Footy clubs and training in Yarra
91,543 people and 3 footy clubs, in Richmond and Fairfield. Whichever one you play for, the spot goes to whoever turns up to pre-season already fit.
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3 footy clubs have a home ground in Yarra (population 91,543 at the 2021 census), across 2 suburbs. Most play in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (2 clubs), with others in the Yarra Junior Football League (2). Collingwood is the VFL side here, at Victoria Park, Abbotsford.
Most junior clubs around Yarra play in the Yarra Junior Football League, whose clubs sit in either the Oakleigh Chargers or the Northern Knights region. Which one you trial for depends on your address, and the league can confirm it.
Footy clubs in Yarra
Every club with a home ground in Yarra, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fitzroy | Cox and Olney Ovals, Fairfield; Alfred Crescent and W.T. Peterson Ovals, Fitzroy North; Ramsden Street Reserve, Clifton Hill; Victoria Park, Abbotsford; Brunswick Street Oval, Fitzroy | YJFL juniors VAFA Premier C · women’s Premier, Division 4 |
| Richmond | Citizens Park, Richmond and Kevin Bartlett Complex, Burnley | YJFL juniors |
| Richmond Central | Kevin Bartlett Reserve, Richmond | VAFA Division 3 · women’s Division 1 |
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
Most junior clubs around Yarra play in the Yarra Junior Football League, whose clubs sit in either the Oakleigh Chargers or the Northern Knights region. Which one you trial for depends on your address, and the league can confirm it.
- Collingwood
- VFL — Victoria Park, Abbotsford — Collingwood’s VFL side.
Bayside & the inner south-east: the zones, the leagues and the VFL clubs →
Set it up for your club in Yarra
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.
Yarra by suburb
91,543 people at the 2021 census. Suburb populations from the same census; a suburb marked * is shared with a neighbouring council.
Coaching a side in Yarra?
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 Yarra: questions
What footy clubs are in Yarra?
Which Talent League club are Yarra juniors zoned to?
Where can women and girls play footy in Yarra?
Which league do Yarra 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
- Yarra Junior Football League — current clubs and grounds
- City of Yarra — 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 Richmond Central 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.