Junior Girls Teams Update

A review of the make-up of this year's junior female teams has now been completed. Thank you for your patience while this was undertaken.

Female football is and has always been vastly different to their male counterparts. Even at National Premier Leagues level, there are not enough female players to have teams in every age group therefore the vast majority of all-female junior teams are a composite of 2 and in some cases, 3 age groups eg in NPL, there is an Under 12/13, an Under 14/15 and Youth age group consisting of U16 - U20 players.

Souths is no different and are fortunate enough to have sufficient depth to provide girls teams in both Football Brisbane and Football Queensland competitions. Traditionally, we have been able to field 3 junior divisional girls teams and for the first time in 2014, a MiniRoos all girls team. However, the make-up of teams each year is dependent on the make-up of the registrations received and whether the girls want to play in an all-girls team or in mixed teams. Unfortunately, this year has been incredibly difficult to finalise teams with 2 key factors having a bearing:

1. the season start is much earlier than in the past. The Under 12 competitions (mixed and all girls) start their compulsory grading matches this Saturday. All other age groups will start on 7 March (MiniRoos) and 14 March (Divisional). There will be no grading matches this year (other than 12s) so teams will go straight into fixtures.
2. the delay in players registering. Delays in registering coupled with the early start complicates our ability to finalise teams in a 2 week period, however over the past week we have had a great response by players returning, along with further new registrations.

So .. after looking at 4 different combinations of team make-ups across a diverse range of  age groups, we have settled on fielding in 2015 an Under 11, an Under 13 and an Under 16 team although this latter team will still require a couple more players for comfort sake. We have always aimed to provide teams (mixed and all girls) for every player that wants to play however sometimes we cannot field the team they would prefer eg some of our Under 8 and 9 girls really wanted to play in an all-girls team however there are not viable numbers so these players will need to play in the mixed teams for at least another year.

All three teams will start training on Wednesday 25 February 2015 at 5.30pm at Souths United (Fields 5 & 7)

Under 11 Team           Updated

Under 13 Team

Under 16 Team