Our Director of Football, Mr Scott, provides an overview of our season

In the 2023 season, Hamilton Boys High School finished with 24 teams in the Waikato Secondary Schools Football competition. Although lower than in the past, this is still an incredible number of teams and it’s something we’re all very proud of.

Our depth of the talent across the school contributes mostly to our achievements at the elite level at HBHS, so well done to all players for playing your part in our overall success.Our 12 Junior teams and 12 Senior teams dominated the region, not just in terms of participation, but performance too.Mention must be made of the Junior Yellow and Junior Brown teams, along with Colts Black who were runners-up in their respective Junior divisions.Our Colts White team won their division, the Junior Premier Division in the Juniors grades. The three Junior Colts teams created great competition that we saw direct benefits of this year.

In the Senior divisions; Senior Red won Division 6, our Senior Development team came runners up to winners Senior Grey in Division 1 and our 1st XI won the WSSFA Premier League for the second time in a row.

In the Knockout competitions our Colts Black team also lost their Knockout final to Colts White in a repeat of their league positions.Senior Silver defied their league position and made the final of the Senior A final, losing to winners the Senior Development team who were out to prove a point!Our 1st XI flipped the result of last year's final, this time winning their final, beating St Pauls.So overall, we won 4 championships in the Waikato Competition and 5 runners-up trophies.Of the 10 boys teams in Knockout Cup finals, 5 were from HBHS.

We’ve been hugely successful again in 2023 and of course we thank the boys for representing the school with such pride. We have had 6 players reach their Cap (awarded for 50 apparences) for the 1st XI this year: Oliver Campbell, Thomas Cave, Connor Cloete, Charlie Holloway, Isaac Bates and Niall Fletcher. This has been a show of their own drive and perseverance to get to this point to play that amount of games for the 1st XI Football team, so congratulations to them.

We have also had 6 players play in Club first team games this year, and numerous more be invited to train with their own respective 1st teams. Niall Fletcher with Ngaruawahia, Jake Fannin with Claudelands Rovers, Oliver Campbell with Hamilton Wanderers, and Isaac Bates, Torhan Kurnaz and Thomas Cave with Melville United.

We fielded a huge 15 teams in the Waikato Secondary Schools 5-a-side football competition at Jansen Park at the end of the season. Well done to all who participated in this festival of football.Our lone divisional winners were HBHS Behrent's Boys in the Juniors Premier 1 Division.

We had 36 boys involved in the Referees Academy this year, participating in fortnightly referee training with the help from Nadia Browning at WaiBOP.

A massive amount of thanks to Ali Ukra and the Waikato Orthodontic Centre for your Platinum level sponsorship of the Football Development Programme this year. We look forward to your continued support. A big thank you also to Contract Cabling for their Bronze sponsorship of our programme too.Lastly, I would like to separately thank all the volunteer parents for their help and guidance in supporting their sons' respective teams this year. Without their commitment and dedication to helping a group of young men, they would not have their chance to play football.

The refereeing, transporting, advice offering and support throughout the year is something that can never be replaced.I hope the boys appreciate your help as much as I have.

I look forward to seeing the progress of our programme and players in 2024.

Mr Scott
Director of Football