NSW/ACT (also known as NSW-ACT and nicknamed the 'Rams'), is an underageAustralian rules football representative team managed byAFL NSW/ACT. The team representsNew South Wales and theAustralian Capital Territory and its moniker, partly derived as an acronym fromRiverina,ACT,Murrumbidgee andSydney, the four regions supplying the bulk of the team's squad, also evokes the rural nature of the area. The team is based at theBlacktown International Sports Park inWestern Sydney and has training hubs in Canberra, Sydney, Albury, Wodonga, Newcastle and Coffs Harbour. It has both Under 16 and Under 18 squads for male and female players.
The Rams joined theTAC Cup competition in 1996 with another non-Victorian team, theTassie Mariners and also participated in theAFL National Championships. Both sides left the competition in 2002 when the TAC Cup became a Victorian-focused competition. The Rams then played around three or four games a year, with players instead playing club football on the remaining weeks of the year. Prior to the 2014 season, the NSW/ACT Rams was reestablished as aTAC Cup team, with players from theSydney Swans andGreater Western Sydney Giants young academy sides being picked for the NSW/ACT team. The team played only 7 games in the competition and could not qualify for finals like the Victorian teams in the competition.[1]
NSW/ACT have claimed 8 Division 2 titles in the AFL National Championships however were dropped from both the AFL National Championships and Talent League in 2017 in favour of a club Academy Series featuring theSydney Swans Academy andGreater Western Sydney Giants Academy.
The following former NSW/ACT Rams players have gone on to play in theAustralian Football League:
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