Our Member Clubs
East Coast Bays Cricket
East Coast Bays Cricket is one of the largest clubs on Auckland’s North Shore, providing cricket for all ages and all levels. Our Junior section has teams from Year 1 through to U13's, our Youth programme covers U15's to U17's and at Senior level we have teams ranging from Premiers through to Saturday and Sunday afternoon T20. In addition we have a Monday evening twilight 8 a side competition, The Bays Big Bash, which is proving extremely popular.Our Premiers are consistent performers, having twice won the Two Day Premiership in addition to the T20 Premiership.
We have a major focus on player development and run Programmes at both Junior and Youth level over the winter. In recent years we have engaged various top player/coaches including Zimbabwean international and former Auckland Aces' coach Paul Strang, Indian international Sriram Sridharan, English County player David Wigley, New Zealand First Class player Neal Parlane and current Auckland Ace, Louis Delport. Our current Club coach is Nick White. Four of our Men's Premier side are contracted ACES players - Louis Delport, Cole Briggs, Ryan Harrison and Cam Fletcher.
We have a strong management structure within the club and our philosophy is to provide a welcoming, inclusive environment for all cricketers at all levels. With a number of talented young cricketers coming through the Youth ranks and several established representative cricketers currently in the Premier squad, the future is extremely positive.
East Coast Bays Rugby Football Club
The East Coast Bays Rugby Football Club was founded in 1946, to cater for the sparsely populated (5,000) people of the East Coast Bays area on the North Shore of Auckland.
The first President of the club, Lionel Webb, and the nine committee members, worked out of the first club rooms which consisted of two army huts at the Browns Bay Domain, later to be named Freyberg Park.
Although the facilities were modest, they were a proud young club. It was, therefore, appropriate that the Domain was renamed Freyberg Park, after one of New Zealand’s greatest war time leaders, General Sir Bernard Freyberg VC who, as Lord Freyberg, was to become Governor General of New Zealand. In that first year of formation the Club gained second place in the Senior Competition run by the Kaipara Sub-Union. In those days the club wore white jerseys.
Games which involved traveling to Auckland, the teams would travel on the back of the trustee truck driven by Norm Wigglesworth. Often game day was followed by a working bee the next day, as the clubrooms were built with voluntary labour. In those days players would wash in the stream behind the clubrooms.
The Club has 5 x senior 15 aside teams including; Premiers (Premier 1), Reserves ( Premier 2 ), Under 21’s (Colts), Under 85kg and a Presidents team with approximately 180 Senior Players. The Club also fielded 7’s teams has a thriving summer touch tournament and a strong development academy. The Junior grade had approximately 35 teams and 550 players. There are about 450 non playing members including; coaches, managers, trainers, physios, doctors, administrators, old boys, life members, sponsors and other friends of bays, in addition to the host of other non financial supporters, parents and family members.
The Club is reversing the general trend and is growing its member base each year. In 2024 numbers are expected to grow even more, making the Bays Rugby Club one of the largest in the southern hemisphere.
The Club has a committed philosophy of developing local players and building strong links with the local secondary schools, in particular Rangitoto, Long Bay, Westlake, Albany Senior High, Rosmini, Kristin and Pinhehurst , along with offshore clubs Toyota (Japan) and Capillano (Canada) and Bath (UK)
