Coach & Manager requirements

MiniRoos Coaches

The Club regards the Grassroots Coaching Course essential for all coaches. It is free of charge and is run several times during the course of the year. Participants receive a handbook that contains pages of invaluable material covering drills, training and much, much more.

Coaches and managers for U6-U11 are generally appointed via nomination on the Team Listing. They do not need to submit a Coaching Application, but the Club Committee may overrule a coaching placement, if there are grounds to do so.

See the Resources pages for MiniRoos rules or go to the MiniRoos website for more information.

Graded Coaches

Players of teams U12 and up are graded and as such, coaches need to have more than a rudimentary understanding of the game. Again, courses are available to assist you in gaining the necessary skills and knowledge to coach at this level.

Graded coaches need to apply for the position by submitting a Coaching Application to the Club Secretary – BJFC Coaching Application Form.

If two or more apply for the same position, the Club Executive will make a decision based on suitability and level of ability.

Managers

The role of manager is an important one.

> You relay information from the Club to your team’s parents and players

> Assist the coach on game day

> Fill in team sheets

> Organise the weekly Best & Fairest award

> Ensure canteen rosters & Ground Marshall duties are carried out

> Do your best to create a harmonious team atmosphere

> Please direct everyone regularly to the Club website / Facebook page to keep on top of all the latest news

> Notify the Club immediately if you are unable to field a team due to illness or players away on holidays.

FFA numbers and Working with Children Checks

All coaches and managers need to have:

– registered with PlayFootball and provided the Club with their unique FFA number

– a Working with Children Check (even if you are related to a player in the team) and provided their WWC check number to the MPIO

– provided details to the Club about their relationship to one of the players.

Balgownie Junior Football Club

2 days ago

🏅🏅🏅 Announcement: BJFC awarded a Growing Football Community Grant by Football Australia and the Commonwealth Bank to deliver an extensive in house BJFC Female Player, BJFC Female Coach and BJFC Female Manager Education and Mentorship Program across the rest of the 2025 season. 👏👏👏-> BJFC is proud to announce that our funding application to the Growing Football Fund, as supported by CommBank and Football Australia, has been successful. -> We are very grateful to have been selected as one of 120 Football Clubs around Australia to have received Round 2 funding and we are now ready to launch our Project plan and activities, starting from next week.-> With 271 female registered players placed in both Mixed and Girls teams, 22 all girls Teams in age groups between U6 and U15 and 54 female Coaches and Mangers involved at BJFC in 2025, the funding has allowed BJFC to build a 10 week project plan of mid week female focused development activities at Judy Masters Park aligned with our Teams existing Training Schedules so everyone and every Team can be invited, get involved and participate.-> We also acknowledge and thank Football South Coast who have worked closely with BJFC in recent weeks on the project planning, and as of next week FSC will be directly involved with the implementation of the '2025 BJFC Player, Coach and Manager Education and Mentor Program'.-> This post is a great way to finish the 'Female Football Week' series, with the Team photos today from our U12 Girls Division 1, U13 Girls Division 1 White and U14 Girls Division 1 Teams and their Mum's after their games on Mothers Day. 🥅⚽🥅 ... See MoreSee Less

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Balgownie Junior Football Club

4 days ago

# Happy Mothers Day post #5 - a great atmosphere and vibe right across the weekend with so many Teams who recognized their Mum's in awesome Team photos. Featured here are our U8 Gold Mixed, U12 Division 1 Mixed and U13 Division 1 Black Girls Teams with their Mum's.-> Also a special shout out as part of Female Football Week to our female player Chelsea E, who is pictured here with her U12.1 Mixed Team, along with their Mum's and Nan's after their game on Ground 1. Chelsea completed grading at the start of the season and is is the oldest BJFC female player selected in a Division 1 Mixed Team in 2025. Congratulations and well done Chelsea! ... See MoreSee Less

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Balgownie Junior Football Club

6 days ago

# Happy Mothers Day post # 4 from U11 Girls Black who Coach Peter reports secured the win after the girls played a great big effort game away at Lakeside with no substitutes, U11 Red with their Mums and some of their Grandmas, and also our U12 Blue Team and their Mum's. ... See MoreSee Less

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Where & when am I playing?

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Balgownie Junior Football Club Incorporated ABN: 91 822 455 631
Clubhouse: 17 Para Street, Balgownie, NSW, 2519
Postal Address: PO Box 3096, Balgownie, NSW 2519