School Nationals

A tournament for top secondary school teams from the around the country, organised by Basketball New Zealand. Schools can only participate if they have attended qualifiers and finished in a qualifying spot. At the end of nationals there will be a boys’ and girls’ team that are crowned as national champions.

• A National Tournament: 22- 25 September
• Host Association: Basketball Manawatu
• Venue: Central Energy Trust Arena – 61 Pascal Street, Palmerston North
• Basketball NZ Event Lead: Jay Macdonald | 027 279 8804 | jay@nz.basketball
• Registration Due: Wednesday the 3rd of September

Live Stats will be done for the Top 4 Semi Finals, and Grand Finals for A and AA, in both boys and girls.

The links for these will be posted here before the games are due to be played.

• AA National Tournament: 22 – 27 September
• Host Association: Basketball Manawatu
• Venue: Central Energy Trust Arena – 61 Pascal Street, Palmerston North
• Basketball NZ Event Lead: Jay Macdonald | 027 279 8804 | jay@nz.basketball
• Registration Due: Wednesday 3rd of September

CoachMate is Basketball New Zealand’s FREE app for coaches, managers, parents and players. The app has a full activity library with over 30 easy-to-follow practice plans and games all with ideas and progressions to make them easier, harder, or just different for your team each week.
With the schedule and team management feature you can also set your team’s practice and game schedules and add all your players and parents to one team chat. And don’t forget the extensive Learn Library with simple tips and tricks including:

• Coaching fundamentals
• How to interact with kids safely
• Getting players to listen
• Benefits of games-based learning
• Inclusion and diversity
• Responding to varied behaviour in children

Download Coachmate here – https://www.coachmate.sport/download-coachmate

The tech meeting will be held in person at the Central Energy Trust Arena.

This will be held at 6:30pm on Sunday the 21st of September at Court 4.

2025 Secondary School Nationals Draw with Scorebench

2025 Secondary School Nationals Draw Letter

2025 ‘AA’ Secondary Schools Nationals Programme

2025 ‘A’ Secondary Schools Nationals Programme

Secondary School Nationals is a ticketed event.

There are two ticketing options:

• Day Pass for $7
• Weekly Pass for $25

All spectators will need to purchase a ticket to gain entry into the venue.

Children 10 and under are free

Tickets can be pre-purchased before the tournament 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:

1. Click on the Tshirt at the bottom of the page
2. Search ‘BBNZ’ under ‘Leagues’
3. Click on BBNZ Schools
4. You can then find the tournament that you are wanting to follow

Glory League will be used at the Secondary Schools Nationals & we have public leagues set up so all game recordings can be viewed at the below links:

AA Boys – Here

AA Girls – Here

A Boys – Here

A Girls – Here

In 2025 we will have 3 livestream courts for the first 4 days of Secondary School Nationals and then 1 court for days 5 & 6. The games that will be live streamed will be highlighted on the draw.

The live stream links will be available here.

Alternatively, the games will be livestreamed on the Māori+ YouTube Channel here

The Grand Finals for the AA & A Girls and Boys will be broadcast on Whakaata Maori Linear TV.

‘A’ & ‘AA’ Secondary School Nationals – 2025 Schools Health & Safety Form

• It is compulsory for all players participating in all age grade (under 19’s and younger) competitions, leagues and tournaments run by BBNZ and its members to wear a protective mouthguard when they are on court and the game is in play
• The No Mouthguard, No Play Policy is to be firmly enforced
• Players are not permitted to share mouthguards
• Mouthguards of any colour may be worn (except in FIBA events where they must be non-coloured/transparent)

Please click here to view the BBNZ Mouthguard Policy.

The Molten BG3800 Composite Leather Basketball is used for all school and association age group tournaments

• Size 6 (Girls) – B6G3800
• Size 7 (Boys) – B7G3800

All photos taken at the 2025 tournament can be found here.

2025 Secondary School Nationals Results Draw

2025 Secondary Schools ‘A’ Nationals 

2025 ‘A’ Secondary School Nationals Final Placings & Tournament Teams

2025 ‘A’ Secondary School Nationals Pool Grids

2025 ‘A’ Secondary School Nationals Finals Grids

2025 Secondary Schools ‘AA’ Nationals 

2025 ‘AA’ Final Team Placings & Tournament Teams

2025 ‘AA’ Secondary School Nationals Pool Grids

2025 ‘AA’ Secondary School Nationals Finals Grids

Contact email:  tournaments@nz.basketball | phone:  (04) 498 5950