Junior Premierships are non-qualifying events for nationals, and are tournaments for students in Years 9 and 10 ONLY, to introduce them to a secondary school tournament. Schools can only attend tournaments that are located within their zone.
There are four tournaments available for juniors nationwide:
- Zone 1 – Northern (Northland and Auckland)
- Zone 2 – Mid North (Waikato, Tauranga, Rotorua, Gisborne, Taupo)
- Zone 3 – Central (New Plymouth, Hawkes Bay, Wellington)
- Zone 4 – Southern (South Island)
Registrations will open early Term 2 2024
Once registrations are open, teams that are registered will be posted here
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
As there is a general acceptance that the consistent use of zone defenses in the younger age groups adversely affects the development of both defensive and offensive skills in younger athletes, the use of zone defenses is banned at all BBNZ Under 13, Under 15 Tournaments and the Junior Secondary School Premierships.
All criteria can be found here
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.
Should you require any further information regarding this please contact our Officials Lead, Melony O’Connor – referees@nz.basketball.
Contact email: tournaments@nz.basketball | phone: (04) 498 5950
