The Border hockey outfit has been given the all clear to commence the 2020 Capital League season next weekend.

Hockey ACT this week released the draw for the opening four rounds of the competition, with the Spitfires to start the campaign at Canberra's Carter Field against ANU next Saturday (July 11).

Another trip to Canberra follows in round two to face powerhouse Wests, with home matches in rounds three and four against Old Canberrans (July 25) and St Patrick's (August 1).

Hockey Albury-Wodonga president Bert Eastoe feels the competition can safely proceed.

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"ACT has been incident-free for some time now," Eastoe said.

"They've lost numbers as everyone has, but they're still committed to having a Capital League 1 competition for men and women to go through until the end of October."

An 18-round home and away season is scheduled, followed by finals.

"The Spitfire men's team have been committed to an intense training program and are looking forward to the first two rounds to be played in Canberra beginning on July 10," Eastoe added.

Eastoe announced this week the Hockey Albury-Wodonga senior club competition would commence on July 11, with the juniors to follow on July 17.

The first two rounds will be played solely in NSW and provides an opportunity for the association to potentially welcome some new junior players to its ranks given the number of other winter sports not proceeding due to COVID-19.

"We're encouraging kids to play any sport, it just so happens we can offer it," Eastoe added.

"The challenge for all sports is keeping juniors involved and we would anticipate our numbers for juniors will hold and there may be some drop off in seniors.

"Similar to other associations that as best as they can gauge, pre-season indicates about a 15 per cent loss.

"This will become clearer once the competition begins.

"We welcome anyone to come along and give it a go and keep themselves out there in a family-based, team-based sport. I think that's most important."

Eastoe said the association is also looking at providing teams not involved in finals the opportunity to continue playing to ensure members are getting as close to a full season as possible.