The Eagles All-Abilities team soared to success at the inaugural tournament in January, winning four-straight matches and scoring an impressive 33 goals on the way to claiming the title.

Players Josh Suidgeest and Justin Davison are looking forward to the challenge of trying to replicate the dose.

But they know it won't be an easy task.

"We've got a few new teams that have come in so we'll look to defend our title, but it will be harder because there are more teams involved," Suidgeest said.

Coordinator Chris Whitfield knows they will have their work cut out although the growth of the All Abilities program locally means they will field two teams in Sydney.

He knows the bar has been set pretty high.

"We're approaching it a lot differently to how we did last year," Whitfield said.

"We've put in a lot more training sessions and tried a lot more things, but for us last year was a blessing in disguise because it's made us work that much harder throughout the year."

Having two sides means the Eagles will have two shots at success at the championships with Whitfield's ideal outcome aiming to have both teams playing in the final.

"It has created a lot of internal competition between the guys," he said.

"It's good in some ways that we have two teams, but it's horribly bad in other ways because it does mean we're going to have to play each other at some stage."

But he was quick to point out they would enter the tournament as one entity.

"The strength of what we do is that while we will go down as two teams, we will be one big family," Whitfield said.

"We will stay together, train together, warm up and warm down together."

Their success in January is one of the key factors that resulted in a boom in the number of players participating in the All-Abilities program.

"Our program has tripled in size since this time last year on the back of what we did at nationals so I think that speaks for itself in what success can do," Whitfield said.

"We're hoping it will keep expanding on opportunities for these guys going forward so that we can get out of town a bit more and do more things with other organisations similar to ourselves."

Teams from Queensland and Victoria will join the Eagles with teams potentially playing between six and eight games.

"It is a developing division because it is so new and no one else is doing this within Australia," he said.

"We don't know what the competition will be like."

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