FOOTBALL Federation Victoria today released the 2016 FFV Competitions calendar, which is available on the official FFV website (www.footballfedvic.com.au) and has revealed that the new Geelong Region Football Committee (GRFC) season will commence on the weekend ending Sunday the 10^th of April.

The NPL Men’s competition will be the first competition to commence in 2016, kicking off on the weekend of the 19^th-21^st of February, while the inaugural WNPL league will take off on the weekend ending the 6^th of March.

The Junior Boys’ NPL season commences on the weekend ending the 13^th of March, while the FFV Men’s State League competitions will kick off on the weekend ending the 3^rd of April. The Women’s State Leagues will start a week later.

Between the 15th and the 25^th of January next year, all clubs in the Geelong competition will be asked to provide a draft list of teams to FFV Competitions, so that draft structures can be released.

On Friday 12^th of February, team entries will open for clubs to officially confirm their 2016 teams while the early bird closure date for team entries will be Friday 19th February.

Team entries will close for all local competitions on the 4^th of March, with a Draft fixture to be released on Tuesday the 15^th of March.

Friday 18^th of March will be the deadline for clubs to request changes to draft fixture and the Final fixtures will be released on Wednesday the 23^rd of March.

Assuming sufficient interest from clubs, it is expected that next year will see the following competitions take place: three Men’s divisions, a newly created Over 35’s Men’s Masters’ league, two Women’s Divisions, a Boys’ U11s, 12s, 15s and 17s divisions and Girls’ U11s, 14s, and 16s divisions in place for the 2016 GRFC season.

Grand Final Day for the various GRFC competitions has been set down for Saturday 10^th September (Girls’ and Women) and Sunday 11^th September (Men, Boys and Masters).