Professional Footballers Australia annual report 2016
Supporting the players Building the Game 1 From the CEO From the president
Firstly, it is an honour to have been invited by the Executive and its future. Secondly, because we are the group most On behalf of the PFA Executive, welcome to the 2016 PFA expertise and values, coupled with the the solidarity of the to serve the players as Chief Executive of the PFA. impacted by these decisions, both now and into retirement. Annual Report. members, will be critical as we seek to ensure the players are well positioned to drive outcomes that benefit the entire Whilst the primary purpose of the Annual General Meeting The PFA is defined by five values: Respect, Intelligence, On and off the pitch 2015/16 was an historic year for the sport. is to look back at the season gone by, we have an urgent World Class, Trust and Courage. In meeting the challenges sport and the players. Through the players’ commitment to responsibility to now look forward to the opportunities and capitalising on the opportunities of today and working collectively we established Australian football’s first The PFA’s work in supporting all members has continued and challenges the sport faces, and the important role the tomorrow, we will live these values. Only with such ever ‘Whole of Game’ Collective Bargaining Agreement, which to grow. Over 120 legal cases were opened in the financial players will play in shaping these outcomes. conviction can we ensure the best possible outcomes for secured a significantly enhanced employment framework for year, in which $4.27m was secured for players. In our football in Australia and, in turn, for those investing their all Socceroos, Matildas and A-League players. efforts to protect the wellbeing of our members and to A quick snapshot of the sport captures these futures in the sport. assist players in pursuing development off the pitch, more opportunities and challenges: the wave of support behind Achieving this was far from straightforward and PFA than $550,000 was spent on education and wellbeing professionalising women’s sport, the need to redefine Warm Regards, members were severely tested. The progress we have support. This is work we should all be very proud of. Australia’s talent management and development pathways, made dramatically alters the careers of many of the the exponential growth in Asian football, growing the nation’s footballers and builds on the hard won benefits of Once again thank you for your ongoing support and best professional football footprint (by expanding the Hyundai those who came before us. On behalf of the PFA Executive wishes to all on and off the pitch. A-League and creating additional professional leagues), thank you for your support and patience throughout the and continuing to advocate for football as the face of negotiations. Warm regards, John Didulica | PFA Chief Executive modern Australia. On the pitch our premier domestic competitions, the Players need to be central to leading and driving outcomes Hyundai A-League and Westfield W-League, continue to in these areas. Firstly, because we care about the sport rise. The quality on display has never been higher, with both continuing to play fundamental roles in producing the next Alex Wilkinson | PFA President generation of National Team players.
The Matildas went within a penalty shoot out of becoming our first team since the 1992 Olyroos of securing a Semi Final place at the Olympics, whilst the Socceroos remain on track to qualify for a fourth consecutive FIFA World Cup.
For our association, the recent appointments of John Didulica as PFA Chief Executive and Brendan Schwab as Chairman significantly enhances the PFA and its capacity to take the game forward. John and Brendan’s world class
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Executive Committee 6 Delegates 7 Recognising Outstanding Service to Their Fellow Professionals 10 Organising 12 Legal and Advocacy 14 PFA Player Development Program 16 PFA Brand 18 PFA Research and Reports 20 PFA Awards 21 Partnerships 22
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Tarek Elrich Leigh Rostyn PFA Adelaide Broxham Griffiths United Melbourne Perth Glory Victory
Dylan Executive Jason Geria Michael Zullo McGowan Melbourne Sydney FC Adelaide Victory Committee United Jack Hingert Nick Ansell Brandon Brisbane Roar Melbourne O’Neill Victory Sydney FC Run by Players for Players
Luke Devere Daniel Mullen Glen Moss Alex Wilkinson Nikolai Brisbane Roar Newcastle Jets Wellington PFA President Topor-Stanley Phoenix PFA Executive
Jade North Jason Michael Ante Covic Gabe Marzano Brisbane Roar Hoffman McGlinchey PFA Vice PFA Executive Newcastle Jets Wellington President Phoenix
Nick Lachlan Andrew Lydia Williams Kim Carroll Montgomery Jackson Redmayne PFA Executive Central Coast PFA Executive Newcastle Jets Western Sydney Mariners Wanderers
Liam Rose Chris Harold Scott Neville Mile Jedinak Brendan Schwab Central Coast Perth Glory Western Sydney PFA Executive Chairman Mariners Wanderers
Ivan Franjic Liam Reddy Jonathan John Didulica Nigel Boogaard Melbourne Perth Glory Aspropotamitis Chief Executive PFA Executive City Western Sydney Wanderers
Corey Gameiro Melbourne City 7 6 7 w-League Delegates socceroos
Marijana Laura Alleway Sam Kerr Committee Rajcic Melbourne City Perth Glory Adelaide United Matt Tim Cahill Mark McKay Milligan Alexandra Gulkan Koca Kim Carroll Chidiac Melbourne Perth Glory Adelaide United Victory Mile Alex Jedinak Wilkinson Amy Selin Kuralay Amy Harrison Chapman Melbourne Sydney FC Brisbane Roar Victory
Katrina Gorry Rhali Dobson Caitlin Foord Brisbane Roar Newcastle Jets Sydney FC
Emma Gemma Casey matildas Checker Simon Dumont Canberra Newcastle Jets Western Sydney United Wanderers Committee Ellie Brush Shawn Billiam Ellie Carpenter Canberra Perth Glory Western Sydney United Wanderers Lydia Kyah Steph Williams Simon Catley
Larissa Crummer Melbourne City Emily van Elise Egmond Kellond- Knight
Sam Kerr Clare Polkinghorne
88 9 8 9 RECOGNISING OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO THEIR FELLOW PROFESSIONALS
2016 saw the following players step down from the PFA Executive. We thank them for their commitment to the sport and the players, and for the contribution they made.
Matt McKay Shane PFA Executive Stefanutto 2012-2016 PFA Executive PFA President 2010-2016 2014-2016 Bruce Djite Adrian Leijer PFA Executive PFA Executive 2012-2016 2011-2016
Mark Milligan Jon McKain PFA Executive PFA Executive 2013-2016 2008-2016
Kathryn Gill PFA Executive 2014-2015
10 10 11 WHOLE OF GAME COLLECTIVE BARGAINING Organising AGREEMENT 2015-2019 326 Whole of Game CBA Financial Members for the 2015/16 Season
COUNTRIES WHERE WE HAVE MEMBERS
Russia Sweden Norway Denmark
Scotland England USA Spain China Germany Japan Switzerland Korea Greece 12 17 Netherlands Malaysia Cyprus Iran Indonesia UAE India Thailand of members of members Australia were under were or over
New Zealand
12 12 13 LEGAL CASES BY Legal and MEMBERSHIP GROUPS
Advocacy Other 0.82% 17.5% Matildas 1.67%
National Centre of Excellence 1.67% Money Secured by the PFA for 120 Socceroos members over NEW CASES 6.67% the course of OPENED 2015/16 FY National Premier League Players 39.17% 114 A-League $4.27M CASES CLOSED 32.5%
Overseas Based Australian Professionals
LEGAL CASES PREVIOUS YEARS Agent Collective Contract Contract . Bargaining Enforcement Negotiation Agreement . . 1 2 115 120 0 30 60 0 120 150
“The key to me receiving my money was the work the PFA did. Code of Image Rights / Transfer Other Conduct Commercial Regulations . They put in place the safeguards for me and also did the work to . . .
ensure I eventually got what I was owed,” Adriano Pellegrino.
14 15 14 15 BEYOND THE 90 - PFA Player WORKPLACE PROGRAM Development A key “I got to see what it would be like to work a component of the day in the life of someone in that field post PFA Player Development career. To go there and experience 10 full Program Program, Beyond the 90 is a days at Nike with great people, it lead me to work placement program aimed want to go and train myself up,” at providing PFA members with Newcastle Jets defender Jason Hoffman invaluable work experience in any field the player wishes to on the important role the Beyond the 90 program can play in assisting players to Total spend pursue. supporting players discover what they would like to do away $572,822 off the pitch from football.
“I started using LinkedIn a while ago but EDUCATION SUPPORT WORKSHOPS I wasn’t getting the most out of it. Some players hadn’t set one up so he talked them through how to do that. As footballers we supporting have a lot of great opportunities to network players to pursue and a lot of people find what we do interesting $67,000 education “Study can be extremely costly and the continued 6 LinkedIn Financial Education and LinkedIn is the perfect avenue to take Education Grant Workshops Workshops advantage of that,” assistance from the PFA Applications Perth Glory’s Chris Harold 64 approved is a huge help,” on the PFA’s LinkedIn Workshop. players supported with education Zac Anderson. 60 funding
17 16 17 PFA brand
Increase in the number of followers 17 82 37.5 PFA The Marston - the PFA E-Newsletter A-League Team of Editions ubscribers the Season
MEDIA COVERAGE
John Matildas Moriarty CBA Indigenous Dispute Football week
PFA and FFA Agree Historic ‘whole of game’ Collective Bargaining Agreement
18 19 18 19 PFA Research PFA awards / Reports Recognising excellence on and off the pitch.
T. SORENSEN
M. BIRIGHITTI THE 2015/16 M. DELPIERRE J.NORTH
J. RISDON CORONA S. JAMIESON N. TOPOR-STANLEY
PFA A-LEAGUE M. NICHOLS A. MOOY D.CASTRO
R. BONEVACIA
J. MACLAREN B. FORNAROLI H. NOVILLO TEAM OF THE COACH: G. AMOR K. BARBAROUSES SEASON REFEREE: S. DELOVSKI
PFA SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS
Kimon Taliadoros Craig Foster Media Scholarship Scholarship
Manny Chris Kyah Glen Muscat Harold Simon Moss
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In 2016 the PFA joined forces with Socceroos members made an John Moriarty Football (JMF) to historic donation of $90,000 from further enhance the foundation’s their match fees from their World work in engaging indigenous Cup Qualification Match against Australians through football. To Jordan. mark the new partnership the PFA’s
FIFPro is the representative association,’ with PFA co-founder, organisation for more than 65,000 Life Member and current Chairman professional footballers worldwide. Brendan Schwab previously holding Established in 1965 with the the role of FIFPro Vice President and mission of supporting the players, FIFPro Asia Chairman before being FIFPro with its 55 members, three appointed as the Head of UNI World candidate members and seven Athletes. With over 180 Australian’s observer unions, makes it the based abroad, FIFPro has been biggest player union in the world. integral in ensuring the rights of The PFA joined FIFPro in 1999, and PFA members are respected both 18 years later the PFA has become domestically and worldwide. an integral part of the ‘world players’
LUCRF Super has been the major Super. Many have taken advantage partner of the PFA since 2009. of benefits that are open to all of They play a key role in providing our members, such as personalised superannuation and financial financial advice and a secure mobile education to PFA members. As a app. For more information go to: result of our partnership, hundreds www.lucrf.com.au of our members have joined LUCRF
Travellers Choice is an independent Awards. As part of the partnership travel group that operates a network PFA members have access to the of more than 150 travel outlets PFA Travel Club, which provides across the country. In 2015 the players with a personalised service company was named Australia’s to assist them with all their travel Best Travel Agency Group at the needs. For more information go to: prestigious National Travel Industry www.pfatravelclub.com.au
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