Contested during the summer season, this year from October 2025 to February 2026, the Athletics Victoria Shield League (AVSL) is Athletics Victoria’s summer track and field competition. With over 50 clubs and five AVSL divisions, clubs battle it out across ten rounds of AVSL to see who takes home the Shield, as well as promotion and relegation for the 2026/27 Season.

Each athlete can register for and compete in as many events as they wish. Athletes will be scored based on a performance scale, with a limited number (to be confirmed shortly with AVSL committee) of their best individual events plus one relay (when held) results counting towards their club’s overall score.

To compete in AVSL, an AV BASE membership, AVSL package, or MAX Package is required.

If you plan on participating on six or more rounds as a junior, or eight or more as a senior, the AVSL package is for you!

You can purchase a membership here or upgrade your existing membership here. however, if you wish just to come and try, you can apply to be a trialing participant for one round (more information below)!

Following many seasons of requests from the AVSL committee and AV clubs, the 2025/26 season will see a priority entry
process for athletes entering their home zone venue for AVSL.

The Sport Delivery team, in conjunction with the Sport Development team, has been able to develop the Members Portal to
assign members to their home zone venue based on their club.

This will allow Sport Delivery to provide a period for Home Zone Venue athletes to enter their home zone venue for AVSL prior to all
other zoned athletes being able to fill positions.

Entry to an athletes assigned home zone venue will open at 5pm Wednesday a week and a half prior to the competition date.

At 12pm on the Friday, entries will then open for athletes to access all zone venues. This will allow athlete to fill any spaces not
filled by the Home Venue athletes.

Please read the Members Guide for more information HERE.

Following many requests to review Controlled Sheet Distances within the Metro Venues we have made some small changes for Round 5 and 6. We will monitor the impact of these changes through these two rounds and review for the final 4 rounds of the season post the New Year break.

*First distance is for Male athletes, second distance for Female athletes (Male Distance/Female Distance)

We thank you for your understanding as we continue to review AVSL throughout the season.

This season of AVSL will be 10 rounds of competition with the club finishing on top of the ladder after 10 rounds taking home the AVSL Shield for their division. This brings AVSL Competition in line with our XCR Competition with participation throughout the full season key to taking home the silverware!

*Please note the dates listed may change for zones/regions based on Venue Availability. This could be due to Zatopek, Little Athletics or other venue issues.
**Entry Opening and Entry Closing times may vary for Bendigo Venues.

AVSL Member Guide (Including 2025/26 Changes)

AVSL Regulations (As of 12/09/2025)

Change of Specification

Guide to Online Check In

The Controlled Sheets as well as Throw & Go at Metro venues will continue in line with season 2024/25 AVSL.

Controlled Throw sheets will be limited to 15 athletes to provide additional time for the three additional attempts where possible.

‘Throw & Go’ will continue have 20 spots, with flexibility to attempt their throws at any non-controlled sheet time slot.

Athletes will still be required to pre-enter via the entry portal as well as making the event site official aware before the start of the sheet that they will attend for their one throw during that sheet.

There will continue to be FIVE sheets with three attempts at Metro Venues for season 2025/26.

Metro

Ballarat

Bendigo

Geelong

Athletics Victoria are always looking for more volunteer officials at AVSL and all AV events.

The AV and the AVSL Committee are aware of how important new officials are to ensure that Athletics can continue to be held in its current format across the state and are looking to encourage club helpers to become officials!

If you are looking to earn the ladder point please complete three World Athletics Official Education Modules by registering via the the following link https://www.elearning.worldathletics.org/

Once you have completed three Education Modules please complete the following application – https://members.athsvic.org.au/surveys/9060

Brand new officials will be able to earn their club 1 bonus ladder point by completing three World Athletics Event Modules and completing three rounds of AVSL under the assistance of a current accredited official.

Once these are completed 1 ladder point will be added to your clubs Ladder Points for 2025/26!

Read the members guide on how current and new AV Officials will now contribute to their club scoring for the 2025/26 Season each round.

The aim is to celebrate and reward Officials for their key role to clubs and Athletics Victoria throughout the AVSL Season.

If you wish to upgrade your membership, please complete the Membership Upgrade form by clicking HERE.

This upgrade is a manual process. You will receive an email with an invoice for your nominated upgrade. Once paid, your membership will be upgraded.

Individuals wishing to obtain a Trialing Athlete entry cannot:

·  Be a current AV member

·  Have been an AV member in the past

To attend AVSL please complete the form via the link below.

This will provide an eligible individual entry into one round of AVSL.

Eligible Trialing Athletes will be contacted via email following the closure of AV Member Entry to the respective round of AVSL. This email will provide information regarding the entry process. Following attendance at one round of AVSL, a Trialing Athlete will need to become an AV member to participate in any future rounds of AVSL.

Trialing Athlete Form

Some members have let us know that their ability to request a withdrawal from an event via their personal account (via RevSport) appears to be unavailable. After some investigation it seems that function was removed during a system upgrade. To request a withdrawal from an event you have entered, log in to your account and click on ‘account’ in the top right hand corner of the screen.

Scroll down to the ‘events’ box and click the drop down box, selecting ‘my events’. The events you have entered should appear on the next screen – clicking the ‘request withdrawal’ button places an alert on your entry. This should appear even after entries have closed. Of course, if you have any issues let us know at sportdelivery@athsvic.org.au – withdrawal requests can still be made via this email address.

To align with the two venues we operate on a weekly basis we have consolidated to a two-zone structure, Zone A and Zone B. This decision was based on the participation data from previous seasons.

To see which zone your club falls under see link below.

This will be important regarding Club Helper Duties along with Home Venue Priority Access for the 2025/26 Season.

AVSL Zones & Regions

Zone A Club Helper Duties

Zone B Club Helper Duties (Updated 13/10)

AVSL features five graded divisions.

Clubs are graded in ‘divisions’ according to their performances in the 2025/26 AVSL season. Clubs compete against other clubs within that division.

The team with the highest accumulated points after each round is awarded maximum points which ultimately decides Premierships along with Promotion and Relegation.

Athletes will be able contribute a maximum of 3 individual events and 1 relay result during each AVSL Round.

Athletes can see what their results will contribute via the ScoreBuddy feature on ResultsHub by clicking HERE and inputting your expectant result and individual details.

In AVSL, clubs are issued with one (1) Powerplay per season. Clubs can use their Powerplay on any round from Rounds 1-10.

Powerplays will double the clubs’ ladder points for that round and must be submitted before the entries close to sportdelivery@athsvic.org.au

Strategy is key. Use your Powerplay wisely!

Age Group Premiers will be scored as a cumulative total of individual scores across the 10 rounds of AVSL, within each age group.

If teams are tied at the conclusion of the AVSL season, the winner will be determined by head-to-head round wins. If teams win an equal number of rounds, premierships will be awarded to the tied teams.

Athletes will automatically represent their club only in their age group.

Athletes cannot be moved up or down an age-groups for scoring.

Premierships will be offered for the following Divisions: Male and Female U14, U16, U18, U20, Open, 40-49, 50-59 & 60+ age groups.

There will be no official points, club helper bonus points or Powerplays attributed to the Age Group Premierships.

Clubs that do not provide required Club Helpers across the season may be deemed ineligible for the age group premierships.

The 2025-26 AVSL venues have been chosen based on safety and operational factors in conjunction and agreement with the AVSL Committee. AV is working with the committees and venues to allow future competition to take place.

Nunawading – Track surface has been deemed unsafe for competition. Review taking place.

Box Hill – Safety concerns and program scheduling challenges.

Ringwood – Unsafe to conduct Discus/Hammer & Javelin due to layout of throws area. Track markings are insufficient to operate an effective and efficient AVSL round in it’s current format.

Werribee – Track Surface Concerns along with Engagement from Officials (volunteers) to be able to attend venue to provide competition at expected level of AVSL.

In conjunction with AVSL, we are excited to bring you Results Hub, your go-to place for all AVSL results and scores.

In Results Hub, you can view the current AVSL Ladder standings, analyse and review results, scores, and powerplays at any time.

You are also able to check results from all other AV competitions.

Results Hub