{"id":194815,"date":"2025-10-07T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/194815\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T06:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T06:00:11","slug":"vfl-statement-northern-bullants-football-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/194815\/","title":{"rendered":"VFL Statement &#8211; Northern Bullants Football Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                The VFL can confirm after an extensive review of the club\u2019s overall performance, including off-field viability, the Northern Bullants Football Club\u2019s licence will not be renewed for the 2026 season.\n            <\/p>\n<p>The VFL can confirm after an extensive review of the club\u2019s overall performance, including off-field viability, the Northern Bullants Football Club\u2019s licence will not be renewed for the 2026 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Upon completion of the review, which is conducted annually, it was determined the club did not meet the criteria to retain its VFL licence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On-field competitiveness and off-field financial liability over a number of years were factors in the decision. The club was provided with emergency funding in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The VFL acknowledges the outcome for those involved with the Northern Bullants and has committed to working with the club to endeavour to meet outstanding commitments to players and coaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The VFL can confirm after an extensive review of the club\u2019s overall performance, including off-field viability, the Northern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85,83],"class_list":["post-194815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}