Quadball Australia confirms 2026 club championship in Sydney

Quadball Australia has finally pinned down the date and venue for its biggest domestic event, with the 2026 Australian Quadball Club Championship set for Sept. 12-13 at University of Sydney Square in Camperdown, New South Wales. The organization says AQCC is the largest quadball competition in Australia and the final tournament of the year, a season-ending marker that gives clubs a target after months of uncertainty.

The announcement matters because AQCC, formerly known as QUAFL, sits at the center of the sport’s club calendar. By confirming the championship before the rest of the international slate begins, Quadball Australia has given players and teams a clear finish line for the 2026 campaign and a firmer base for planning travel, roster availability and training blocks. For a sport with more than 30 teams across the country, that kind of certainty is no small thing.

The club championship will now lead into an unusually packed run of representative and regional events on home soil. Quadball Australia’s events page lists the 2026 IQA Oceania-Asian Games for Sept. 26-27 in Sydney, followed by the Asian-Pacific Quadball Cup on Oct. 3-4 in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. The organization describes APQC as a grassroots, two-day, club-level competition for teams from Oceania and Asia, and says 2026 will be its sixth edition after tournaments in 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022 and 2024.

That calendar tells a clear story about where Quadball Australia wants the sport to go. The domestic championship now anchors the season, but the international pathway is expanding around it, with the Oceania-Asian Games and APQC both bringing outside competition to Australia in the same stretch of the year. Quadball Australia also used the newsletter to encourage eligible players to put themselves forward for national representation, linking club play more tightly to selection and international ambition.

The governance message was just as direct. Chairperson Rebecca Robb, who previously served on the Quadball Australia board from 2021 to 2023, is back at the center of operations for 2026, alongside treasurer Nicola Gertler and secretary Oscar Cozens. The board said it will complete online learning modules through Sport Integrity Australia on ethical decision-making and inclusivity, a sign that administration and culture are being treated as core business rather than side projects.

Quadball Australia also pointed members toward a community survey still in progress and urged current and former players and volunteers to take part. It paired that with a Pride Month initiative from the International Quadball Association and an offer to help with filming at the Australian National Squad training camp, underscoring a sport trying to strengthen both its competitive structure and its identity. In a year shaped by Sydney, Canberra and a crowded international calendar, the organization is making the same point from every direction: the sport is growing, and it wants its institutions to grow with it.