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After Covid-19 disrupted both the 2020 and 2021 seasons, the Warkworth Football Club men’s team hopes that this year will see a return to uninterrupted play.
Covid cut short last year’s season with around five games left to play, robbing Warkworth of the chance to win its division. It ended up finishing third in Division Six of the Northern Regional Football competition.
However, the team hasn’t let this deter it. It started training in January and had a strong start, winning four of its six preseason games. It is playing two divisions higher than last year, has brand new home and away kits, and started the official season on a high with a 4-1 win at home over Hibiscus Coast.
The team has seen a rise in player numbers this year and has a healthy squad of 19 men. The team consists of a mix of experienced players and four under 18 players, who coach Jacob Paul says are proving to be a real asset to the team in their first year of playing men’s football.
Paul says he would like to see more youth players on the field in the men’s competition for Warkworth Football Club.
“Historically, youth players in their late teens and early 20s leave Warkworth and start playing for youth clubs on the North Shore,” he says.
“The hope is that talented youth players in the area will more frequently choose to play regular men’s football for Warkworth and help push the club into higher divisions, rather than playing in under 17 to under 23 teams for clubs on the shore,” Paul says.
The next home game for the team will be played against North Shore United on Saturday, May 28 at 2pm.
