Nicky Winmar Carnival & Kirby Bentley Cup Friday, February 28, 2020 - 1:06 PM

More than 600 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander football players will participate in the 2020 Kirby Bentley Cup and Nicky Winmar Carnival at UWA Sports Park, Mt Claremont, this weekend.
 
The Kirby Bentley Cup will be contested by 250 girls across 15 teams, while the Nicky Winmar Carnival will feature approximately 400 boys in 14 teams.

 
 Kirby Bentley Cup
Saturday, February 29 - 1pm-7pm
UWA Sports Park

Nicky Winmar Carnival
Sunday, March 1 - 9am-6.30pm
UWA Sports Park

Both events require players to be between 13 and 15 years of age and identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. 
 
The Nicky Winmar Carnival has been going since 2007 and the Kirby Bentley Cup since 2014. Both carnivals are annual events which use a round robin format to engage players from metropolitan and regional locations with the WA football pathway. 
 
They also provide a selection platform for the Sate-based high performance KickStart Academy, which then leads to selection for the National AFL Boomerangs and Woomeras programs.
 
This year, standalone carnivals will also be hosted in Karratha on March 21 and 22, for remote communities in the Pilbara region.