As part of the celebrations for the 2024 Female Football Week, Capital Football are hosting a ‘Women in Sports’ panel at the 2024 Awards Brunch. Get to know a little about the panel members starting with the MC, Liz Deep-Jones LIZ DEEP-JONES is the Inaugural and current Freilich Media and Arts Activism Fellow at the Australian National University. She’s also a journalist, producer, television presenter, published author, anti-racism campaigner, public speaker, storyteller, content creator, art curator, film maker and human rights advocate. Liz has spent over 25 years in the media, most of it r ..read more

We are on a mission to find the Club Lime Community Player of the Month for April 2024 who, thanks to our good friends at Club Lime, will be rewarded with a three-month free membership to Club Lime! Has anyone in your club achieved something memorable? A milestone game? A swathe of goals? A stunning save? We want to know! Do you know a worthy recipient? Nominate them at the link below today! There’s a winner in both the Male and Female category so get your thinking hats on and nominate your Community Star! Winners will be revealed at the end of each month on the Capital Football social medi ..read more

With the West Canberra versus Canberra Croatia game postponed, two games will be played this weekend for Round 4 in the WNPL, and each has a clear favourite. Is it time for the first upset of the season? Gungahlin United and ANU WFC get to play the “early” game on Sunday at Gungahlin Enclosed Oval. The two teams face each other for the second time in a few days after Gungahlin knocked ANU out of the Federation Cup. Galvanized by their first success of the season, the Gunners need to kick on and start a series of good results if they want to catch up with the top two. Nick Van Aalst can count ..read more

The early pace-setters in the National Premier League will meet this weekend it what promises to be a highly fascinating match at the Australian Institute of Sport when Gungahlin United take on Monaro Panthers. Gunns have flown out of the blocks at the commencement of the 2024 season, three wins from three giving them a maximum return to date, and with thirteen goals scored, they are certainly not shy of firepower, unleashing a devastating strike force on the top division. Whilst showing real attacking intent, Gungahlin has also managed to show character and resilience, something they needed ..read more

Canberra Croatia secured a Federation Cup Semu-Final against Gungahlin United as they finally bested Canberra Olympic, by the thinnest of margins, as Jamie Berkeley’s early second-half goal proved the difference in the last-eight clash at the Australian Institute of Sport. After the blues had ousted the reds in their last two Federation Cup duels, a goal three minutes after the restart from midfield schemer Berkeley, proved enough to see Croatia through in this clash of the giants. Bessie Riethmuller’s glorious opportunity within a minute of kick-off seemed to be steering the game towards a s ..read more

The 2024 AGM of the A.C.T. Football Federation Ltd (Capital Football) will be held on Thursday 30 May 2024. The purpose of the AGM is the presentation and approval of the audited 2023 financial accounts, election of Directors, and appointment of auditors for the next financial year. Capital Football will communicate the formal Notice of Meeting to the Board of Directors and voting Members of Capital Football, including the agenda, audited financial reports and motions for decision (where applicable) on Wednesday 8 May 2024. Club Presidents will be invited to observe the AGM and participate in ..read more

After finishing the 2023 season as the Capital Premier League champions, Yoogali SC have started the 2024 campaign as the newest addition to the Capital Footall National Premier League fixture list. Established in Griffith back in 1954, the club has now achieved their greatest milestone to date. As a result of their recent promotion comes a wave of new challenges for Yoogali as they take on the tiop tier of the Capital’s NPL teams. With this promotion brings the return of Darren Bailey to the NPL also. After returning to Yoogali, the team that originally introduced him to the Australian footb ..read more

Missed the Men’s National Premier League Round 3? Here’s your wrap-up! IN A NUTSHELL Canberra Croatia survived with ten men for the majority of their match against Tigers FC, eventually sealing a point with a Nick Pratezina goal to earn a 2-2 draw. Gungahlin United came from 0-2 down to defeat Canberra Olympic 3-2 with Julian Smith coming off the bench to net the winner. League Champions O’Connor Knights left it late to neat Tuggeranong United, Niko Perinovic the super-sub with the 89th minute winner, and two late goals saw Monaro Panthers defeat Yoogali SC in Griffith. GOAL OF THE WEEK A st ..read more

Gungahlin United eased into the Semi-Finals of the Federation Cup as they clinically knocked out ANU WFC with a convincing 6-0 victory at the Australian Institute of Sport in the first of the Quarter Final matches. Two goals in the opening half had Gunners in the driving seat, and from there they were able to kick-on and pick off the University side as they came searching for a way to keep themselves in the competition. The opening goal was scored by Ginger Oliver, the winger playing a short one-two with midfielder Stella De Marco before curling a splendid finish over Olivia Kent from outside ..read more

The Nation’s Capital is used to producing good footballers. And quite a few of those end up at the Central Coast Mariners. That’s hardly surprising considering the link provided to link to the Isuzu Ute A-League side provided by Canberra’s own Andy Bernal, one of the pioneer’s of exporting Canberra talent abroad, a road he himself trod onto stardom with Sporting Gijon in Spain and Reading in England. Bernal was instrumental in the career of one of Canberra’s biggest and best, the incomparable Tom Rogic. The Socceroos attacking sensation was but a mere fledgling, fresh from stints in the ACT P ..read more