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Western Sydney’s Valentine Sports Park hosted Football NSW’s first Facilities Forum last week. There were over 100 delegates that attended, which included representatives from both metropolitan and regional associations, as well as local council and State Government members.
Members and council representatives discussed a wide variety of facility topics, which include synthetic fields, grants, community engagement and safety issues. Football NSW Chief Executive Eddie Moore recognised that improved facilities ensures the growth of the game, community development and the improvement of football excellence.
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A recent Football NSW Facilities Strategy was put together to set out a long term vision and plan to grow, develop and promote facilities to support football at all levels.
Through the strategy, FNSW will look to provide support to enable local challenges to be resolved locally through a consistent approach as associations and clubs need support to meet their local facility challenges to ensure the sport have appropriate places to play.
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