https://www.theroar.com.au/2023/10/1...urther-behind/
Some encouraging signs. Have been a but concerned about the canberra bid. Have heard nothing about it in the last 6 months.
https://www.theroar.com.au/2023/10/1...urther-behind/
Some encouraging signs. Have been a but concerned about the canberra bid. Have heard nothing about it in the last 6 months.
Local ABC saying there could be an announcement about Canberra as soon as today.
Probably "Jets moving to Canberra".
Canberra Activists should always be in the comp.
Originally Posted by Newysports2.0
Cool, Just another excuse for a few Lager's and a schnitty at the Harmonie German club.
https://www.theguardian.com/football...ially-scrapped
canberra close, but only paying $18m for the licence. Reconsidering going to 16 teams before the next tv deal. $50m shortfall as a result.
How and the **** can a no team in NZ find an American billionaire owner but an existing club cannot find any owner. This world is a piece of ****.American billionaire Bill Foley has bought the licence to run Auckland
Exactly Easty
Shane the Executive Chair fella is all over it , Will be done by Christmas. Just pick a year.
Probs be announced the day after being able to add to the squad.
Reminds me of George Costanza
https://aleagues.com.au/news/aleague...e-latest-news/
Canberra still in the works, but won't plat this season. Women's team still going around.
Hello Canberra football community.
Member Update
I wanted to write to you with an update on the Canberra A-League project as we have reached a critical stage.
With the A-League Men?s competition set to expand to 14 teams in 2025-26, my team and I have been working hard behind the scenes to finalise the investment that will ensure Canberra fills the final available spot.
This funding will not only complete a 7-year journey we have all been on together to bring a professional Men?s team to the capital region, it will also secure the future of our beloved Canberra United Women?s team.
We are currently in active conversations with a number of interested investors for the Canberra licence, and are at a critical juncture where the strength of the Canberra proposition will be decisive in whether we achieve a successful outcome.
We are close. We have some impressive investors on the cusp of signing on the dotted line, including the potential of a revolutionary partnership with a top-tier European club that will bring substantial expertise and resources to Canberra and to the A-League.
These investors add to the formidable management team with experience from major teams and leagues in Europe, along with their strong vision and strategy to connect Canberra more closely to the global football ecosystem. This will ensure the best chance of success for our club and new possibilities for football in Australia, and is a key attraction to the investors and to the A-Leagues.
The Australian Professional Leagues group that runs theA-Leagues is working closely with us, and is excited by the vision and the progress that has been made.
We just need one last push.
I was encouraged mid-week to read that Andrew Barr had committed to providing $3 million per year into a Canberra Big Bash franchise. Canberra is a growing city so it?s only right that its sports and entertainment ventures grow with it.
However, there is a risk football gets left behind as it has so often in the past.
As a football family, we know that nationally, football has never had its fair share of government funding when compared to some other sporting codes. For example, the Australian Sports Commission Annual Report shows in 2021-22, football received $7.9m in funding, compared to $10.7m for athletics, $8.0m for basketball, $9.8m for hockey and $9.6m for sailing. Despite our game being far and away the nation?s biggest participation sport.
While we support investment into all Canberra sports teams, an A-Leagues club in Canberra stacks up on every front with a Big Bash team. According to YouGov, there are 217k people in the ACT who either play or follow football, which is almost half the population and 10% more than cricket. We also know that an A-Leagues club would be the only spring / summer tenant at a new rectangular stadium, and our current GIO stadium.
A matching $3 million per year commitment from local Government would go a long way to again demonstrating the commitment of Andrew Barr and the City to finally get us the team we have waited so long for.
It could almost certainly be a deciding factor in locking in the last investment needed to secure the future of Canberra United and bring an A-League Men?s team to Canberra.
The ACT Government has previously supported football inCanberra with an in-principle agreement to support the club at $1.45m per year, and more recently providing a one off grant of $250,000 to secure Canberra United?s existence in the A-league Women?s competition for this coming season.
Time and again, you as a community have risen to show your support for this dream we have all been working towards together, and now I invite you to add your voice to mine, as we call for Andrew Barr to ensure that we will have a professional football club in the ACT for generations to come.
You can do this by speaking out on social media, spreading your support via word of mouth, or by writing directly to Mr Barr on barr@act.gov.au
As always, a huge thanks goes out to this core group of supporters and the wider football community that has never shown anything but steadfast support for finishing off what we all started back in 2018.
I hope to be in contact again soon with the news we?ve all been patiently waiting for.
Regards,
Michael Caggiano
CEO Capital Region Football Collective
Update from the Canberra bid. I am not Michael Caggiano.
Aston Villa were rumoured to be interested in investing in a Canberra team. That was awhile ago though !
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