Football Victoria has released its Facilities Strategy for 2025-2035, calling for improvements to a Sunbury facility.
FV’s strategy plans to ensure football’s infrastructure keeps pace with the game’s ongoing growth, and plans to focus on delivering high-priority grassroots projects in three key areas.
These include lighting, with 55 priority projects to life 75 per cent of competition pitches to 100+ lux level by 2035; pitches, with 70 priority projects to achieve 75 per cent of pitches rated good/excellent in 10 years; and amenities, which aims for 80 priority projects to ensure 85 per cent of player change rooms are gender accessible by 2035.
In Sunbury, FV is calling for all gender facilities at Langama Park.
Hume council confirmed there are currently four sets of all-gender changerooms servicing the five pitches during the winter season, with an additional single portable changeroom in place that is all gender accessible.
This services the three tenants; Sunbury United Football Club (winter tenant) the Sunbury United Rugby League Club (winter tenant) and the Sunbury United Cricket Club (summer tenant).
Council said it recognises the importance of these amenities, particularly as the Sunbury United Football Club has an extensive female participation program, recently receiving the Club Changer of the Year Award for 2025 for their work in this space.
Sunbury United Football Club are seeking additional gender amenity facilities to assist them in developing their participation opportunities for all genders, according to council.
This will help facilitate the continued growth of the club.
Council said it is also currently developing the Hume Football (Soccer) Plan for consideration by Council in December this year which will provide recommendations around identified facility need and priority including Langama Park.
