Princes Park Touch

Team and individual Regos are now open

Posted on Thursday, April 16th, 2026Thursday, April 16th, 2026 by Peter Shaw

Team and individual registrations are open for our 2026 Winter touch football season.

Located at Parkville’s Royal Park North, Melbourne’s best touch football fields. We run on Wednesday nights and our season is due to commence on Wednesday 06th of May and will run through until the end of August.

And more info about our Winter competition is available here: https://princesparktouch.com/about/winter/

To enter a team or join as an individual follow these instructions:

Individuals

If you are an individual or small group without a team, and wish to be placed into team click please visit Individual Players and follow the instructions. Every year we place large numbers and there is no cost for placement.

Mixed Teams

To enter a new team (i.e. a team that has not played with us before) please download and complete the following Team Registration Form and email it to: info@princesparktouch.com.

If you have not collected all your players details do not worry (you can add additional names later), just ensure the following are details are recorded:

Team name
Captains details (phone number and email)
Approximate standard of team. (your grade will be determined over the first two weeks which are grading rounds)

Once we have received your form we will hold a place for you in the competition. The total cost per team this season will be $1200, broken into a payment of $500 due before the season starts and a residual of $700 due by week 3. Note insurance is handled at a player level so in addition to the team fee at least 8 players must be have TFA insurance and be recorded against the team in the TFA system.

Mens Team

The men’s competition will be a short format 6 week competition and cost $550 ($200 first installment and a $350 residual). In all other respects entry etc are the same as mixed

Existing teams

Please send us an email and we will reactivate your team for the upcoming Winter season.

Or for any other enquiries please contact Pete on:

Peter Shaw (Mob) 0414 315 957
E-mail: info@princesparktouch.com

SWITCH Autumn 2026

Posted on Thursday, April 16th, 2026Thursday, April 16th, 2026 by Peter Shaw

Wednesday Learn to play

For ladies looking to learn our sport or even need a refresher our award winning women’s program, to strengthen women in touch (SWITCH) is an amazing option. Please keep Wednesday evenings in April free (6:30 start), sign up (if you have not signed up to previous modules) and most importantly spread the word.

Autumn preseason program 2026

Posted on Thursday, April 16th, 2026Thursday, April 16th, 2026 by Peter Shaw

Wednesday Learn to play, Placement

In an effort to build the social touch community in the inner north of Melbourne, this Autumn we are again running the PPT pre season program.

The program is the best way for any male player without a team and intermediate to advanced females without a team to free to be placed int a team for our upcoming Winter season.

and open to all prospective players regardless of ability and will involve coaching and refereed scratch matches for unaligned players looking to start playing touch. Read below for dates and more information.

Membership and onboarding

Posted on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025 by Peter Shaw

Social Competition

From early 2026 we are going to be requiring anyone who wishes to play regularly in 2026 to have gone through the process of explicitly becoming a member of our association.

Therefore if you’ve not done so already please start the onboarding process here.

https://princesparktouch.com/register/

The whole process end to end takes 4-6 minutes and only need to be done once ever. All captains have already done this so most bugs should be ironed out. But it is by no means a finished product. So any feedback psychologically for our association and technically for my startup is much appreciated.

Who needs to do this?

Every regular player in our mixed and men’s competitions.

Please parents should onboard their children. We suggest the use of plus emails for children so that all communications are directed to the parent, more info here.

Is this new?

Only in an administrative sense. The purpose of our association has not changed nor have the principles and processes listed in the FAQ. Previously captains would undertake to ensure the whole team were familiar with them. We are now making that agreement explicit

Why are we doing this?

There are two main reasons (and many other minor ones) namely:

To be legally compliant with the law and our constitution. Whilst most clubs don’t do this properly that is no excuse we aimt to be (and believe we are) the best social sporting organisation in Australia. Part of that is proper compliance
To ensure every player is actually aware of and supports our aims and processes. Whilst most captains did a reasonable job on ensuring this, it has not been 100% and that was not ideal.

How are we going to enforce this?

This will be hard as we will need to onboard another 500 odd regular players to the 120 who have already done so. This will require the assistance of our captains. To enforce and incentivise this there will be a number of approaches.

Once I’ve done the final grading split in the new year any team with at least 8 players will get a bonus point every week until finals
All fixtures and some other content will require the user to be logged in and a member.
We will periodically check games and any team with more than two players who are not members are have not previously flagged this with the committee will not be able to win the game.
Only teams that have at least 8 PPT members will be allowed to play finals and only PPT members will be allowed to play finals.

I actually hate having to use a carrot and stick approach as my general view is that everyone at PPT should always do what is asked of them/the right thing but this is an important step for us and it can’t drag out.