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.

East Coast Bays A.F.C.

Full name	East Coast Bays Association Football Club
Nickname	The Mighty Bays
Founded	1959
Ground	Bay City Park
Capacity	4,000
Chairman	Roger Bridge
Head coach	Joseph Hall
League	Northern League
2025	Northern League, 6th of 12
Website	http://www.ecbafc.nz
Home colours Away colours

History

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 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.

Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors

Period	Kit supplier	Shirt sponsor
0000–2023	Lotto	None
2024		Team Mitchell
2025–0000	Dynasty Sport

Players

First-team squad

As of 6 June 2026

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. 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	DF	NZL	Jackson Jarvie
6	DF	NZL	Harry Mason
7	MF	NZL	Ben Hooper
8	MF	NZL	Peter Harrison
9	FW	NZL	Ihaia Delaney
10	FW	NZL	Nicolai Berry
11	MF	NZL	Orlando Thorpe
12	MF	BDI	Moses Akimana
13	MF	NZL	Nick Gaze
14	DF	NZL	Billy Jones
15	MF	NZL	Nathan Pepper

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
16	MF	NZL	Finley Crossan
17	FW	KOR	Yun Sung Chang
18	FW	LTU	Marius Zabarauskas
19	FW	NZL	Liam Andersen
20	DF	NZL	Cameron Brown
21	MF	NZL	Louis Wickremesekera
22	DF	NZL	Jack Young
23	FW	NZL	Gogo Gjorgjevikj
24	FW	NZL	Nick Petherick
25	GK	NZL	Mitchell Bond
26	DF	NZL	Max Drake
27	FW	NZL	Luke Flowerdew
31	GK	NZL	Hunter Cadman
45	FW	CAN	Guy-Frank Essome Penda

Management

Coaching staff

Position	Staff
Head coach	Joe Hall
Assistant coach	Callum Simmonds
Manager	Adam Frisby

Season to season

Source:

1965–1969 (Regional leagues)

Season	League	Tier	League										Chatham Cup	Top scorer
			P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts	Pos			Name	Goals
1965	Premier	1	13	0	3	10	22	61	-39	3	8th		R3
1966	Division 1	2	18	10	2	6	57	43	+14	22	4th		R3
1967			18	4	3	11	23	50	-27	11	8th		R2
1968			18	1	1	16	27	78	-51	3	10th		R1
1969	Division 2 A	3	19	13	3	3	47	31	+16	29	2nd		R3
1970	Division 1	3	18	8	4	6	46	39	+7	20	3rd		R4
1971	Division 1	2	18	5	3	10	28	44	-16	13	7th		R3
1972			18	1	3	14	13	51	-38	5	10th		R3
1973	Division 2	3	18	5	4	9	31	42	-11	14	7th		R2
1974			18	5	7	6	19	34	-15	17	4th		R3
1975			18	4	8	6	14	30	-16	16	8th		R3
1976			18	8	3	7	34	36	-2	19	5th		R4
1977			18	8	8	2	35	16	+19	24	4th		R3
1978			18	14	2	2	48	17	+31	30	1st		R3
1979	Division 1	2	18	4	6	8	19	30	-11	14	7th		R5
1980			22	11	5	4	36	23	+13	27	2nd		R3
1981			22	16	2	4	37	24	+23	34	1st		R4
1982	National League	1	22	4	4	14	23	44	-21	12	11th		R4
1983	Division 1 A	2	13	6	6	1	22	5	+17	18	2nd		R4
1983			10	3	4	3	12	12	0	10	3rd		R4
1984	Premier	2	18	7	5	6	24	29	-5	26	5th		QF
1985			22	10	7	5	37	26	+11	37	5th		R4
1986			22	4	5	13	21	49	-28	17	11th		R4
1987			26	7	4	15	24	45	-21	25	10th		R2
1988			26	6	3	17	29	55	-26	21	13th		R2
1989	Division 1	3	22	15	3	4	52	20	+32	48	1st		R4
1990	Premier	2	26	11	7	8	44	47	-3	40	7th		R5
1991			22	10	3	9	38	38	0	33	5th		R2
1992			22	8	6	8	35	30	+5	30	6th		R2
1993	Premier	2	22	9	4	9	43	37	+6	31	7th		R3
1994			22	15	1	6	56	27	+29	46	2nd		R2
1995			22	11	4	7	49	29	+20	37	4th		R3
1996	Superclub League	1	22	8	4	10	31	44	-13	28	8th		R1
1997	Premier	2	22	6	2	14	32	55	-23	20	10th		R5
1998			22	10	4	8	57	55	+2	34	5th		R3
1999	Premier	2	18	7	6	5	36	27	+9	27	5th		R3
2000	Premier	2	22	9	5	8	40	29	+11	32	7th		R3
2001			22	4	4	14	27	52	-25	16	11th		R2
2002	Division 1 A	3	22	13	4	5	47	26	+21	43	3rd		R5
2003			22	19	2	1	93	13	+80	59	1st		R2
2004	NRFL Premier League	2	26	8	6	12	34	42	-8	30	9th		QF
2005			22	12	1	9	41	33	+8	37	4th		QF
2006			22	12	3	7	43	26	+17	39	4th		QF
2007			22	14	1	7	36	27	+9	43	2nd		R5
2008	US1 Championship	2	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	1st		1st
2009			?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	1st		R4
2010	NRFL Premier League	2	24	17	5	2	75	19	+56	56	1st		SF
2011			18	9	4	5	35	27	+8	31	4th		R4
2012			18	12	0	6	36	26	+10	36	2nd		R3
2013			18	12	3	3	44	19	+25	39	1st		R4
2014			18	8	3	7	36	34	+2	27	5th		R4
2015			22	8	7	7	42	41	+1	31	7th		R5	Joe Bresnahan	10
2016			24	10	3	11	48	59	-11	33	8th		R5	Dylan Stansfield	20
2017			22	9	1	12	35	38	-4	28	7th		R4	Dylan Stansfield	10
2018			22	7	4	11	38	54	-16	25	10th		QF	Judd Baker	9
2019			22	4	2	16	60	22	-36	14	12th		R4	Callum Harrison	6
2020	NRFL Division 1	3	8	4	0	4	60	22	+9	12	6th		Cancelled	Dylan Stansfield ♦	9

2021– (National League)

Season	League	Tier	League										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	NRFL Division 1	3	17	9	3	5	35	22	+13	30	4th		Not eligible									R3	Jayden Scott	10
2022			22	12	3	7	42	27	+15	39	4th											R4	Keegan Kelly	16
2023	NRFL Championship		22	17	0	5	60	18	+42	51	2nd											R2	Dylan Stansfield	12
2024	Northern League	2	22	5	7	10	29	38	-9	22	9th		Did not qualify									R2	Malcolm Young	10
2025			22	10	6	6	32	27	+5	36	6th											R2	Guy-Frank Essome Penda	11

Honours

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

Records and statistics

As of 16 August 2024
Most Appearances

Rank	Player	Caps	Years
1	Joe Bresnahan	267	2002–2018
2	Philip Morcombe	257	1986–2000
3	Jason McKeown	236	2004–2022
4	Rod Grove	212	1986–2005
5	Dan Peat	210	2002–2016
6	Nick Hyde	202	1992–2011
7	Malcolm Cole	200	1980–1992

Most Goals

Rank	Player	Goals	Years
1	Dan Peat	104	2005–2016
2	Eddie Carlow	83*	1968–1980
3	Dylan Stansfield	80	2014–2023
4	Joe Bresnahan	59	2005–2018
5	Steven Laus	55	1995–2004
	Alan Ogg		1989–1994

*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

• Tyler Bindon — New Zealand international
• Lee Jones — New Zealand international
• Neil Jones — New Zealand international
• Anna Leat — New Zealand international
• Sam Malcolmson — New Zealand international
• Jacob Spoonley — New Zealand international
• Deklan Wynne — New Zealand international
• George Suri — Solomon Islands international
• Grant Young — South Africa international

External links

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