School Prems – A National Qualifiers
The ‘A’ Premiership national qualifying tournaments are organised by Basketball New Zealand, and hosted by local associations, for smaller secondary schools around the country. Schools must have a roll of less than 300 students (in Years 9-13, as at 1st of March in the year of the competition) for a single sex school, or less than 600 students (in Years 9-13, as at 1st of March in the year of the competition) for a co-ed school. The two tournaments available for ‘A’ schools are:
- North Island
- South Island
‘A’ Nationals is held in the first week of the October school holidays. Each tournament has a different number of teams that qualify for Nationals. Qualifying numbers can be found here.
An A school can opt to compete in an AA competition and cannot play in both A and AA competition for a single gender.
Only one team per gender, per school may be entered into senior competitions (A, AA, Cups).
Registrations for 2025 are currently closed. They will be posted here once they are open.
Will be posted here once teams are registered for the event.
Basketball NZ uses GameDay for all of our online draws and results.
All draws and results for school tournaments can be found here.
Alternatively, you can download the GameDay app, and follow these steps:
- Click on the Tshirt at the bottom of the page
- Search ‘BBNZ’ under ‘Leagues’
- Click on BBNZ Schools
- You can then find the tournament that you are wanting to follow
It is a condition of entry to our Premiership tournaments, that each team provides a referee. This has been a requirement for many years and is designed to ensure an adequate supply of referees for the events as well as provide an opportunity for student referees to represent their school.
To make the rostering of referees to games more efficient, teams must provide their referee details at the time of entry. Your team entry is subject to providing all the required details including your referee.
Please note that on the first day of the tournament each team’s referee will be rostered to officiate the game immediately before or after your schools game. The Technical Commissioner will then roster referees to games for the remainder of the tournament based on merit.
Please note:
- Failure to provide a referee at the tournament, may result in your school being excluded from the following years Premiership.
- Referees must be available for the entire duration of the tournament and are there solely for the purpose of refereeing – i.e. they are not playing or coaching. This reduces the demands on them mentally and physically.
- It is recommended that referees are students from the school. This has proved the most successful means to ensure schools can provide referees for tournaments.
- Student referees, as is the case with players, are representatives of their school. It is hoped that this is the incentive for student referees to attend.
- Each referee will be required to officiate at least two games per day.
- Referees should have completed, as a minimum, the Level 1 Refereeing Course, but more importantly be up to the level of game.
- It is the responsibility of each team to make arrangements (eg. accommodation, transport, meals) for your referee to attend the tournament. No game fees will be paid to referees at the tournament.
- Tournament information for referees will be sent to school contacts and the provided referee email.
- For development of referees please speak to your local Association or refer to our website here.
Contact email: tournaments@nz.basketball | phone: (04) 498 5950
