Secondary School

Pre Season Information 2025

Team Registrations Due: Tuesday 8 April 

Player (SPL) Registrations Due (PlayHQ): Wednesday 30 April

Player (other divisons) Registrations Due (PlayHQ): Monday 5 May

Team Lists Due - SPL: Thursday 8 May 

Team Lists Due - other divisions: Tuesday 13 May

Anchor Player lists due & School Team Ranking: Thursday 8 May


Season Dates 2025

SPL (Secondary Premier League):

Wednesday 30 April - Wednesday 20 August 2025

SPL (30/4 - 25/6) = 9 weeks & MISSC (16/7 - 20/8) = 6 weeks

Championship 1, 2, & 3 Girls:

Monday 5 May - Monday 18 August 2025

NB Championships games ARE played on King's Birthday weekend Monday

Championship 1 & 2 Boys:

Tuesday 6 May - Tuesday 19 August 2025

Super 6's:

Tuesday 6 May - Tuesday 19 August 2025

NB Coaches & Managers Workshop - week 1/2 of term 2

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Team Lists & Player Registrations

All players must register to their school through PlayHQ. On the team list/player registration due date, all registered players in PlayHQ must be allocated to a team. The team lists will then be downloaded from PlayHQ and will be the official team list of the season. Any adjustments to the team lists after this date must follow the handbook rules.

If there is a protest about a player who is not listed on your team list (therefore classified as being unregistered) this may result in your team forfeiting match points as per the handbook.

PlayHQ information click here


Key Information

THA Hockey Fee Schedule 2025: TBC

Practice Time and Turf Requests Template 2025: click here

Next Committee Meeting: Tuesday 18 March 2025 @ 6.30pm

2025 Competition Format: TBC

2025 Handbook TBC: 2024Click here 

Anchor Player Appendix: Click here

School Team Ranking Appendix: Click here

FIH Field Hockey Rules with Explanations: Click here

Match Cards: These can be collected from the umpires desk, outside the control room door inside the pavilion.

Health and Safety - Concussion Awareness Policy: Click here

All coaches and managers need to be familiar with all of the THA Health & Safety Policies including the Concussion Awareness Policy above. These other documents are available to view and download on our website Click here

Location of games: The majority of games are played at our three turfs at Tauranga Hockey Centre, Mt Maunganui. It depends on team entries as to whether games are also played at Tauranga Boys' College or/and Bethlehem College satellite turfs. The draw clearly states which turf your game is on.

Cancellation Procedure

Game by Game, Turf by Turf

If there are major storms due then the Competition Administrator can decide to notify that the whole night of competition has been cancelled before the start of games.

Alternatively, and more likely, if the rain radar shows that the bad weather will come and go, then cancellations may be on a game by game, turf by turf basis with umpires and the competition coordinator deciding on the state of the turfs. ​​​​​​​

For notifications of any cancellations: Click here 

Turf Descriptions

Tauranga Hockey Centre turfs:

Moana | Ocean          Tahatai | Coast           Whanga | Harbour

Super 6s Turf set up 

Whanga Pavilion and Tahatai Pavilion are at the Pavilion End ie the turfs closest to our pavilion and entry gates. Moana Road is nearest to Kawaka Street.

Whanga Salt, Moana Salt and Tahatai Salt are the halves nearest to the large salt mountain to our south.