Central Hawkes Bay Rugby Sports Club

Central Hawke’s Bay Rugby & Sports Club was formed in 1994 with the amalgamation of Waipukurau High School Old Boys & Waipawa United Clubs.

The Club is situated in Mitchell St. Waipukurau and leases Central Park from the CHB Sub-Union Trust, the 3 fields are kept irrigated throughout summer to ensure excellent playing conditions for the HB Sevens tournament that Central host each year in February. Since 2019 the club has introduced senior women’s netball which has been a huge success and has gone from strength to strength each year. F

05/06/2026

Boys are back into it !! Let’s get around them 💙❤️

29/05/2026

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28/05/2026

Everyone is having a well deserved rest this weekend and then the boys are kicking off round 2 on the 6th of June against Aotea.

The girls have a bye for the end of round 1 and will be back up and running June 13th.

Have a great long weekend !

26/05/2026

❤️💙Awesome night with the women’s rugby team ❤️💙

24/05/2026

To our community,

People always ask me why I play rugby and my answer is normally because I love it, and don’t get me wrong I really do love it but there are some deeper reasons why and I’m going to share them with you.

Rugby has given me the opportunity to make incredible lifelong friends, it’s opened doors to people I would have never had the pleasure of rubbing shoulders with otherwise.
It’s taught me mental toughness, never give up no matter how tired or sore you are, theres a prize at the end if you keep going.
It’s taught me discipline and consistency and the value in showing up every day, every week, for your club, your mates and yourself.
It’s let me see the wonder of mothers in sports, the way we take care of our home and our babies and still make it onto the field to do something we love it’s honestly so incredible.

Why am I telling you all of this you may ask ?
Well, the future for the central wahine is getting dimmer every day, we are staring down the barrel of folding indefinitely, straight up losing a team so many of us have put our hearts and souls into establishing and I’ll be dammed if I go down without a good fight.

We have 4 more games left for the year starting round 2 June 13th, 1 month of commitment. We need some more ladies, girls who a new and just keen for a jam, girls who have played and think they are not fit enough, we need you. This is not about winning or losing for us, this is about keeping the dream alive, keeping our home and letting central rugby be a home for our younger generation.

- Chelsea
We training every Tuesdays and Thursday at Central Park 6pm. If you can please come down

22/05/2026

The girls have their last game of round one this weekend, if you hanging around the bay stop in and give them some love. The boys have earned themselves a well deserved rest this weekend before they kick off their round 2 campaign.