Benefits

Community use

The AFL High Performance Centre will be the heart and soul of Tasmania’s AFL club. Regardless of where it is built, it will become a community asset and will allow for community use.

The facility will create opportunities to provide for multiuse sports training and development that is accessible to the community and other Tasmanian sportspeople, while meeting the specific requirements of the AFL Club.

The majority of AFL club training facilities across the country allow for public access to the main training ground outside of scheduled club use and have facilities that are accessible to the public.

Generally, facilities with two training grounds incorporate public access and shared use on the secondary field.

The level of community use will be based on input from the municipality that the centre will be built and will be planned and designed to ensure that elite and community use can be achieved.

Community partnerships and programs

The ability to further develop community partnerships and programs is an important element of the vision for the High Performance Centre.

Across the country, community programming both in the AFL and NRL is largely targeted towards local communities that sit within the same suburban and local government area of the clubs.

The Tasmanian AFL Club will develop community programs and partnerships based on the needs of the Tasmanian community.

Below are some examples of programs that AFL clubs have developed in other states.