East Coast Bays AFC

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East Coast Bays A.F.C.

Full name	East Coast Bays Association Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Mighty Bays
Founded	1959
Ground	Bay City Park
Capacity	4,000
Chairman	Roger Bridge[1]
Head coach	Joseph Hall
League	Northern League
2024	Northern League, 9th of 12
Website	http://www.ecbafc.nz
Home colours Away colours

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]

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]

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

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. Nation Player 1 GK  ENG Louie Caunter (captain) 2 DF  NZL Nathan Maisey 3 DF  NZL James Edgeler 4 MF  NZL Ryusei Ishibashi 5 FW  NZL Bailey Stevenson 6 MF  NZL Callum Simmonds 7 MF  JPN Hayat Ali Tobita 8 MF  ENG Declan Sweeney 9 DF  BDI Moses Akimana 10 FW  NZL Nicolai Berry 11 MF  NZL Orlando Thorpe 12 DF  KOR Kim Tae-ho 13 MF  NZL Nick Gaze 14 DF  NZL Michael Kolston 15 FW  NZL Thomson Nkoy

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 DF  KOR Hwi Seong Chang 17 MF  NZL Sam Wilson 18 FW  NZL Dylan Stansfield 19 FW  NZL Liam Andersen 20 DF  NZL Sam Coyle 21 DF  NZL Malcolm Young 22 DF  ENG Jack Caunter 23 DF  NZL Logan Archer 24 DF  NZL Billy Jones 25 GK  NZL Michael Williams 26 DF  NZL Oscar Garcia 27 DF  NZL Jack Young 28 DF  NZL Nathan Pepper 29 DF  NZL Niko Elie 30 DF  KOR Yun Sung Chang

Position	Staff
Head coach	Joe Hall
Assistant coach	Mingi So
	Kim Dae-wook
Manager	Niall Thompson
	Alan Gisby

Source:^[15]

1965–1969 (Regional leagues)

1970–1992 (National Soccer League)

1993–1996 (Superclub League)

1996–1998 (Summer Soccer League)

1999 (Island Soccer Leagues)

2000–2003 (National Soccer League)

2004–2021 (NZFC)

Season	League	Tier	League										Chatham Cup	Top scorer
			P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts	Pos			Name	Goals
2004[55]	NRFL Premier League	2	26	8	6	12	34	42	-8	30	9th		QF
2005[56]			22	12	1	9	41	33	+8	37	4th		QF
2006[57]			22	12	3	7	43	26	+17	39	4th		QF
2007[58]			22	14	1	7	36	27	+9	43	2nd		R5
2008[59]	US1 Championship	2	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	1st		1st
2009[60]			?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	1st		R4
2010[61]	NRFL Premier League	2	24	17	5	2	75	19	+56	56	1st		SF
2011[62]			18	9	4	5	35	27	+8	31	4th		R4
2012[63]			18	12	0	6	36	26	+10	36	2nd		R3
2013[64]			18	12	3	3	44	19	+25	39	1st		R4
2014[65]			18	8	3	7	36	34	+2	27	5th		R4
2015[66]			22	8	7	7	42	41	+1	31	7th		R5
2016[67]			24	10	3	11	48	59	-11	33	8th		R5
2017[68]			22	9	1	12	35	38	-4	28	7th		R4	Dylan Stansfield	10
2018[69][70]			22	7	4	11	38	54	-16	25	10th		QF	Judd Baker	9
2019[71][72]			22	4	2	16	60	22	-36	14	12th		R4	Callum Harrison	6
2020[73][74]	NRFL Division 1	3	8	4	0	4	60	22	+9	12	6th		Cancelled	Dylan Stansfield ♦	9

2021– (National League)

Season	League	Tier	League										New Zealand National League									Chatham Cup	Top scorer
			P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts	Pos		P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts	Pos		Name	Goals
2021[75][76]	NRFL Division 1	3	17	9	3	5	35	22	+13	30	4th		Not eligible									R3	Jayden Scott	10
2022[77][78]			22	12	3	7	42	27	+15	39	4th											R4	Keegan Kelly	16
2023[79][80]	NRFL Championship		22	17	0	5	60	18	+42	51	2nd											R2	Dylan Stansfield	12
2024[81]	Northern League	2	22	5	7	10	29	38	-9	22	9th		Did not qualify									R2	Malcolm Young	10

League

• Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Premier (3): 1981, 2010, 2013
• US1 Premiership (1): 2009
• NRFL Division 1 (3): 1978, 1989, 2003

Cup

• Chatham Cup (1): 2008

Youth

• U17 National Tournament (1): 2023^[82]

As of 16 August 2024
Most Appearances^[83][84]

Most Goals^[83][84]

*Records incomplete

Most goals in a season

• Todd Danks, 33 goals, 2003

Most Hattricks

• Eddie Carlow, 7

Most goals in a game

• Robert McNeill, 6 goals, 1998

• Tyler Bindon — New Zealand international^[85][86]
• Lee Jones — New Zealand international
• Neil Jones — New Zealand international
• Anna Leat — New Zealand international^[87]
• Sam Malcolmson — New Zealand international
• Jacob Spoonley — New Zealand international^[88]
• Deklan Wynne — New Zealand international^[89]
• George Suri — Solomon Islands international
• Grant Young — South Africa international

• Official website
• East Coast Bays A.F.C. on NFF website