Facilities
The Clubrooms has a function, food and bar complex situated at Windsor Park in Mairangi Bay.
The clubrooms are available for hire for functions such as 21st's, engagements, conferences and many other purposes.
For further information please contact Aurelie Bonneau on (09) 478 6352, mb 021 618 761 or email club@baysrugby.co.nz.
East Coast Bays Clubrooms (Windsor Park)
Touch Rugby Module 2009
East Coast Bays Rugby runs one of the largest touch rugby modules on the North Shore of Auckland.
From October through to March over 80 touch teams play Wednesday & Thursday nights. For Details about playing touch click on the here; contact the Facilities Manager Aurelie Bonneau on (09) 478 6352 or email: club@baysrugby. co.nz.
Registering for the 2009/10 touch season is available from late August 2009.
History of the Bays
The East Coast Bays Rugby Football Club was founded in 1946, to cater for the sparsely populated (5,000) people of the East Coast Bays area on the North Shore of Auckland.
The first President of the club, Lionel Webb, and the nine committee members, worked out of the first club rooms which consisted of two army huts at the Browns Bay Domain, later to be named Freyberg Park.
Although the facilities were modest, they were a proud young club. It was, therefore, appropriate that the Domain was renamed Freyberg Park, after one of New Zealand's greatest war time leaders, General Sir Bernard Freyberg VC who, as Lord Freyberg, was to become Governor General of New Zealand. In that first year of formation the Club gained second place in the Senior Competition run by the Kaipara Sub-Union. In those days the club wore white jerseys.
Games which involved traveling to Auckland, the teams would travel on the back of the trustee truck driven by Norm Wigglesworth. Often game day was followed by a working bee the next day, as the clubrooms were built with voluntary labour. In those days players would wash in the stream behind the clubrooms.
Life Members
Old Boys Club
The Old Boys Club is run by past players of the East Coast Bays Rugby Club. Each year they fundraise money to sponsor the bays, and up and coming rugby talent from the club.. Get a taste of the great BBQ's at each home game and get behind them in their support for the Club!
Also each year they organise a luncheon held at the Club with guest speakers making it a fun day to be involved with. On previous occasions we have been entertained by the likes of Stu Wilson & Bernie Fraser and also the charismatic Phil Kingsley-Jones. Stay tuned for the next event.
If you wish to become a member of the "Old Boys" or are able to help out in any way please contact the club, who can provide further details.