Football FNC is getting back on track after a long period of wet weather disrupted the season.

FFNC has now rescheduled all (except three) of the fixtures that were washed out recently (between 28th June and 6th July) and these are now published to the FFNC website.

Organisers have been forced to schedule some mid-week fixtures across many competitions scheduled each week for the balance of the pointscore season.

FFNC has almost zero wriggle room to re-schedule any fixtures if wet conditions further impede the season.

A disclosure has been made that FFNC will (if necessary) make a decision to 'declare' a result, of any fixture that cannot be played from this point forward. We certainly hope that this situation will not be necessary, but this possibility is made known in this communication, so there should be no surprises at a later time.

As advised several weeks back to all clubs, a modified Finals Series will proceed this season, with a format in all junior competitions and all senior leagues, being semi-finals Team 1 v Team 4, and Team 2 v Team 3, with the winner of each semi-final to contest the Newcastle Permanent Grand Finals Series in respective competitions.

FFNC can now announce that Lismore City Council has given approval for FFNC to have access to Oakes Oval Lismore as listed below;

Based on FFNC's proposed dates:

Friday 29 – Sunday 31 August

Friday 5 – Sunday 7 September

Friday 12 – Sunday 14 September

With the exception of Sunday 31 August, which remains to be confirmed pending whether two senior teams in the Northern Rivers Regional Rugby League (NRRRL) competition become mathematically unable to host finals, based on their ladder positions.

LCC acknowledges that FFNC brought its finals series forward in response to working collaboratively with LCC as a range of stakeholders have sought to secure access of Oakes Oval and/or Crozier Field, as the two marquee sporting venues in the region.

Football FNC also highlight the scheduling of the three Anzac Day Cup Finals (being Open A, Open B and Open C), that were washed out on 26th April. These are now scheduled as follows;

Open C                                                                                 Open B                                                                                 Open A

Lismore Workers FC v Alstonville FC                                   Nimbin Headers FC v Goonellabah FC                                Nimbin Headers FC v Suffolk Park FC

Sunday 10th August                                                             Saturday 9th August                                                             Saturday 9th August

12:30pm                                                                               12.30pm                                                                                2.30pm

Richards Oval, Lismore                                                        Nimbin                                                                                  Nimbin

This weekend in Men's Premier League, Goonellabah host South Lismore and Bangalow play Lennox Head in Lennox on Friday night at 8:00pm.

On Saturday, Richmond Rovers host Mullumbimby Brunswick Valley and Byron Bay host Alstonville in a top of the table clash

In Women's Premier League fixtures, Rovers host Alstonville on Friday night, and on Sunday South Lismore travel to Ballina looking to take the points.