Registration fees repeat in full for every child, because they're charged per participant. Uniforms usually repeat too, since siblings are rarely the same size in the same year. What doesn't repeat is your time, your ball, and often your Saturday, if you can get both children into the same association and preferably the same venue.
Written by Cameron James, founder and head coach at Liddicoat Basketball. Over a decade coaching junior basketball in Melbourne, including at Big V level, and rep teams from Under 12s through to Under 18s.
Last updated September 2026.
Start with the honest part. Registration is charged per participant, not per family. Basketball Victoria's terms of participation describe setting up a profile for each child you're registering and paying the relevant annual fee during the online registration for each of them.
The association or club season fee repeats too, because it's buying court time, referees and a place in a competition for a second player. There's no version of this where two children cost the same as one.
So plan on the season fee roughly doubling, and then look at the pieces that genuinely don't have to.
Uniforms are the obvious hand me down and the least reliable one, because siblings are usually different sizes at the same time rather than in sequence. If your club loans singlets by the season, this is moot anyway.
Shoes rarely transfer while both children are playing, for the same reason. What does transfer is everything else: the bag, the bottle, the pump, the knowledge of where to park.
Balls are the exception worth thinking about. Ball size changes by age group in Victorian junior competition, and a size 5 for a younger child isn't the ball an older sibling should be practising with. Two balls in the shed is usually the right answer, and it's also about forty dollars rather than four hundred.
This is the single biggest lever a two child family has, and it's free. If both children play at the same association, and ideally at the same venue, your Saturday goes from two trips to one.
Ring the club before the season and ask whether they can fixture siblings at the same venue or in adjacent time slots. Fixturing is done by the association and it's not always possible, but a club that knows about it in August has a chance, and a club that hears about it in October doesn't.
Even when the times don't line up, the same building is worth a lot. One car park, one canteen, one set of parents you actually know.
The Get Active Kids Voucher Program is worth understanding properly here, because it's assessed per child. Vouchers are worth up to two hundred dollars towards membership and registration fees, sports equipment or uniforms, for Victorian children eighteen and under who are named on a Commonwealth Health Care Card or Pensioner Concession Card and on a Medicare card.
If you're eligible and you've two children playing, that's a materially different conversation from a single voucher. Rounds open periodically rather than being permanently available, so check the current round rather than assuming.
Basketball Victoria is already registered as a provider on behalf of clubs and associations and publishes its provider code, so families select Basketball Victoria when applying rather than needing the club to register first.
Some clubs run a family discount or a capped family rate. Almost none of them put it on the registration page. Ask.
Ask about payment plans as well. Many associations will split a season fee across instalments if you request it before registering, and most won't offer it unprompted.
If cost is genuinely the barrier to a second child playing, say so plainly to the club. Volunteer run clubs deal with this constantly and often have a quiet way through it. Nobody in junior basketball wants a child sitting out over a registration fee.
Two children in basketball is usually two training nights, not one, and often on different nights. That's the change most families underestimate, and it's the one that actually decides whether the arrangement survives to Christmas.
Before you commit, map a normal week on paper with both children in it, including dinner and homework. If it only works when nothing goes wrong, it doesn't work.
It's completely reasonable to have one child in domestic and one in representative basketball, or to stagger which child does a summer season. Doing everything for everyone at once is how families end up doing none of it by winter.
Some do and some don't, and very few advertise it. Ask the club directly before you register, and ask about payment plans at the same time, because many associations will split a season fee into instalments if you request it up front.
The Get Active Kids Voucher Program is assessed per child rather than per family, with vouchers of up to two hundred dollars towards membership and registration fees, equipment or uniforms for eligible Victorian children eighteen and under.
Often, if you ask early. Fixturing is done by the association before the season, so a request made well before the season starts has a far better chance than one made after the draw is published.
Only if both are on the same ball size. It changes by age group, though girls stay on a size 6 from Under 14 through Under 18, so some siblings can share and some can't. Ball size changes by age group in Victorian junior competition, so an older sibling on a size 6 or 7 and a younger one on a size 5 need their own.
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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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