Football Queensland is the state's governing body, with control over local leagues and clubs. These clubs range from senior men’s and women’s clubs, thirds and masters and an ever growing number of junior clubs. The North Queensland Razorbacks, Far North Bulls and the Whitsunday Miners represent the region in the Hyundai Queensland State League.
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North Queensland Football - Townsville, Burdekin, Charters Towers, Ingham.
The office of Townsville Football operates at Brolga Park, Murray Sporting Complex with the company of the North Queensland Football Zone. Brolga Park in 2009 will comprise of 23 maintained playing fields, with sponsored naming rights to all fields each year.
The Townsville, North Queensland Zone consists of 16 Clubs which are a combination of Junior and Senior players.
Currently, the combined Junior and Senior membership for North Queensland stands at more than 4,500 players who come from Townsville, Ingham, Ayr and Charters Towers. We expect our player numbers to grow rapidly with the inception of the Hyundai A-League North Queensland team for the 2009/2010 season.
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Big Brother
The Big Brother program is a Fury Family initiative that aims at strengthening and developing football at a ‘Grassroots’ level, giving participating local clubs the opportunity to utilise their 'Big Brother' as a role model for their players.
The North Queensland Fury make regular visits to clubs in the local community and have been involved in coaching clinics, presentation nights and a number of other community activities.
The Fury are committed to engaging the local football community and to provide the pathways for juniors in this region to become professional footballers. The Big Brother program is the grassroots level of this plan to have 'homegrown' players representing the Fury.
Click here to read the latest copy of the 'Big Brother' newsletter.
Click here to download the Fury Skills and Drills Resource
To see a selection of photos from Big Brother visits click here
Hyundai's Goals For Grassroots
Goals For Grassroots is Hyundai’s football support program which is aligned with the respective Australian clubs in the Hyundai A-League. Hyundai will provide a financial donation to a grassroots club based on the number of goals scored by the 'home' HAL club in that corresponding match throughout the Hyundai A-League 2009 / 2010 Season.
One match will be designated as the Goals For Grassroots match in every round throughout HAL5 (total 27 Rds); whereby a grassroots club aligned to an association affiliated to the Football Federation Australia will be selected as the recipient of the Hyundai donation based on the number of goals scored by their 'home' HAL club in that match.
To find out more and nominate your club click here.
To view a photo gallery of the participants to date, click here.
Optus Small Sided Football
Small Sided Football provides an enjoyable participation experience for young people of all abilities with a major focus on skill development through freedom of expression, minimal coaching, and limited emphasis on the scoreboard.
Small Sided Football is a modified version of the game designed to meet the needs of players aged between 5 and 12. The smaller sized field with fewer numbers of players per team encourages more touches on the ball and opportunities for more goals to be scored.
Optus small sided games will be played before all Fury home games. For more information please click here. To nominate your team contact mark.burgess@nqfury.com.au
To see a selection of photos from Small Sided Football click here
To visit the Optus Small Sided Football Website click here.
Junior Match Day Volunteers
The Fury invites a local club to be involved each home game to look after the important roles of Ball kids, Hyundai Halftime Banner kids and Player Mascots. Click here to view photos taken by David Brock of those who have already carried out the duties. To nominate your team contact mark.burgess@nqfury.com.au
The Qantas Spirit of Sport Partnership
The Qantas Spirit of Sport Partnership sees Qantas joining forces with the North Queensland Fury to support Football on a local level. For each of the Fury’s thirteen games in it’s inaugural season in the Hyundai A-League, a school or a local club will be provided with tickets to attend the match.
So far the lucky recipients have been Annandale Falcons, Burdekin FC, Northern Beaches FC, Goldfields United Charters Towers, Douglas United FC Cairns and Idalia Rovers.
Contact mark.burgess@nqfury.com.au to nominate your club.