Capital Football teams up with DiviPay

Capital Football have recently announced a new partnership with virtual company card and expense management solution provider, DiviPay.

DiviPay is a spend management tool that streamlines expenses by providing virtual company cards, setting up budgets and allocating department spending.

The company also allows for an easier reimbursement process, which is helpful for club volunteers – as it removes the need for tiresome logging and tracking.

DiviPay’s Head of Partnerships Trent McLaren stated that he was delighted to join the Capital Football Club Sponsorship program.

“We’re excited by the opportunity to work with Capital Football,” he said.

“DiviPay was designed with clubs and not-for-profits in mind. We know managing finance and spend is difficult when operating with a lot of volunteers. DiviPay makes this easy, providing one simple platform to issue digital Mastercards with set limits, and process reimbursements.”

McLaren explained that Capital Football Clubs can register immediately, to allow DiviPay to help them manage their volunteer reimbursements for free, with small charges in place to create the full digital company card functionality.

“We recently launched reimbursements free of charge to help clubs pay out from a bank account,” he said.

“DiviPay provides an easy interface, full transparency and audit of every single payment. We’ve had amazing feedback so far and I’m excited to see how the ACT football community responds.”

Capital Football CEO Chris Gardiner explained that DiviPay will revolutionise the expense and reimbursement process at Capital Football.

“Instead of waiting weeks to onboard new staff and issue a company card to manage our day-to-day business expenses, we can set up a new DiviPay card in minutes,” Mr Gardiner said.

“A quick download of the app and the digital card is stored in the individual user’s mobile phone payment wallet. Trent and the DiviPay team know their product inside and out, and we’re very excited to share this opportunity with our clubs.”

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Philip Panas is a sports journalist with Soccerscene. He reports widely on football policy and industry matters, drawing on his knowledge and passion of the game.

Football Queensland appoints women into key leadership positions with 50/50 gender parity goals

Following the recent surges nationwide in female participation, Football Queensland (FQ) has also proven they are making important strides in their 50/50 gender parity plan, with FQ appointing women to higher positions in the sports hierarchy.

Throughout the state, FQ is committed to achieving 50/50 gender parity in participants, referees, committees and club officials by 2027.

FQ has announced that of 10 FQ members, five have been women, hitting an impressive 50/50 representation.

These representatives are chosen from their local communities, proving that the push for change in equity comes from the members of the community.

These members include Sarah Jones (Far North & Gulf), Roslyn Minnikin (Metro South Chair), Azra Rantucci (Northern), Jodie Dickens (South Coast) and Rebecca Whisker (Sunshine Coast).

In conjunction with these appointments, Football Queensland also announced the re-election of Board Director Amy Chapman following the recent Annual General Meeting as the FQ Board of Directors.

FQ President Paula Robinson commented:

“Following a huge 2023 that saw the game reach new audiences and engagement levels like never before and after FQ recorded an incredible 44% increase in outdoor female players in the first quarter of 2024, we are excited to further consolidate the growth of female representation on the pitch with similar progress off the pitch in vital governance roles,” she said.

These appointments are a key part of the Football Queensland 2024-2026 Women’s & Girls Strategy and show the effort made to deliver on this mission.

In Pillar One: Participants & Clubs: A main goal is for 100% of Queensland club boards, committees and FQ members to meet the 40/40/20 gender representation by 2027.

These appointments prove that FQ is well on the way to this goal not just in leadership but also state-wide through all the different footballing communities.

FQ President Paula Robinson also commented, “Having such a diverse group of esteemed members within football’s governance ranks helping to design an inclusive future for the game in Queensland will ensure that more participants, particularly women and girls, can get involved in the game earlier and remain engaged for life.”

Retaining participants and early involvement in the game is another goal within Pillar One of the 2024-2026 Strategy.

Also in Pillar 2: Advanced Pathways one of the strategies includes:

Increase the awareness of the 50/50 gender parity initiative through storytelling and regular representation of achievements in all our published collateral and marketing promotions.

This news post is a prime example of the media and storytelling strategies towards the equity goal of 2027.

The announcement shows dedication to the ambitious plans of Football Queensland for the Women’s 2024-2026 strategy.

In this process, FQ will be making the football scene a more accurate industry of Australian’s diverse sporting community.

Capital Football continue with Capital Trophies and Sportswear

Capital Football are continuing their long-established partnership with Capital Trophies & Sportswear to offer member clubs benefits from the sport trophy, awards and medal company.

After releasing a 2024 Request for Tender (RFT) regarding a trophy and award sponsor, Capital Trophies & Sportswear have stepped up to supply the federation’s many leagues and participants with a quality product.

Capital Football have over 16,000 football players across different age levels and over 35,000 participants, highlighting the importance of securing this partnership at the start of the 2024 season.

As a result of the partnership, Capital Trophies & Sportswear will be offering all Capital Football affiliated organisations and clubs a 15% discount off Capital Trophies & Sportswear on all trophy and medal orders for the term of the agreement.

In addition, Capital Trophies & Sportswear will become naming rights holders for all Masters League competitions in the Capital Football competitions with the division being named the Capital Trophies Masters League.

Capital Trophies and Sportswear is a local business based in the ACT that has been running for over thirty years supplying high quality trophies, awards and medal designs for sporting clubs in the region.

Their commitment to excellence has been demonstrated through their involvement with Summernats, Cricket ACT, Hockey ACT, Basketball ACT, Capital Athletics as well as on a local level with Capital Football affiliated clubs such as Gungahlin United, Majura, O’Connor Knights, Belnorth and Belconnen United.

Capital Football CEO Samantha Farrow commented on the new partnership and what it means for the federation in the future.

“We are delighted to have secured this partnership with Capital Trophies & Sportswear,” she said in a statement.

“Like ourselves, Capital Trophies & Sportswear is well known locally and has been a supplier of trophies and awards to our organisation, and to Canberra United, for a number of years. Their products are top-class, and their service is unrivalled, and we are looking forward to working with them.”

Upholding the highest standards in craftsmanship, Capital Trophies & Sportswear are committed to delivering products that reflect prestige and durability.

This is fantastic news for Capital Football who add to their growing corporate partnership portfolio and do so with a trusted, local business that has had a successful history with Capital Football’s affiliated clubs at other levels.

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