Footy training for Mount Gambier & the Limestone Coast
Glenelg describes the South East as a vital part of its catchment, and the region has produced AFL players including Lachie Neale and Darcy Fogarty. It is also the one corner of South Australia where the pre-season is mild and the winter is genuinely wet.
One month free, then A$24.99/month. Cancel any time. iPhone and iPad.
The South East is Glenelg’s SANFL country zone. Since 2024 its main league has been the Limestone Coast Football Netball League, which replaced the Western Border league: East, North, South and West Gambier, Millicent, Penola, and Casterton-Sandford from over the Victorian border. Glenelg scheduled a SANFL-versus-VFL match against Coburg in Mount Gambier for the March long weekend of 2026.
Which club your address belongs to
Glenelg’s development zone includes sections of Adelaide’s western and southern suburbs and the south-east region near the Victorian border.
- Glenelg
- The SANFL club for the South East, based at Glenelg.
Casterton-Sandford is a Victorian club in a South Australian league. Players near the border should confirm which state’s pathway applies to them.
The competitions
- Limestone Coast Football Netball League
- Formed in 2024 to replace the Western Border league. Clubs: East Gambier, North Gambier, South Gambier, West Gambier, Millicent, Penola and Casterton-Sandford.
- Mid South Eastern Football League
- Community football across the middle of the South East.
- Kowree-Naracoorte-Tatiara Football League
- Community football along the border districts.
Set it up for Limestone Coast
Four things, in the order the app asks them. None of them needs a coach.
Choose footy, then your team nights
Onboarding asks “When do you train with your team?” Pick your club nights — Limestone Coast Football Netball League or wherever you play — and your gym and conditioning are scheduled around them, lighter the day after a big one. Tell it your equipment and any niggles and every exercise is fitted to both.
Match the program to your league’s start
The app treats March as the start of the footy season. SANFL and community footy in South Australia starts in April, so you can hold the pre-season through March by setting the phase yourself. The phase lives in Program → Your year.
Know your numbers on day one
Your first testing session is ready immediately: 2km time trial, Bench press 1RM, Max pull-ups, Trap-bar deadlift 1RM, Running vertical jump. It is re-run every 8 weeks, and the results re-price your training weights and conditioning paces.
Put your suburb on the board
In Social → Town, set where you train. Your minutes count toward that town’s weekly conditioning and strength top-10 boards — only the town is kept, never your location.
What you start with, by the month you join
Every block is four weeks — three building, one deload — so a free month is one complete block.
The footy year in Limestone Coast
- October
- Off-season. Rest, then rebuild general strength.
- November – February
- Pre-season, through the hottest months. Aerobic base first, then strength, then power.
- March
- Final preparation. Practice matches and testing.
- April – September
- Season. The SANFL runs April to September with the Grand Final on the penultimate weekend of September. Volume comes down, weights hold.
Mild summers, wet winters
Mount Gambier’s summers are milder than most of South Australia’s and its winters are cold and wet, so the constraint flips: the pre-season is kind, the season is heavy. Use the mild months to build the aerobic base properly, and expect heavy grounds from May — lower-body strength and a real warm-up are what keep hamstrings and groins on the park.
Coaching a side in Limestone Coast?
A club licence is A$8 per player, per month (minimum 5), and every player on it gets full Train Smart membership at no cost to them. You write the block once, it lands in each player’s app, and the console shows who actually did it.
Footy in Limestone Coast: questions
Which SANFL club is zoned to Mount Gambier?
What happened to the Western Border Football League?
What clubs play in the Limestone Coast league?
Where these facts come from
Checked September 2026. Zones, grades and dates change — if something here is out of date, the governing body is right and we are wrong.
Nearby and related
Adelaide
Four regions by SANFL zone, the Adelaide Footy League, and a pre-season through a hot, dry summer.
OpenEyre Peninsula
Norwood’s country zone — the Port Lincoln, Great Flinders, Eastern and Western Eyre leagues.
OpenThe AFL pathway
From community level to state league and the draft — and what gets tested along the way.
OpenTurn up to round one already fit
Pick footy, tell it your team nights, and your first block and testing session are ready before you leave the car park.
One month free, then A$24.99/month. Cancel any time. iPhone and iPad.