Wairoa Athletic Sports Club

22/09/2026

⚫ SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT ⚪️

🏉 Blake and Sarah Charteris have been our rugby partners for many years and are one of our key sponsors since they started Choppers in 2016!

Moving to Wairoa in 2011 they became part of the Athletic family. Blake enjoyed several rugby seasons, closely followed by their kids who also played in black and white. However, when Blake and Sarah started their business in 2016 the helicopter pilot had to make some decisions about his rugby.

🌐 Read more about their Athletic story here:
https://www.wairoaathletic.co.nz/our-sponsors.html

🚁 Based at the Wairoa Airport, they are your one-stop shop for all your helicopter services. Flying daily and on missions with his mate Frank (now a bit of a celebrity thanks to the popular Chopper and Frank series), Blake provides everything from tourism, to agriculture work and search and rescue.

You can follow them on Facebook or check out their website:
🌐 https://www.charterischoppers.co.nz/services.html

Go and show them some love 🖤🤍

11/09/2026

Huge congratulations to Ben Blake on this win! 🏆

Ben is our football team manager and a long-serving committee member, so we know how hard he works behind the scenes for our club. It’s great to see his efforts recognized on a regional level too! He couldn’t be more deserving 👏🏻🖤🤍

Show him some love in the comments!

🎉 Celebrating Our 2026 Regional Award Winners 🎉

Central Football is proud to recognise and celebrate our 2026 Regional Award winners! 🏆⚽

Across our federation, we’re incredibly fortunate to have so many people making a positive impact on our game, from those who dedicate countless hours behind the scenes, to those who perform and achieve out on the field. 💚

A massive thank you to everyone who contributed to football/futsal across our regions throughout the 2026 season.

And, of course a huge congratulations to all of our Regional Award winners! 👏🥳

Gisborne United AFC Electrinet Gisborne Thistle AFC Wairoa Athletic Sports Club HSOB - Gisborne

08/09/2026

⚫ SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT ⚪

As we are nearing the end of the 2026 season with Senior Prizegiving coming up this Saturday, we want to show our amazing sponsors some love!

Starting with our titanium sponsor of 5 years (and counting!) Bayleys Real Estate Gisborne.

Agents Stephen Thomson and Simon Bousfield decided on partnering with us as our main club sponsor back in 2022. Bayleys Gisborne is involved in a broad range of sponsorship across many different groups, charities and entities.

Their brand promise is to facilitate a real estate journey, providing every opportunity to gain the best result for their clients while still staying true to their community.

🌐 Read more about Bayleys Gisborne here:
https://www.wairoaathletic.co.nz/our-sponsors.html

🤝 We are very proud to announce that Bayleys will continue with us in 2027 and 2028.

Go and show them some love 🖤🤍

02/09/2026

Congratulations to all our players who entered the Surf City Squash - Poipātū o te Tāone Ngaru Open last weekend!

Our players did amazing and got some great results. 👏🏻 Check them out below:

Matt Ross: 🥇 Men’s Div 1
Vaughan Goldsmith: 🥇 Men’s Div 3
Hailen Morten: 🥇 Men’s Div 9
Luke Graves: 🥈 Men’s Div 5
Alyssa Deam: 🥈 Women’s Div 5
Chapman Kutia: 🥉 Men’s Div 1
Lara Deam: 🥉 Women’s Div 3
Adam Morten: Consolation Cup Men’s Div 4
Jonny Hardie: Plate Men’s Div 3

Congrats Surf City on hosting a great event. A few photos below 🖤🤍

27/08/2026

This is WHAT’S ON this weekend! 🟡

Our friends at Surf City Squash - Poipātū o te Tāone Ngaru are hosting the Surf City Open and a bunch of our players have entered!

You can catch them on the livestream below, good luck to all Athletic players! 🖤🤍

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24/08/2026

🏴 WHAT WENT ON LAST WEEK* 🏳️

Our Bayleys Real Estate Gisborne match results are now live!

Read up on our codes' reports on our website:
https://www.wairoaathletic.co.nz/what-went-on/what-went-on-17-22-august

A week of Club Champs done and dusted, and QRS Athletic Football played their last match of the season.

🖤🤍

24/08/2026

🏆 HERE ARE OUR '26 CHAMPS 🏆

A huge congratulations to our 2026 Squash Club Champions!

🖤 Last week was very busy but also very rewarding. Great squash and amazing support throughout the week. Thank you to everyone who participated in some way, shape or form.

🖤 And a special mention to our players, our committee, our volunteers and our squash sponsors Okare Station and Cricklewood Angus. It's a special feeling to come together and produce an epic event!

Check out all other results on our website:
https://www.wairoaathletic.co.nz/club-champs-2026.html

We look forward to our final squash event of the year on Prizegiving day (12 September). Details to follow soon!

21/08/2026

⚫️ WHAT'S ON THIS WEEKEND ⚪️

Our last official What's On for the season, as our codes head into their last scheduled matches. Check out our weekend schedule below.

🏆 It's finals time for Club Champs, we kick off at 5:00pm with our junior finals, followed by our plate matches and finishing the night with the grand finalists!

⚽ Football are away for their final match of the season, playing Gisborne United in Gisborne.

Come out tonight and support our players in one of our most popular tournaments, and cheer on the lads tomorrow at Harry Barker Reserve.

🖤🤍