Men’s MasterS

Footy for fun

Aged 35 and over? Love footy? Need to get out more after a hiatus? Need to improve fitness? Crave the social? Never played before and want to give it a try? Our players range in ages from their mid-30s and still playing all-age competition, to the social pedigrees well into their 60s.

We are a community club catering for all. We play a range of training and game formats throughout the year, so come choose your own adventure:

  • over 35s Sydney AFL Masters Competition with games every two weeks from April to August for 10 rounds and finals in September. A more serious affair with contact and competitiveness;

  • training Tuesday and Thursday nights;

  • Sunday morning kickstarter during spring and summer at our masters origin, Mort Bay Park;

  • intra-club games, up to five per year;

  • NSW Masters social games for both over 35s and over 50s with other social clubs, ~10 per year. We generally do not keep score and level up teams if either is short, less contact, and a feed and drink together afterwards;

  • Carnivals at Campbelltown, Newcastle, Canberra and our own Christmas Cracker;

  • National carnival access with the AFL Masters;

  • AFL Nines with the Hunters and Villains; and

  • off-field social events with our sponsors.

part of the tiger kingdom

Balmain AFC Masters started in 2017. In 2020 the masters formally merged with the Balmain Tigers AFC to become the biggest & best AFL Masters club in NSW.

Contact us if you would like to have a run, or check out our culture on Instagram.

Testimonial from ‘Stretch’

I stumbled across a sign for Balmain Masters back in 2018, a couple of weeks later I was playing my first game of AFL in 12 years.

I’d stopped playing senior footy because work and family made it too hard to give the time commitment required to be successful at that level. To say I’d missed football was an understatement.

Masters footy gives you the best of footy without the downside:

  • You want to play games during the year but can’t commit to playing every week for 5 months? You’d prefer to play when you can around family and life? Play Masters

  • You want to play games during the year but can’t commit to training regularly? Play Masters

  • You want to play games and not end up dead and broken after every game? Play Masters

  • You want the social interaction and community that comes from being a part of a football club? Play Masters

  • You want to show the kids and partner how awesome you are footy? Well this is a tough one, my kids and wife and decidedly unimpressed but such is life!

I can’t recommend enough the benefits of being part of Balmain Masters, the social aspects alone have been a life saver over the last few years, the ability to run around and kick a footy on occasion is just a nice side benefit.

So sign up today and come down and play a game or two, who knows, like me you might kick a goal or two this year that you can tell stories about for the next 5 years, adding distance, angle and sidesteps on every retelling!

Masters Social Team Sponsor - Increasing Participation for all