Registrations for the 2025 Winter Season are now open!

Please first have a look at the Registration Memorandum below, and download the Season 2025 Calendar. Then click the appropriate button below to launch the registration procedure. Yes, it is as simple as that! If you have a doubt as to which button is relevant to you, please refer to Section D of the Registration Memorandum below. For support, please contact registrations@bmafc.co.nz

Registration Memorandum

A. REGISTRATION FOR THE WINTER SEASON

Hello there, BMAFC or soon-to-be BMAFC member!

We hope you had a wonderful holiday season and already wish you the very best for 2025!

We’re thrilled to have you join us for an exciting football season at BMAFC. We’ll do everything we can to make it a memorable experience for you and your family.

Registrations for the Winter Season are now open, so please sign up as soon as possible.

Before you sign up, please take a look at this memorandum. It has all the important details, including key dates, frequently asked questions, information about grades and age groups, registration fees, and how to register.

We also invite you to download our (one-page) Season 2025 Calendar – see link above.

We can’t wait to have you back or – if you are new to BMAFC – to welcome you.

Thanks for your support, and “Up the Beach!”

Your BMAFC Committee

The content of this Memorandum is based on Committee’s resolutions and information – particularly from the website of the Northern Region Football (NRF) – available at this Memorandum’s issue date. The information in this Memorandum, including certain dates, may change over time, and we already apologise if it is outdated at the time you read it.

End of Registration Period

  • For Junior & Youth 23 February 2025
  • For FK, FF & Senior Men’s 30 March 2025

Club Open Day

  • 15 February 2025

Musters

  • Opening Muster for Junior & Youth 5 March 2025
  • International Ladies Day Muster 8 March 2025

Team Allocation

For Junior & Youth:

  • Start of Team Allocation 24 February 2025
  • Opening Muster 5 March 2025
  • End of Team Allocation 12 March 2025
  • Notification of Team Allocation 14 March 2025

For First Kicks & Fun Football:

  • Start of Team Allocation 31 March 2025
  • End of Team Allocation 7 April 2025
  • Notification of Team Allocation 11 April 2025

Trainings

  • Start of training to be determined by each team Coach/Manager

Winter Season Kick-Off

  • Men’s First Teams 29 March 2025
  • Ladies First Team 30 March 2025
  • Junior, Youth & Senior Men’s Teams 5 April 2025
  • First Kicks & Fun Football 3 May 2025

Notes:

  • The Junior, Youth and Senior Men’s Teams kick off their season the weekend preceding the first school break. This is three (3) weeks earlier than last season.
  • The start of the First Kicks & Fun Football season will be one week later than usual (because the previous weekend falls on a long weekend), but it will finish one week later to compensate.

Winter Season Ends

  • All (except Ladies First Team, FK & FF) 6 September 2025
  • Ladies First Team 7 September 2025
  • First Kicks & Fun Football 13 September 2025

Summer Football (TBC)

  • From 9 October to 27 November 2025

Prize Giving (TBC)

  • 11 October 2025

AGM (TBC)

  • 17 November 2025

B. QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

The Registration Period for the 2025 Winter Season runs until and including 23 February 2025 (for Junior & Youth) and 30 March 2025 (for FK, FF & Senior Men’s).

Registrations for the Ladies First Team and Men’s First Teams are dealt separately.

Registrations must be made online, via the Club’s Friendly Manager web application.

The registration procedure differs whether:

  • you are a current or past member of the Club
  • you are new to the Club and aged 18 or older
  • you are new to the Club and aged less than 18

For more detailed information regarding the registration procedure, please see Section D below.

Yes, registration after the Registration Period will be possible, but it may be conditional. In any event, it will be subject to an additional late registration fee.

For more information on this, please see next FAQ below.

The amount of the registration fee ranges from $220 to $280 depending on the player’s grade or age group. Discount applies under certain conditions.

You will find the registration fee applicable to each player’s grade/age group as well as the discount conditions in the section Grades, Age Groups & Registration Fees see below.

A player’s grade or age group is based on this player’s birth year.

For more information on this, please refer to the section Grades, Age Groups & Registration Fees, see below.

No. The Club’s registration fees remain unchanged.

We have, however, created a late registration fee. For more information on this, please refer to section Grades, Age Groups & Registration Fees see below.

We also now offer the Club Boost option. For more information on this option, please see the two FAQs dedicated to that below.

During the Club’s 40th anniversary, we shared our plan to transition to the full blue playing kit for the upcoming season. With this in mind, the Committee has agreed that, starting from the 2025 season, all members representing the Men’s and Ladies First Teams, Youth, Juniors, FF & FK will be required to wear the new blue kit. Please check our club site here if you wish to have a look.

Yes, we are. EOIs are now open for new coaches and managers to join our teams. Come be part of the fun and help guide our players! If you’re interested, please reach out to jnrpresident@bmafc.co.nz, dof@bmafc.co.nz or anyone in the Committee.

The Club has fantastic and committed sponsors and partners. It also receives several grants and will organize multiple fundraisers. In spite of this, however, the Club’s budget remains constrained.

Club Boost is an optional and non-tax deductible contribution which comes in addition to the members’ regular registration fees. Club Boost enable members to increase the Club’s resources, ideally for acquiring extra gear and equipment.

You may contribute $10, $20, $50, $100 or any multiple thereof via Friendly Manager.

For more information on how you can contribute, please refer to sub-section Procedure to contribute to Club Boost in Section D below.

In the name of the Committee and of all Club members, our warmest thanks to any Club Boost contributor.

BMAFC’s registration fees is very similar to that of our close neighbouring Clubs offering pathways to all age groups, namely to that of Fencibles, Buckland Beach and South Auckland Rangers.

The registrations fees partly cover the following (and not exhaustive) expenses required to run the Club:

  • General administration
  • Salary of Director of Football
  • Subscription fees (e.g. Friendly Manager and Xero)
  • New Zealand Football / NRF levies (in 2024, this totalled more than $30,000)
  • Grounds and building maintenance
  • Training and game day equipment (balls, goals, cones, bips, etc.)
  • Price Giving expenses (venue, trophies, pennants, certificates, pins)

You may indicate this preference when completing your child’s online registration via Friendly Manager. This preference will be considered during the allocation of players among teams. However, we cannot guarantee that this request will be fulfilled.

Yes, the Club will continue to propose the following special programmes:

  • Discovery Programme
  • Skill Centre
  • Holiday Programme
  • Summer Football

In parallel to the above special programmes, the Club also contemplates the creation and running of a Referee Academy. More information on this to come later.

Registration to any special programme will need to be made online, via the Club’s Friendly Manager web application.

  • To register for the Discovery Programme, click here.
  • To register for the Skill Centre, click here.
  • To register for the Holiday Programme, click here.

Contrary to previous seasons, no one will be accepted in any special programmes before corresponding fees are fully settled.

If you need additional information or clarification please send your query via email to:

C. GRADES, AGE GROUPS & REGISTRATION FEES

A BMAFC player

Born in

will be in

Grade

will be in

Age Group

and will pay a Registration Fee of
2005

or earlier

Senior$280
2006U19Youth$230
2007
2008U17
2009U16
2010U15
2011U14
2012U13
2013U12Junior
2014U11
2015U10
2016U9
2017U7Fun Football (FF)$220
2018U8
2019U6First Kicks (FK)
2020U5

Any members registering and paying for 3 or more members at once, will receive a 10% discount off of total fees.

An additional $10 fee will apply for any registration made after the end of the Registration Period.

D. REGISTRATION PROCEDURE

Registrations for the 2025 Winter Season must be made online, via the Club’s Friendly Manager web application. See registration buttons above.

The registration procedure differs whether you are:

  • a current or a past member of the Club = see relevant section below
  • new to the Club and aged 18 or older = see relevant section below
  • new to the Club and aged less than 18 = see relevant section below

For the procedure to contribute to Club Boost, please see relevant section below

Unsure about your Status? Forgotten Login or Password? Unable to Login/Sign in?

In this case please send an email to registrations@bmafc.co.nz indicating:

  • your first name
  • your last name
  • your mobile number, and as the case may be
  • the first name, last name and DOB of each of your children who have played at any point in time for BMAFC

Procedure to register a player if you are a current or a past member of the Club

If you are a Current or Past member of Beachlands Maraetai AFC:

  1. Sign into your Friendly Manager account
  2. Follow the procedure and register player(s) (*)
  3. Consider a Club Boost contribution = see below
  4. Proceed to Summary & Payment

(*) To receive a 10% discount for registering and paying for 3 or more members at once, ensure that you register all members in the same session.

Procedure to register a new player aged 18 years or more

If you are new to the Club and wish to register a player aged 18 years or more:

  1. Connect to the registration page of our website by clicking here
  2. Click the New to Beachlands Maraetai AFC button
  3. Click the Winter Season Registrations Seniors button
  4. Follow the procedure and register player
  5. Consider a Club Boost contribution = see below
  6. Proceed to Summary & Payment

Procedure to register a new player aged less than 18 years

If you are new to the Club and wish to register a player aged less than 18 years:

  1. Connect to the registration page of our website by clicking here
  2. Click the New to Beachlands Maraetai AFC button
  3. Click the Winter Season Registrations Junior & Y button
  4. Follow the procedure and register player(s) (Step 1) (*) and Parents/Guardians (Step 2)
  5. Consider a Club Boost contribution = see below
  6. Proceed to Summary & Payment

(*) To receive a 10% discount for registering and paying for 3 or more members at once, ensure that you register all members in the same session.

Contributions to Club Boost are made via Friendly Manager.

You may either contribute (1) during the registration process, or (2) at a later stage by signing into your Friendly Manager account > Menu > Purchase Merchandise.

In either cases, you may contribute $10, $20, $50, $100 or any multiple thereof. For example, if you want to contribute for a total of $30, you may select a $10 and a $20 Club Boost contribution, or alternatively select 3 (three) $10 Club Boost contributions.