Issue addressed: Whether improved alcohol management delivers additional benefits to
clubs in the form of financial viability, expanded membership, increased spectators and …

This paper examines the link between alcohol consumption and community sporting clubs.
The paper argues that there are steps sporting clubs can take to reduce the link between …

Objective: Community sports clubs provide an important contribution to the health and
wellbeing of individuals and the community; however, they have also been associated with …

Issue addressed: The extent to which amateur rural sporting clubs are settings in which
harmful and hazardous levels of alcohol are consumed by players, supporters and officials …

Objective: Approximately 4.5 million Australians are involved in community sports clubs. A
high level of alcohol consumption tends to be commonplace in this setting. The only …

Community-based sporting clubs in Australia are often sites of unregulated, problematic and
unsafe drinking. The Good Sports program, initiated in Victoria in 2001, offers such clubs a …

Background Risky alcohol consumption is responsible for a variety of chronic and acute
harms. Individuals involved in organised sport have been identified as one population group …

Introduction Excessive alcohol consumption is responsible for considerable harm from
chronic disease and injury. Within most developed countries, members of sporting clubs …

There is a longstanding and problematic connection between alcohol consumption and
sport. Drinking often features heavily in post-sport celebrations for participants and …

Objective: Sports clubs have been identified as settings where high levels of risky alcohol
consumption occurs. Settings characterised by such behaviour are likely to negatively …