17/03/2025
Hello, we are very happy to let you know that registrations are now open for the 2025 soccer season.
Please use this link to register your child https://registration.playfootball.com.au/common/pages/reg/welcomeregplus.aspx?entityid=38869&id=79620
A few things to note:
-Please register your child in the age group they are turning by end of this calendar year.
-Cost of registration is $100 per child
-Training will take place Friday nights 4:30-5:30pm at the sports park, with the exception of U/5 who will train 4:30-5:15.
-Our first training will be Term 2 (Friday 2nd May-Friday 4th July), and term 3 (Friday 25th July to Friday 19th September, no training during the school holidays.
- Our training sessions are not a drop and run activity and parents are expected to stay at the ground with their children during training. We understand that this may not be possible every week but if you can't attend for some reason you will need to delegate responsibility for your child to another adult in attendance and let your child's coach know who this is so they can be located if there is a need to during the training session.
-Registrations will be capped at 100 kids due to coach availability and ground space. We have a fantastic team of coaches who have very kindly volunteered their time this year but would love if a few more people to put their hands up to help out. We are keen to help develop our coaches and will pair up anyone new with a more experienced coach (don't worry you won't be doing it alone). We will also pay for you to do a coaching course if this is something you are interested in.
REGISTRATION PROCESS
Football Australia has a new registration system which we haven't been able to override so please note the following -
To find our registration products you will have to search FC Yackandandah (just searching Yackandandah doesn't appear to work).
When you get to the page titled "available products" search on organisation and then type in FC Yackandandah again
Select your child's age group (or coach /volunteer if you would like to help out in that space)
You will be asked to agree to a Code of Conduct for Parents/Guardians/Carers and Spectators, as well as players as a condition of registration (you will need to click on/read these before you are able to move to the next page).
Go through and enter all required details
For those players who would like to commit to playing a regular weekly soccer game against other Albury Wodonga clubs (held at Willow Park) ensure you answer YES at the questions about 'Miniroos (Regular Saturday Competition)'
At step 6 you will come to a page that asks you to verify your child's identity and provide a photo - although photos aren't required until kids turn 12 we haven't been able to get rid of this step - if you just ignore the photo upload box and then just select a form of identification (i.e library card) this should allow you to move on to the next step and complete the registration process (we won't be enforcing any ID checks)
- 👉🏼 For those of you who want to play in the Miniroos competition please get your registrations in by Thursday 20th March so we can sort out and register the teams with the Wodonga Miniroos competition. 👈🏼
- For those who don't want to commit to playing games every week gala days are planned to occur roughly monthly throughout the season across Yack, Bright, Mt Beauty and Myrtleford. This is a fabulous opportunity for kids to play a few shortened games (generally about 3) against kids from other clubs and put the skills they are learning to work. Dates to be advised and published on our page (answer NO at the Miniroos question).
OTHER BITS AND PIECES
- Our club relies on volunteers to ensure the wheels keep turning. As mentioned above we would love to get a few more people on board to assist with coaching (no experience necessary, we have a brilliant team of coaches here to support and coach alongside you). We will also be asking parents this year to take turns being a coach assistant during training (this may mean the coach will ask you to assist with things like tying shoelaces, helping with pack down or set up, finding children's water bottles or other small tasks which coaches find difficult to do when they have the rest of the team to look after). We will also be sending out a google form with a list of other small jobs and asking people to help in other ways if they are able so this doesn't all fall on our coaches (for example helping put together kit boxes for galas, co-ordinating BBQs/fundraisers on gala days, occasional shed clean out, washing bibs etc).
- New registering players will be provided with pair of Yack FC shorts and socks. Yack FC t-shirts will be available for purchase from the start of the season. We will also be inviting people to bring in any old uniforms they have outgrown to the first training session to swap or donate, in order to reduce waste and recycle clothing.
- Essential equipment for training is shin pads, boots (we also have a swap box for these) and water bottles. To participate in gala days or Miniroos each child will need the Yack FC shorts, shirt and socks.
We will post further information on our page as it becomes available. If you are interested in attending, being a coach or helping out at galas or miniroos each week please reach out via [email protected].
Looking forward to another great season
Yack FC Committee
