2025 Season Info & Key Dates
Welcome to the 2025 Season! All season dates are now confirmed and all junior and senior players are invited to register.
Key dates
- Fri 24 Jan: 2025 winter season registrations OPEN
- Sun 9 Mar: 2025 winter season registrations CLOSE
- Sat 22 Mar: Northern League / Talent Development Programme Leagues season starts
- Sat 5 Apr: Community season starts (Minibays, Junior, Youth, Senior)
- Sat 30 Aug or 6 Sep: Community season ends (Minibays, Junior, Youth, Senior)
Registrations close on Sunday 9 March to allow our grade convenors time to finalise teams, coaches and team managers. To avoid any disappointment of missing out on a team, please ensure registrations are submitted on time. Northern Regional Football (NRF) have changed the season to start 3 weeks earlier than normal this season so get in quick!
How to register
Registration is completed through our Friendly Manager registration system. You can find the buttons to register at the bottom of our registration page: https://ecbafc.nz/register
- If you're new to our club (a big welcome), you will need to create a login and select the relevant grade / programme
- If you're a current / past member (great to have you back), please use the "re-register / add" option at the bottom of your Friendly Manager profile.
You can register multiple children under one login. PLEASE NOTE: Player's age must be entered before teams are displayed in the 'choose team' section.
2025 season fees
Our club is committed to making football accessible to as many people as possible and we continue to work hard to keep fees as low as possible. Despite a period of increasing costs, including our club’s insurance premiums doubling, we are pleased to announce that we will hold fees to what they were last season:
- Mini Bays (Grades 5-8) - $210
- Juniors (Grades 9-12) - $255
- Youth (Grades 13-19) - $255
- Senior University Student (20+) - $300
- Seniors (Grades 20+) - $350
For Junior and Youth players, age groups are based on your child's age on their birth date in 2025 (i.e. turning 12 in 2025, they will be in the 12th grade).
Financial assistance
Our club understands that we have members and people in our community who are finding times tough with increasing costs or changing circumstances. Our club is about community and inclusivity and we aim to ensure cost is not an inhibitor for players, so if cost is a barrier, please reach out to our Operations Manager Duane Sommerville for a confidential chat regarding payment plans and the Wayne Edgeler Fund. Duane’s email is: admin@ecbafc.co.nz
More info about our teams and how to get help
We have teams for all ages and abilities. Our website has all the info you need on each grade such as selection process, training options and key dates. Head to the ‘Our Teams’ tab on top of our website.
We also have convenors for each grade that are here to answer any questions that you may have and their contact details are at the bottom of each grade page.
Here is the process before the season kicks off…
- Registrations Close (9 Mar)
- Convenor and ECB Coaching Team finalise team selections (w/c 10 Mar)
- Convenor will let you know which team you have been selected for (w/c 17 Mar)
- Team Manager will contact you and set up team comms channel (eg TeamReach, Whats App) & let you know of team training details
- Season Starts (5 Apr)
We also have a number of programmes that we run each term that provide additional training or a chance to play more football. These are run on a term by term basis and all the info can be found in our ‘Programmes' Tab of our website. Our Term 1 Programmes start w/c 10 Feb.
We aim to keep our website up to date with all the latest info, dates, session times etc so always head to our website first for any info about our teams and programmes. If you have further questions, feel free to email our grade convenors.
See you at the club!
We’re looking forward to seeing everyone back at the club, on the field, and on the sidelines! We’re also looking forward to welcoming all of our new members to our fantastic club community.
Go the Mighty Bays!!
