Footy clubs and training in Mornington Peninsula
15 clubs in the Mornington Peninsula, 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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15 footy clubs have a home ground in the Mornington Peninsula (population 168,948 at the 2021 census), across 14 suburbs. Most play in the Mornington Peninsula Football Netball League (13 clubs), with others in the Southern Football Netball League (1) and the Victorian Amateur Football Association (1).
The Dandenong Stingrays, based at Shepley Oval in Dandenong, are the Talent League club for Melbourne’s outer south-east. They do not publish a council-level boundary, so if you live near the edge of Mornington Peninsula, confirm your zone with your junior league.
Footy clubs in Mornington Peninsula
Every club with a home ground in the Mornington Peninsula, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hastings/Balnarring | Balnarring Reserve, Balnarring | MPFNL women’s Division 1/Division 1 reserves |
| Crib Point | Crib Point Recreation Reserve, Crib Point | MPFNL Division 2 · women’s Division 2 |
| Dromana | Dromana Recreation Reserve, Dromana | MPFNL Division 1 |
| Hastings | Hastings Park, Hastings | MPFNL Division 2 |
| Mornington | Alexandra Park, Mornington | MPFNL Division 1 · women’s Division 1/Division 1 reserves |
| Mount Eliza | Emil Madsen Reserve, Mount Eliza | MPFNL Division 1 · women’s Division 2 |
| Old Peninsula | Harry MacDonald Oval, Mount Eliza | VAFA Premier C |
| South Mornington | Citation Oval, Mount Martha | SFNL Division 3 · women’s Division 1 |
| Pearcedale | Pearcedale Recreation Reserve, Pearcedale † | MPFNL Division 2 · women’s Division 1/Division 1 reserves |
| Red Hill | Red Hill Recreation Reserve, Red Hill | MPFNL Division 2 · women’s Division 2 |
| Rosebud | Olympic Park, Rosebud | MPFNL Division 1 |
| Rye | RJ Rowley Reserve, Rye | MPFNL Division 2 · women’s Division 2 |
| Somerville | Somerville Recreation Reserve, Somerville | MPFNL Division 2 |
| Sorrento | David Macfarlane Reserve, Sorrento | MPFNL Division 1 |
| Tyabb | Bunguyan Reserve, Tyabb | MPFNL Division 2 · women’s Division 1/Division 1 reserves |
† 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 Dandenong Stingrays, based at Shepley Oval in Dandenong, are the Talent League club for Melbourne’s outer south-east. They do not publish a council-level boundary, so if you live near the edge of Mornington Peninsula, confirm your zone with your junior league.
Set it up for your club in Mornington Peninsula
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 — Mornington Peninsula 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.
The Mornington Peninsula by suburb
168,948 people at the 2021 census. Suburb populations from the same census; a suburb marked * is shared with a neighbouring council.
Coaching a side in Mornington Peninsula?
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 Mornington Peninsula: questions
What footy clubs are in the Mornington Peninsula?
Which Talent League club are Mornington Peninsula juniors zoned to?
Where can women and girls play footy in the Mornington Peninsula?
Which league do Mornington Peninsula 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.
- Mornington Peninsula Football Netball League — current clubs and grounds
- Southern Football Netball League — current clubs and grounds
- Victorian Amateur Football Association — current clubs and grounds
- Shire of Mornington Peninsula — suburbs and 2021 census population
- Dandenong Stingrays — 2025 under-18 boys squad
- Dandenong Stingrays — club profile
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Turn up to round one already fit
Pick footy, tell it your Mornington 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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