Footy clubs and training in Cardinia
Cardinia has 13 footy clubs, in Pakenham, Officer and Beaconsfield 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 Cardinia (population 118,194 at the 2021 census), across 13 suburbs. Most play in the Ellinbank & District Football League (4 clubs), with others in the Outer East Football & Netball (4), the West Gippsland Football Netball Competition (4) and the Southern Football Netball League (2) and more.
Cardinia sits on the edge of three Talent League zones. Part of it is in the Eastern Ranges’ region; the rest meets the Dandenong Stingrays and, further east, Gippsland Power. Your junior league can confirm which one your address belongs to.
Footy clubs in Cardinia
Every club with a home ground in Cardinia, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Beaconsfield | Holm Park, Beaconsfield | EFNL Division 1 · women’s Division 2 |
| Bunyip | Bunyip Recreation Reserve, Bunyip | EDFL (Ellinbank) seniors |
| Lang Lang | Lang Lang Community Recreation Precinct, Caldermeade | EDFL (Ellinbank) seniors |
| Catani | Catani Recreation Reserve, Catani | EDFL (Ellinbank) seniors |
| Cora Lynn | Cora Lynn Recreation Reserve, Cora Lynn | West Gippsland seniors |
| Emerald | Chandler Recreation Reserve, Emerald † | Outer East Division 1 · women’s Division 2 |
| Garfield | Garfield Recreation Reserve, Garfield | West Gippsland seniors |
| Gembrook Cockatoo | Gembrook Recreation Reserve, Gembrook | Outer East Premier Division · women’s Division 2 |
| Koo Wee Rup | Koo Wee Rup Recreation Reserve, Koo Wee Rup | West Gippsland seniors |
| Nar Nar Goon | Nar Nar Goon Recreation Reserve, Nar Nar Goon | West Gippsland seniors |
| Nyora | Nyora Recreation Reserve, Nyora † | EDFL (Ellinbank) seniors |
| Officer | Officer Recreation Reserve, Officer | SFNL women’s Division 3 Outer East Premier Division · women’s Division 2 |
| Pakenham | Toomuc Reserve, Pakenham | SFNL Open Grade Only Outer East Division 1 · women’s Division 1 |
† 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
Cardinia sits on the edge of three Talent League zones. Part of it is in the Eastern Ranges’ region; the rest meets the Dandenong Stingrays and, further east, Gippsland Power. Your junior league can confirm which one your address belongs to.
Set it up for your club in Cardinia
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 — Ellinbank & District 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.
Cardinia by suburb
118,194 people at the 2021 census. Suburb populations from the same census; a suburb marked * is shared with a neighbouring council.
Coaching a side in Cardinia?
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 Cardinia: questions
What footy clubs are in Cardinia?
Which Talent League club are Cardinia juniors zoned to?
Where can women and girls play footy in Cardinia?
Which league do Cardinia 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.
- Ellinbank & District Football League — current clubs and grounds
- Outer East Football & Netball — current clubs and grounds
- West Gippsland Football Netball Competition — current clubs and grounds
- Southern Football Netball League — current clubs and grounds
- Eastern Football Netball League — current clubs and grounds
- Shire of Cardinia — suburbs and 2021 census population
- Dandenong Stingrays — 2025 under-18 boys squad
- Dandenong Stingrays — club profile
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