Connect and Learn: 2025 Coach Offerings

Jan 144 min read

In today's fast-paced sports environment, effective coaching is more important than ever. Whether you are a newcomer to coaching or have years of experience under your belt, keeping up with recent trends and strategies is essential.

This year's Coach Education courses offer a fantastic way to improve your skills and connect with fellow coaches. These courses are not just an educational opportunity, but a pathway to elevate your coaching career.

Overview of the 2025 Coaching Course Offerings

This season, you can choose from a wide range of coaching courses tailored to meet various levels and specialties to gain coaching points. From foundational courses that cater to beginners to advanced certifications for seasoned coaches, there is something for everyone.

Participating in coaching courses offers an incredible chance to network with fellow coaches. Building these connections can lead to collaborations, friendships, and exchanges of strategies that enhance your coaching practice.

Practical Coaching: Seniors

DELIVERED BY: AFL Victoria Coach Developers - Darren Flanigan, Simon Grumley, Sammy Heron

COACH POINTS: 50 points

Inside 20 mins

Introduction
Role of the Coach
Role of the Club Coaching Coordinator
Design an effective training session

Outside 90 mins

Pre-training activities
Skill based Warm ups
Fundamental skill teaching and remediation (Kicking, ground balls, marking, handball)
Evolving a fundamental skill drill into a game sense drill
Specialist Tall player training

Inside 10 mins

Debrief
Club resources

Elevate Course (Level 2)

DELIVERED BY: AFL Victoria

COACH POINTS: 150 points (automatic Silver Coach)

The Elevate Bundle course focuses on three key areas:

Coach the Environment
Coach at Training
Coach the Game

Coaches will gain valuable insights into skill acquisition principles, session design, game planning, and effective coaching strategies for game day.

Click here to read more and apply

AFL Victoria Coaching Forum

DELIVERED BY: AFL Victoria

COACH POINTS: depending on attended workshops

AFL Victoria is proud to announce an unmissable Coaching Forum this March 2025, designed to elevate your coaching skills and knowledge. Whether you're an experienced coach or just starting out, this forum is the perfect chance to hear from some of the best in the industry, including keynote speakers, top coaches, educators, and mentors. As well as build your coaching community by connecting and sharing insights with other coaches.

HIGHLIGHTS:

Informative sessions & professional development
Gain firsthand knowledge from AFL experts and coaches (Nathan Buckley, Sam Mitchell + more to come)
Interactive workshops
Earn valuable points towards your coaching progression
Connect with other coaches, share insights, and build your coaching community

Coach Your Way: Women & Girls

DELIVERED BY: AFL Victoria

COACH POINTS: 50 points

The Women’s Coach Your Way Rookie Program aims to provide you with the knowledge, tools, and support you need to confidently step into coaching. It’s all about coaching YOUR WAY, not about fitting the mould of the ‘traditional coach’

Women have so many wonderful attributes to offer in the coaching space and we can’t wait to see what you bring to the role.

Express your interest here to receive more information once confirmed

Women & Girls Coaching Academy

DELIVERED BY: AFL Victoria

COACH POINTS: 150 points

This program is designed for current Bonze and Silver female coaches who are eager to enhance their skills and advance in their coaching careers. The academy will be led by experienced AFL Victoria Coach Developers, ensuring participants receive top-notch training and support.

Upon completion of the academy, all coaches will achieve at least Silver status, and those entering as Silver coaches will elevate their status to Gold. This initiative is a significant step towards empowering female coaches and promoting diversity within the coaching landscape of the AFL.

Express your interest here to receive more information once confirmed

Positive Coaching Course: Juniors

DELIVERED BY: SALT - Sport and Life Training

COACH POINTS: 50 points

This June as part of the 'Spirit of Footy Round' initiative we will be facilitating free ‘Positive Coaching’ sessions delivered by Sport and Life Training (SALT) in Seymour, Echuca, and Shepparton for all GMJL, KDL, GMW&G, and ML junior registered coaches.

Through this session, coaches will gain an awareness that positive coaching based on relationships, authenticity, and understanding of individual differences, is far more effective than the authoritarian style that was once acceptable. Positive coaching has been proven to elicit greater motivation, resilience, enjoyment, and results for everyone involved.

This session will explore how coaches can deliver a strong message in the right way and how to deliver feedback based on process not outcomes. Coaches will discover a new way of coaching that makes the difference between a good team and an excellent team.

TOPICS COVERED:

Understanding the modern generation
The power of sporting clubs
Positive psychology
Identifying our ‘Why’’
Modelling and teaching respect
Effective communication
Feedback & encouragement
Influence of the Coach
Building meaningful relationships
Great coaches – great stories
Coaching girls
Developing a growth mindset
Leaving a legacy

Click here to apply

Coach Developers - Practical Coach/Club Support

Junior match days - attend games, assess coaches, provide feedback and follow up, report back to club
Junior training nights - attend sessions, assess training plans, assist with delivery, follow up and report back
Senior teams - assist with specialist training sessions or take a whole session, match day analysis of the coaching panel
Whole of club coaches meetings, attend, assist the club coaching coordinator to implement a coaching curriculum from Auskick to Seniors. Both the “what to coach” and “how to coach”