East Coast Bays AFC

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East Coast Bays A.F.C.
East Coast Bays AFC logo.png
Full nameEast Coast Bays Association Football Club
Nickname(s)The Mighty Bays
Founded1959
Ground Bay City Park
Capacity4,000
ChairmanRoger Bridge [1]
Head coachJoseph Hall
League Northern League
2023 NRFL Championship, 2nd of 12 (promoted)
Website Club website

East Coast Bays is a football club located on Auckland's North Shore. The club competes in the Northern League, the second tier of New Zealand football. The club has won the Chatham Cup [2] [3] and the NRFL Premier Division three times. [4]

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History

East Coast Bays were founded following a public meeting held at the Progressive Hall (since demolished and replaced by the Bays Club) in October 1958. The committee formed from this meeting entered four junior teams for the start of the 1959 season. As some of the committee members were supporters of Glasgow Rangers, the colours of Royal Blue shirts, white shorts, and royal Blue sox were adopted. [5]

East Coast Bays picked The Maxwell Farm as its ground with the pitch running north to south. The old Progress Hall on the site was adapted to serve as clubrooms. [6]

A senior side was entered the next season and with the opening of the Auckland Harbour Bridge, the area boomed and the club grew in size to more than 1000 juniors in the late seventies and early eighties. [7] Senior sides also grew in numbers and the first team slowly made its way through the leagues, and in 1965 when the Northern League was formed they were invited to compete in the first division. [8] [9]

Under coach Alan Yates, the club won promotion to the National League in 1981 but was relegated the following year. [5]

Player numbers continued to grow and Mairangi Bay simply couldn't cope with the numbers even with an additional ground at Windsor Park. This cause a breakaway of a faction of club members to form the Rangitoto club which also saw a decline in the number of junior teams.[ citation needed ]

Successive administrations lobbied the East Coast Bays Council for more grounds and at the same time new ground criteria for clubs playing in the Northern League Premier Division meant Mairangi Park was no longer suitable for playing top football. This meant that the club spent a couple of seasons using the new ground that was developed behind Rangitoto College.

Land off Anderson's Road originally designated but no longer required for a school was acquired by the council and it was agreed that the club would move there once facilities were built and grounds developed. In 1991 the club moved to its new headquarters at the newly named Bays City Park. [8]

Since then clubroom facilities have been developed, further grounds have been obtained at Ashley Reserve. [10]

Sponsorship

East Coast Bays announced Team Mitchell and Harcourts Cooper & Co as their main kit sponsor for the 2024 season. [11]

Players

First-team squad

As of 22 March 2024 [12] [13] [14]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.Pos.NationPlayer
1 GK Flag of England.svg  ENG Louie Caunter(captain)
2 DF Flag of New Zealand.svg  NZL Nathan Maisey
3 DF Flag of New Zealand.svg  NZL James Edgeler
4 MF Flag of New Zealand.svg  NZL Ryusei Ishibashi
5 FW Flag of New Zealand.svg  NZL Bailey Stevenson
6 MF Flag of New Zealand.svg  NZL Callum Simmonds
7 MF Flag of Japan.svg  JPN Hayat Ali Tobita
8 MF Flag of England.svg  ENG Declan Sweeney
9 DF Flag of Burundi.svg  BDI Moses Akimana
10 FW Flag of New Zealand.svg  NZL Nicolai Berry
11 MF Flag of New Zealand.svg  NZL Orlando Thorpe
12 DF Flag of South Korea.svg  KOR Kim Tae-ho
13 MF Flag of New Zealand.svg  NZL Nick Gaze
14 DF Flag of New Zealand.svg  NZL Michael Kolston
15 FW Flag of New Zealand.svg  NZL Thomson Nkoy
No.Pos.NationPlayer
16 DF Flag of South Korea.svg  KOR Hwi Seong Chang
17 MF Flag of New Zealand.svg  NZL Sam Wilson
18 FW Flag of New Zealand.svg  NZL Dylan Stansfield
19 FW Flag of New Zealand.svg  NZL Liam Andersen
20 DF Flag of New Zealand.svg  NZL Sam Coyle
21 DF Flag of New Zealand.svg  NZL Malcolm Young
22 DF Flag of England.svg  ENG Jack Caunter
23 DF Flag of New Zealand.svg  NZL Logan Archer
24 DF Flag of New Zealand.svg  NZL Billy Jones
25 GK Flag of New Zealand.svg  NZL Michael Williams
26 DF Flag of New Zealand.svg  NZL Oscar Garcia
27 DF Flag of New Zealand.svg  NZL Jack Young
28 DF Flag of New Zealand.svg  NZL Nathan Pepper
29 DF Flag of New Zealand.svg  NZL Niko Elie
30 DF Flag of South Korea.svg  KOR Yun Sung Chang

Management

Coaching staff

PositionStaff
Head coach Flag of New Zealand.svg Joe Hall
Assistant coach Flag of New Zealand.svg Mingi So
Flag of South Korea.svg Kim Dae-wook
Manager Flag of New Zealand.svg Niall Thompson
Flag of New Zealand.svg Alan Gisby

Season to season

Source: [15]

  1. ↑ Season was voided due to COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand

Honours

League

Cup

Youth

Notable players

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References

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  2. ↑ Taonga, New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu. "Chatham Cup winners, 1923–2021". teara.govt.nz. Archived from the original on 3 October 2022. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
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