Footy clubs and training in Port Phillip
Port Phillip has 8 footy clubs, in St Kilda, Port Melbourne and Albert Park. Find yours below, then build the fitness that holds your place in it.
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8 footy clubs have a home ground in Port Phillip (population 109,515 at the 2021 census), across 3 suburbs. Most play in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (6 clubs), with others in the Southern Football Netball League (2). Port Melbourne is the VFL side here, at North Port Oval, Port Melbourne.
The Talent League club for Port Phillip 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 Port Phillip
Every club with a home ground in Port Phillip, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Collegians | Harry Trott Oval, Albert Park | VAFA Premier B |
| South Melbourne Districts | Lindsay Hassett Oval, Albert Park | VAFA Division 2 · women’s Division 3 |
| Port Melbourne Chargers | JL Murphy Reserve, Port Melbourne | VAFA women’s Premier B, Division 4 |
| Port Melbourne Colts | JL Murphy Reserve, Port Melbourne | SFNL Division 1 |
| AJAX | Gary Smorgon Oval, St Kilda | VAFA Premier B |
| Albert Park | Ian Johnson Oval, St Kilda | VAFA Division 3 · women’s Division 3 |
| Power House | Ross Gregory Oval, St Kilda | VAFA Division 2 · women’s Division 1 |
| St Kilda City | Peanut Farm Reserve, St Kilda | SFNL Division 3 · women’s Division 3 |
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 Port Phillip 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.
- Port Melbourne
- VFL — North Port Oval, Port Melbourne.
Bayside & the inner south-east: the zones, the leagues and the VFL clubs →
Set it up for your club in Port Phillip
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 — Victorian Amateur Football Association 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.
Port Phillip by suburb
109,515 people at the 2021 census. Suburb populations from the same census; a suburb marked * is shared with a neighbouring council.
Coaching a side in Port Phillip?
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 Port Phillip: questions
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Which Talent League club are Port Phillip juniors zoned to?
Where can women and girls play footy in Port Phillip?
Which league do Port Phillip 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.
- Victorian Amateur Football Association — current clubs and grounds
- Southern Football Netball League — current clubs and grounds
- City of Port Phillip — suburbs and 2021 census population
- South Metro Junior Football League — pathways and zoning
- Yarra Junior Football League — talent programs
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More of Bayside & the inner south-east
Turn up to round one already fit
Pick footy, tell it your AJAX training nights — or wherever you play — 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.