Girls Football

One pathway, from first touches to Academy

Every stage of our Development Pathway is built on the Hollier Sports curriculum - a structured, technical, game-realistic system written and led by our UEFA A and FA B Licensed coaches. One consistent pathway for player development from age 5 to 15.

Every level learns with the same philosophy, same language, same concepts, built one on top of the other. Nothing gets relearned, and our structured curriculum is built for long term development. Think of it like a school of football! This is why families stay with us for years and we get to watch our players grow up with us.

What we are building for Canberra girls football.

The environment

Girls football in Australia has never had more doors open. A professional league, a national team that fills stadiums, and girls who can name the players they want to be.

Getting girls into football was never really the hard part, keeping them there is. By fourteen they're around twice as likely as boys to have walked away, and it's almost never because they stopped liking football. It's because somewhere along the way they stopped feeling like it was for them.

So that's what we build for. Real connections, coaches worth looking up to, and a proper pathway ahead of them. Our groups stay together term after term, and the friendships that come out of them are half the reason the girls keep turning up.

There's a level for every girl and a way up from it, and the ones who'll never play professionally get coached just as well as the ones who might.

That's what makes our girls brave. A girl who knows she belongs will try the thing she might get wrong, which is the only way she finds out what she can do.

The ages are a guide. Players are placed by ability and move up when they are ready.

A player who is challenged but not overwhelmed learns fastest, and that is the level we are aiming to put them in. Their coach knows where they are at and will tell you when a move makes sense. Players are moved between classes depending on football technical ability and game understanding, physical development and life skills.

🟣 Toddlers: Around ages 3-4

First touches, indoors. Short sessions, small groups, parents still close by. At this age the whole job is making sure sport and football feels good. Lots of fun, smiles and energy in a relaxed environment.