Independent Soccer Inquiry

Report of the Independent Soccer Review Committee into the Structure, Governance and Management of Soccer in Australia - April 2003

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Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Definitions and acronyms
• Part 1 Executive overview
• Part 2 Methodology
• Part 3 List of recommendations
• Part 4 Findings and recommendations (includes sections 4.1-4.4)

• 4.1 - Critical assessment of the existing governance, management
  and structure of soccer in Australia
• 4.2 - Solution-based recommendations to deliver a comprehensive
  governance framework and management structure for the
  sport that addresses the needs of affiliated organisations
  and stakeholders

• Issue 1 - Membership of the national body
• Issue 2 - Establishment of standing committees
• Issue 3 - Soccer Australia Board composition
• Issue 4 - Nomination and election of the President and
  directors of Soccer Australia
• Issue 5 - Voting structure — national
• Issue 6 - Boards and voting structure — state member affiliates
• Issue 7 Conflict of interest management
• Issue 8 Board and management roles
• Issue 9 - National Soccer League
• Issue 10 - Funding
• Issue 11 - FIFA relationship and policy
• Issue 12 - Implementing new governance and
  management structure

• 4.3 - Identification of potential impediments to reform and
  strategies to overcome those impediments
• 4.4 - Plan to implement the recommendations

• Appendices

• Appendix A - Terms of Reference
• Appendix B - Review Committee membership
• Appendix C - Consultations and submissions
• Appendix D - Stakeholder comments
• Appendix E - Current voting structures within soccer — diagrammatic representation
• Appendix F - Proposed voting structure within soccer — diagrammatic representation
• Appendix G - Other relevant issues

Acknowledgements

In submitting this report to the Federal Minister for the Arts and Sport, and Soccer Australia the Review Committee encourages them to adopt a long-term view of the sport’s development in Australia. We believe that the adoption and implementation of this report’s recommendations will provide the foundation for success in national development, financial stability, stakeholder and public support, and international performances that have, on a consistent basis, eluded the sport in the past.

I thank the members of the Review Committee for their invaluable support; those stakeholders, members of the public and representatives from governments who contributed submissions or aided the Committee; our international contributors for their guidance and insights; the assistance received from Ernst & Young as the Committee’s consultants, and the support and efforts of the Committee’s secretariat.

David Crawford
Chairman

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