2025 Season Dates

Mainland Football has informed us that the 2025 season dates proposed are:

  • Seniors. CPL starts Saturday 29 March 2025. Other Seniors start 5 April 2025
  • Juniors. Starts Saturday, 26 April 2025.
  • For all, no games on Kings Birthday weekend (2 June).
  • Games on Matariki weekend (20 June) will be on the Friday.
  • Juniors. No games in the middle week of the school holidays.
  • Season end for most teams will be 6 September 2025.

2025 Senior Pre-Season

Happy New Year all, and welcome to the 2025 senior football season.

Our 1st team is again in the Canterbury Premier League (CPL). Reserves in Division 2 and the Pests in Division 3.

We will also have 2 Masters teams, the LifestyleLS 35's and the O'Sheas 50's.

Pre-season training calendar for the clubs senior teams are:

WEEK 1
- Saturday 1 Feb - 1st pre-season training - QEII Park (Ascot Ave side) @ 10 am to 11:45 am 
- Tuesday 4 Feb - pre-season training - Clare Park @ 6:15 pm to 8:00 pm 
- Thursday 6 Feb - NO TRAINING - Waitangi Day 
  
WEEK 2
- Saturday 8 Feb - pre-season training - QEII Park (Ascot Ave side) @ 10 am to 11:45 am 
- Tuesday 11 Feb - pre-season training - Clare Park @ 6:15 pm to 8:00 pm 
- Thursday 13 Feb - pre-season training - Clare Park @ 6:15 pm to 8:00 pm 
  
WEEK 3
- Saturday 15 Feb - pre-season training - QEII Park (Ascot Ave side) @ 10 am to 11:45 am 
- Tuesday 18 Feb - 1st Team pre-season GAME vs Coastal (Southern League) @ Venue & time TBC 
- Thursday 20 Feb - pre-season training - Clare Park @ 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm 
  
WEEK 4 and onwards 
- Continue with Tuesday and Thursday trainings ONLY - Clare Park @ 6:15 pm to 8:00 pm 
- Note - No further Saturday trainings 

If you have any questions or concerns, do not hesitate to reach out to Darren Clements by phone 027 272 3172 or email dkclements@xtra.co.nz.

All existing and new players welcome. Come along and enjoy football at Burwood AFC.

2025 Senior Men's Coach Appointed

Congratulations to Darren Clements who has been reappointed as the CPL 1st team coach.

His coaching team includes Rob Bone as Trainer and Mark Tolchard as Manager.


Keep it [+]

  • Mainland Football and Burwood AFC would like to present you the Keep it Positive campaign.
  • We all love the game of football. Players, coaches, parents, spectators and officials all want and deserve a positive experience each time they take the field. Sadly Mainland Football currently deal with far too many misconduct reports, incident reports and general complaints. To ensure football maintains a high level of integrity we must ensure that everyone involved plays their part.  Players, coaches, parents, spectators and officials each have a responsibility and duty of care to act appropriately and collectively to enhance our local football community.
  • With this campaign we would like to make everyone aware that:
    • We all need to understand what behaviours are acceptable and unacceptable, on and off the field.
    • We all have a role to play in keeping it positive on and off the field.
    • We all want to decrease the number of incidents of abuse and assaults on and off the field and retain our beautiful game.
    • We all deserve a safe and enjoyable environment for everyone to play in.