AFL New Zealand (with CEO Rob Vanstam)

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Re: AFL New Zealand (with CEO Rob Vanstam)

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There are currently five Australian Football Leagues in New Zealand, the most recent addition being Otago, with leagues also based in Auckland, Canterbury, Waikito, and Wellington. Each year, the leagues send a representative team to the Natioanl Provincial Championships

Rob says that there are 30,000 participants in Australian football programs in New Zealand. Of these 95% are based in Kiwikick – the New Zealand variety of Auskick.

Since 2009, the Hawthorn football club has sponsored the “Hawks Cup”, inter school competition in New Zealand. Australian football was fomally sanctioned by the New Zealand Secondary School Sports Council in 2009 and in 2010 was introduced into seventy schools.

Australian football recieves an important media boost that is unavailable elsewhere by having extensive free to air coverage

Rob says that the International Cup will see the debut of a New Zealand womens team (The Kahus) in a major boost for international womens competition.

In 2013 the AFL played its first game for premiership points outside of Australia at Wellington in New Zealand. The game was attended by more than 22,000 people, with hotels in the area sold out, and the Wellington council assured of its economic benefit (estimated at about 8.5 million for the day). A deal for St Kilda to play there on Anzac Day for a further five years was finalised in September.

The AFL stages a draft combine in New Zealand which has resulted in a number of players being taken by Hawthorn, with Shem Tatapu and Kurt Heatherly being named to the rookie list in 2013. Other players are on the International Scholarship list for St Kilda and Hawthorn.
30k Participants now.
Nice try Cos.
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