The Thomastown Raiders FC Codes of Behaviour incorporate the Australian Sports Commission template Code of Behaviour, the FFA National Code of Conduct and the FFA National Spectator Code of Behaviour.

Overview

It is vital that everyone involved in Football, whether they are players, coaches, parents, officials or supporters, understand their responsibilities to ensure that all participants enjoy the sport.

General Principles for all Persons Involved in Sport

1. Operate within the Rules and spirit of Football, promoting fair play over winning at any cost.
2. Encourage and support opportunities for people to learn appropriate behaviours and skills.
3. Support opportunities for participation in all aspects of the sport.
4. Treat each person as an individual.
5. Display control and courtesy to all involved with the sport.
6. Respect the rights and worth of every person regardless of their gender, ability, cultural background or religion.
7. Respect the decisions of officials, coaches and administrators in the conduct of the sport.
8. Wherever practical, avoid unaccompanied and unobserved one-on-one activity (when in a supervisory capacity or where a power imbalance will exist) with people under the age of 18 years.
9. Adopt appropriate and responsible behaviour in all interactions.
10. Adopt responsible behaviour in relation to alcohol and other drugs.
11. Act with integrity and objectivity, and accept responsibility for your decisions and actions.
12. Ensure your decisions and actions contribute to a safe environment.
13. Do not tolerate harmful or abusive behaviours.
14. Do not bring the game of Football into Disrepute, by engaging in discriminatory, offensive or criminal behaviour.
15. Ensure your decisions and actions contribute to a harassment free environment.
16. Do not bring the game into Disrepute by engaging in harassment, including sexual harassment or any unwelcome sexual conduct which makes a person feel offended, humiliated and/or intimidated.
17. Do not bring the game into Disrepute by provoking or inciting hatred or violence, including crowd violence.
18. Do not bring the game into Disrepute by engaging in corruption, forgery or falsification, or by abusing a position to obtain a personal benefit.
19. Do not bring the game into Disrepute by the throwing or fixing of a match, by accepting bribes, or by any conduct intended to unfairly effect the result of a match;
20. Do not bring the game into Disrepute by any other conduct that materially injures the reputation and goodwill of Football.

(NB for the purposes of this code of behaviour ‘Disrepute’ means conduct, statement or appearance in public that is damaging to reputation).