EDFL: Essendon District Football League reveals salary cap figures for 2019
TOP-FLIGHT clubs in the Essendon District Football League will have $30,000 less to spend in 2019 after the competition released its salary cap figures for next season.
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TOP-FLIGHT clubs in the Essendon District Football League will have $30,000 less to spend in 2019 after the competition released its salary cap figures for next season.
Premier Division clubs had a salary cap of $250,000 this year — the highest of any suburban competition in Victoria — but that limit will drop to $220,000 next season.
It is intended all top-flight metropolitan competitions will have a salary cap of $200,000 by 2020.
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“Our intention with the Allowable Player Payments (APP) system is to present high-quality football while allowing our clubs to build sustainable operating models,” the EDFL said in a statement.
“The APP for 2020 and beyond will be determined following further analysis and evaluation.
“Being a relatively new process for the EDFL competition, we want to ensure we fully understand the impacts of the APP, and player points, before confirming future limits.”
Division 1 clubs can spend $190,000 next season and Division 2 clubs $145,000.
Powerhouse Aberfeldie was found to have breached the salary cap by $9595 in 2017 and was fined $10,000.
Fellow Premier Division clubs Pascoe Vale and Essendon Doutta Stars committed administrative breaches in the same season.
The salary cap was implemented last year in community competitions across the state to complement the player points system under AFL Victoria’s Club Sustainability Program.
Education was the focus of the first year, but clubs can lose premiership points, have their player points cap reduced and be ineligible for finals for up to three years if found guilty of serious breaches.
Premier Division clubs will have $12,222 to spend on players per week across an 18-round season — the equivalent of $555 per player in the senior line-up.
The program seeks to address the impact of player payments and the burden on club volunteers.
Clubs are required to disclose payments made to players by October 31 each year.
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