How to start a soccer/football club....

[Xyooj]

anyone have info on how to go about starting a soccer/football club in the Melbourne area? What are the processes/steps to form a club, which teams to play with, where to recruit players, what an annual budget, etc....

much appreciated for any info

thanks

[swannsong]

anyone have info on how to go about starting a soccer/football club in the Melbourne area? What are the processes/steps to form a club, which teams to play with, where to recruit players, what an annual budget, etc....

much appreciated for any info

thanks

Asking someone from Melbourne might be a good start.

[Rexie]

[Jack Mehorf]

anyone have info on how to go about starting a soccer/football club in the Melbourne area? What are the processes/steps to form a club, which teams to play with, where to recruit players, what an annual budget, etc....

much appreciated for any info

thanks

Asking someone from Melbourne might be a good start.

FAAAAARK ME

[Certified Head Case]

Asking someone from Melbourne might be a good start.

[Xyooj]

geeh....thanks

:?

[swannsong]

geeh....thanks

:?

Is there any other questions you need answering ?
We're always willing to offer our wisdom.

[Xyooj]

Is there any other questions you need answering ?
We're always willing to offer our wisdom

that was the first.....so does anyone know, have done that, want to do that too, etc...?

[Knight7]

Is there any other questions you need answering ?
We're always willing to offer our wisdom

that was the first.....so does anyone know, have done that, want to do that too, etc...?

First work out if your calling it a Soccer Club or a Football Club
Then work out if you want a Federation Team or an Amateur Team
If Federation you will need to recruit hundreds of juniors (doesn't matter if they can play or not) charge them hundreds and hundreds of dollars to train with generally parents or volunteers who always wanted to be coaches
Then offer a few hundred dollars a week (from the money collected from the juniors) for Amateur players who don't enjoying drinking (they can then call themselves professionals)

[swannsong]

Is there any other questions you need answering ?
We're always willing to offer our wisdom

that was the first.....so does anyone know, have done that, want to do that too, etc...?

First work out if your calling it a Soccer Club or a Football Club
Then work out if you want a Federation Team or an Amateur Team
If Federation you will need to recruit hundreds of juniors (doesn't matter if they can play or not) charge them hundreds and hundreds of dollars to train with generally parents or volunteers who always wanted to be coaches
Then offer a few hundred dollars a week (from the money collected from the juniors) for Amateur players who don't enjoying drinking (they can then call themselves professionals)

Well said, and that's coming from someone has experience this first hand !

[Xyooj]

First work out if your calling it a Soccer Club or a Football Club
Then work out if you want a Federation Team or an Amateur Team
If Federation you will need to recruit hundreds of juniors (doesn't matter if they can play or not) charge them hundreds and hundreds of dollars to train with generally parents or volunteers who always wanted to be coaches
Then offer a few hundred dollars a week (from the money collected from the juniors) for Amateur players who don't enjoying drinking (they can then call themselves professionals)

thanks

soccer = football..... a rose in any language is still a rose

is a federation club part of a state and FFA sanctioned league that can get promoted or relegated to the premier division or to the lowest division?

how much are the fees/charges and how much do clubs pay their players per game, per week, per month, per year, or per season?

[Green_Manalishi]

how much are the fees/charges and how much do clubs pay their players per game, per week, per month, per year, or per season?

Where are you going to play, what are you going to use for clubrooms? Who are you going to play against?

[swannsong]

Probably easier to become very wealthy first and then just buy a team !

[Knight7]

Probably easier to become very wealthy first and then just buy a team !

And then become poor

Tell your teacher you've decided to start a band instead - much easier

[The Last Laugh]

[CAPSLOCK]

If it was in SA you could apply for the State League gig. Not sure theyll get anyone else.

[themagnet]

If it was in SA you could apply for the State League gig. Not sure theyll get anyone else.

[The Last Laugh]

[ronshippau]

Seriously you will need about $5,000 to register the name as a club or business (get a lawyer to do that) and join a Federation either the FFSA or Amatuer league, given the requirements of being in the state league, ground standard, having juniors etc you are probably best off starting in Amatuers, hold trials in November ready for pre season, advertise it here and on the website of whatever Federation you join then hold promos in your area handing out flyers in shops etc, and thats forgetting public liability insurance and a million other things.

I hope this is a start, your lawyer can tell you the rest of the legal stuff.