Guided by an expert Advisory Council and in partnership with UNICEF Australia and adidas, Indigenous Football Australia (IFA) will unlock the potential of thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, their families and communities across Australia.

IFA will broaden the benefits of John Moriarty Football to create more equitable access to the great game of football for grassroots and elite players.

Through football, IFA is creating sustainable social change and providing pathways to improved physical and mental health, wellbeing, education and community engagement for Indigenous girls and boys, families and communities.

The role of the IFA Council is to strategically guide IFA to maximise the national and international benefits of JMF.

The 16 member IFA Council has majority Indigenous membership, and is gender equal. Each member brings unique, lived experience plus skills, aligned values and goals for Indigenous football in Australia. Each is committed to creating tangible, equitable and lasting change.

The guidance of the IFA Council will help create exponential social change through football, expand JMF and ensure more equitable access to the great game of football for grassroots and elite Indigenous players.

IFA oversees the annual Indigenous Football Week. Since 2015, Indigenous Football Week has celebrated our Indigenous football heroes already kicking goals and paved the way for the new stars of the future. The week is all about the power of football to create change for good.

Indigenous Football Week brings the football community together to support inclusion, cultural recognition and diversity. Together we can create pathways that led to positive change and close the gap.