Junior Boys

We offer opportunities for male and female juniors from aged 7 up to 17 before they move into our senior football program.

Fundamental Stage (5-11 years): AFL Junior

Objective: participation and learning fundamental movement and game skills.

Sampling Stage (12-14 years): AFL Junior/Youth

Objective: learning all the fundamental skills of the game and developing basic physical capacities, while continuing to develop all-round sports skills.

Participants should continue to play a range of sports for their all-round development. This stage also includes initial identification for regional development squads.

Identification Stage (15-16 years): AFL Youth

Objective: developing higher-level skills of the game and physical capacities.

At this age initial selection into state talent development programs including the AIS-AFL Academy are introduced.