Footy training for Albany & the Great Southern
Albany is more than four hours from Perth, which makes the Great Southern the kind of place where the physical side of a player’s development happens almost entirely on their own.
Your first month is free, with nothing to pay today. Then A$24.99/month, cancel any time. On the App Store and Google Play.
Footy in Albany and the Great Southern runs through the Great Southern Football League: Albany, Railways, Royals and North Albany in Albany, Mount Barker, and Denmark-Walpole. The league runs reserves, colts, under-16, women’s and youth girls’ grades, and the region is governed by Country Football WA.
Which club your address belongs to
Country football in WA is governed by Country Football WA, which runs the Country Championships — men’s, women’s and colts — and state country programs.
- Country Football WA — Great Southern region
- The governing body for football across the Great Southern.
We could not verify a current, published alignment between Great Southern clubs and a particular WAFL club, so this page does not name one.
The competitions
- Great Southern Football League
- Six clubs: Albany, Railways, Royals and North Albany (Albany), Mount Barker, and Denmark-Walpole. Senior, reserves, colts, under-16, women’s and youth girls’ grades.
- Upper Great Southern and district associations
- Community football further north and east in the region.
Set it up for Albany & the Great Southern
Four things, in the order the app asks them. None of them needs a coach.
Choose footy, then your team nights
Onboarding asks “When do you train with your team?” Pick your club nights — Great Southern 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 footy season. The WAFL and most community leagues start in April, so you can hold the pre-season through March by setting the phase yourself. 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 4 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.
What you start with, by the month you join
Every block is four weeks — three building, one deload — so a free month is one complete block.
The footy year in Albany & the Great Southern
- October
- Off-season. Rest, then rebuild general strength.
- November – February
- Pre-season, through the hottest months. Aerobic base first, then strength, then power.
- March
- Final preparation. Practice matches and testing.
- April – September
- Season. The 2026 WAFL season began on 3 April with the Grand Final on 20 September. Volume comes down, weights hold.
A mild summer, a cold southern winter
Albany’s summer is mild by WA standards, which makes it a good place to build an aerobic base — but the winter season is cold, wet and windy off the Southern Ocean. Expect heavy grounds, and treat the warm-up as part of the session.
Coaching a side in Albany & the Great Southern?
A club licence is one flat monthly price for the whole squad — from A$119.99 for up to 60 players — 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 Albany & the Great Southern: questions
What clubs are in the Great Southern Football League?
What grades does the Great Southern Football League run?
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.
Spotted an error? Tell us and we will fix it.
Nearby and related
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OpenTurn up to round one already fit
Pick footy, tell it your team nights, and your first block and testing session are ready before you leave the car park.
Your first month is free, with nothing to pay today. Then A$24.99/month, cancel any time. On the App Store and Google Play.
- Install itFree to download on iPhone and Android.
- Tell it how you playYour sport, your season, the nights you train and the kit you have. No account needed.
- See your week, then start freeYour program is built before you pay anything. Start the free month to unlock it, and cancel any time in your store settings.