Footy clubs and training in Banyule
126,236 people and 16 footy clubs, in Bundoora, Greensborough and Ivanhoe and beyond. Whichever one you play for, the spot goes to whoever turns up to pre-season already fit.
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16 footy clubs have a home ground in Banyule (population 126,236 at the 2021 census), across 10 suburbs. Most play in the Northern Football Netball League (13 clubs), with others in the Yarra Junior Football League (7) and the Victorian Amateur Football Association (2).
Juniors who live in Banyule are in the Northern Knights’ region — Whittlesea, Nillumbik, Darebin and Banyule — and the Knights are based at Preston.
Footy clubs in Banyule
Every club with a home ground in Banyule, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bundoora | Yulong Reserve, Bundoora | NFNL Division 1 YJFL juniors |
| La Trobe University | Tony Sheehan Oval, Bundoora † | VAFA Division 3 · women’s Division 2 |
| Old Paradians | Garvey Oval, Bundoora | NFNL Division 2 |
| Greensborough | War Memorial Park, Greensborough | NFNL Division 1 · juniors |
| St Mary's | Whatmough Park, Greensborough | NFNL Division 2 · women’s Division 1, Division 3 YJFL juniors |
| Banyule | R.J Brockwell Oval, Heidelberg | NFNL Division 1 · women’s Division 1 YJFL juniors |
| Heidelberg | Warringal Park, Heidelberg | NFNL Division 1 · women’s Division 1 YJFL juniors |
| Heidelberg West | Heidelberg Park, Heidelberg | NFNL Division 3 |
| North Heidelberg | Shelley Street Reserve. Heidelberg Heights | NFNL Division 1 · women’s Division 2 |
| Ivanhoe | Ivanhoe Park, Ivanhoe | NFNL Division 3 · women’s Division 2 YJFL juniors |
| Old Ivanhoe Grammarians | Chelsworth Park, Ivanhoe | VAFA Premier B |
| Lower Plenty | Montmorency Park, South Oval, Lower Plenty; Montmorency Park, South Oval, Montmorency | NFNL Division 2 · women’s Division 1, Division 2 |
| Macleod | Macleod Reserve, Macleod; Greensborough College, Greensborough; De Winton Reserve, Rosanna; De Winton Park, Rosanna | YJFL juniors NFNL Division 2 · women’s Division 3 |
| Montmorency | Montmorency Park, North Oval, Montmorency | NFNL Division 1 · women’s Division 1, Division 3 · juniors |
| Watsonia | A K Lines Reserve, Watsonia | NFNL Division 3 |
| Parade St Damians | Binnak Park, Watsonia North | YJFL juniors |
† 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 Banyule are in the Northern Knights’ region — Whittlesea, Nillumbik, Darebin and Banyule — and the Knights are based at Preston.
Set it up for your club in Banyule
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 — Northern 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.
Banyule by suburb
126,236 people at the 2021 census. Suburb populations from the same census; a suburb marked * is shared with a neighbouring council.
Coaching a side in Banyule?
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 Banyule: questions
What footy clubs are in Banyule?
Which Talent League club are Banyule juniors zoned to?
Where can women and girls play footy in Banyule?
Which league do Banyule 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.
- Northern Football Netball League — current clubs and grounds
- Yarra Junior Football League — current clubs and grounds
- Victorian Amateur Football Association — current clubs and grounds
- City of Banyule — suburbs and 2021 census population
- Northern Knights — region
- NFNL — representation in Knights squads
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Turn up to round one already fit
Pick footy, tell it your Bundoora 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.