Lakes Football Club

06/06/2026

⚽️🩵🖤👀 Double Header 👀🖤🩵⚽️

Big day for our Women’s Teams with a bonus Academy game tomorrow at Ray Boord Park! 🩵🖤⚽️

We’ve got a fantastic day of football lined up tomorrow, and we’d love to see plenty of Lakes FC supporters down at Ray Boord Park cheering on our women’s teams.

🔥 Bay League – Local Derby
Our Polynesian Spa Lakes FC Bay Ladies take on Waiariki FC in a huge Rotorua derby clash.

📅 Sunday 7 June
⏰ 11:00am
📍 Ray Boord Park – Field 1

Local derbies are always special, and the ladies would love a strong home crowd behind them as they take on their local rivals.

⚽ W-League Action
Following the Bay League match, our Polynesian Spa Lakes FC W-League team takes on Tauranga City AFC.

⏰ 1:00pm
📍 Ray Boord Park – Field 1

Come along and support the team as they look to continue building momentum against quality opposition.

Come make a day of it!

As an added bonus, our Academy Mixed U14s are also at home tomorrow, playing some great football against tough opposition. It’s a fantastic opportunity to support both our senior women and the next generation of Lakes FC talent in our youth ranks.

Bring your voice, and help create a great atmosphere at Ray Boord Park.

🩵🖤 One big whanau. Teal Army. Up the Lakes! 🖤🩵

05/06/2026

🌧️ FIELDS CLOSED – FRIDAY 5 JUNE & SATURDAY 6 JUNE 🌧️

Lakes Football Club whānau,

Due to the significant rainfall we’ve experienced this week and the severe weather forecast, Rotorua Lakes Council has made the decision to close all Council sports fields for Friday 5 June and Saturday 6 June.

Unfortunately, this means all Junior and Youth football fixtures scheduled on Council grounds have been cancelled on both days.

While we know many players, coaches, managers, referees and families will be disappointed, the decision has been made to protect player safety and prevent long-term damage to the playing surfaces. Although some fields may look playable on the surface, the ground underneath remains heavily saturated.

We appreciate everyone’s understanding and patience as we work alongside Council to ensure our fields remain in the best possible condition for the rest of the season.

Stay dry and we’ll look forward to seeing everyone back on the field soon.

04/06/2026

🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️⚽️ Bike to Footy ⚽️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️

Kia Ora Lakes Whanau,

Our friends at Bike Rotorua are looking to provide some safe parking for your bikes this Saturday if you bike to football.

Obviously the weather is looking a bit dodgy so we will have to watch for cancellations. But it does look like it’ll be a fine day if the fields are open. 🙏🙏🫣

02/06/2026

☔️💧🌈 Fields Closed for Today 🌈💧☔️

Kia Ora whanau,

We tried to stop the rain by catching some rain clouds yesterday. Just Mist. ☁️

If that joke wasn’t bad enough unfortunately all our fields are closed for today Wednesday 3rd June by council.

Have a good day.

01/06/2026

☔️🦆🛶 Fields Closed for Today! 🛶🦆☔️

All fields closed for today Whanau!

Have a good day and stay dry 🙌

27/05/2026

⚽️ WHY FUELING MATTERS IN FOOTBALL ⚽️

A little handy advice and reminder of our promo with our friends at Fueling Youth Athletes

One of the biggest challenges in youth sport is not always training hard enough.

Sometimes it’s simply not fueling properly.

Sports nutrition experts consistently highlight that during prolonged or intense exercise, athletes gradually use up stored carbohydrate (glycogen), which is one of the body’s main fuel sources for exercise.

For many young athletes, especially during long trainings, tournaments, double-headers, or multiple games across a day, having easy access to fuel can become a real issue.

If your child is unusually flat, low on energy, struggling with concentration or skills late in trainings or games, or becoming overly tired and irritable afterwards, sometimes it may simply be that they have not had enough fuel available for the demands of the day.

A lot of athletes bring hydration with them.

Far fewer consistently bring practical fuel/snacks they can easily access before, during, or after activity.

That’s one of the reasons FYA (Fueling Youth Athletes) created the Dual-Fuel Bottle.

The idea was simple:
✔ hydration up top
✔ fuel/snacks below
✔ one easy system for trainings, games, school, and tournaments

The bottles were developed alongside Olympic nutritionist Dr Katie Schofield, and every bottle also includes the Youth Athlete Fuel Guide to help athletes and parents better understand:
• what to eat
• when to eat
• how to fuel around sport

Lakes FC is currently partnering with FYA as part of our fundraiser, and the feedback from athletes, parents, and families has been fantastic so far.

FUNDRAISER PRICING:
• Single Bottle — $79
• 2 Bottle Bundle — $139
• Premium Bundle — $199

Bundle deals include:
✔ $10 off
✔ free shipping
✔ free personalisation

Order here 👇

https://fuelingyouthathletes.com/pages/lakesfc

Thanks so much for supporting Lakes FC 🙌

25/05/2026

🙋‍♀️👀 Guess what’s back? Back again? 👀🙋‍♀️

We're back... for another Tuesday night of football for the slightly older girls!

Tuesday nights are turning into Girls’ Night at Puarenga Park, with over 60 junior girls already training at the same time — now it’s your turn to have a go too!

Instead of standing on the sidelines watching, take the opportunity to get involved and join us for a fun game of our own.

✅ Get some exercise
✅ Have some laughs
✅ No experience needed — at all!

📍 Tuesdays, 4.00pm
📍 Field 8G – Puarenga Park

⚽Boots or running shoes are both fine.
⚽Shin pads if you want, but not totally necessary.

Come along, give it a try and have some fun with us!

21/05/2026

👀👌 Retreating Line 👌👀

A great reminder of how the retreating rule works. Make sure your team know to stay behind the line until one of these conditions are met.

19/05/2026

🗣️🥼🙌👀 Dr Craig Harrison 👀 🙌🥼🗣️

Rotorua is lucky enough to have this man living in our back yard now and he would be worth listening to.

Some friends of ours at Fueling Youth Athletes did a podcast if you want to hear a bit about him and what he has to offer:

https://youtu.be/F6tQumS2z_w?si=TBWJ5FizeC2mmZo-

Dr Craig Harrison - Under Pressure: How to Help Your Child Thrive in a High-Pressure Youth Sport World

With over 20 years’ experience working with developing athletes, coaches, and families, Craig is one of New Zealand’s leading voices on helping young people thrive in sport. His work blends cutting-edge research in long-term athlete development and child psychology with real-world stories from schools, clubs, and academies around the country.

Event details:

📍Launchpad, 1057 Hinemoa Street, Rotorua

🗓Wednesday 10th June 2026 | Doors open 6.45 pm | Keynote 7pm-8.30pm

🎟 Limited tickets — $30pp or $25pp in a parent & athlete combo via Eventfinda
There’ll also be time for audience Q&A at the end.

If you feel that your parent and coach community would benefit from this talk then please share this information — perhaps in your next newsletter or on social media.

👉 Here’s the link for tickets and more information about Dr Craig Harrison.

https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2026/under-pressure-how-to-thrive-in-hyper-competitive-youth-sport-world/bay-of-plenty

18/05/2026

🙌🩷🙋‍♀️ Yeah the Mums! 🙋‍♀️🩷🙌

One for our mums! Should be a lot of fun.

We're back... for another Tuesday night of football for the slightly older girls!

Tuesday nights are turning into Girls’ Night at Puarenga Park, with over 60 junior girls already training at the same time — now it’s your turn to have a go too!

Instead of standing on the sidelines watching, take the opportunity to get involved and join us for a fun game of our own.

✅ Get some exercise
✅ Have some laughs
✅ No experience needed — at all!

📍 Tuesdays, 4.00pm
📍 Field 8G – Puarenga Park

⚽Boots or running shoes are both fine.
⚽Shin pads if you want, but not totally necessary.

Come along, give it a try and have some fun with us!