Club Respect helps sports clubs build and maintain a deep culture of respect.

Respect is the best defence against abuse, violent attitudes and behaviours.

Get this right at club level and people thrive, feel safe, and are able to enjoy the pleasures and opportunities that sport provides.

Whether you’re a coach, committee member, team manager, president, volunteer, parent, supporter or player, Club Respect gives you simple and effective strategies to make a positive impact in and around your club.

When people are empowered to positively influence those around them, they become change makers in their clubs and in the wider community.

This is a winning formula.
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Club Respect Podcast

Smart Plays, Club Respect’s new podcast, is where we bring the biggest problems facing Australian sport out of the darkness and shine a light on the hot topics that nobody wants to talk about.

The Game Plan

How's your club progressing? Check out the Club Respect framework and the club self-rating tool.
Podcast: Smart Plays

Men, sport, violence prevention with Jackson Katz

Part 1 and 2 combined: In our chat with Jackson Katz, we speak about the crucial role men play in addressing gendered violence and the powerful opportunity for change through sport.
Podcast: Smart Plays

The scourge of match official abuse

In this episode, we speak with Patrick Skene about the scourge of match official abuse, what sports codes are doing in Australia and the global movements pushing for respect.
Podcast: Smart Plays

Sideline abuse and the parent-coach connection

In this episode we chat with Julia Walsh about the challenges for parents and coaches that often leads to sideline abuse and how clubs can invest in the coach-and-parent experience.
CR Journal Patrick Skene

Esprit sportif: Top 30 moments of respect from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games (Moments 1 to 10)

We've compiled the top 30 respect, leadership, and 'esprit sportif' (sportsmanship) moments from the 2024 Olympics Games that brought the world closer through the power of sport. We start the series by looking at the Moments 1 to 10.
CR Journal Club Respect

Club Respect delivering workshops around Australia

For clubs wanting to draw ‘a line in the sand’ in their club culture and maintain an environment of respect, we now offer our signature Club Respect workshops. You can join the cohort of sports clubs, associations, leagues and local councils who are making significant cultural changes at their clubs that are creating safe, kind and fair environments.
CR Journal Chelsey Taylor

Game On: Reconciliation in action through sports

Sporting clubs and associations have many ways to contribute to reconciliation efforts, by challenging the norms we’ve previously accepted in our sporting environments and taking action towards change. By encouraging community sports clubs to transition from being mere allies to becoming active accomplices, we can collectively contribute to a more inclusive and equitable sporting culture.
CR Journal

Club Respect presents at the True Sport Conference in Perth

Club Respect was on the road this month, participating in the True Sport conference at Optus Stadium in Perth. 
CR Journal

Club Respect partners with the Yarra Junior Football League

The Yarra Junior Football League (YJFL) and Club Respect are proud to announce a partnership to deliver workshops to all 32 YJFL member clubs.
CR Journal Margot Foster AM OLY

Dealing with complaints and discipline matters

One of the biggest challenges clubs face in dealing with either of these matters is that everyone usually knows everyone. Then there is the gossip and social media that goes with the territory of people being nosey, taking sides or just weighing in generally because they can.

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Club Respect has a circle for its logo, but not simply because of an immediate sports connection. In acknowledging our First Nations’ Peoples, Club Respect appreciates that the circle has been a powerful Indigenous symbol for thousands of years and represents the wisdom of people coming together in peaceful exchange.