The talent identification and high performance football training academy will open in February, focusing on boys and girls aged nine to 13 and increasing to older age groups in the future.

Brisbane Roar Academy general manager Warren Moon said the partnership with Eastcoast Futsal will see a pathway created for junior players all the way to A-League and W-League.

"We don't want them to leave their club environments, we want them to supplement what they do in club land and come to us for one session a week," he said.

"Our program will run four terms of the school year, with a tournament mid-year where we invite all the teams from all the hubs we've got running.

"We'll talent identify them against the other regions we have and see how they go so we can get a good gauge of what's out there."

Bellingen's Willow Neal is already part of the Eastcoast Eagle's women's futsal success story, regularly travelling to Port Macquarie and currently training hard for the national championships.

But her future is more likely to lie with Italy's Serie League, said Eastcoast Director Mick Day.

He described the new academy as exciting news for players and families in northern NSW.

"I personally know of some girls and boys in the Coffs area who travel to Newcastle to train and compete, looking for this level of development.

"Now players of the North Coast can travel to Port Macquarie once a week in 2020 and receive the exact same program curriculum that they are using in Brisbane, which allows for a smooth transition."

Players from the respective age groups will be identified with a focus on them transitioning into the Roar academy by the time they're 14, but they won't be forced to leave their junior club to chase their dream of playing in a professional league.

"We don't want them to leave their club environments, we want them to supplement what they do in club land and come to us for one session a week," Warren Moon said.

"Our program will run four terms of the school year, with a tournament mid-year where we invite all the teams from all the hubs we've got running.

"We'll talent identify them against the other regions we have and see how they go so we can get a good gauge of what's out there."

However, if a player was believed to be talented enough to join the Roar academy, they wouldn't be forced to move to Brisbane straight away.

"It's a case that we've identified him and then we can monitor him and use a different training regime where we can bring him into the academy when he's 14, 15 or even 16."

For more information, please contact Mick Day nswjleague@gmail.com