Scott succeeds Mark Leman in the role, having served the association as treasurer for the past four years, and his presidency will run at least until the end of 2023.

"I'm really looking forward to the next two years," Scott said after his election.

"Coming off the back of COVID, there's a lot of opportunity at the moment and with the Women's World Cup and AWFA's 50^th anniversary in 2023, it's a really exciting time for us.

"We've got some really good miniroos numbers and the future's looking good for us as long as we can keep those players engaged in the sport.

"The women's game is really important for us, trying to expand that and linking it in with the World Cup."

Scott relocated from Sydney in 2008 and his wife, Terri-Anne, is a former president at Albury United, where Scott still plays in the over-35s competition.

He's also refereed and is pragmatic about the position AWFA finds itself in, more than two years on from the last finals series.

"All sports are finding that re-engaging teenagers in sport is a challenge," Scott said.

"They've found other things to do; riding mountain bikes, skateboarding or whatever.

"It's a difficult one but it's about creating an environment where people want to come and play football.

"One of the things we've been working really hard on is trying to make sure the draws are better so there are less byes - even if we don't have a full complement of teams - and the kids get to play every week.

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"It does help that kids can play up age groups and a lot of them do but even so, the numbers of byes has been too many.

"In the past, there's been a lot of chopping and changing and we've finally set the age groups maybe two weeks before the season starts but this year, we've gone to the clubs early.

"We've analysed all the data on the players we've had so that we can do that and the clubs have been really receptive to that.

"It's going to put us in a better position for all the clubs to be able to field a team in most grades."

The 2021 FA Cup finals, postponed because of COVID, will be played as a season-opener on February 26, while it was confirmed the 2022 cup competition will be "opened up to a broader community."

There will be more league games played on Saturday night next season, with the league describing as "a great success" the matches which took place under lights this year.

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