Score better local sports facilities

All Victorian councils and Alpine Resorts Victoria are eligible to apply for funds towards a range of community sport and active recreation infrastructure working in partnership with local sport and recreation clubs, sport associations and leagues with a focus on supporting communities and groups to increase their participation including by women and girls.

The 2025-26 Local Sports Infrastructure Fund (LSIF) helps communities plan and develop sport and recreation facilities through 3 funding streams by providing up to $500,000 for Community Facilities, up to $250,000 for Community Sports Lighting and up to $40,000 for Planning projects.

Successful projects funded through the previous round of the Fund include $250,000 towards a new family recreation space at Dandenong’s Greaves Reserve featuring a multi-use court for basketball and soccer, a tennis half-court with rebound wall, and connecting pathways.

Fawkner’s popular Charles Mutton Reserve also received $200,000 to deliver a 150 lux LED lighting upgrade on both sports ovals – providing the Northern Saints Football Club with more playing and training time on their ovals to meet growing demand.

At Frankston Park, $250,000 is delivering bigger and better home and away change rooms for teams from the Frankston Football Club and Frankston Dolphins Reclink Football Team to help them host the big games.

The Victorian Budget 2025/26 is providing $20 million to support the development of high-quality, accessible community sports infrastructure across the state, including through the 2025-26 Local Sports Infrastructure Fund.

The recent release of the Community Sports Infrastructure 2024 Outcomes Statement – a Sport and Recreation Victoria report, highlights the positive impacts of government-funded projects through initiatives like the Fund.

In the last 2 years alone more than 330 funded facilities, subject of the statement, have increased participation by almost 43% or over 70,200 new participants, including a 19% increase in girls playing sport.

Initiatives like these are also about inclusion, fair play, creating jobs, stimulating local economies, and improving the health, wellbeing, and social outcomes for Victorian communities.

Applications to the 2025-26 Local Sports Infrastructure Fund close on 2 December 2025. For more information about the Fund and to apply visit Local Sports Infrastructure Fund.