The Roy Cazaly Football Club

The Roy Cazaly Football Club has been established to promote the philosophies of health and well being as demonstrated by the life's work of the late Roy (Up There) Cazaly (1893-1963), Roy Cazaly Jnr (1919-1994) and Roy Jnr's son Rick Cazaly (1953-)

Roy Snr, who played for and coached many football clubs over four decades, was a strict non-smoker and non-drinker who avoided fried foods and insisted on a fresh food diet  (unfashionable in those days). At only 180cm (5 ft 11 inches) and weighing 79.5 kg (12st 7 pounds) he was not a big man, but was able to outclass many much larger opponents.

He was an excellent kick with either foot and could also bat with either hand.

As a coach, he developed innovative conditioning drills and demanded that his players achieve and maintain peak health & fitness not only throughout the football season, but across the player's whole family and community life as well.

Anything else, he declared, was not fair to the player, the team or their supporters. Off the field, Roy worked as a physiotherapist who devoted much of his life to helping sportsmen and ordinary working people overcome debilitating illness and injuries, often for little or no payment. Roy Jnr joined with his father from the late 1930s to expand the family's health and fitness operations, with particular emphasis on programs specfic to women. From 1970 Roy Jnr's son Rick Cazaly brought these principles into the modern era, with the focus shifting to workplace settings and community-wide participation. 

These men dedicated their lives to health and fitness promotion through physical therapy, physical fitness programs, healthy lifestyle choices, the leadership of men and the building of strong communities. Throughout their lives there was a strong focus on inclusion and particpation for all, irrespective of skill level and natural talent.  

Established by Rick Cazaly, The Roy Cazaly Football Club seeks to support families,individual boys and girls, clubs and organizations who respect the 'Cazaly Values' typified by Roy's example.

Its objectives are to promote:

• Lifelong health promotion for players (healthy lifestyle coaching & injury prevention training )
• Healthy competition & sportmanship (teaching healthy teamwork from an early age)
• Building bridges within football communities (helping clubs engage 'women's only' programs and community engagement) 

THE ROY CAZALY FOOTBALL CLUB offers worldwide membership, educational products and programs, merchandise and memorobillia, recognition and endorsement.

 The Roy Cazaly Biography Project