Lakes Football Club

👀🩵🖤🔥 Update Time 🔥🖤🩵👀

Check out the latest update. Especially important if you’ve entered a team but not received an invoice confirming their spot then please get in touch.

We want to make sure nobody misses out. 🙌⚽️

⚽🩵🖤🔥LAKES FC JUNIOR TOURNAMENTS UPDATE 🔥🖤🩵⚽

A quick update for all teams entered in our upcoming Junior Tournaments!

📅 Entries for Sunday 21st June close today (15th June). If you’re planning on entering one of this weekend’s grades and haven’t done so yet, now is the time!

✅ By now, every team entered across both tournament days should have received an invoice confirming their place in their respective grade. If you believe you’ve entered but haven’t received an invoice, please get in touch as soon as possible.

Email [email protected]

📅 There’s still another week to register for our Sunday 28th June tournament grades, with spaces still available in several divisions.

💳 We appreciate teams making payment promptly to help us finalise numbers, schedules, and event planning.

📋 We are aiming to have the draw for this Sunday’s tournament published by Wednesday at the latest, unless any late changes need to be accommodated before then.

With more than 30 teams across four grades already confirmed for this Sunday, it’s shaping up to be a fantastic day of football, fun, and development at Puarenga Park!

We can’t wait to welcome everyone for what promises to be an awesome day of junior football in Rotorua.

Great opportunity for our Māori up and coming football players to get involved with Māori Football Aotearoa.

🌧️ 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.

⚽️ 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 🙌