Senior

2025 Season Dates

Premier begins: 22/29 March TBC

Reserve begins:
Just Hockey 6-Aside Festival 8^th March
Season begins 16^th March
Reserve No Play: 20^th April (Easter), 1^st of June (Kings Birthday)

Premier And Reserve Finals Day: Saturday/Sunday 16^th/17^th August TBC.

Club Musters

Visit the Club Info rmation page for Muster details.

Pre-Season Festival

On 8^th March Waikato Hockey will run a pre-season half field festival.

Waikato Hockey will once again be running the Just Hockey 6-Aside Festival. There are currently 3 grades for both Men and Women, get your teams registered and lets kick the season off with a bang once again. This was an absolute blast last year and was such an awesome way to set the tone and atmosphere for the season with a community wide social event. Registrations for this can also be found within your Club PlayHQ invites. The cost per team is $70. You are able to enter as many teams as you like in any grade.

Club Information

Registration have been sent to your PlayHQ accounts. You can go in and add teams to the competitions whenever you are ready to. Below are key dates for registrations and fixturing information. You will also be required to create player registration forms to register all players.

14^th January: Registrations Open

1^st March: Registrations Close

2^nd– 9^th March: Format review, SD approval, Fixturing, Draws released.

Still To Come:

Intercity and Premier Competitions are in the final stages of being confirmed. Once locked in and formats confirmed Nathan will inform Clubs. At the moment tentative start date 22nd-29th of March.

Training slots. Refer email to Clubs

Confirmation of formats and draws, expect to receive info around these during the week of the 2nd March.

Competition Formats 2025

Please see the document below for an overview of the Senior Reserve Competition for 2025. These are the proposed formats for Round 1, 2 and 3.

Senior Reserve 2025 Competition Formats

Senior Division Umpires Workshop

2025 Dates TBC

All Senior/Club umpires should attend.

There will be a workshop for all SD umpires (Prem and Res). Aim is to provide an overview of new pathways and development system and go over guidelines for the season in terms of interpretations for certain rules so that umpires/players/managers/coaches can start the year on the same page.

Recommended for all SD umpires or prospective umpires, coaches /managers. Umpire shirts are still being distributed once certain criteria are met, one of which you have to attended the above workshop.

Rules and Bylaws

For all rules visit the resources and polices page.

Senior Division (SD)

The Senior Division is responsible for the Senior winter competition.

2024 SD Committee: Grant Lee, Eugene Philips, Jerram Culow, Steve Tiang, Bruce Becker, Marie Dale (Vice Chair), Michelle Moss (Secretary), Jono Panting (Chiarperson).

Season: WHA provides various grades to suit all players with Premier Hockey played on Saturday afternoon and Reserve Hockey on Sunday.

Grades: The following grades are available for clubs to enter teams in: