Annual Club Membership FeesOnly registered Clane Athletic club members can avail of the coach led training and train with our adult & juvenile groups on the track.
Clane Athletic club is affiliated with Athletics Ireland. To become a member of Clane Athletic Club, both Juvenile Athletics Club members and Adult Running Club members must register via the Athletic Ireland Membership portal. https://membership.athleticsireland.ie/ For 2025 the Athletics Ireland federation fee was increased for juveniles and adults annual memberships. All Athletics Ireland memberships are subject to this federation fee which runs from 1st January - 31st December, regardless of what time of the year you join. This fee goes directly to Athletics Ireland. Clane Athletic Club have included this revised fee in our 2025 pricing structure so prices will have changed to reflect this. In addition to this, Athletics Ireland charge a 2.5% service fee to use their online payment system and then there is an additional 2% charge for banking fees. Clane Athletic Club have no control over these fees. When registering on the Athletics Ireland portal, you will need to click both the federation fee option and the Clane AC membership fee option. The service fees & bank charges will be also be included and displayed automatically in your final total for payment. So, the price you see will be the price you pay. How does the registration year work? The registration year runs from January 1st to December 31st. All memberships are due for renewal at 1st January each year – even if members were registered mid way in the previous year. This is inline with Athletics Ireland membership guidelines and Clane Athletic Club have no control over this rule. Please read all Terms & Conditions prior to registering. All Athletics Ireland online memberships registrations require approval by our club registrar before you can continue with your registration. Our club registrar will work through the registrations and approve them as they come in. But please be mindful that as our registrar is a volunteer with a full time job, on occasion, it may take a few days until they catch up with the online registrations. It is a manual process and every registration needs to be cross checked and then digitally 'ticked' off as 'approved' or 'on hold' one by one on the online Athletics Ireland portal. Juvenile Annual Membership fees:U9s - U18s Age groups (children born 2017 - 2008)Single Juvenile Membership: €94.65
This price includes the annual Athletics Ireland Federation fee, the 2.5% online service portal charge and 2% bank charges. Second & subsequent Juvenile Membership: Discounted price on the registration portal to be confirmed for 2025 - as a guideline price, it will be approx €75 including Athletics Ireland Federation fee and service charges. Juvenile Membership fee includes:
U8s - children born in 2018
The youngest age group Clane AC can train is U8s
(born 2018) These are children already age 6 by 1st January, and turning age 7 in the same calender year. No younger, no exceptions - Sorry! For 2025, the U8s athletics group, known as the "Little Athletics" programme will only run on Mondays at 6pm - 6:45pm. It typically starts March and run to June, during the bright Springtime months. This year we will be starting on Monday 3rd March 2025 U8s short term Juvenile Membership: €68.53 (It is one day a week training over Spring into early Summer) This price includes the annual Athletics Ireland Federation fee, the 2.5% online service portal charge and 2% bank charges. Register on https://membership.athleticsireland.ie and await approval before proceeding to the next step. Once formally registered, remember to download ClubZap and join the correct age group relevant to your child to be included in the communications for any updates & announcements. Family Annual Membership fees:1 adult & 2 children or 2 adults & 1 child
1 adult & 3 children 1 adult & 4 children The club has decided to cap family membership at €250.00 This price includes the annual Athletics Ireland Federation fee, the 2.5% online service portal charge and 2% bank charges. 10 year family Membership:10 year family membership: €1,000
This is mainly used as a fund raising option. This price includes the annual Athletics Ireland Federation fee, the 2.5% online service portal charge and 2% bank charges. Contact our club registrar via: [email protected] Adult Running Club Membership:€110.10 for single adult membership
this price includes the annual Athletics Ireland Federation fee, the 2.5% online service portal charge and 2% bank charges. Two adults from the same household - €200.00 This option is available when you go to register as normal on the Athletic Irelands membership page. You will see this discount at the end and our club registrar may need to approve it before you can proceed. Couch to 5km Graduates membership: (Current year C25K graduates only) Valid from 1st March - 31st December. - €76.50 this price includes the annual Athletics Ireland Federation fee, the 2.5% online service portal charge and 2% bank charges. Clane Athletic club offer a reduced annual club fee to our Couch to 5km members who have successfully graduated from this current years programme at the end of February. This option is only available from March onwards, When you go to register as normal on the Athletic Irelands membership page, you will see this discount at the end and our club registrar will need to approve it before you can proceed. (C25K graduates from previous years are not eligible for this discounted rate - current year C25K graduates only!) See note below regarding our Couch to 5km programme January to February short term membership. Adult Running Club annual Membership fee includes:
Couch to 5km programme
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Instructions on how to join:
Adult Running Club registration:
There is never a waiting list for the Adult Running Club. However, there may be a short waiting period of a few days after you tried to register on the Athletics Ireland portal. This is because the club registrar needs to approve your online registration. (All registrations need to be approved. It is a manual process and every registration needs to be cross checked and then digitally 'ticked' off as 'approved', one by one on the online portal) Once approved, you will receive an automated email from Athletics Ireland advising you that you can continue to payment. (Remember, our club registrar is a volunteer with a full time job so it might take a few days for them to catch up with registrations) Once approved and you've completed your registration fully, you can start training at the track at the very next training session. Juvenile Athletics Club registration: It is quite common that there *may* be a waiting list in place for the Juvenile club espeically as the year progresses. Due to the high demand in certain age categories, sometimes Clane AC have to operate a waiting list for new juvenile members in certain age groups - most commonly in the U9s, U10s & U11s age groups. Our team of volunteer coaches are constantly reviewing the age groups and coach allocation to see if we have more space available. More volunteer coaches & adult assistants means more available spaces, so if you have a child on the waiting list, consider assisting us with juvenile training! (Subject to Garda Vetting & completing a Child Safe Guarding course) You won't know if there is a waiting list in place when you go to register your child via the Athletics Ireland portal: https://membership.athleticsireland.ie/ We don't make announcements about it - This is because the waiting list status is constantly changing. Our club registrar oversees the incoming online registrations and places a registration block on certain age groups once the maximum registration quota for that age group has been met. This could be a short term period, but depending on the demand, the waiting list could be in place longer. What if there is no waiting list for your childs age group? Great!!! Once your registration is approved*, you will receive your automated email from Athletics Ireland notifying you that you can proceed, and you will be able to continue all the way through the online registration process. *All registrations require approval...so this may take a few days until our volunteer club registrar catches up with the online registrations. It is a manual process and every registration needs to be cross checked and then digitally 'ticked' off as 'approved' or 'on hold' one by one on the Athletics Ireland online portal. Once full payment is made this means registration has been successful. Full registered juvenile members or adult running club members can train with the club at the next training session. What if there is a waiting list? Typically, if your registration is for a juvenile member, and has not been approved after a week or so, this usually indicates that there is a 'hold' on that registration and this registration has been placed on the 'waiting list'. You will not be able to proceed with your registration, and registration will be 'paused' until a space becomes available. We cannot say how long this may take. However to guarantee a quicker turn around, consider volunteering as a Juvenile Coach or Coaches assistant at the club for your childs age group, so that more spaces can be freed up. (Subject to Garda Vetting & completing a Child Safe Guarding course) The Athletics Ireland online portal explained further: Although you will be registering through the Athletics Ireland registration portal initially, please be reassured, if there is no place available (usually only for the juvenlie section) you won't be able to continue with the full registration, and there will be no payment required at this step. This is only phase one of the process to register your interest. All registrations need approval first by our volunteer club registrar. When registering on the Athletics Ireland portal, you will need to click both the federation fee option and the Clane AC membership fee option. Once this initial part of your registration is submitted and logged on the Athletics Ireland online system, our club registrar will be able to go into clubs Athletics Ireland account to review all the "pending" online applications so they can check for availability with our coaches. During this waiting period, your online registration will be "on hold" and you won't be able to proceed with your online Athletics Ireland until your registration has been approved. This might only take a few days or a few weeks, but please be aware that it can take much, much longer especially if these popular age groups are full to capacity and nobody leaves... or if we lose one of our volunteer Juvenile coaches to other life commitments. Your child will be manually placed on our club registrars juvenile waiting list and this list will be reviewed whenever juvenile members leave or new Juvenile coaches come on board. (This is a hand written list - you will not be sent an email) If/when there is a place available, our registrar will have to "approve" your pending online Athletics Ireland application and only then will you be able to proceed to the next step to register your child with the club. Once "approved" by our registrar, you will receive an autogenerated email directly from Athletics Ireland alerting you that you can continue with your registration, and you will be able to move onto the next step to formally register your child/children with the club. Payment will be required at this next step Once fully registered with Athletics Ireland, you or your child can start training with the club at the next training session. I have read and understood the above instructions and I am now ready to register via the Athletics Ireland online portal: https://membership.athleticsireland.ie/ Athletics Ireland club affiliation:For Athletics Ireland/Clane AC registered members
- both Adult & Juvenile: Being an official member of an Athletics Ireland affiliated club such as Clane Athletic club means you are automatically bound to that specific athletics club as an Athletics Ireland member for a period of 3 years. In other words, if you register with Clane AC, Athletics Ireland will allocate Clane AC as your designated athletics club for a period of three years, even if you don't actually renew your membership after the 1st or 2nd year after joining. This rule applies to any Athletics Ireland club you register with in Ireland. You are tied to your chosen club for a period of 3 years. This rule was put in place by Athletics Ireland to impede larger, competitive clubs from easily poaching high performance athletes from other clubs. It obstructs the practice of "cherry picking" athletes, either juvenile or adult, to enhance the success of their own club. If you wish to change to another Athletics Ireland affiliated club within 3 years of joining Clane AC, you will need to apply for a club transfer which must be approved at county board level. For this reason we do not recommend complete beginner runners / Couch to 5km participants join via the Athletics Ireland registration link in case they decide they would not like to continue with the club or running, or because they may want do a different running programme elsewhere with another Athletics Ireland local club within three years. It eliminates the requirement for having to do formal club transfers. These club transfer applications are only processed twice yearly by Athletics Ireland. This can be frustrating for people who want to do a different programme with another club, but can't, as they have to wait until their transfer is processed. Club Transfer guidelines
Transferring Clubs
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Juvenile membership - Terms & Conditions
What is the Kildare League?
- Juvenile Athletes whose membership is not up to date are not entitled to train with the club and will not be eligible to be entered in competitions.
- Like any sports club, all Juveniles are reasonably expected to participate in competition events throughout the year but the club especially expects our young members to attend the annual Kildare League.
- Due to the high demand of places in certain age groups, juvenile members who do not show up for training for over 4 consecutive weeks without an adequate reason for their absence, or similarly, those who never participate competition events, especially the Kildare League, may be at risk of losing their place.
- Juvenile Athletes must be registered with Athletics Ireland to be eligible to enter any official Athletics Ireland events.
- Juvenile Athletes must wear the Clane AC club singlet when representing their club at any formal Athletics Ireland championships. This includes the Kildare League and any other Athletics Ireland events organised by other Athletic clubs, Kildare Athletics & Leinster Athletics.
Adult membership - Terms & Conditions
Complete beginner adult runners
- We recommend that you come through our Couch to 5km programme which is a separate short term membership.
This is available in January for 7 weeks only. - Being able to run a distance of 5km is just a guideline for joining the running club, but is not mandatory though. If you feel you have a fitness level that you can comfortably keep up with the group runs or track strength & conditioning sessions, or then please feel free to join the club at any time.
- Make yourself familiar with the Athletics Ireland club affiliation three year rule and club transfer guidelines prior to joining.
- It is not mandatory for Adult running club members to enter race and running competitions. It's a personal choice and you won't be forced.
- Adult Athletes must be registered with Athletics Ireland to be eligible to enter any formal/official Athletics Ireland events.
- Adult Athletes must wear the Clane AC club singlet when representing their club at any Athletics Ireland events. This includes any Athletics Ireland events organised by other Athletic clubs, Kildare Athletics, Leinster Athletics & National championships.
- We would be so proud if you wore your club singlet at fun runs & social running events but it is entirely up to yourself - its not obligatory!
Membership General Terms & Conditions
Athletics Ireland online memberships registrations may require approval by our club registrar before you can continue with your registration.
Our club registrar will work through the registrations and approve them as they come in.
Our club registrar will work through the registrations and approve them as they come in.
Clane AC is affiliated with Athletics Ireland.
When you join Clane AC via the Athletics Ireland Membership portal, your membership runs from 1st January - 31st December, regardless of what time of year you join eg. If you register for membership in September, you will have to re-register for the full year in January again.
This is in line with Athletics Ireland annual registration guidelines and Clane Athletic Club have no control over this rule.
When you join Clane AC via the Athletics Ireland Membership portal, your membership runs from 1st January - 31st December, regardless of what time of year you join eg. If you register for membership in September, you will have to re-register for the full year in January again.
This is in line with Athletics Ireland annual registration guidelines and Clane Athletic Club have no control over this rule.
Direct link : AAI Membership (athleticsireland.ie)
Note: the Athletics Ireland online payment system applies an additional 2.5% service fee + 2% banking fees which applies to any transaction made within the system for club membership.
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