At Monday night’s training we heard from President Jane Ryan about the important heritage of Sir Douglas Nicholls and the strong women in his life who equally strove for the well-being and equality of First Nations people, with a heartfelt call out against racism in...
Welcome to the Skills Acquistion Cycle for Pre-Season 2023! Before we get started, check out these resources. The Skill Acquisition Manual tells you all you need to know at this phase of training and the FIFA 11+ manual will guide you on the warm up activities to...
The Darebin Women’s Sports Club was founded by women as a club for women and girls to participate in sport in a supportive environment.The explicitly feminist roots of our club’s culture and mission remain unchanged. Further, the DWSC has a proud history and culture...
Despite having to operate through a second year impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Darebin Women‘s Sports Club was able to field teams from its three key sports programs and survive 2021 – the year of lockdown. The club certainly did not take a step back, fielding 26...
The Darebin Women’s Sports Club (Darebin Falcons) was founded in 1990 and is the largest multi-sport Club in Victoria for women and girls, offering opportunities to play soccer, Australian rules football, cricket and 8-ball. We have teams at community and elite level...
At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics this year, the Women’s Football goal medal winners, Canada were led to victory by Head Coach Bev Priestman. Priestman was one of only 9 female soccer coaches (including assistant coaches) from a contingent of 59 coaches. This...
VFLW Round 13 vs Casey Demons Saturday 19th June 2021 Casey Fields Darebin 1.1.7 def by 9.6.60 Casey Demons Photos by @Rob Lawson Photography The Falcons, and the VFLW 2021 season, were under considerable stress this last month, with Melbourne hit by yet another snap...
Mitch Skelly joined the Darebin Falcons in November 2019 and was appointed Senior Coach in 2020. Skelly has extensive experience in coaching women’s football, having held senior coaching roles both in Australia and the UK, coaching the Wandsworth Demons...
It’s game day! ⚽️ 🥅 🏃🏽♀️ We know that every coach handles game day differently, so we asked some junior coaches to share their tips with us. Here are their top four tips: 1. Planning is important...
We are delighted to welcome Maria Berry as Senior Coach for our Women’s Soccer State League 4 team. Maria brings with her a depth of experience in both playing and coaching, and has been a trailblazer in women’s football for over 40 years. Maria has...
The Darebin Women’s Sports Club has cemented its place in the history of women’s sport in Australia. From humble beginnings, the Falcons have built a community, a family, a home. The success of the AFLW, the Matildas and the Australian Women’s Cricket team has thrown...
As this abridged oral history of the Falcons makes clear: Darebin is more than a sporting club, more than a place to play and watch sport. It’s more than its multiple premierships, booming participation numbers and elite pathways. Just how special Darebin has been and...
The beginning of the AFLW had an enormous impact at grassroots. The Darebin Falcons were no exception. But while much of the AFLW narrative focussed on pathways for young women and girls to continue their football uninterrupted, for many women who felt like they...
While the Falcons premier team continued its winning way through to 2017, it would be myopic not to position this success within the broader landscape of the tumultuous changes to women’s footy, nor their flow on impacts to the rest of the senior footy program at the...
Go Fives Five a Side Soccer Tournament at Darebin Falcons We are so excited for the return of soccer and will be running a Go Fives competition in November and December. The competition is open to all Junior Girls from Under 8s to Under 16s and we welcome team...
After the high of five consecutive Aussie rules senior premierships, the Falcons were perfectly placed to continue their dominance. And in a fashion, they did. The senior team made the grand final in both 2011 and 2012, but there was no fairytale end with the team...
After nearly twenty years of providing opportunities for women to play sport, the Falcons spread their wings in 2008 and launched their first junior team: a youth girls Aussie rules team. It would be the beginning of a remarkably successful junior program that would...
From the very beginning of the round ball game at the Falcons, fortunes had wavered. The Club went from fielding three senior women’s teams to one. As the core of the playing group grew older, the sustainability of the program was a concern. How to attract young...
Tahlia from U11s shows us the Do’s and Don’ts of the thigh trap. Strong girls know that practice makes progress! If you want to show us your skill of the week, all you need is a bit of space, a phone and some practice! Send us your soccer skill today!...
In the 2005 Falcons Annual Report, senior coach Peta Searle wrote that “you’re only as good as your next game so let’s be ready for a kick ass 2006”. It was a rousing statement that would foreshadow the beginning of one of the most successful eras for Aussie rules at...
The 2004 and 2005 seasons were a period of transition and change at the Falcons. With the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games on the horizon, grounds and sporting precincts in the Darebin area were being redeveloped. This meant some clubs would be forced to relocate....
If footy fate exists, then it was in action at the end of the 2002 VWFL season. The Falcons footy program was in the midst of a rough patch. While an increase in player numbers at the beginning of the season had encouraged the club to enter a second team in Division...
In July of 2005, the Falcons added another string to their bow—adding 8-Ball as a trial sport. Founding club member and player and long-serving club president Sal Rees brought the game into the fold. Her team, the Devils—who had already been playing for at least...
In keeping with the Falcons story, the beginning of cricket at the club has its genesis in friendship. “I used to play cricket against a few of the girls that played for Fairfield,” explained Trish Riddell. “And I used to go watch the football and then I sort of said...
In 1997, the Falcons made their first step towards becoming the multi-sport club they are today by starting a soccer team. Then club president Sal Rees explains that the decision was driven by the club members. “A number of our players in those early years had come...
After five years as the perpetual underdogs, the 1996 season was one that changed the course of the story of the Falcons and they have a bunch of Lions to thank for it. The Ballarat Lions won a premiership in 1995, but that didn’t stop the team folding after the end...
At the end of the 1989 Victorian Women’s Football League (VWFL) season, the Fairfield Falcons had lost all but one player. It looked likely to be a disappointing end to the club’s involvement with the only women’s football league in the state after first forming in...
