Mitchelton Football Club est 1920, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Home of Mitchie Soccer

Mitchelton Football Club celebrated the official launch of our new floodlights on Friday 23 October with the Member for Everton Murray Watt and club dignitaries.

MFC President Kevin Jones, joined Life Members and Mitchie Management Committee members to thank everyone involved in the project for the large amount of hard work devoted to bringing the new lighting to fruition.

Mr Jones said the new lights were made possible through the Queensland Government’s Sport and Recreation grants scheme.

He said the new lights meant a vastly improved standard of lighting for training and match nights at the club.

“This is a huge step forward for our club,” he said. “This has been a long and tough project but we now have three full-sized playing fields lit to the best possible standard for fixtures.

“It also means we have a lot better lighting for all our teams for training too.

“This new lighting is another example of how our club is looking to the future and continuing to offer the best facilities possible for our 800 players of all ages.”

On Friday night, Mr Jones and fellow MFC committee members also congratulated Adam Pilat, Steve Frame and Glen Norton for their 20 years playing service with the club.

Mr Jones said the three players embodied the spirit of Mitchie with their long-term dedication to football at the northside club. The three were presented with their Mitchie Stalwarts jackets and jerseys at the Over 35s and Over 45s trophy presentation evening also held at the club on the night (click on the photo to see a larger version).

We are celebrating a range of activities this Friday night, 23 October 2009, at our Clubhouse. Please come along and take part.

At 5.30 to 6.30pm we’ll be officially turning on the new lights for the first time. We now have 3 senior sized fields capable of playing night games on, with a range of additional training lights to add further capacity to the Club’s training space. At 6.30pm we’ll be inducting Adam Pilat, Steve Frame and Glenn Norton as Mitchie Stalwarts (20 years of playing service). This is a fantastic achievement by these guys and we invite you all along to celebrate with them.Our Over 35 and 45 teams will hold their Presentation of Trophies at 7.30pm through to midnight.

Please note the over 35s and 45s function is $25 per head and by ticket only.

Please make your way down to the Clubhouse from 5.30pm and join in the celebrations.

Mitchelton Football Club life member and long time soccer Mum, Merle Heiner, has a special plea to all Mitchie members. Please help out if you are able. Here is Merle's request: 

"Dear Kevin / Mitchelton Football Club,

I was nominated for the Brisbane Roar and Coffee Club ‘Australia's Favourite Soccer Mum', and have been chosen to be one of the six finalists. In order to become the winner, I need your assistance. The winner is decided by public vote, therefore I am asking for your vote.

Voting is simple, you can either go to your nearest Coffee Club and fill out an voting form, or you can log onto the internet at www.australiasfavouritesoccermum.com.au 

You can vote once per day until the 6 December 2009, with the opportunity to win a $20,000kitchen from ‘Kitchen Connection' just for voting.

Many Thanks

Yours in Soccer

Merle Heiner"

Congratulations to our under 11 division 2, under 12 division 1 and under 12 division 6 teams for their grand final wins on the weekend. It is also noteworthy that our other teams in the grand finals - under 11 division 7, under 12 division 2, under 15 division 2 and under 16 division 1 - all went down by just one goal.

Congratulations to all teams for a great effort.

As previously advised, the Junior Divisional Trophy Day for under 11s to under 16s will be held at the club on Sunday 20 September. The order of proceedings starts at 10am:

1. Welcome speeches to all teams;
   
2. Presentation of five year and ten year awards;
   
3. Team presentations including best and fairest awards (coach/manager to present);
   
4. Coach/manager will be presented with team trophies, photos, drink and food vouchers. They will then take these away for presentation to their team.
   

The MFC Management Committee would like to congratulate all the Junior and Senior Women's teams for their achievements for the 2009 season. Out of the six teams, two teams made the finals with three others missing out by the narrowest of margins. Congratulations to all the players and good luck for the Women's division 6 team who are in their semi-final against Virginia at 2pm on Sunday 13 September at Prentice Park, Lutwyche (NOTE THE VENUE CHANGE) (click here for map). Please get along and support our Mitchie team.

We hope that 2010 brings another successful season of Women's Football at Mitchie.

The MFC Management Committee would like to wish all our junior divisional teams playing in grand finals this weekend the very best of luck. We urge all MFC supporters to get along and see our teams in action in the finals. The match details are:

Mitchie FC junior players from the Chargers (under8) and the Magic (under 10) were at Brisbane Roar's last home match Suncorp Stadium. The Chargers enoyed a match, while the Magic were the team mascots for the day. Click on the photo to see a larger version.

Please click here to see information regarding the Operation Xmas Child Shoe Box Appeal for 2009. This is something that the Mitchelton Over 35/45 teams, and some Junior teams do on a regular basis each year, (we collected in excess of 30 boxes last year ), so I know that most of you know what to do by now, however for the new players & members to the club this year here is a brief history.

Hello again to all Club Members

This time of year sees us get into some serious planning for next season.  The Management Committee has created a Football Department (click here to see powerpoint description) headed by a Football Manager (click here to see Football Manager Position Description) which will feed into our new proposed structure under our Senior Football, Junior Football and Women's Football Directors.

We have appointed Ashley Hempstead as our Football Manager for 2010 and Ashley intends to hit the ground running.  Ashley has asked for two immediate actions to take place:

• (1) interested persons attended a Coaches and Coordinators meeting on  2^nd September, and

• (2) for interested persons to complete the 2010 Coaching Expression of Interest (click here to get the EOI form). 

This meeting was used as a meet and greet opportunity as well as an information gathering and sharing exercise.  Ashley explained how he intends to manage the Football Department over the next 12 months and he sought some feedback on what's working well and what can be improved. 

We are keen to get the ball rolling and have as many Coaching positions filled as soon as appropriately credentialed coaches respond.  All coaching positions will be put forward by the Football Manager for the endorsement of the Management Committee.

Regards,

Kevin Jones

President

Mitchelton Sports Club

Mitchelton FC is currently developing a Strategic Plan that will guide its activities for the next 3-5 years. The plan will provide strategic direction for the development and implementation of services, programs and facilities at the club and will become one of the key documents used in the delivery of club activities.

As part of this strategic planning we would like as many people as possible to fill in a survey. To access the survey please click here.

It doesn’t take much time and it will be really helpful for the future planning of your club. Many thanks.