[ARTICLE UPDATED: 04/02/2025]

This bulletin relates to the following:

• Entering teams into Baywide Youth Leagues
• Ranking Teams and Grading Games
• Baywide Premier Boys
• Field Information
• Baywide Youth Regulations.
• Youth Playing Rules.
• Dispensations.
• Calendar.

TEAM ENTRY

All teams will be created in COMET. Once you have created your team you can enter them into a Competition. Please click HERE for instructions on how to enter teams in COMET, and add them to a competition.  

To Search for Competitions in Comet, please find below the Baywide Youth competition codes:

RANKING TEAMS AND GRADING GAMES

As per the instructions (above), when you create/edit your teams you will need to include in the ‘Notes’ section, which Division the team is best suited to. Please rank your teams as follows:

• 1 – Premier Boys
• 2 – Division 1
• 3 – Division 2
• 4 – Social. 

As discussed at the end of season meeting, the Social division is aimed at teams that are not School 1^st XI’s and that do not include players that play at a Federation level for their Senior Men’s club team.

For the Baywide Senior Girls league – please rank your teams 1- Division 1, 2 – Division 2, 3 – Social. If we do not receive enough entries in the Baywide Junior Girls League (Football 9s), then those teams will be moved to the social Division of the Baywide Senior Girls league. 

For Divisions other than Premier Boys, there will be four weeks of grading, and then teams would be placed in divisions and the draw completed for the remainder of the season. Please note: teams that you play away in grading, you may also play away during the season rounds. Teams may play teams that they have already played in grading before they play teams that they haven’t played yet.

The closing date for Baywide Youth Entries is Monday  April 7. Field Information forms are also due by this date. 

BAYWIDE PREMIER BOYS

In 2025, the Baywide Premier Boys league will be played on Wednesday afternoon/evenings at Waipuna Park. Rotorua Boys HS will play their home games in Rotorua.  Teams currently confirmed in the league are:

Mount Maunganui College 1^st XI, Otumoetai College 1^st XI, Papamoa College 1^st XI, Rotorua Boys HS, Tauranga Boys College Senior A, Tauranga Boys College Senior B and Tauranga Boys College Junior A.

If any other schools would like to join the Premier Boys league, please let me know.

FIELD INFORMATION FORM

HERE is a link to the Field Information form for Junior Leagues and Baywide Youth Leagues. This form also needs to be completed by Monday 7^th April.

Please complete this form with your Field information and any requests regarding your Baywide Youth teams. If you have a field map, you can upload this via the form as well. If you have any specific field, time, or date requests for teams in these leagues, can you please note these on the form.  Please Note: although we do our best to accommodate requests, we are not always able to do so.

It is important to also please ensure that you list if there are any dates that your grounds are unavailable. We are not always able to accommodate requests/changes to draws once they have been done, so please ensure that you provide as much information as possible on the form.

There is also a link to provide updated contact information for your club on the Field Information form.  

• Please Note: we are changing the way that we manage our mailing lists, so it is very important that you update your KEY club/school personnel on this list, and select each mailing list that they should be added to. Once team entries close on April 7th, any club/school contact emails not included on the form will not be included in bulk mailing list. 

Please also remember to update your club/school contacts in COMET if required.  

BAYWIDE YOUTH REGULATIONS

Click HERE for the WaiBOP Senior and Youth Playing Regulations, and the Appendix for the Baywide Youth Regulations.

YOUTH PLAYING RULES

Click HERE for the Youth Framework Playing Rules, including a Table of any league Variations.

DISPENSATIONS

To apply for a Baywide Youth Player Dispensation, please click HERE.

Please see the regulations for further information regarding dispensations and ensure that you have carefully considered the best option for the player before applying for dispensation. Dispensations close on Monday 7th April.

CALENDARS

For the 2025 Junior/Baywide Youth Calendar, please click HERE

All the best for the 2025 season. If you require any further information or assistance regarding Baywide Youth leagues, please feel free to contact Catherine Clark catherine.c@waibop.co.nz