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Indigenous Football Australia oversees the strategy and expansion of Australia’s most successful and longest-running Indigenous football initiative, John Moriarty Football.
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- IFA Council Members
- Indigenous Football Week
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Indigenous Football Week

This Indigenous Football Week JMF is changing the game …. again!

IFW26 will unearth the next generation of Indigenous football superstars at the inaugural JMF National Talent Showcase.

Hosted by John Moriarty Football, this Australian-first event will showcase 26 of Australia’s most promising young male and female Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander footballers in Sydney on 30-31 May for an electrifying exhibition match in front of the professional football community.

Aged between 12 and 16 years, these players were hand-picked for their elite potential. In the lead up to the Showcase, players were fully supported with personalised, culturally relevant, wrap-around technical and wellbeing support. Following the Showcase, players will be in the running to secure a 12 month JMF Scholarship.

Unlike other one-off tournaments, this will be a life-changing experience for these young players and could catapult them into the pro football world.

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IFW26 theme

The 2026 theme ‘Unearthing the next generation of Indigenous football talent’, celebrates JMF’s capacity to create opportunities and pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and to bridge the gap between remote grassroots play and the world of elite football for disadvantaged Indigenous players.

Indigenous Football Week is JMF’s annual flagship event that celebrates the power of football to create change for good. IFW brings the football community together to support inclusion and diversity and celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island culture.

The talent pool is deep, and JMF’s coaching methodologies are geared to activating natural speed, gifted coordination and creativity to optimise the X Factor that Aboriginal children bring to the game. The next step is the opportunity to be scouted and nurtured through pathways – this is where JMF is changing the game.

Yanyuwa man John Moriarty AM, JMF Co-Founder and the first Aboriginal footballer selected to play for Australia