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January 2026 Holiday Programme

Posted on 17 December 2025

It’s time to register for our January 2026 school holiday football development programme!

In January, your player(s) will be able to enhance their football skills under the guidance of our PDP Coach, Jeremy, with assistance from our youth coaches.

All sessions will be held at Nairnville Artificial, Cockayne Road; footballers can sign up for half or full days – Girls Only or Mixed. Footballers will be grouped into similar age groups each day and work through different sessions focussed on enhancing their football skills.

Expect fun, dynamic sessions with something for all footballers from U7 – U15.

Register from 22 December:  https://onslow.org.nz/ojfc-player-development/holiday-programme/

Incorporated Societies Act (2022) changes for OJFC

Posted on 28 October 2025

In order to meet our obligations as an incorporated society (under the Incorporated Societies Act 2022), Onslow Junior Football Club will be seeking to adopt a new constitution at our next AGM. This constitution brings changes to our organisational structure and as such we will also be seeking to appoint a new Executive Committee at the same time.

For more information on why we need to make this change and how we have arrived at the proposed constitution, we have prepared a short Q+A on the adoption of a new constitution.

Position descriptions for each of the Executive Committee roles are available – if you are interested in standing for one of the roles, or would like to nominate someone please complete our nomination form by November 12, 2025.

Important links:

OJFC – Adoption of new constitution – Q&A for members

New Constitution proposed for adoption at AGM

Notice of AGM

Executive Committee – nomination form

Notice of AGM

Posted on 28 October 2025

Please join us at our upcoming Annual General Meeting. We will be seeking to adopt a new constitution for the club, so that we meet our obligations under the Incorporated Societies Act (2022). We will also have a guest speaker, Connol Modd, from Capital Football. Connol will give a short presentation about the upcoming changes to the Whole of Football programme.

Date:               27 November 2025

Time:              7.30pm

Location:        Room 1, Johnsonville Community Centre, 3 Frankmoore Avenue, Johnsonville

Agenda

  1. Opening Remarks
  2. Apologies
  3. Confirmation of minutes of the previous AGM
  4. President’s Report
  5. Club Captain’s Report
  6. Financial Statements and Adoption of the accounts
  7. Adoption of the Annual Report
  8. Adoption of the Honorary Reviewer
  9. Acknowledgement of outgoing committee members
  10. Voting on the proposed Constitution for OJFC, in accordance with the Incorporated Societies Act 2022*
  11. Election of the Executive Committee (subject to the proposed Constitution being approved and adopted):
    1. President
    2. Club Captain
    3. Vice Club Captain
    4. Treasurer
    5. Compliance Officer
    6. Membership Officer
  12. Presentation from Connol Modd from Capital Football.
  13. Determination of the annual membership fee
  14. Other business
  15. Meeting closure

*if the proposed Constitution is not adopted, members will vote on the appointment of committee positions in accordance with the existing Constitution

A Q+A information sheet regarding the proposed changes to our Constitution has been prepared and is available here for your reference.

Position Descriptions for the Executive Committee roles are available on our website here.

Three roles will be vacant at the time of election (President, Membership Officer and Compliance Officer). Our incumbent President and Registrations (soon to be Membership) Officer will be available to discuss their roles and provide support to the newly elected members. The Compliance Officer is a newly created role. Incumbents in the Captain, Vice Captain and Treasurer positions will seek re-election.

If you are interested in nominating yourself or registering interest in any role, there is a nomination form available to do so, here. Closing date for nominations is November 12th.

Term 4 Goal Keeper training

Posted on 23 October 2025

Goal keeper training is back – register for our GK Term 4 PDP now.

Learn the fundamentals of goal keeping in a fun, supportive environment while building confidence, resilience and game awareness.

Is goal keeping your passion already? If you’ve already got great hands, solid footwork and confidence in goal – it’s time to stretch your abilities and become a more complete keeper.

Register here: https://onslow.org.nz/player-pathways/pre-season-development-programme/

Sessions for U8-U15 Mixed and Girls Only.

Term 4 PDP (including Futsal) – register now!

Posted on 29 September 2025

Our term 4 programme is open for registrations now. This term we will offer Futsal for the first time as part of our PDP. We have a range of programmes available – take a look on our Term 4 PDP page now for more info, or to register.

Upcoming school holiday programme

Posted on 5 September 2025

Register now for our September School holiday football development programme.

Enhance your football skills under the guidance of our PDP Coach, Jeremy.

Footballers can sign up for half or full days – Girls Only or Mixed. These holidays all sessions will be held at Nairnville Artificial, Cockayne Road.

Jeremy will be assisted by Vice Captain Roslyn and our Youth Coaches. Footballers will be grouped into similar age groups each day and work through different sessions focussed on enhancing their football skills.

Expect fun, dynamic sessions with something for all footballers from U7 – U15.

Register now: https://onslow.org.nz/ojfc-player-development/holiday-programme/

Haere Rā Merrick and Hayley

Posted on 5 September 2025

As well as saying goodbye to our team mates at the end of the 2025 season, OJFC are sadly saying goodbye to two of our coaches – Merrick Keenan and Hayley Gotlieb. 

Merrick has been with the Club for several years – originally supporting Milan with his school holiday player development programmes (PDP) and providing coach support for regular season teams. Later Merrick stepped in to coordinate and lead our holiday programmes and in season development programmes while continuing his support of our volunteer coaches. In the last three years, Merrick has also been a much appreciated presence in our Fun Football spaces (First Kicks, U7 and U8) supporting many of our first time coaches as well as helping our youngest players engage, get touches on the ball and develop a love of the beautiful game! In the off-season Merrick took over the running of our Friday twilight 2v2/3v3 competition and has gone the extra mile organising sponsorship and prizes to acknowledge the realisation of our Onslow RISE values on and off the field.

We thank him for his mahi.

We wish Merrick well with his next exciting opportunity. He assures us he remains passionate about OJFC and we know he will always make room for our community alongside his beloved LFC.

Hayley joined us more recently in a newish role but instantly was a smiley presence we will find hard to replace. Hayley’s passion in our girls’ football space has been instrumental in the growth of player numbers and opportunities. We now have a successful girls PDP thanks to her which also provides a vehicle for the mentoring of our female youth coaches. This programme is a supportive space for our girls to grow their game in a meaningful environment. Hayley’s school holiday programmes have also been in hot demand. Hayley’s support was fundamental to NZF naming OJFC as a Fantails hub. This is a foundational programme for girls who are new to the game or may not have the opportunity to be part of a team.

We wish Hayley every success as she leaves to focus on the completion of her Masters as well as her final teaching placement. Following which she will then be seeking a full time teaching position!

2025 Prizegiving – Sunday 31st August

Posted on 19 August 2025

A reminder – our 2025 Prizegiving for grades U9 and older is rapidly approaching.

In case you’ve missed them, the details are:

Venue: Onslow College hall

Start Times:
U9 and U10: 2.00pm

U11 and U12: 3.15pm

U13 – U15: 4.30pm

See you there!

July School Holiday Programme

Posted on 10 June 2025

June 30th – July 4th

Registrations are open now for our July school holiday programme.

Join our Coaches Merrick and Hayley and their supporting Youth Coaches at our upcoming school holiday programmes.

For Mixed (boys and girls) join us at Nairnville Artificial – U7-U9 in the mornings and U10 and older in the afternoons.

For Girls Only – you’ll find us indoors at West Roosters Rugby clubrooms, Ian Galloway Park in the afternoons.

These programmes are a great way to keep active, work on your football skills and have some fun with your friends during the school holidays.

Register now, and more information on our website: HERE

PDP T2 and T3

Posted on 12 April 2025

Registrations are open now for our In-Season Player Development Programme (PDP) run at Nairnville Artificial.

PDP commences in week 1 of term 2 (Monday April 28th) and will continue through the entire season until Friday 29 August.

There are offerings for Mixed Open, Girls Only, Goalkeeper, Committed (U9/U10) and Regional (U12).

The more info on timetable and pricing are available on our website here along with the link to Friendly Manager to register.

Note our Goalkeeper training has limited numbers and will only run weeks 1-8 initially. New dates for a second session mid season will be announced later.

Sessions will be coached by Merrick, Hayley, Jeremy and Ruben.

For any questions please contact training@onslow.org.nz

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