Quote Originally Posted by AVB View Post
Club Fees to NNSW for NPL are as follows:

Per Youth player: $124.88
Per Snr Player: $209.69
Competition fee: $10,243.75
Match Official Appointments officer: $770
FFA Cup: $907.50
Discipline Levy: $825
Match official Fees: $13,945

Rough numbers total then assuming 36 Snr players, 64 Youth Players:

Total NPL Participation Fees: $44,193.49

So only considering the money paid to NNSW that divided by 110 players is $402 per player

That's obviously before any club costs -> Ground hire and maintenance, Coaching, TDs, Equipment, clothing etc, etc
This is good insight.

So most of our NPL clubs charge approx $1500 per head fees for youth. Some more, some less, but let’s go with $1500.

Based on 64 youth players most clubs would generate $96K in fees. Minus $44K fees, there is a $50K surplus. How much does the ground hire/maintenance, coaching, equipment cost generally? It’s not $50K hopefully.

Add your JDL fees on top, minus your coaching, ground fees again, and NPL clubs should have the funds available to progress well. What they do with that money however is the source of debate and frustration as most accept this goes into the senior funds.

If we are decoupling youth, let’s decouple the fee streams as well and see whether we can develop our youth better. More money should mean better coaching, development, opportunities. That’s something we can all get on board with.