TX Football Partners with Sports Group Melbourne for JCL 2025

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Sports Group Melbourne (SGM) has announced TX Football as its newest official partner with TX Football for the Junior Champions League (JCL) 2025 season.

Following the success of the 2023 and 2024 editions, the Junior Champions League (JCL) returns bigger than ever in 2025, with over 200 teams already registered across Victoria.

The competition continues its unique winter format, featuring monthly midweek matches under lights—replicating the prestige and structure of European football. Exclusively designed for Kangaroos-level teams, the JCL will showcase best-v-best matchups across the South, East, North, West, and Regional zones, hosted at top-tier local facilities.

TX Football, an Australian-owned and operated brand, takes full control of its manufacturing process to ensure premium quality and precision.

Renowned for delivering high-performance football products at accessible prices, TX Football’s match balls are designed with cutting-edge materials and a scientifically engineered 32-panel structure to enhance elite-level playability. Committed to innovation and excellence, the brand delivers professional-grade gear without the premium price tag.

As part of the collaboration, TX Football becomes the Official JCL Ball Partner, supplying custom match balls featuring the official JCL logo for all tournament matches. The brand also joins as the Official Apparel Partner, providing TX Football teamwear for all JCL off-field staff.

Additionally, TX Football takes on the role of Presenting Partner of JCL Live Streaming, supporting the broadcast of selected matches throughout the season.

TX Football will also be on-site for the JCL Finals round, presenting a bespoke MVP ball award to each Grand Final MVP winner in the tournament’s closing stages.

Commercial Manager at TX Football, Sarah Gharib, expressed her enthusiasm for the partnership and what it brings to young players.

“TX Football is excited to collaborate with the Junior Champions League, an elite competition that aligns with our vision of nurturing future stars,” she said via press release.

“This tournament provides young players with invaluable experience, increased game time, and exposure that can help them transition to the professional stage.

“Throughout the tournament, the equipment—including the match balls—will be crafted to the highest quality, ensuring players experience the feel and touch of professional standards every time they step onto the pitch.”

Stay tuned for an exclusive JCL discount, offering participating teams access to official merchandise and teamwear at special rates—more details to come.

This collaboration unites two organisations dedicated to executing access, innovation, and elite-level experiences in junior football.

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Victory unites with Roasting Warehouse in culture-led partnership

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The Melbourne-based anf family-owned business will join the Victory family, uniting two institutions which represent the city’s culture and identity.

A partnership with local roots

As the newest partner of Melbourne Victory, Roasting Warehouse joins forces with a vital part of the city’s sporting landscape.

The club’s Managing Director, Caroline Carnegie, outlined why the partnership bears so much value to both parties.

“We are excited to collaborate with Roasting Warehouse, a community-oriented destination for high-quality coffee, proud of its foundations in Melbourne,” said Carnegie via official media release.

“Football and coffee sit at the epicentre of Melbourne’s culture. The two go hand-in-hand, consistently at the centre of the conversation that stirs Melburnians, which is no different to the conversation sport and Melbourne Victory stir in the State.”

Indeed, this is a partnership which combines the identity, passions and culture of an entire city, therefore giving it the foundations required for long-term, mutual success.

Representing the best of Melbourne

Both Victory and Roasting Warehouse are hugely successful in their respective industries. They are institutions with community-oriented philosphies, who pride themselves on craft and quality.

“We’re incredibly proud to partner with Melbourne Victory, a club that represents the heart, passion, and ambition of Melbourne,” revealed Roasting Warehouse Head of Brand, Alexander Paraskevopoulos.

“As a Melbourne-founded, family-run business, supporting a team that means so much to the local community feels very natural for us.”

Furthermore, through their high-quality blends, Roasting Warehouse will look to prepare Victory’s players and staff for high performances on the pitch as the seasons nears completion.

But this is about far more than just fueling athletes.

This is a partnership which embodies and unites two of Melbourne’s greatest strengths and cultural markers – a connection forged from the city’s very own DNA.

 

For more information about Roasting Warehouse, click here.

Marie-Louise Eta makes history as new Union Berlin head coach

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In an historic appointment, Eta will take over as head coach of Union Berlin until the end of the season.

History in the making

Previously the first female assistant coach in Bundesliga history with Union Berlin, Eta will now take the reigns of the men’s first team on an interim basis.

Currently, the club sit in 11th place in the Bundesliga table, but with only two wins so far in 2026, relegation appears an all-too-real prospect, and one which the club is desperate to avoid.

“Given the points gap in the lower half of the table, our place in the Bundesliga is not yet secure,” said Eta via official media release.

‘I am delighted that the club has entrusted me with this challenging task. One of Union’s strengths has always been, and remains, the ability to pull together in such situations.”

Eta will begin as Union’s new head coach with immediate effect, and will be in the dugout for the club’s matchup against Wolfsburg this weekend.

 

A step into an equal future

Eta’s appointment signals a major step towards a more level playing field in the football landscape.

Furthermore, Eta joins other coaches including Sabrinna Wittmann, Hannah Dingley and Corinne Diacre who, in recent years, have blazed a trail for female coaches to step into the men’s game.

Wittmann currently manages FC Ingolstadt in Germany’s third division, and was the first female head coach in Germany’s top three divisions.

In 2023, Dingley became caretaker manager of Forest Green Rovers, and thus the first woman to lead a men’s professional team in England.

Diacre, now head coach of France’s women’s national team, managed Ligue 2’s Clerment Foot between 2014 and 2017.

 

Final thoughts

The impact therefore, is that Eta’s appointment will show future generations of aspiring female coaches that men’s football is an equally viable and possible pathway as the women’s game.

The time is now to level the playing field.

And while it may be a short-term role, its effect on attitudes towards equality and fair opportunities in the game will hopefully resonate long after the season ends.

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