Footy clubs and training in Boroondara
14 clubs in Boroondara, and every one of them picks its best side on who can run, tackle and back up week after week. Here is where they play — and how to be the player they pick.
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14 footy clubs have a home ground in Boroondara (population 167,231 at the 2021 census), across 9 suburbs. Most play in the Yarra Junior Football League (8 clubs), with others in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (7), the Eastern Football Netball League (1) and the Southern Football Netball League (1).
The Talent League club for Boroondara juniors is the Sandringham Dragons or the Oakleigh Chargers, depending on your address. Neither club publishes its boundary at council level, so check with your junior league before you assume.
Footy clubs in Boroondara
Every club with a home ground in Boroondara, where it plays, and the league and grades it fields. Most senior clubs also run junior and girls’ teams — the club can tell you which age groups have spots.
| Club | Home ground | Competition and grades |
|---|---|---|
| Balwyn | Balwyn Park, Balwyn; Balwyn Park, Balwyn and Gordon Barnard Reserve, Balwyn North | EFNL Premier Division · women’s Division 1 YJFL juniors |
| Old Camberwell | Gordon Barnard Reserve, Balwyn North | VAFA Premier B · women’s Division 3 |
| South Yarra | Leigh Park, Balwyn North | SFNL Open Grade Only |
| Camberwell | Lynden Park, Camberwell | YJFL juniors |
| Old Scotch | Camberwell Sports Ground, Camberwell | VAFA Premier · women’s Premier |
| Canterbury | Canterbury Sportsground, Canterbury; Canterbury Sports Ground, Surrey Hills | YJFL juniors VAFA Division 2 · women’s Division 3 |
| Ashburton | Burwood Reserve and Ferndale Reserve, Glen Iris † | YJFL juniors |
| Glen Iris | T.H. King and Righetti Oval, Glen Iris † | YJFL juniors |
| St Mary's Salesian | Ferndale Park, Glen Iris | VAFA Division 1 · women’s Division 3 |
| Swinburne University | St James Park, Hawthorn | VAFA under-19s |
| Hawthorn | Rathmines Road Reserve, Hawthorn East | VAFA Division 3 · women’s Division 1 |
| Hawthorn Citizens | Victoria Road and Rathmines Road Reserves, Hawthorn East; Glenferrie Oval, Hawthorn | YJFL juniors |
| Kew | Victoria Park, Kew | VAFA Division 1 · women’s Premier YJFL juniors |
| Kew Rovers | Stradbroke Park, Kew East | YJFL juniors |
† The ground’s suburb is shared with a neighbouring council, so the club may sit just over the boundary. From each league’s current club list, checked September 2026. Clubs change leagues and divisions between seasons; the league is right if this is not.
Which Talent League club you trial for
The Talent League club for Boroondara juniors is the Sandringham Dragons or the Oakleigh Chargers, depending on your address. Neither club publishes its boundary at council level, so check with your junior league before you assume.
Set it up for your club in Boroondara
Four things, in the order the app asks them. The footy calendar and conditions are on the Melbourne guide.
Choose footy, then your team nights
Onboarding asks “When do you train with your team?” Pick your club nights — Yarra Junior Football 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 AFL season. If your league does not start until mid-April, set your season phase yourself and stay in pre-season a few weeks longer. 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.
Boroondara by suburb
167,231 people at the 2021 census. Suburb populations from the same census; a suburb marked * is shared with a neighbouring council.
Coaching a side in Boroondara?
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 Boroondara: questions
What footy clubs are in Boroondara?
Which Talent League club are Boroondara juniors zoned to?
Where can women and girls play footy in Boroondara?
Which league do Boroondara footy clubs play in?
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.
- Yarra Junior Football League — current clubs and grounds
- Victorian Amateur Football Association — current clubs and grounds
- Eastern Football Netball League — current clubs and grounds
- Southern Football Netball League — current clubs and grounds
- City of Boroondara — suburbs and 2021 census population
- South Metro Junior Football League — pathways and zoning
- Yarra Junior Football League — talent programs
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Turn up to round one already fit
Pick footy, tell it your St Mary's Salesian training nights — or wherever you play — and your first block and testing session are ready before you leave the car park.
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