The QBE Sydney Swans Academy is one of the most exciting and ground-breaking initiatives in the history of the AFL.

The Academy has just completed its second year in the pursuit of the long-held dream at the Sydney Swans - to nurture boys as young as nine years old and shape them into future Swans players. Through this process we are also tangibly increasing the opportunities for NSW players to play at an elite level.

No longer will the Club be solely reliant on competing with every other AFL club for the diamonds in the national draft.  Now the Sydney Swans can find their own gems amongst the 3.9 million people in the Club’s NSW zone, and use the Academy’s world-class resources to polish them into home-grown players who will proudly wear the red and white.