Thank you for generously volunteering your time as coach and manager. Your willingness to give your time and service is greatly appreciated. Your support of Belsouth Football Club allows us to continue to serve the people in our community each year. Thank you!
The following information and resources have been compiled to support our Belsouth coaches and managers. We will be updating this page over the season.
Role of a Coach
- Make playing football fun, with plenty of encouragement. Be positive!
- Role model Respect and Fair Play. Always respect the opposing team and referees, whether or not you agree with their decisions.
- Support your team Manager as required and maintain a happy team!
- Always encourage your team to play to its best ability and take a balanced approach to winning.
Role of a Manager
Is our contact to the team.
- Be the main contact from the Club Committee to the team.
- Create a contact method for the team. Suggestions include WhatsApp, Heja; whatever you are comfortable using.
- Pass on each week’s game information. This could include where the game is, any changes to the game time or location or if a game is cancelled.
- Be the team Dribl guru. Dribl for U10-U18 teams involves assigning player numbers to each team member, creating a match sheet before each game, and entering scores (even though they are never advertised, go figure). There are very easy videos to follow. To our Dribl page.
- Organise parents/carers when it’s the team’s turn on canteen\BBQ. See below.
Role of a Club Vested Official
Club Vested Officials (CVOs) are nominated club representatives who co-ordinate the efficient completion of match day fixtures. They do this by effectively managing the team’s behaviour and actions for the duration of the fixture/game. This behaviour management includes that of parents, supporters, and spectators associated with their respective team.
Essential Skills and requirements for CVOs.
- Hold or willing to apply for a current volunteer “Working with Children” or “Working with Vulnerable People” check.
- Must be 18 years or over.
- Be a mature and responsible individual with people skills.
- Be assertive but not aggressive.
- Be respected amongst other team members.
- Acts calmly in pressure situations.
- Be an effective and influential communicator.
PlayFootball Registration
All coaches and managers are required to register as either a coach or amanager with Belsouth FC through Play Football. The registration process also asks for your WWVP details.
If you are going are a coach or manager for a team in the U10 to U18 divisions, please use a different email when registering to the one used to register your child(ren). Using the same email “may” cause problems with Dribl.
Working with Vulnerable People Registration
Requirement for all U6 to U18 Teams
Working with Vulnerable People requirements
People who work or volunteer in junior sports in the ACT must hold a Working with Vulnerable People (WWVP) positive registration. This means you must have a background check and be registered under the ACT WWVP scheme.
WWVP Registration is free for volunteers and you can apply online here: https://www.myaccount.act.gov.au/WWVPNDIS/s/wwvp-ndis-new-application-v2 or in person at an Access Canberra Service Centre. The average processing time is 3 weeks and does require having a photo taken, so if you are not yet registered please apply as soon as possible.
Once you have your WWVP card, please email a photograph of it to the WWVP co-ordinator, Zoe, at wwvp@belsouthfootball.club.
Even if you have previously volunteered and provided your WWVP details to Belsouth, we would appreciate if you would complete this requirement as we still need to sight your card at the start of each season.
Canteen Volunteering
Over the season, each team will be required to do a shift or two in the Canteen. The teams on canteen duty will have their games scheduled on the front fields.
Please note: after four weeks of games, Capital Football may make changes to the draws. This will affect U10 to U18 teams but not the minis.
Depending on how many teams are at the field each week, there will either be one or two teams rostered on each shift. You can split the shift.
- If one team is rostered on, you will need to have four volunteers from that team for the shift.
- If two teams are rostered on, you will need two volunteers from each team for the shift.
The Committee will link the Roster here when complete before the season starts.
Will link the Roster here when complete before the season starts.
MiniRoos Specific Coaching Resources
These are great resources learning about minis and drills.
Coaching Resources
- Skill Acquisition Phase Sessions
- The Game Training Phase has two main objectives:
- Prepare players for senior football by teaching them to apply functional game skills in a team setting using 1-4-3-3 as the preferred formation
- Develop tactical awareness, perception and decision-making through a game-related approach to training.
- Game Training Phase
- The Game Training Phase has two main objectives:
- Prepare players for senior football by teaching them to apply functional game skills in a team setting using 1-4-3-3 as the preferred formation
- Develop tactical awareness, perception and decision-making through a game-related approach to training.
- Capital Football 2024 Competition Regulations
- Coaches should have an understanding of the competition regulations for the local game.
- Coaches and Managers need to be aware of Capital Football’s Electronic Team Sheets (ETS) Regulations Changes Circular
- Please take note of point d) in this document – ‘At no point less than ten (10) minutes before a match, may a club add a player to the team sheet as, available, starting, or playing to fill a vacant spot in the maximum sixteen (16) spots per match’.
- Capital Football Disputes & Disciplinary Regulations
- Coaches and Managers should have an understanding of these regulations as they also affect you.
- Interactive e-learning course for the Laws of the Game with video examples. Registering provides participants with a certificate at the end of the course.
- IFAB Laws of the Game
- Coaches should have an understanding of the Laws that govern the game that all other State and Local regulations are built on.
- Football Australia – The Football Coaching Process
- Football Federation Australia – Concussion Guidelines
- Football Federation Australia – Pocket Concussion Recognition Tool
- FIFA – Concussion Recognition Tool 5
If additional information is required, please do not hesitate to contact us via our Head of Football.
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