The emergence of the newly formed Association of Australian Football Clubs in the Australian football landscape

Chairman of the Association of Australian Football Clubs Tom Kalas (left) says the organization is not looking to revolt against the FFA.

Background

Recently a plethora of Australian Football clubs (clubs that play in the second tier of Australian football competition) sitting below the A-League got together to demand a voice in Australian football in order to have their myriad of concerns addressed by the FFA including the lack of a pathway to the A-League (no relegation or promotion in the A-League) and more top down funding. These demands were the catalyst for the creation recently of the Association of Australian Football Clubs (AAFC) which has become a new stakeholder in Australian football. The members of the AAFC are National Premier League clubs (NPL) who are semi-professional and many used to be members of the defunct National Soccer League before the landscape changed in Australia in 2003 and the newly formed FFA set up the franchise based model of the A-League with salary caps and other regulatory barriers including the non-allowing teams with ethnic group roots to be part of the...

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