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Festive Season 2025

The FFNC office will be closed on Wednesday 18th December 2024 and will reopen on Thursday 23rd January 2025. We remind everyone that registrations for next season are anticipated to open on 1st February 2025. Stay safe over the Christmas

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Referees Needed for 2025

Overview of the steps to gain accreditation. An individual candidate completes the basis online Laws of the Game modules. The candidate then works through further more comprehensive online modules; The candidate completes a practical session; Match Officials register with Football

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How to Apply for a 2025 Friendly/Trial

Football Far North Coast has published the online jotform to enable clubs to make application to participate in a friendly/trial in 2025. We highlight that both clubs (where it is two FFNC clubs) involved in each friendly is required to

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2024 State Coaching Conferences deemed great success

Courtesy of Northern NSW Football Northern NSW Football held its 2024 State Coaching Conferences at Coffs Coast Synthetics and Lake Macquarie Regional Football Facility with a record number of ambitious coaches in attendance. More than 140 coaches across the northern

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The Importance of Ground Officials

The excitement and enthusiasm exhibited by players, parents, coaches and supporters on match day influences an array of behaviour that cannot always be accurately predicted. From 2025, the Duty Officer role will be known as a ‘Ground Official’, in an effort to

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Regional State Coaching Conference 2024

The 2024 Regional State Coaching Conference is happening in Coffs Harbour on Sunday 1st December. The conference will provide individuals the opportunity to hear from industry-leading coaches and learn new coaching insights, tips, methods and processes for season 2025 from

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The State of Play: Match Officials

The raw data reveals that there were initially 167 registered match officials this season, which is well in excess of any past season, however, like most data, the devil is in the detail. A significant issue is that there is

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Best of the Best

Philippa Jacka from Bangalow Soccer Club was announced as the FFNC Women’s Premier League Player of the Year and Patrick Kable from South Lismore Football Club was announced as the FFNC Men’s Premier League Player of the Year, at the

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2024 Senior Awards Evening

A successful football season was celebrated on Saturday night when the 2024 Football Far North Coast Awards Evening was convened at the recently reopened Lismore Workers Club. More than 150 players, volunteers, and club supporters joined various guests from the

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Winter Football Concludes for 2024

The balance of the senior grand finals were contested on the weekend (20/21/22 September) and brings a conclusion to winter football activity for all players in 2024. Football Far North Coast congratulates all players who were fortunate enough to participate

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