Welcome to the First Kicks programme for 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th grade players at Northern Rovers Football Club.
Grades in football are determined by the year of birth.
For the 2026 winter season, 4th Grade is for kids born in 2022, 5th Grade is for kids born in 2021, 6th Grade is for kids born 2020, and 7th Grade is for kids born 2019
In 2026, our First Kicks program will adopt a new format: no formal teams will be created; however, friends will still be able to play with each other, on a Friday night, with a nightly prizegiving.
The new WOF2.0 format introduced by NZ Football will feature 3v3 games on a 20m x 15m field. At Northern Rovers FC, this is how your Friday night will run:
Arrive at McFetridge Park in time for a 6 pm start. We ask all players to be signed in by 5.55 pm at the latest.
Visit the sign-in tent located between the outside changing room block and the main clubrooms
Sign in and receive your field allocation to go to.
Head to your designated field where a coach will be waiting for you.
20min training session, your coach will be waiting for you to arrive and once everyone has arrived, you will enter into a 20 minute skill’s based session with a total of 6 on each field.
Drinks break, following the training session, there will be time for a quick drink before we enter the games
Games will be x2 15-minute halves with a half-time
At the conclusion of games, we ask parents to assist the coaches in packing balls, cones, bibs, field markers and numbers into the designated bins and to help carry back mini goals to be stacked under the main deck.
Once all packed away its time for a drink and hot chips while we have our nightly prize giving.
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