Broadmeadows Basketball Association runs its junior domestic competition on Saturdays for Under 8s through Under 19s, boys and girls, using its stadium on Tanderrum Way plus other venues around Hume. Its representative teams, the Broncos, play Friday night VJBL and are selected from the domestic competition at tryouts held in October.
Last updated 11 October 2026.
Broadmeadows Basketball Association, usually shortened to BBA, is the association for basketball across Melbourne's north west growth corridor. Its representative teams are the Broncos.
The association says it has more than 3,500 members and over 340 junior and senior domestic teams playing year round. That makes it a genuinely large operation, and it means the Saturday competition is the main event rather than a sideshow to the rep program.
BBA runs the whole stack. Junior domestic, senior domestic, casual shooting, development academies, an all abilities program and women only programs. For most families, only the first of those matters at the start.
The junior domestic competition is played on Saturdays and is open to girls and boys from Under 8s to Under 19s.
Games are spread across several venues. The association names the Broadmeadows Basketball Stadium, Broadmeadows Leisure Centre and Greenvale Recreation Centre among the sites it uses, along with others depending on how many teams enter. So your Saturday morning destination will change through the season.
Here is the part parents miss. The association runs the fixture, the grading, the court bookings and the referees. It does not put players into teams. That is the club's job, and you have to approach a club directly.
Clubs listed by the association include Dallas Phoenix, Gladstone Park, Somerton All-Stars, TLS at Westmeadows, Greenvale, Oak Park, Roxburgh Park and Strathmore. Each runs its own training, usually one night a week at a local school or venue, and each sets its own fees.
The Broadmeadows Broncos are the association's VJBL teams, playing Friday night representative basketball against other associations across Victoria.
Players are selected through a tryout process, and the association is explicit that the Broncos program is built from athletes already playing in the Broadmeadows domestic competition. In practice that means domestic first, rep second, which is the ordinary path everywhere.
Tryouts for the following season are held in October. The association publishes a tryout schedule and a VJBL information guide each year, and registration goes through PlayHQ.
The commitment is real and BBA states it plainly. Selected players are expected at three compulsory sessions a week during the season, being two trainings and one game. Before you sign up, work out whether three fixed weeknights and Friday travel actually fits your family.
The association is based at Broadmeadows Basketball Stadium, 1 Tanderrum Way, Broadmeadows. The office is open on weekdays and there is a casual shooting window most days, though the association asks you to phone first because availability moves.
The stadium is also home to the association's senior domestic competitions, so on some nights the building is busy with adult basketball rather than juniors.
For younger kids there are entry programs before competition starts, including Mini Broncos and Ford Aussie Hoops. These are the right first step for a five or six year old who has never played, rather than throwing them straight into a graded Saturday team.
If your child has never played, start with Aussie Hoops or Mini Broncos and let them learn the basics without a scoreboard.
If they are ready to play in a team, pick a junior domestic club from the association's contact list and email that club directly. The association will not place your child for you.
If they are already playing domestic and want rep, register for Broncos tryouts through the association's tryout portal in the lead up to October.
Costs vary by club and by season, and there is a separate Basketball Victoria participant licence on top of club fees. Get both current numbers before you commit, and check whether a Get Active Kids voucher applies to your family.
Broncos tryouts for 2026/27 ended with an invite-only final session on Sunday 11 October 2026 for every Under 12 to Under 18 group, at Broadmeadows Basketball Stadium. Invitations to the final session went out by email, and players who did not progress between sessions were told by email.
The VJBL Info Guide says successful candidates will be phoned by their Team Head Coach within 24 to 48 hours to be offered a spot and told which team they are in. Players give verbal acceptance, an email follows within 48 hours, and the spot is only officially secured once registration is paid in full.
The VJBL registration fee is $600 for all players, and payment plans are available on PlayHQ through PayPal's Pay in 4 method. No fixed payment date is published. The uniform fitting day is Tuesday 13 October, with orders finalised by Wednesday 14 October, and each team has two squad sessions between Thursday 15 October 2026 and Monday 19 October 2026.
Broadmeadows states there will be no individual feedback on selection or non-selection. If required, unsuccessful candidates are emailed within 24 to 48 hours of the final session and placed on an emergency list, to be contacted should a position become available. The guide adds that not making a team does not mean a player's journey is done.
Under 20 tryouts run later. Girls have sessions on Sunday 11 and Sunday 18 October from 5:30pm, and boys on Sunday 18, Tuesday 20 and Thursday 22 October. The info guide and the schedule PDF give different finish times for the girls' 18 October session, so follow the club's email. Every association's official tryouts page is collected in one list on our tryouts guide, checked on 11 October 2026.
Every adult coaching or managing a junior team needs a current Working with Children Check. Basketball Victoria publishes child safe standards resources for its affiliated associations and clubs, and points them to the Victorian Working with Children Check requirements, so a club should be able to tell you how it screens the adults around your child.
In day to day terms the questions are simple. Who is coaching my child's team, have they been screened, and who do I raise something with if I am uncomfortable. A club that answers all three without hesitating is telling you something useful.
One thing to be clear about. This guide is not a reporting body and cannot act on a concern for you. Raise anything that worries you with the club and the association directly, and call 000 if a child is in immediate danger.
Saturday. The competition covers girls and boys from Under 8s to Under 19s, with games spread across the Broadmeadows Basketball Stadium and other venues around Hume.
Contact one of the junior domestic clubs directly. The association runs the competition but does not place individual players into teams, so the club is your first call.
The Broncos. They play in the VJBL on Friday nights, and players are selected at tryouts held in October for the following season.
1 Tanderrum Way, Broadmeadows. The association also uses the Broadmeadows Leisure Centre, Greenvale Recreation Centre and other venues for Saturday junior fixtures.
The association states three compulsory sessions a week during the VJBL season, made up of two training sessions and one game.
Broadmeadows does not post a single announcement date. Its VJBL Info Guide says successful candidates will be phoned by their Team Head Coach within 24 to 48 hours to be offered a spot and told their team, with an email following within 48 hours. The final Under 12 to Under 18 session was on Sunday 11 October 2026.
The VJBL registration fee is $600 for all players. A spot is only officially secured once registration is paid in full, and payment plans are available on PlayHQ through PayPal's Pay in 4 method.
If required, unsuccessful candidates are emailed within 24 to 48 hours of the final session and placed on an emergency list, to be contacted should a position become available. The association gives no individual feedback on selection or non-selection.
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Facts on this page were compiled from the official sources below and written up in our own words. Dates, fees and venues change every season, so confirm anything you are relying on with the association directly.
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