2026 NPL Age Dispensation Player Request

2026 NPL Age Dispensation Player Request
This form is for age dispensation player requests for the 2026 NPL and Competitions. This request can only be submitted by a Club (via the Club’s Technical Director) and not an individual Player or Coach. The following exemptions will be in this form.

Female Players
- Club may seek permission for a female Player to register and play in a male team who is outside the age eligibility criteria for that Team.

- Club may make a submission for a Player to play in the NPLB, notwithstanding that they are also playing in the NPLW.

Biological Maturation

- A Club may make a submission for a Player to play in the permited lower age grade as the player has been determined as a 'late-developer' in accordance with a Biological Maturation assessment conducted by Southside Physio.

Playing Up

- Club may make a submission for Players to play in higher age grades three (3) or more years above their personal age eligibility criterion

- For Players under 16 years of age to play in NPLM or NPLW Teams

- For a Goalkeeper to play in higher age grades or Leagues

1st Grade, U23s, and Reserve Grade

- The minimum age for registration in an 1st, U23, or Reserve Grade is 16 years of age.
- Players registered in U23 and Reserve Grade Teams may play in 1st Grade Premiership Matches.
- Age eligible Players registered in 1st Grade Teams may play in U23 or Reserve Grade Premiership Matches.
- A Club may play up to four (4) registered 1st Grade Players who are over the U23 age eligibility criterion in U23 Premiership Matches.

Should more information be required, Capital Football will contact the Club in the first instance.
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Player Name*

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Player Gender*
Player FFA Number*
Player DOB*

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Age Group *
Please select the age group the player wishes to play in
Players under the age of 16Female player wishing to participate in NPL Boys competitionsFemale player wishing to participate in NPL Boys and NPLG/NPLW competitionsPlayers participating three (3) years higher than their correct age groupGoalkeeper playing upBiological Maturation
Where a Club seeks an exemption under Section 3 Articles 3.3 and 3.4 of the 2026 NPL Competition Regulations, it must provide a written statement from the Club's Technical Director confirming that:

a.     Where the Player is under 18 years of age, the Club has received and provided CF with the formal agreement from the Player’s Parent/Guardian for the Player to play in the specified Team,

b.     they have assessed the Player,

c.     the Player has the requisite technical skills, and

d.     they believe that it would be in the development and welfare interests of the Player’s the exemption to be given
Reason for Exemption*
Please upload a written statement by the Club’s Technical Director confirming that - where the Player is under 18 years of age, the Club has received and provided CF with formal agreement from the Player’s Parent/Guardian for the Player to play in the specified Team, they have assessed the Player, the Player has the requisite technical skills, and they believe that it would be in the development and welfare interests of the Player’s the exemption to be given*

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2026 NPL Age Dispensation Player Request

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