In partnership with Toyota
Last year, 837 local footy clubs across Australia scored a massive $1.17 million cash injection - all thanks to an initiative that's given the humble club raffle a turbo-boost. And it's on again.
Toyota Australia has officially launched the 2026 Good for Footy Raffle, and registrations are open for clubs to get involved in the annual program that's helped thousands of grassroots AFL clubs raise more than $12.6 million since it began in 2008.
How it works
The Good for Footy Raffle is fundraising made easy with no costs for the club, no need to organise prizes or follow up winners. Toyota provides an incredible pool of 46 prizes worth more than $250,000, including three new cars, as well as promotional support.
Clubs take on the task of selling as many of the tickets as they can. It's free to register and clubs receive 100 per cent of the $5 price of the tickets they sell.
Once clubs receive the funds they can spend the money as they would like. In the past, clubs have used valuable funds to buy everything from new equipment, uniforms, and registration fees to the upkeep of clubrooms and training courses.
Stronger clubs
Footy clubs from the large to the very small, as well as their associated netball clubs, say the initiative has been a huge support that's helped strengthen the clubs and the community.
Gippsland's Warragul Industrials Football Netball Club, nicknamed the Dusties, is one of the clubs that's enthusiastically embraced the opportunity, raising more than $50,000 each year for the past three years.
Club president Daniel Hilton said the wide range of teams the club was now able to field was partly due to the Toyota Good for Footy Raffle. "We never had a junior football club - under eights, 10s, twelves and fourteens - and we've added two extra female football teams - the 14s and 16s," he said.
Eases pressure
At the Collingullie-Wagga Demons, the thousands of dollars in funds the raffle has helped raise over several years have paid for much needed equipment such as pallet racking, shelving, upgrades to the women's change rooms and the canteen, and a history room.
The club's Elissa Bent estimates the club earns about $8000 each year from the Good for Footy raffle. "A lot of our money comes from big events we run during the year, but the Toyota raffle really helps - we don't run another raffle because Good for Footy is so easy," she said.
"We just buy batches of tickets and sell them at the gate. People are really happy to buy tickets, especially when we say we get all the money raised."
For the Queanbeyan Tigers, selling the tickets has been driven by the clubs juniors and seniors raising much-needed funds for everything from the maintenance of their ride-on lawnmower to the upkeep of the clubrooms. The club's general manager Kane Cawse said the simple to use QR code technology had made selling the tickets easier.
"I printed everyone's QR code, laminated it and gave it to them on game day and said, 'Keep this in your pocket and show your friends'," he said.
"It definitely eases a lot of pressure in trying to fundraise elsewhere, and make sure the money is there to pay the bills."
Register your club at toyota.com.au/explore/community/partnerships/afl-aflw/goodforfooty