Footy clubs and training in Whitehorse
Whitehorse has 13 footy clubs, in Balwyn North, Mitcham and Burwood and more. Find yours below, then build the fitness that holds your place in it.
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13 footy clubs have a home ground in Whitehorse (population 183,462 at the 2021 census), across 10 suburbs. Most play in the Eastern Football Netball League (8 clubs), with others in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (3) and the Yarra Junior Football League (3). Box Hill is the VFL side here, at Box Hill City Oval, Box Hill.
Juniors who live in Whitehorse are zoned to the Eastern Ranges, the Talent League club for AFL Victoria’s Eastern Region, based at Box Hill City Oval.
Footy clubs in Whitehorse
Every club with a home ground in Whitehorse, 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 and Gordon Barnard Reserve, Balwyn North † | YJFL juniors |
| Blackburn | Morton Park, Blackburn | EFNL Premier Division · women’s Division 2 |
| Nunawading | Koonung Reserve, Blackburn North | EFNL Division 4 · women’s Division 5 |
| Eley Park | Whitehorse Reserve, Box Hill | VAFA under-19s |
| Surrey Park | Surrey Park Reserve, Box Hill | EFNL Division 2 · women’s Division 1 YJFL juniors |
| Box Hill North | Elgar Park, Box Hill North; Elgar Park, Mont Albert North | VAFA Division 3 · women’s Division 2 |
| Whitehorse | Springfield Reserve, Box Hill North | YJFL juniors |
| Whitehorse Pioneers | Springfield Park, Box Hill North | EFNL Division 3 · women’s Premier Division |
| Wattle Park | Bennettswood Reserve, Burwood † | VAFA Division 3 · women’s Division 2 |
| East Burwood | East Burwood Reserve, East Burwood | EFNL Division 2 |
| Forest Hill | Forest Hill Reserve, Forest Hill | EFNL Division 4 |
| Mitcham | Walker Park, Mitcham | EFNL Division 1 · women’s Division 3 |
| Vermont | Vermont Recreation Reserve, Vermont | EFNL Premier Division · women’s Premier Division, Division 3 |
† 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
Juniors who live in Whitehorse are zoned to the Eastern Ranges, the Talent League club for AFL Victoria’s Eastern Region, based at Box Hill City Oval.
- Box Hill
- VFL — Box Hill City Oval, Box Hill — Hawthorn’s VFL affiliate.
Melbourne’s east: the zones, the leagues and the VFL clubs →
Set it up for your club in Whitehorse
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 — Eastern 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 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.
Whitehorse by suburb
183,462 people at the 2021 census. Suburb populations from the same census; a suburb marked * is shared with a neighbouring council.
Coaching a side in Whitehorse?
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 Whitehorse: questions
What footy clubs are in Whitehorse?
Which Talent League club are Whitehorse juniors zoned to?
Where can women and girls play footy in Whitehorse?
Which league do Whitehorse 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.
- Eastern Football Netball League — current clubs and grounds
- Victorian Amateur Football Association — current clubs and grounds
- Yarra Junior Football League — current clubs and grounds
- City of Whitehorse — suburbs and 2021 census population
- Eastern Ranges — regional boundaries
- Eastern Ranges — club profile
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Turn up to round one already fit
Pick footy, tell it your Balwyn 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.