About Chris Higgins Goalkeeping Academy

Passionate About Improving Others

Chris Higgins Goalkeeping started in 2008 as Goalkeeping SA and has also been known as Sells Goalkeeping Academy Australia. Our aim is to provide quality goalkeeper coaching to those young keepers that weren't receiving any at club level or who are looking for an alternative pathway.

CHGK has produced many state team, SIP, Skilleroo, NTC and state team futsal keepers. We have had young keepers invited in to trial or train at clubs such as Wigan. Everton. Aston Villa. Derby County. Fleetwood Town, Crystal Palace, Watford and Burton Albion.

Head coach and owner Chris Higgins has coached many senior goalkeepers at NPL and local level winning the 2016 FFA SA cup with Metrostars and the 2017 NPL SA league title with Croydon Kings. Chris is a former junior state team goalkeeper, former NPL keeper and former Australian Futsal international. He is also the former Football South Australia state team junior goalkeeping coach and the former Football South Australia state Futsal teams goalkeeping coach.

Chris currently holds his CHGK academy sessions and one on one sessions throughout the week for both Junior and Senior keepers. In addition to this he is also coaching the Senior and Junior goalkeepers at NPL Croydon again in 2025

major coaching Honours

2021 – Birkalla FC - State Leauge 1 premiers
2021 - Birkalla FC - State League 1 grand final runners up
2018 – Croydon Kings – FFA cup (SA) runners up
2017 – Croydon Kings – NPL winners (grand final winners)
2016 – Metrostars – FFA cup (SA) winners
2021 - Prospect futsal club - U/16 Gold Coast International - Winners
2017 - Football South Australia U/16 state futsal team - National championship - Runners up
2016 - Football South Australia U/15 state futsal team - National championship - Winners

Clubs Coached last
few years

2025 – Snrs/Jnrs - Croydon FC / Jnrs Sturt Lion FC
2024 – Snrs/Jnrs - Croydon FC
2023 – Snrs/Jnrs - Birkalla FC
2022 – Snrs/Jnrs - Birkalla FC
2021 – Snrs/Jnrs - Birkalla FC
2020 - Snrs - Gawler Eagles FC
2019 – Snrs Beograd FC
2018 – Snrs Croydon Kings
2017 – Snrs Croydon Kings
2016 - Snrs/Jnrs - Metrostars
2015 - Snrs/Jnrs - Metrostars
2014 - Jnrs - Metrostars
2013 - Jnrs - Metrostars
2012 - Jnrs - Metrostars

CHGK Representatives

Burton Albion - Lewis Cleland
Australian Socceroo Joeys – Jamie Signorello/Taigai Yoshida
Australian AWD National Futsal – Xavier White
Australian Schoolboys - Rian Del Nido, Oscar Page
Australian Schoolgirsl - Erin Murphy
Adelaide United Youth – Isaac Carmody, Luca Meggetto, Oscar Page
Adelaide Utd U/13 Scholarship – 2009 – Jackson O’Donnell/Nathaniel Temby
Central Coast Mariners - Luca Meggetto
Western Sydney Wanderers - Taigai Yoshida
SV Waldhof Mannheim 07 - Dawson Bojanic

Jamie Signorello (Pink)

Ryan Del Nido

Erin Murphy

Xavier White (Right)

Oscar Page

Isaac Carmody

Dawson Bojanics

Lewis Cleland

Previous NTC Keepers:

Ryan Borzillo, Jayden Spruyt, Travis Brookes, Luca Meggetto, Jamie Signorello, Mitchell Higgins, Brodie Galletti, Rian Del Nido, Erin Murphy, Amy Benton, Jackson O’Donnell, Joseph Ruggerio, Jack Bloxsome

LATEST Skilleroo/DEV SQUAD full time-part time/State team Goalkeepers:

Jack South, Oscar Ive, Boston Lange, Jonathon Papatraniou, Olli Patterson, Elliot Turtle, Raff Rostirolla, Ari Becirovic, Ella Martini, Archer Webster, Campbell Mattner, Patrick Lambourne, Topaz Pawlaczyk, Laris Kalender, Sabian Cirillo, Archie Butler

Previous Skilleroo/stic/sap/SIP keepers:

Thomas Hills, Kacey Seidel, Oliver Prole, Lucas Peter, Melissa Bosco, Jade Buckland, Jonathon Papatraniou, Riley Sanderson, Aeden Lumsden, Lewis Cleland, Bailey Aistrope, Charlie Linidarkis, Christian Kuna, Koedi Smoker, Luca Meggetto, Rian Del Nido, Erin Murphy, Luke Stacey, Stefan Wilner, Lachlan Fusco, Hunter Strudwick, Isiah Mount, Jamie Signorello, Mitchell Higgins, Declan Burchell, Riley Ward, Travis Brookes, Brodie Galletti, Nathaniel Temby, Joseph Ruggerio, Mark Ellis, Josh Warner, Aston Ferdinands, Vassillios Tryfopolous, Henry Preen, Liam Stapleton, Billy Christie, Richard Goss, Cody Lewis, Nathaniel Temby, Bobby Bilney, Ben Dalwood, Ben Jackson, Ricky Monseraat

Cosmo Groff, Tom Hughes, Nicholas Wooley, Henry Page, Brayden Andermahr, Liam Doolin, Jordan Findlay, Nicholas Devlin, Bobby Bilney, Ryan Lavender, Nicholas Karinovic, Hamish Lewis, Ky Clermont, Nino Bagnato, Joey Bagnato, Daniel Evans Matt Furina, Travis Delfos, Ben Tran, Nick Scalzi, Deegan Nicholas, Billy Rampling, Aaron Rullo, Noah Beddow, Hayden Beddow, Ben Tran, Luca Altamura, Emily Gale, Matt Duncan, Henry Page, Harry Dillon, Thomas Di Maria, Matt Duncan

FSA – Futsal state team goalkeepers:

Riley Sanderson , Melissa Bosco, Jade Buckland, George Psaraombas, Giovanni Primero, Campbell Mattner, Aeden Lumsden, Laris Kalender, Tom Hughes, Stefan Wilner, Mitchell Higgins, Joey Bagnato, Declan Burchell, Nicholas Scalzi, Hunter Strudwick, Jamie Signorello, Brayden Andermahr, Rian Del Nido, Lachlan Fusco, Stefan Wilner, Finn Murphy, Erin Murphy, Nicholas Devlin, Nicholas Wooley, Jack Bates-Brownsword, Henry Page, Bailey Aistrope, Charlie Linidarkis, James Gray, Noah Menillo, Jack Cavallaro, Luke Stacey, Liem O’Donahue, Sam Crouch, Seb Zajackowski, Nicholas Devlin, Julian kowalczyk, Alessio Ruggerio, Xavier White, Emily Gale, Luca Altamura, Christian Auciello, Ethan Criaris

South Australian state team Schoolboys goalkeepers:

Oscar Page, Campbell Mattner, Mitchell Higgins, Jordan Findlay, Matthew Woithe, Rian Del Nido, Erin Murphy, Ryan Borzillo