Soccer by Design

🔥 We’re heading to Melbourne!

⚽ Our Soccer By Design U9, U10 and U12 Academy teams are off to compete in a massive 3-day tournament at the Diamond League on the 10th, 11th and 12th July.

🏆 This is another fantastic opportunity for our players to step outside of Adelaide, challenge themselves, and test their development against players and teams from all around the country.

✈️ These experiences are such an important part of player development. Travelling together, competing in a new environment, facing different styles of football, and learning how to perform under pressure all help our players grow on and off the pitch.

💪 We are incredibly proud of the players selected to represent SBD in Melbourne and we can’t wait to see them compete, learn, and enjoy every moment of the experience.

🖤💛 Melbourne 2026. 1,2,3 let’s go SBD!

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🔥TERM 2 COMPLETE🔥

⚽ We have now come to the end of Term 2, which means we are officially halfway through our 2026 Academy year.

🙌 It has been an exciting term full of learning, development and new experiences for our players across every age group.

🔥 This term we launched our brand new 1v1 Baller Clinic, which was a huge success and gave players the opportunity to improve their confidence, creativity and ability to beat players in 1v1 moments.

💦 Players also attended more recovery sessions at Plunge Recovery and had the opportunity to experience their incredible new recovery centre in Seaford, using hot and cold pools, saunas and compression as part of their development as young athletes.

🏆 The IFA Winter Season also kicked off, with 8 rounds of fast, exciting 7v7 football giving our players valuable game time, competitive challenges and plenty of opportunities to put their training into practice.

📈 Across the term, players worked through 10 weeks of training and covered 5 different training cycles, each designed to continue building their technical, tactical, physical and mental development.

🥗 Nutrition was a key topic in our classroom sessions, with players learning about macronutrients, calories and how important the right fuel is for a young athlete’s body, especially when training and playing at a high intensity.

🎓 Players also took part in workshops on what it takes to become a professional player, including valuable talks from our ex-professional Academy coach Sam Nicholson, who shared his knowledge and experience from the professional game.

🎥 We also continued our internal 9v9 games, supported by video analysis and in-depth stat reports to help track player development and monitor each player’s progress throughout the Academy.

👧 We have continued building our Girls Academy, and we are extremely excited to be moving towards full-time girls squads in 2027. This term, 2 girls from our Friday Girls Only Training sessions came through and played competition games with our full-time Academy teams in the IFA, which has been fantastic to see.

📝 Players and parents also had their half-year sit-downs with their coaches to discuss each player’s development, highlight key areas of progress and set clear focus areas for Terms 3 and 4 before we meet again at the end of the year.

👏 Parents also attended a valuable Parent Information Night, where our Director helped families better understand the club system, player pathways, the State system, State League, NPL and how each player’s next steps can look once they leave the full-time Academy environment.

💛 At Soccer By Design, we believe player development is about much more than just training. It is about educating players, supporting parents, creating the right environment and helping every player understand what it takes to keep moving forward.

✈️ We now head to Melbourne with our full-time U9, U10 and U12 Academy teams all competing in the Diamond League Tournament.

🏆 This will be a huge 3 days of competition games and finals against some of the best clubs and academies in Australia.

⚽ This is now the 4th year we have travelled to Melbourne, giving our players the opportunity to experience football outside of Adelaide, test themselves in a new environment and continue building memories that will stay with them for years to come.

🔥 Good luck to all of our players heading away. We cannot wait to see them represent Soccer By Design with pride.

🏆 TEAM OF THE WEEK 🏆

📅 ROUND 5 OF THE IFA

A huge congratulations to this week’s Soccer By Design Team of the Week players.

Every player selected has shown great effort, attitude, improvement and commitment in training and game play. Well done legends 👏🔥

🧤 GK - Liam.H (U10)
🛡 DEF - Brodie.P (U14)
🛡 DEF - Hayden.A (U8)
🛡 DEF - Odin.H (U10)
⚙️ MID - Jacob.C (U12)
⚙️ MID - Jonty.H (U12)
⚙️ MID - Hayden.F (U12)
⚡ ATT - Kelly.C (U12)
⚡ ATT - Jez.Q (U10)

Keep working hard, keep pushing your standards and keep developing every week ⚽️🔥


Independent Football Australia

....🔥2027 SBD FULL TIME ACADEMY TRIALS🔥....
NOW OPEN FOR ENROLMENTS!

⚽ This is the opportunity for players who are serious about taking their game to the next level in 2027.

🏆 Soccer By Design is looking for committed, driven and coachable players to join our Full Time Academy Program for the 2027 season.

🚀 This is not just extra training. This is a full-year development program designed to help young players train harder, compete more often, understand the game better and develop the standards needed to keep improving.

ℹ️ TRIAL DETAILS
📅 Saturday 12/09
📍 Sturt Lions Soccer Club – Karinya Reserve

⏰ 5:00pm - 6:00pm
U6: 2022/2021 born
U7: 2020 born
U8: 2019 born
U9: 2018 born
U10: 2017 born

⏰ 6:00pm - 7:00pm
U11: 2016 born
U12: 2015 born
U13: 2014 born
U14: 2013 born

🙌 (Arrive 20 minutes before start time)

✅ Full Time Academy training 3 nights a week
✅ Saturday game day matches in the IFA all year
✅ AFC & UEFA licensed coaching team
✅ Specialist goalkeeper coaching every week
✅ Strength and conditioning
✅ ️Nutrition workshops
✅ ️Video analysis sessions
✅ ️Classroom sessions
✅️ Player statistical reports and development tracking
✅ Player/Parent feedback and development interviews
✅ Interstate and international tournament opportunities
✅️ 5 Day pre-season Clinic with overnight stay at West Beach.
✅️ Optional morning training sessions before school
✅️ Internal Friendly games every Thursday.
✅ A professional environment for players who want more from their football

👀 ALL PLAYERS ARE WELCOME TO TRIAL!

⚡ Places in our 2027 Full Time Academy squads will be limited, and we are expecting a huge amount of interest across all age groups.

🙌 If your child loves football, wants to improve and is ready to be challenged in a positive, professional and development-focused environment, this is the trial they need to attend.

📲 Register now on the link below 👇 and take the first step towards joining Soccer By Design in 2027.

https://www.soccerbydesign.com.au/academy-trials-2027