New Zealand Cricket deliver a number of National Community Tournaments each season.

Major Associations and District Associations also  deliver a significant number of tournaments and festivals throughout the cricket season. Keen for your club or school team to be involved?

Connect with your local Association for more details

Girls First XI Cup

Date: 19th - 21st December 2024
Location: NZC High Performance Centre, Lincoln, Canterbury

2024 Champion: Tawa College (Wellington)

The Secondary School Girls First XI Cup is the national secondary school competition for secondary school girls.

Regional qualifying tournaments and finals are held by each Major Association across New Zealand, with one team from each Major Association qualifying for the national tournament - held annually in December at Lincoln University.

The national finals consist of Twenty20 cricket, played in a round robin format finishing with a finals round.

Boys First XI Cup

Date: 11th - 16th December 2024
Location: NZC High Performance Centre, Lincoln, Canterbury

2024 Champion: Christchurch Boys' High School

The Secondary School Boys First XI Cup is the national secondary school competition for secondary school boys.

Regional qualifying tournaments and finals are held by each Major Association across New Zealand, with one team from each Major Association qualifying for the Gillette Venus finals, held in December at Lincoln University.

The national finals consist of one-day cricket, played in a round robin format. 

Hawke Cup

The Hawke Cup is the major competition for male District Associations teams across New Zealand. The competition is split into four regional zones. These are:

• Zone One  Hamilton, Northland, Counties-Manukau, Bay of Plenty, Poverty Bay, Waikato Valley
• Zone Two  Hawke’s Bay, Wairarapa, Whanganui, Horowhenua-Kāpiti, Manawatū, Taranaki
• Zone Three  Canterbury Country, Marlborough, Nelson, Buller (also: West Coast)
• Zone Four  Otago Country, North Otago, Southland, South Canterbury, Mid-Canterbury

Within each zone, a full round robin is played, with games (other than Zone 3 Finals) typically contested over two days

Each zone’s regional winner then gets a three-day Hawke Cup Challenge against the current Holders

To win the Hawke Cup, Challengers must beat the Holders on their home ground, either outright or on the first innings

The Hawke Cup has been contested since the 1910/11 season, making it one of the oldest sporting trophies in New Zealand!

Rangatahi Cricket Festival

Date: 28 - 30 January 2025
Venue: Tāmaki Makaurau

Established in 2017, the Māori Secondary Schoolboy and Schoolgirl sides are designed for secondary school cricketers of Māori whakapapa to represent their whānau, hāpu, iwi, and kura.

In 2022/23, the inaugural Rangatahi Cricket Festival was hosted in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland between Māori Secondary Schools and Pasifika Secondary Schools.

The Te Matau a-Maui (The Hook of Maui) symbolises the shared ancestral legacy of navigation, strength, and unity, celebrating the Māori and Pacific youth boys who embody these qualities through their passion for cricket. 

Hineahuone, in Māori tradition, is the first woman formed by Tāne Mahuta from the sacred red earth of Kurawaka, representing creation, life, and the deep connection between people and the land. She symbolises strength, nurturing, and the mana of wāhine, making Te Mauri o Hineahuone a tribute to the wairua, and potential of Māori and Pacific youth girls. 

For more information, visit our Māori Cricket page

Māori Tane National Tournament

Next tournament: 4 - 7 February, 2025
Venue: Lloyd Elsmore Park, Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland

2025 Champion: Tāmaki Makaurau

The inaugural National Māori Tane Tournament was held in Whangārei over Easter weekend, 7  to 9 April, 2023, featuring New Zealand's finest Māori cricket players.

Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland lifted the inaugural title.

The five sides that compete in this tournament are: Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (Auckland Cricket Association), McCaw Lewis Northern Districts Māori (Northern Districts), Central Districts Māori (Central Districts), Te Whanganui-a-tara (Wellington), and Te Waipounamu (South Island, combining the catchments of the Canterbury and Otago Cricket Associations, and not including CD's South Island District Associations). 

Māori Wāhine National Tournament

Next tournament: 4 - 7 February, 2025
Venue: Lloyd Elsmore Park, Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland

2025 Champion: Central Districts Māori

Following the success of the Māori Men’s National Tournament in 2023, an inaugural Wāhine Māori National Tournament was held in Hastings later in the same year, at the start of the following season.

The women’s tournament was hosted at Cornwall Park, Hastings, from October 13-15 2023, featuring five teams from across the motu - each playing four T20 games.

For more information, click here.

For further information on Māori Cricket, please contact kent.stead@nzc.nz 

Junior Secondary School Boys

Date: 18-22 March 2024
Location: Fitzherbert and Manawaroa Parks, Palmerston North

The Junior Secondary School Boys' competition is a secondary school competition for Year 9 and 10 boys. Participants compete as Year 9 during the first stage of the competition (term four, October to December) and then as Year 9 and 10 during the second stage of the competition (term one of the following year, January to March).

The national finals consist of 40-over cricket matches, played in a round robin format. 

Auckland Grammar School emerged victorious at the 2023 tournament.

Heathcote Williams Shield

Shield Holders: Christ's College, Canterbury (2023/24)

The Heathcote Williams Shield (HWS) is a longstanding secondary school challenge shield that was presented to the New Zealand Cricket Council in 1908, to contested by all the secondary schools of New Zealand.

The HWS is now played between New Zealand-based secondary school 1st XIs only.

To win the trophy, the challenger must beat the holder outright at the holder's home ground, or designated home ground.