Brisbane City Football Club has a proud and leading position in developing the football stars of tomorrow. The true success of our programs is reflected in the 33 Brisbane City players being selected to trial for the Brisbane Roar Academy and up to 25 of our players ultimately selected.

These numbers reflect 24% of our Under 12-16 player cohort, an amazing endorsement of Brisbane City’s programs and pathways.

What is an even greater achievement, is the now unprecedented number and quality of new footballers and coaches now seeking to be a part of Brisbane City’s football program.

If we as a club are to continue to sustain this success then we must continue to ensure we have a football department designed to support it, one that is agile and responds to dynamic elite player demands, changing football pathways and the growth of female participation.

For the past six months Brisbane City has been working on the evolution of our football department.

With our A League and W League ambitions public and in accordance with these carefully established plans, Brisbane City FC has begun to pro-actively evolve the way our players are developed. Further, these plans will support the delivery of our new MyCity programs that will extend our football reach and touchpoints into communities, schools, social services providers and other community football clubs.

We are pleased to confirm that this restructure commenced a number of weeks ago to ensure that our junior development program achieves greater alignment and continuity with our senior’s football pathways, ultimately leaving our players more prepared and better equipped.

Under the senior position of ‘Football and MyCity Director’, will sit new positions of ‘Senior Football Director’, ‘Youth Football Director’, ‘Junior Football Director’ and ‘Goalkeeping Director’.

The new role of ‘Elite Football Director’ will include oversight of new ‘Academy’ and ‘SAP Director’s’ who alongside our NPL teams form part of our new ‘Elite’ program.

This change will involve the alignment of our Academy leadership directly to our PS4NPL Youth Leadership to ensure that players are better prepared for the transition. At the top of our Youth PS4NPL pipeline, there will also be a re-alignment and deeper co-operation between coaching staff to transition our players from Under 16’s to Senior Football under the leadership of Head Coach John Kosmina.

Brisbane City’s stated football ambitions continue to center around coaching certification and development of ‘full time’ career football coaches to develop our Boys and Girls streams at the club.

The Club is committed to taking our Academy even further in 2018 and beyond under a strong new focus and leadership. Further, the club is well advanced in resourcing the Academy program and its structures.

In Girls Football and despite not being offered Girls SAP or Women’s Licensing by FQ, we will continue to develop and maintain a ‘best in class’ structure to produce footballers ready for these leagues in coming years.

We believe that our track record and commitment to these girl’s programs will enable parents to make the choice for training and development above League structure.

As a result of this re-structure, after 8 years at the Club our existing Academy Director, Jake Goodship, has decided to pursue other opportunities outside of Brisbane City.  We wish Jake the very best in his future endeavours. The club would like to thank him for his hard work and dedication to the club.

2018 is going to be another year of growth for Brisbane City, your board will continue to ensure we provide the governance required to manage this growth as well as the strategies to ensure each member of the club receives the support and benefits of the journey the club is taking.

David Asnicar

President