NTC Girls Program
The National Training Centre (NTC) for girls is a key pillar of the FFA’s development model for players.
The NTC is a full-time football training program, with a main purpose of preparing players who show the potential talent to progress through the FFA development model to achieve potentially achieve Junior or Young National Team Selection, Senior NPLW, W-League and international representation.
The NTC should also have the ability to serve current internationals or other potential talents on a part-time basis, regardless of age.
Upon selection after FV's initial trial process, players will be required to train a minimum of three times per week with the NTC Squad and play one match.
In 2020 as a recognition of quality, FIFA selected the Football Victoria Girls Talented Player Programs to conduct an analysis of its academy structure and setup.
Only five boys and five girls programs were selected across Australia. Football Victoria Girls Talented Player Programs were chosen to be part of the High Performance Analysis. A Global Analysis was conducted by Double Pass to assess the status of Talent Development in a High Performance environment all over the world.
For FFA Player Pathways please click here: FFA Pathways
For any enquiries please contact: tpd@footballvictoria.com.au
Left to Right: Claudia Mihocic, Nia Stamatopoulos, Jen Willmott, Sharna Naidu, Paige Zois, Alana Jancevski, Grace Taranto
2024 NTC Girls Program Trials
Trials for players of NPLW and Community Clubs will be via Nominations and Expressions of Interest (EOI) and will be invitational only based on FA Player Competencies and selection criteria by the FV Technical Staff.
Trials for the NTC 2024 Program will potentially start and run throughout approximately September/October 2023.
If you wish to trial please carefully read through the selection criteria and take note of the FA's 6 Player Competencies below.
FA's 6 Player Competencies:
- Winning Mentality
- Emotional Stability
- Character
- Explosiveness
- Game Intelligence
- Ball & Body Control
2024 NTC Program, expression of interest closed
NPLW Club based Players, you will be required to be nominated by your club Technical Director.
Registrations & Nominations close Friday 1st September 2023, further information will be emailed to the player once registrations close.
2024 Goalkeepers - Please find an open EOI Form Link here. See form for details, EOI closes 9th February 2024.
2024 NTC Talent ID Camps
The Talent ID Camps are training sessions and matches held during April & July School Holidays. To identify and develop our talented players for Victorian Representative Squads for FA National Youth Championships & the NTC Challenge.
Identified players are selected to train at a camp and will play matches to be held at a centralised location, including a cost recovery fee.
Players who are not selected after the first camp can still be identified in their club environment and potentially invited into the next Talent ID Camps or Elite matches.
For relevant age groups, Talent ID Camps will run during the April (weekday) and April school holidays as part of the identification, development and selection process for Elite Matches & Potentially Victorian representative squads (where the number of sessions prior to tournaments will increase if selected).
Initial player selection will be based on nominations from clubs, tournaments or expression of interests while also taking into consideration scouted players and players that participated in previous FV Programs.
"2024 Expression of Interest for our APRIL Camp" - EOI LINK
Registrations & Nominations close Friday 21st March, further information will be emailed to the player once registrations close.
The Talent ID day will run on approx Wednesday 3rd April which will include a session and games. More information will be sent to players once the EOI & nominations have closed on Friday 21st March.
Nationals Tournaments
The FV NTC Girls Coaches are responsible for taking the state team to represent Victoria at National Championships every year at the U15, U16 and U18 level. It is important to note that players who do not make it into the program at the beginning of the year are still monitored for nationals as the opportunity to go to nationals is not only for those in the program.
From these pathways, players may then be recognised for National Team Representation, W-League or opportunities overseas. It is also important to note that there is no singular avenue into elite football as there are also opportunities external to the pathways mentioned above.
Further details can be found here: FA National Tournaments
2024 Coaching Expression of Interest
Please select the following link for coaching expression of interest - Form