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Auskick
Presence
Country or regionAustralia (country of origin)
Also played in Fiji, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States and Vanuatu
OlympicNo
ParalympicNo
AusKick taking place during the half time break of an AFL game at Marvel Stadium.

Auskick is a program designed to teach the basic skills of Australian football to children aged between 5 and 12. Auskick is a non-contact variant of the sport. It began in Australia and is now a nationwide non-selective program. It has increased participation and diversity in the sport amongst children, and is now being run in many countries across the world.

At its peak in the mid-1990s in Australia there were around 200,000 Auskick participants annually,[1] and this figure has since stabilised around this number. Numerous professional, semi-professional and representative players are graduates.

History

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Auskick has its roots in the Little League which began to be played at half time during VFL (now AFL) matches in the 1960s,[2] and it was revised in 1980 to make it more accessible. Little League was expanded by Ray Allsopp into a state development program called "Vickick",[3] begun in Victoria in 1985. Participation increased from 7,000 to 35,000 in four years.[4]

The ACT was one of the first other states or territories to introduce the program in 1991 as "Auskick". Between 1993 and 1995, former AFL player and coach David Parkin, who had been coaching the territory's Teal Cup side, successfully lobbied the AFL for the national adoption of Auskick.[4][5]

In 1998, the AFL Commission, the national governing body for the sport, began to roll it out nationally. At its peak, there were around 200,000 Auskick participants annually.[1]

In 2007, the program's slogan was "Where Champions Begin", with Jo Silvagni (wife of former AFL player Stephen Silvagni) and Robert DiPierdomenico, the 1986 co-Brownlow Medallist as the main ambassadors.[6]

Auskick in non-traditional Australian rules football regions

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The AFL has used the Auskick program the introduce Australian rules football into schools and communities around the country to increase the AFL's profile in areas that traditionally support other football codes such as New South Wales and Queensland.[7] There have been accusations of exaggerated participation figures[8] in an attempts to gain access to Sydney playing fields. Vast increases in AFL participation figures in Sydney were questioned by David Lawson, a Melbourne University academic, in a study commissioned by the AFL. Lawson's study found that AFL club participation rates in Sydney had stalled, and that the AFL was masking low figures by using short-term, non-club affiliated Auskick participants and comparing them to competitive junior club participation numbers in other sports.[9]

Sponsors

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Australia

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Outside Australia

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Outside Australia, Auskick programs exist in the following countries:

Auskick exists under a different name in the following countries:

References

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  1. ^ a b 'Father figure' of Auskick and Richmond Tiger, Ray Allsopp, dies aged 87 by Michael Doyle for ABC News, 28 October 2021
  2. ^ "Little League plea". The Canberra Times. Vol. 43, no. 12, 105. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 13 September 1968. p. 20. Retrieved 1 December 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ Auskick pioneer and Tigers player Ray Allsopp dies by Peter Ryan for The Age. 28 October 2021
  4. ^ a b "Parkin backs joint program to boost AFL". The Canberra Times. Vol. 70, no. 21, 769. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 23 November 1994. p. 35. Retrieved 1 December 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "Hard work done by juniors is now becoming obvious". The Canberra Times. Vol. 67, no. 21,252. 22 June 1993. p. 21. Retrieved 20 May 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ "Celebrities to get their NAB AFL Auskicks". Archived from the original on 20 November 2012.
  7. ^ "7.30". abc.net.au. 22 February 2024. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
  8. ^ "AFL accused of exploiting figures". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
  9. ^ "Auskick putting Sydney kids off". The Age. Melbourne. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
  10. ^ "News article on simpson.com.au". Archived from the original on 6 July 2011.
  11. ^ a b "Aussie Rules Global: Where Footy is Played Overseas".
  12. ^ "AFL Nauru | AFL Queensland".
  13. ^ AFL England announces first junior club collaborations aflengland.org [dead link]
  14. ^ "AFL Fiji | AFL Queensland".
  15. ^ "AFL Kiwikick".
  16. ^ "Niukick comp kicks off – the National".
  17. ^ "Niukick Program".
  18. ^ "AFL Solomon Islands | AFL Queensland".
  19. ^ "Youth focus continues in South Africa - World Footy News".
  20. ^ "Ausball".
  21. ^ "Rec Footy and Auskick arrive in Vanuatu - World Footy News".

Notes

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  1. ^ "Bula" (Fijian pronunciation: [mbula]) is Fijian for "hello".
  2. ^ Blend of "Niugini" (Tok Pisin for "New Guinea", same as Air Niugini) and "kick".
  3. ^ Blend of "Solomon" and "kick".
  4. ^ "Pikinini" is Bislama for "child".
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