WITH the 2018 football season concluding this coming weekend, Football Federation Victoria (FFV) has commenced the process of reflecting and reviewing areas of the Geelong Region competitions and how they can be improved. In this regard, FFV is committed to ensuring that all current stakeholders are provided a quality football experience year on year.

The FFV Competitions team has been collating feedback and suggestions received throughout the 2018 season on various rules and policies to begin the competition review for the 2019 season and beyond.

At this point, FFV would like to extend the invitation to all FFV Geelong Region member clubs to be involved in the review process.

RULES OF COMPETITION AND REGULATIONS

As per previous seasons, the Rules and Regulations for the various competitions we administer have continued to evolve and develop in an effort to ensure we provide a fair framework for stakeholders to participate within football. Over the coming months FFV will review and re-draft the Rules of Competition to address areas within the documents. This process will be undertaken with consideration given to relevant clauses of the Grievance, Discipline and Tribunal (GDT) By-Law.

PROCESSES

Furthermore, the Competitions Department has noted recurring issues that have arisen throughout the season. They relate not necessarily to Rules of Competition, but to the way certain competitions are administered.

Accordingly, we will be undertaking a comprehensive offseason review on the following processes:

- Fixture Change Requests

- Team Entries

- Player Dispensation Requests

- Community Competition Structures

- Request for Match Investigations

- Other

HAVE YOUR SAY….

FFV Competitions Department invites clubs to complete the 2018 FFV Competitions - Season Review Jotform, which can be found at the following link:

https://form.jotform.co/82328275207861

All feedback received by the FFV is respected, encouraged and will be individually reviewed. We look forward to receiving your feedback on any of the above items or any additional items over the coming weeks.

Please ensure that this memo is shared with the club’s committee and provide all relevant feedback via the attached link, prior to 9am on Tuesday the 9th of October, 2018.

At the conclusion of the review process, we will communicate proposed changes to all Clubs for the 2019 season.

We intend to notify all Clubs of confirmed changes by the end of February 2019.

Thank you all, for your contribution to football in Victoria throughout the 2018 season and beyond.

Brad Atholwood

FFV Competitions Coordinator