Ready for football in 2024? Registration for Avalon Soccer Club is now open!!! Come and join the best club on the Beaches and play at the beautiful Careel Bay in 2024. We have teams from U6 through to Over 45, for boys, girls, mixed, men and women.
Register to play for Avalon Soccer Club HERE.
2024 Registration Guide
Open Day
We are opening the doors at our club house at Careel Bay on Sunday 4th February 10:00am – 3:00pm.
We’ll have the BBQ running, and have the club shop open for the first time this year. If you have any questions about playing with Avalon, registration issues (or would just like to meet us) then come along!
Registration Setup
There are currently 3 registrars:
Bianca Protze
Juniors/Girls U6-U11 registrar1@avalonsoccerclub.com.au
Alex Kennedy
Mixed U12 – U18/Seniors AL – O45 registrar2@avalonsoccerclub@.com.au
Annabel Davis
Womens U12 – WAL registrar3@avalonsoccerclub@.com.au
When asked to email information to the registrar please choose the relevant registrar for your age category.
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REGISTRATION OPENS JANUARY 5
Ready for Football?? So are we, and we are delighted to announce that registration for the 2024 winter season opens on Friday 5th January, with a $25 discount for Early Bird registrations!
We have competitions for boys and girls from Under 6 right through to the slight older boys and girls in senior and Over 45’s competition. For the first time ever we will run a girls Under 7s competition on Sundays in line with all our other women’s competitions, as we see this part of the club boom.
Some important dates for your dairy:
Jan 5: Registration opens
Feb 4: Club Open Day at Careel Bay 10am-3pm
Feb 9: Early Bird registration discount closes
Feb 11: Grading week 1
Feb 18: Grading week 2
Mar 4: Pre-season training commences
Mar 21: Managers Night
Mar 24: Club trial match weekend
Apr 5: MWFA competition matches begin
Full registration details including pricing will be available shortly after New Year. For any questions, please
NOTICE OF 2023 AGM
Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Avalon Soccer Club Inc. will be held in the Avalon Soccer Club Clubhouse, Careel Bay Playing Fields, NSW 2107, on Monday 20th November 2023, commencing 7.00 pm.
AGENDA
Annual General Meeting
1. Opening of Meeting
2. Apologies
3. Minutes of the 2022 AGM Tabled
4. Matters arising from the 2022 AGM Minutes
5. Adoption of the 2022 AGM Minutes
6. Presentation of the 2023 Annual Report
7. Adoption of the 2023 Annual Report
8. Presentation of 2023 Treasurers Report
9. Adoption of 2023 Treasurers Report
10. Consideration of Honorariums
11. Nomination of Life Membership
12. Election of Committee
13. Vote of thanks to outgoing Committee
14. Notice/s of Motion
15. Close meeting
Please join the Committee for refreshments.
A MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT
Wow! After a terrible few season impacted by COVID and then rain, it was great to have a virtually uninterrupted season! This allowed us to provide a full year of football to our ever growing membership base.
In 2023 we ended up with 1,252 players, including 10 Dual Registered Girl’s, across 93 teams. Of the playing group 1001 of those were juniors, as we continue to grow in our youngest ages, especially the U6 group. We also had 384 registered female players, meaning nearly a third of the club was girls and women, a number that we proudly see grow every single year.
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank our sponsors for 2023, starting with major sponsor – LJ Hooker, who’s support across a few difficult years has been invaluable.
Also a big thanks to our other other sponsors this season, Brown Bros Skip Bins, Besteam Sport, Johnson Brothers Mitre 10,
AVALON JUNIOR MAKES AUSTRALIA DEBUT!
September saw an incredible moment for the club, with W16/1s player Annmarie de Uriarte making her debut for the ParaMatildas.
The forward, a part of the club since U8s, has been in training squads with the team for nearly 12 months, and finally received her call up for Australia’s three match tour of Japan, played in Osaka.
Playing off the bench in games 1 and 2, and starting in game 3, de Uriarte excelled, scoring seven goals across the three games, including a hattrick in the second match, and making her mark an international level, despite being the youngest member of the squad at 15.
Annemarie’s achievements were recognised by the club when she was awarded the inaugural Player Recognition Award, at the recent Junior Presentation day. The award was accepted by her father Jamie from club vice-president Stuart Randall, as Annemarie was in Osaka preparing for game one.
OUR 2023 AWARD WINNERS
We had an awesome club junior presentation day at a packed Avalon Public School, which allowed us to honour the 1001 junior players at the club, hand out participation awards for our U6-U11s, and recognise our competition teams and the individuals who achieved this season.
It gives us great pleasure to officially announce the winners of our 2022 season awards, presented by LJ Hooker, and add the latest names onto our club’s honour roll!
JUNIOR TROPHIES
Junior Goalkeeper of the Year (Michael Carroll Trophy) – WILL REID (U14/2)
Junior Manager of the Year – DANIELLE FORDE (U15/2)
Junior Coach of the Year – ROGER BARBER (U13/3 + U13/4)
Junior Girl’s Best & Fairest Player (Mia Waters Trophy) – LUCY JOHNS (W16/1)
Junior Girls Coach of the Year – JULIE NICHOLSON (W16/2)
Junior Mixed Best & Fairest Player – ETHAN EDWARDS (U15/2)
SENIOR TROPHIES
Senior Women’s Player of the Year – LARA HAYGARTH (WAL1)
Senior Men’s Coach of the Year – JOHN
2023 PRESENTATION DAY
We are delighted to announce that our annual presentation day is returning on SATURDAY 2ND SEPTEMBER at Avalon Public School.
The traditional day to celebrate our junior and youth teams is always a highlight of the calendar as we hand out participation and achievement awards.
The schedule will be:
9.15am Doors open
9.30am U6-U7
10.30am U8/W8 – U9/W9
11.30am U10/W10 – U11/W11
12.30pm U12 – U18
1.30pm W12 – W18
2.30pm Finish
The 2024 Vanuatu crew will be running a BBQ, so give them your support, and we look forward to sending off the 2023 season in style!
2023 AWARDS TIME!!!
As the 2023 season draws toward a close, we look ahead to our presentation day, brought to you by LJ Hooker.
Once again, we will be gathering at the Avalon Public School hall on SATURDAY 2ND SEPTEMBER where we will be recognising the efforts of players and volunteers throughout the season.
So now it’s up to you to nominate the recipients of our Perpetual Trophies!
If you have any nominations for the following categories, please email them to president@avalonsoccerclub.com.au
Include the person’s name, role, and why you would like to nominate them.
All nominations will be received no later than close of business FRIDAY 11TH AUGUST.
Each nomination will be considered and winners will be chosen by the Executive Committee. Their decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
Note:- Perpetual Trophies are for Competition Teams (U12/W12 and above)
Team Awards:
• Encouragement Award – Andrew David West Memorial Shield
• Team Recognition Award – Roland Luke Trophy
• Most Improved Junior
A SUCCESSFUL RETURN TO VANUATU
Despite a number of travel challenges, our W16 squad returned home on Sunday following the successful resumption of the Vanuatu tour, the 9th since 2012.
The original 9 day itinerary was cut back to 7 after the group were bumped from their initial Air Vanuatu flight, and cut back further to 4 days, after their rescheduled flight was cancelled due to the Sydney airport chaos last weekend.
But despite the logistical challenges, the group still managed to spend an extremely productive few days on Etafe, with a number of community visits, football projects and even a little down time!
Arriving in the early hours of Thursday morning, the group grabbed a few hours sleep before reconvening at 7am and heading off to drive around the whole island on a donations drop. With 27 containers of goods donated by the public, the club and one of our sponsors Mike Pawley, and delivered to Port
VANUATU TOUR PREPS IN FULL SWING
After a three year COVID enforced hiatus, the traditional W16 tour to Vanuatu is back for 2023. Started in 2012, the tour is used to promote women’s sport in the region, to offer the team the chance to play against local opposition and allow the Avalon community to make charitable donations to projects on the islands.
This year we have 21 girls from our 2 W16 teams travelling at the end of June for a 9 day trip that will encompass 3 matches, community visits, cyclone recovery work and a meeting at the Australian High Commision in Port Vila.
The trip is entirely self-funded with the team commencing fundraising in August 2022 with numerous cake bakes and BBQs at local events. Stayed tuned to this page for more details on the tour and the fundraising efforts. If you’d like to assist with the tour or sponsor the girls, please contact stuartjrandall@gmail.com.
The tour preps