East Coast Bays AFC


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 and the NRFL Premier Division three times.
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History

East Coast Bays were founded following a public meeting held at the Progressive Hall in October 1958. The committee formed from this meeting entered four junior teams for the start of the 1959 season. As some committee members were supporters of the Scottish Rangers F.C., the colours of Royal Blue shirts, white shorts, and royal Blue sox were adopted.
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.
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. 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.
Under coach Alan Yates, the club won promotion to the National League in 1981 but was relegated the following year.
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.
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.
Since then clubroom facilities have been developed, further grounds have been obtained at Ashley Reserve.

Sponsorship

East Coast Bays announced Team Mitchell and Harcourts Cooper & Co as their main kit sponsor for the 2024 season. In February 2025, Bays announced Dynasty Sport would be the new apparel provider of the club.

Season to season

Source:
;1965–1969
;2021–

Honours

League
Cup
Youth
  • U17 National Tournament : 2023

Records and statistics

As of 16 August 2024
Most Appearances
RankPlayerCapsYears
1Joe Bresnahan2672002–2018
2Philip Morcombe2571986–2000
3Jason McKeown2362004–2022
4Rod Grove2121986–2005
5Dan Peat2102002–2016
6Nick Hyde2021992–2011
7Malcolm Cole2001980–1992

Most Goals
RankPlayerGoalsYears
1Dan Peat1042005–2016
2Eddie Carlow83*1968–1980
3Dylan Stansfield802014–2023
4Joe Bresnahan592005–2018
5Steven Laus551995–2004
5Alan Ogg551989–1994

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

Notable players