our midweek competition can be found below:

• Kardinia Park (Tuesday and Friday)
• Shell Road Reserve (Tuesday and Friday)
• Grinter Reserve (Friday)
• Richmond Oval (East Geelong FNC- Tuesday)
• Lara Recreation Reserve (Friday)
• Leopold Memorial Reserve (Tuesday)

 The first two weeks of the grading fixture have been released and are available on the PlayHQ public website.

These fixtures have been developed based on the proposed grades submitted by each club during the team entry process.

Grading will take place for four weeks and fixtures will be created and released accordingly with clubs notified when new fixtures are available.

A reminder to all participants that as per AFL Barwon’s bylaws and competition rules that all players must be registered before taking the court.

AFL Barwon will be delivering an education session on a collaborative approach to the delivery and process of game management that incorporates input from both coaches and umpires to support the game. This session will be presented by Umpires/Umpire Coaches within the high performance pathway.

We are excited to deliver these sessions broadly for a second year in a row. 

UMPIRES
Tuesday 5 May, 6:15pm - Kardinia Park Netball Complex.
Aim at badged individuals umpiring 17&U Div1 and above grades.
Clubs are expected to have 2 people attend.

COACHES
Tuesday 12 May, 6:15pm - AFL Barwon Highton Reserve.
Aim at individuals coaching 17&U Div1 and above grades.
Clubs are expected to have 2 people attend.

Please complete a separate form for each person attending.

Reminder to send through your umpire rosters weekly to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. assist in providing mentoring opportunities for your club umpires.