Football Victoria’s Futsal Strategy will be to:
- Formally recognise the sport of Futsal within Football Victoria’s existing Strategic Plan 2019-2022 ‘FootbALLways’ to facilitate its growth, including in schools and to foster the increase and development of players, coaches, referees, Futsal clubs and Futsal centres in the broader futsal pathway.
- Provide Futsal competition providers and Futsal clubs with a genuine value proposition to partner with Football Victoria via a revamped affiliation and support program to grow and develop Futsal together as a unified Futsal community.
- Integrate Futsal within the implementation of Football Victoria’s current Facilities Strategy and advocate for increased and improved Futsal facilities with local, state and federal government for the benefit of all Futsal competition providers and Futsal clubs across Victoria.
FV’s priorities will be highlighted by the delivery of premier Futsal events for the Victorian Futsal Community to participate in. This includes the FV State Futsal Championships, to be held in April 2021, Inter-School Futsal competitions and a premier ‘F-League’ competition for Victoria, for juniors and seniors, which will form the pathway to identify players, coaches and referees for Victorian representation at the Football Australia National Futsal Championships.
In the lead up to the 2022 Football Australia National Futsal Championships, all Victorian Futsal State Representative Squads will also be administered and managed directly by Football Victoria. Further, FV will hold both Futsal referee and coach education courses to officially accredit and upskill Futsal referees and coaches from February 2021.