Keep up to date with all the latest news from community football with AFL Victoria’s weekly Around the Grounds update.
See below for the top stories from grassroots football for the week…
AFL Barwon 
AFL Barwon has drafted plans for Geelong’s first all-women’s senior footy league to start in 2018.
AFL Barwon will add an under-15 division to a junior program already featuring under-12 (junior girls) and under-18 (youth girls) competitions.
The youth girls age bracket will be lifted to under-19 for next year only to keep players in the game longer before the planned introduction of the senior competition in 2018. READ MORE…
AFL Sunraysia 
Just when we thought Don Falvo had ticked all the boxes in an already stellar football career, he has discovered some more unticked boxes.
Falvo hung up his boots with Robinvale-Euston last August after 437 senior matches, but he came out of a short-lived retirement this season to join Gol Gol in the Millewa league and on Saturday played his 450th senior game. FULL STORY…
AFL Yarra Ranges 
Former Warburton-Millgrove player Dan Coghlan could never have imagined where football would take him when he was spending winter on camping trips just six years ago.
In his late teens, Essendon’s VFL captain was enjoying football season doing anything but playing the national game.
Fast forward a few years and the 25-year-old is now hoping to lead his team deep into September after securing a finals spot in the Peter Jackson VFL finals series. FULL STORY…
VFL Women’s
Twenty-four players from the Swisse VFL Women’s competition have been named in the Western Bulldogs and Melbourne sides for this Saturday night’s AFL Women’s All-Stars Match. Kate Withers looks at the final Exhibition Game for 2016.
Eight Darebin players made the final cut for the final Exhibition Game this Saturday, with Darcy Vescio, Katie Brennan and Lauren Arnell lining up for the Bulldogs, while Karen Paxman, Lauren Pierce, Melissa Hickey and Elise O’Dea will represent Melbourne with Daisy Pearce again selected as captain. TEAM LISTS HERE…
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