Contact Us
Lindsay Hewison – Executive Chairman and National Competition Manager
Email: lindsayhewison@bigpond.com
02 4342 3668
Warren Sheelah – Secretary
Email: welltryit@bigpond.com
David Donaldson – Queensland State Manager
Email: davidjohndonaldson52@gmail.com
David Dunn – Riverina Area Manager and all Victoria enquiries
Email: dldunn1948@gmail.com
0402 180954
Lloyd Turner – Executive member, website management
Email: lloyd@hamiltonoptometry.com.au
The executive organisers also include Milena Dunn, Peter Kneale, Jason Tobin and David Mason
Greg Danvers – Media Manager – retired
Noel Cocking – Northern NSW State Manager – retired
The (volunteer) executive committee is supported by a team of hard working volunteer area managers.
We are always looking for enthusiastic volunteers to help with managing an area.
We also open to applications for women who would like to part of our executive.
An understanding of school sport is important.
More Information on the History, Aims and Executive Commitee.
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To Bill, Lindsay & David Dunne
We wish to thank you for your continued support and help over the past few months. whislt our teams may not have made the final series I am sure the quality and professionalism of the teams that have made it this far, will only enahnce the Bill Turner Soccer Cup & Trophy final series. Bendigo South East College would also like to thank all the coaches and support staff that we have met along the way from all over NSW and Victoria. Best of luck to all teams that have made the final and we look forward to 2010 and maybe a Victorian team might make it to Newcastle.
Jan Mannes
Jan,
On behalf of the Bill Turner organisation I”d like to thank you and Ernie for all your efforts this year. Your cooperation and enthusiasm was wonderful. Congratulations to both Bendigo teams on their great runs this year and yes, we also hope to see you one day at the Final Series in Newcastle.
2009 Bill Turner Trophy report states Westfields Sports Keeper as Georgina Rowntree, her name is Georgia (known as “MOUSE”) Rowntree. Could you please correct, thankyou. Another fabulouis two days of exciting and talented school football , and again you turned on great weather. As a parent it is great to see children playing and representing their respective schools in such a wonderful way. Thankyou again, Gayle .
Thank you Gayle – this has been corrected.
Hi Lindsay,
Iam the coach/teacher at St.Albans Secondary College in Melbourne. We have a succesful U’14 soccer team which just won the State school association last week. We often travel to Futsal comps around Australia, but we are thinking of turning our attention to Soccer for next years U’15 Bill Turner Cup.
I noticed there was two or three country victorian teams that played off before they played the NSW teams.
Could you send me any relevant information on the cup, including expected dates and when/where we would have to travel?
Regards
Looking in downloads for annual registration form but can not find this. Will it be available online for reregistration for 2011?
Jan Mannes
Looking for the venue for the east syd on 8-4-11. Also what time will the match be played?
Adam
Hi Adam, Thanks for your question. Matches are organised by the schools involved. Games need to be played by the final date of each round. For more information, you can read the rules, which explain the procedures in more detail. Cheers, Lloyd
what happens if a team does not play before the date specified?
hi ayman, thanks for your question. have a look at the rules, as this is covered with some detail. if you wanted to get some specific advice about your situation, the best thing is to contact the area manager for your school. they will do their best to help work out the situation.
Hi Lloyd,
On the website page for the Bill Turner civic reception does it have the correct date? It may have last year’s date as it still refers to Tuesday 9th September,
thanks Milena, that page is now updated.
i did win the Bill Turner cup for Cardiff High and can not find any history for past winners..
Will ask Lloyd Turner about this. Do you have a photo of the winning Cardiff team, preferably with names, as we wish to create a ” Remember When?” section for next year.
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=149925101693133
has a list of winners and runners up for both cup and trophy.
or http://www.billturnersoccer.com.au/previous-finalists/
thanks Troy.
im trying to get in touch with the qld state manager but his email keeps bouncing back….
need to get some info on the bill turner cup/trophy for 2012
Kris,
Your State Manager will be sending out 2012 entries as soon as school returns. As usual Queensland will not kick off till May. If you are a new entry you had best contact me, the President with your details.
what is the under 18 football comp in high school called. It used to be puma cup but what is it now, and does it have a website?
Kara,
The CHS competitions’ new names are the Errea Cup (boys) and Errea Trophy (girls). If you google Errea Cup and then click on chs news you should reach their website.
Area News Griffith has an article (11/7/12) on Marian’s Bill Turner cup game at http://www.areanews.com.au/news/local/sport/football-soccer/marian-marches-in-on-bill-turner-cup/2619923.aspx
Lindsay or lloyd please Add this title to previous Area News link
“Marian marches in on Bill Turner Cup
SCOTT HAZLEWOOD
11 Jul, 2012 07:00 AM”
Hi Lindsay,
we’ve had a hiccup where we didn’t pick up there were no nooklets being sent out and have missed games. Is it possible for you to set up a system to email reminders to Coaches/Managers. So many of us are now so used to email communication that we miss things if we don’t get those reminders. maybe you could set up entries on the site as well.
thanks,
michael
Michael,
This is the third season there haven’t been booklets so we would expect coaches to realise this by now. If you look under downloads you will find the entry forms are on the website already. As Summerland have played in the last three seasons it would appear to us as though you knew all this particularly as all schools were continually notified for the first two years.
As a concerned gran I was wondering why the results show Warners Bay Girls team as losing when they have actually won their games
Jill,
The website only has results from the main draw. Warners Bay lost their only match in this part of the competition. Whilst we know they have done well in the Plate Competition for first match losers, this is an unofficial competition which is not played in all areas.
Thanks Lindsay for the explanation, much appreciated Jill
Hey Lindsay or lloyd, can you tell me if there is a copy of our grandfinal from this year on DVD or Cd anywhere?
Regards
Ash
HSHS
Hi can you please contact cardiff high school as I was a part of a winning cup side and I would love to see a photo uploaded on your site.thanks Troy 0417692566
Troy,
Do you have a copy of the 1986 Cup winning team or any of your former team mates ? Unless there was a school yearbook there is no chance of Cardiff High having a photo. Even if there was a yearbook, many schools do not keep them that far back. It’s a problem of space.
It is with great sadness I pass on the news of the death of Dudley Lewis. Dudley was a keen member of the BTC family for many years. I would like to pass onto Kay and her family our best wishes at this difficult time.
is there a bill turner for seniors
No. In NSW there is the CHS KO, the Combined Catholic KO and the Combined Independent Schools KO for seniors. Victoria have their own state KO for all schools. I don’t think ACT and Queensland have something similar.Queenland State Manager, David Donaldson, would know.
Hey Lindsay, can u let me know about entries for 2019 BTC
2019 entry forms will be Emailed late October. What school are you from, so I don’t miss you?
Hi Lindsay can you please send me a form so I can enter our girls into this years comp.
cheers
Sharon
HI Guys,
Happy new year! Can you please send me a entry form. I forgot to enter Camden Haven High for 2020!
Many Thanks
Phil Hancock
Camden Haven High School
Morning,
Hope all is well.
Are you able to add Bulli High School in the draw. If you could send the nomination form that would be appreciated.
Have a wonderful day
Allison Powell
Bulli High School
Allison,
Final reminder forms were sent to your school last Thurs addressed to the Sports Organiser. Check with them and the Front Office.
Can you please add Nambucca Heads High School to the draw 2020 Bill Turner Cup.
Hi Lindsay,
Coulkd you send an entry form for kempsey High so we can register our team.
Hi,
For some reason we can’t seem to access the draw for Sydney north girls. (It stops at Central Coast in the list). Can you please send a copy or let me know who Barrenjoey high School is playing in their first rounds.
Thank you
Hi Lindsay (Noel for NNSW) and all associated with Bill Turner
I have an email and phone call chain dating back to the 1st of December asking our sports organiser here at Kurri Kurri HS to enter us in this competition (which we have been left out before)
While they continually say yes its been done, i assume either the correspondance (signed mail) or cheque hasn’t arrived…. and we are not on the website as in the Upper Hunter draw. Can this be rectified directly by myself, as i’m increasingly frustrated by looking at the draw and seeing we are not there….
Hi All, The BTC & BTT was established to foster fair competition between high schools. The establishment of Specific Sports Colleges in recent years has significantly swayed the scales away from normal non-scholarship high schools to these Sports Colleges. These Sports Colleges of course now dominate the BTC & BTT as can be seen from this years finalists. 3 of the 4 in the BTC are Football aligned Sports Colleges. I do not believe this is the fairness & good completion that was originally intended by Bill. Should Sports Colleges be excluded next year?? Just starting the conversation.
There is a slight problem in your argument J Dorian. Unlike the CHS competition which is limited to NSW, in case you haven’t noticed our competition stretches from Cairns to Melbourne. Many of the “normal” schools in Queensland also have programmes and are not labelled sports high schools, as are many of the Victorian schools, so how do you suggest that we weed them out as well? The best we can do is to collect the majority of the sports highs in one group but eventually the winner of that group, will enter the main competition. Things are so different from when Bill founded the competition. We spent an enormous amount of time this year trying to give schools an opponent of similar ability in the early rounds but eventually they came up against teams of better ability in later rounds. Don’t think that this only affects us. CHS and Independent KOs are similarly affected and it won’t be long until the Catholic KOs are as well.
Hey Lindsay, I agree it’s really hard to organise these Sports Academy Schools to compete on a level playing field with “normal” schools. The Xavier Ballina v Hunter Sports Academy QF (9-0) was just embarrassing and demoralising for the Ballina boys. Hunter having 5 FFA A or B License coaches on staff and majority players Newcastle Jets A-League scholarship students against a school teacher coach and non-scholarship boys was like Dubbo FC competing in the Premier League, as the score line showed.
Hi
Just wondering if the draw is set in Stone as we are from Carroll College and lining up to play Trinity the first second round. As both of these teams made it to the top 32 last year it would be more appropriate that they don’t play each other right away????
Hi,
I was just wondering how our school can be involved in this competition in 2025. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Sam.
Hi there,
I have a few parents asking our school to enter in the Competition.
How can we enter for 2025? What are the fees? Dates?
I’d appreciate any info so I can get the material together to present to the principal.
Regards,
Bruno
Hi Bruno,
You haven’t stated what school you are from and thus which area, you would be in.
Cost is $35 per team and entry forms for 2025 will be sent out in late Oct.
Season runs from end of term 1 to the finals, which will be in the second week of Sept in 2025.
Look at the 2024 results for your prospective area, which are found under Cup or Trophy info on the website. The play by dates will be similar in 2025.
Remember that it is a knockout competition.