Small Sided Football develops children's footballing and athletic abilities via a controlled and enjoyable introduction to training and playing football in a team and game-based environment. Players are able to learn and further develop their basic football, teamwork and fair play skills in a fun and safe environment.
Small Sided Football (SSF) programs are run to be consistent with the national SSF directives from the FFA.
Parents will be asked to volunteer as Coaches & Managers of U8 teams. SSF provides progression for both players and parent-coaches (who are well equipped with the knowledge gained through the Mini-Roos program) to allow planning and conducting their own training sessions and matches.
Sessions consist of a 1 hour weekly training session and a match on Saturday morning. Under 8 games are all played in-house against other Taringa Under 8 teams. There is no travelling for Under 8 players.
U8 season consists of a 1 hour weekly training session and a match on Saturday morning.
Games and training are held during school terms 2 & 3.
All U8 teams will have their first game on 22 April 2023. We anticipate their last games will be Saturday 9 September 2023. Training for these teams will commence week beginning 17 April 2023.
Training will be held at Jack Cook Memorial Park, Gailey Road, Toowong.
U8 games are all played in-house on a Saturday morning against other Taringa U8 teams and there is no travelling for U8 players. Click HERE for U8 playing formats
We ask for parent volunteer coach and/or coaches for each team and a dedicated manager to be the central point of contact for team communication.
At the end of training, we ask that our parent community assist with packing up of the fields, including goals, to ensure the fields are quickly accessible for the next age group starting training.
All coaches and managers must register as a volunteer through PlayFootball and provide a Bluecard (working with children) check. There is no cost for this and Taringa Rovers assists you with this quick process.
Rules
Click here for the details of the format and rules for mini-roos games including number of players on the field, field size, ball size etc.
It is the responsibility of the home team to provide a game leader/referee - the game leader should be familiar with the rules of the game as detailed in the link above.
Click herefor the Miniroos Rules of Participation
Accessing your team lists on this website
All team managers and coaches have access to the team lists from the website registration system where (among other things) team emails can be sent.
Please see the USEFUL INFO tab for detailed information how to log in and more
Goals
Teams playing the first game of the day are to set up the field.
Teams playing the last game of the day are to return the goals.
Bibs
Home team to play in their TRSFC playing shirt and away team to wear the bibs
Fruit roster
See herefor tips on setting up a fruit roster
Wet weather procedure
The status of the fields is shown on the top right hand side of the home page: see here
The status will be updated by 7.30am on Saturday morning. No session will be held if the field is closed.
This applies for training also & will be updated by 4pm in the event of rain on a training day.
Uniforms are available to purchase through our supplier Statewide Sports. Please visit the UNIFORMS page for more information about ordering.
It is compulsory for all players to wear the TRSFC Playing Kit and shin pads each week.
TRSFC Bucket hats are optional, but encouraged. No sport caps are allowed to be worn during games.
Shinpads and hats are available to purchase through Statewide Sports.