Survey

After the first year of running our Friday evening minimoas programme we ran a survey to which we had 37 respondees.The survey asked a range of questions.

Fridays -The feedback was a majority preferred Fridays. Due to the year on year growth of the club, and with an expected membership of 935 players we do not have the field space or carparking to play our Minimoa programme at the same time as Junior football. The programmes also utilizes the same space and equipment and with the lack of sufficient storage the club could not operate either programme efficiently.

Therefore Friday evenings will continue for the foreseeable future.This is becoming more common place around the country as football continues to grow realative to the majority of other codes. Papamoa FC grows 7% per year.

Timing - Based on the survey responses we have made the following changes. Players turning 4 to 5 years old in 2025 will start at 4.00pm and finish at 4.50 pm.  Players turning 6 & 7 will begin at 5pm and finish at 6pm.

Length of sessions-The feedback was that the younger age bands preferred a shorter time period to stay engaged so for 2025 we have made the decision that players turning 4 to 6 will run 50 minutes rather than 60 minutes,

Skills Hub Programme-The club has developed a Skills Hub Programme for this age band which will run on Monday evenings for those that would like an additional traning session. Details can be FOUND HERE

Season Start and Finish-The feedback was that starting the season earlier and finishing the season earlier was the preference. Numbers drop off in July and it becomes more difficult to run a consistent programme as team numbers vary greatly. It is commonplace that the younger the member the more likely they will not turn up due to inclement weather(which does effect how the programmes run)

Start Date - 28th March // End Date - 4th July.

Session Breakdown Every Friday

March

28th 

April

4th, 11th, 17th

Session will take place on Thursday, the 17th April.

Public Holidays are closed - 18th Easter & 25th Anzac Day 

May

2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd & 30th 

June

6th, 13th, 19th & 27th

July

4th

Session will take place on Thursday, the 19th June.

Public Holiday we are closed - 20th Matariki 

Equipment/Playing Kit

• To participate in the MiniMoa sessions all players must have Club shirt, socks and shorts (Parents are responsible for purchasing the club kit) and Shinpads. Players can choose whether to use plastic moulded boots or sandshoes. As we are not in the clubrooms untit 1 April and Minimoa begins in March 21 it is likely we will hold sales of gear around week 1 of March. This will be confirmed at a later date. We will update in the march newsletter

MemberShip Fees

Players have 2 options when registering to play. These are  A, selecting the full payment option or B, selecting Time Payment (players will select the inital time payment fee and the club book keeper will then re occur this invoice in our accounting programme (Xero) a further 2 times. Time payment option incurs an administration fee. Full fees upfront are $160. Time payment is $56 and will be reoccured 2 further times.

Refunds

Should players who register and later choose not to participate then a refund of full fees paid less a $10 admin fee will apply.

Should players who register and who subsequently been allocated to a team are able to be issued a club refund of fees paid to date less a $25 admin fee.

A full credit of fees paid to date can be loaded against the players profile in lieu and this is the clubs preference.

It is a time consuming process to refund via bank transfer and providing a credit to the profile is an easier and simplier solution. Due to us being a not for profit and under the new incorporated societies act it is a 4 person process to refund via bank transfer.

Teams

The club does its best to try and keep teams together as players age but it must be noted that

*Football is played in Year of Birth and not School Year. Players are expected to play in their correct age band as best they can noting once in junior football playing in age is a requirement. 

* as players age and teams get larger and move on to larger fields being 5 a side, 7 a side, 9 a side and to 11 a side then teams must change.

* some players do not continue and 

* new players to the club must be accomodated

* players registering later are harder to accomodate to existing teams as allocation of teams does begin as registrations come through. It is more likely you will have a larger group of previous players in a team if you register early

The field map has been amended since 2024 due to the growth of the club and development of the clubrooms. Minimoas will run on fields 5, fields 7D and 7E, and 12A/12B and 12C