Juniors
Key Dates
2024 Junior Competition:
Important season dates:
– Online Team Registration CLOSED: Friday 12th July
– Individual Player Registration CLOSES: 5pm Friday 23rd August (cannot collect playing shirt unless player is registered)
– Team Manager Information Night via Zoom TBA:
– Playing Shirt Collection date TBA:
– Season commences: Thurs 12th & Fri 13th September (Round 1)
– Break for school holidays: NO GAMES – 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th Oct
– Return to Round 4: 17th, 18th October
– Season Ends: Thurs 28th & Fri 29 November
Come down and have a GO!
Norths Juniors play on both Thursday and Friday afternoon/evenings from early September until the end of November (Norths Touch Junior games DO NOT play in the school holidays).
Registration Is available for both teams and individuals. For individual registrations Norths Touch will allocate you a team.
Registration Costs:
$110/player
Season registration payment, which includes your playing shirt.
$22/year
Annual Touch Football Australia (TFA) membership fee collected by TFA. This payment is collected annually and covers you for every club/team you play with in Australia.
## Check out our “Register Here” section for more information
Northern Suburbs Touch is an Active Kids Approved Provider of the $50 Active Kids Rebate initiative.
Active Kids vouchers can be redeemed online only through the Norths mysideline payment platform. Click here for more information
Active Kids Provider
2024 Junior Competition
** Youth Mixed division (16&17yo). Must play 3 boys and 3 girls on the field. ALL Divisions above will be formed based on team applications.
How do I register a TEAM?
Step 1: Organise a team with all your friends and come up with a creative team name.
Step 2: One parent will need to volunteer as the team manager.
Step 3: Team manager to Register the team. The Register page contains all registration information.
Step 4: Team managers to retain the email confirmation which contains important further registration information
Step 5: Players to register and pay the fee for the competition.
U8Mixed & U9s rule modification @ Norths
There is no scoring in U8s (i.e. there will be a draw, but no competition ladder)
U9s will have a draw and a competition ladder
U8s AND U9s are played on a half-size touch football field
For U8 Mixed
- Coaches are allowed on the field BUT must remain at least 5 metres behind their team.
- Vocals by coaches must be positive, encouraging and NOT louder than the Junior Referee.
For U9
- Coaches are allowed on the field UNTIL Round 4 only. We do encourage coaching from the sideline from Round 5 onwards, so the children can enjoy themselves and maybe make mistakes and learn from that.
- Vocals by coaches must be positive, encouraging and NOT louder than the Junior Referee.
We request that coaches do not talk to the referees.
We have a Zero Tolerance to the abuse of referees!
We request coaches maintain positive comments on all aspects of the game. Negative comments against the referees from the sideline that can be heard by the players, often transfer onto the field.
For U8 Mixed
The attacking team will maintain possession of the ball for a full set of SIX (6) touches.
A drop ball, forward pass, late pass, over the mark, obstruction, dummy half being caught with the ball are to be counted as a touch.
However, we will endeavour to encourage the players to return to where they were touched to play the ball.
for U9s – Normal playing rules apply.
For U8 Mixed & U9s
The defending team cannot move up until the first receiver has caught the ball AND/or the dummy half runs with the ball.
On the tryline, teams must move forward from the line and make an effort to touch the attacking team (i.e. they cannot stand stationary on the try line and watch or defend the line)
We will play 5m for players to get onside, instead of 7m.
Norths runs the competition with Junior Referees and everyone is learning. The referees will also make their decisions on what they have seen.
For minor infringements (50/50 calls, the referee may call “play on”, for example, if the ball is passed slightly forward, late or if the ball is played just over the mark.
If interested in refereeing at our Junior competition, please head to the Refs tab and submit your interest.
For U8 Mixed
No penalties will be awarded.
Per above, usual penalties for late pass, forward pass, off the mark, obstruction, no touch will be counted as a touch.
Instances including kicking the ball, throwing the ball away, hard touches etc, will result in a change of possession (defending team) or a restart of the set of six (attacking team).
For U9s – Normal playing touch rules apply.
For U8 Mixed
Players will be afforded a FULL set of SIX (6) touches whilst they learn the game.
We would like the players to learn and have fun doing so.
For U9s – Normal playing rules apply.