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CANCELLATIONS – August 8

Aug 8, 2020

Today's Mini-Kickers session has been cancelled due to the weather and ground conditions. All other junior and senior football is ON.

Challenge Matamata Swifts Ladies completed a comfortable 2-0 victory over Claudelands Rovers on Sunday to maintain their unbeaten start to the 2020 football season. First half goals from Shania Stewart, a bullet which was her first of the season, and Kerrie Cox...

Shape the future of our community

Jul 30, 2020

The Matamata Piako District Council is working on the Long Term Plan for our district and already have some plans underway to help Matamata-Piako become ‘the place of choice – lifestyle, opportunities, home’ but they want to hear our ideas too. We have submitted a...

Football rolls on

Jul 26, 2020

Matamata Swifts senior teams again picked up two wins from three matches over the weekend. Challenge Matamata Swifts Ladies continued their Waikato Ladies Division 1 charge with another victory and Waharoa Transport Swifts Reserves dominated for their third victory of...

Two Swifts wins from three

Jul 19, 2020

Matamata Swifts’ senior football teams ended the weekend with two wins from three entertaining match-es. Comag Matamata Swifts tasted home defeat for the first time this season, but it was brighter news for Challenge Matamata Swifts Ladies and Waharoa Transport Swifts...

Contrasting draws for Swifts Men and Ladies

Jul 12, 2020

With expectations raised after a good start to the season, Comag Matamata Swifts suffered something resembling a reality check at Te Awamutu on Saturday. A generally sluggish performance against a team up for the fight saw the Swifts drop two points after being held...

Swifts School Holiday Programme

Jul 7, 2020

July 2020 school holidays Monday July 13 to Thursday July 16 Looking for something for the kids during the second week of the July school holidays? This is a fun football and physical literacy programme open boys and girls of all ability levels - footballers and...

Swifts topple title favourites

Jul 5, 2020

Captain, Bjorn Vossen, struck a goal in each half to secure Comag Matamata Swifts a bruising 2-0 victory over Ngaruawahia United at the Domain on Saturday. The visitors, among the favourites for the 2020 WaiBOP Premiership title, were looking to rebound from defeat...

Swifts slog through wet weekend

Jun 28, 2020

An eventful weekend’s football, in many senses, saw Matamata Swifts’ senior teams record one victory and two defeats in three trips to Hamilton. Comag Matamata Swifts suffered their first Soccer Shop WaiBOP Premiership reverse of 2020, going down 2-0 at Waikato Unicol...

Three from three for Swifts football teams

Jun 21, 2020

The positive start to the 2020 senior football season in Matamata continued over the weekend as all three of the Swifts senior teams picked up home wins. A duo of 1-0 victories on Saturday saw both Comag Matamata Swifts and Waharoa Transport Swifts Reserves home,...

Football’s back with a bang

Jun 14, 2020

The long-delayed local football season finally got underway at the weekend as Matamata Swifts' three senior teams, and host of junior teams, kicked off what will be a shortened, but no less intriguing, campaign. Comag Matamata Swifts are flying the club’s flag in The...

Football Update – May 21

May 21, 2020

Hopefully you've been keeping up with the information posted by WaiBOP Football Federation and NZ Football, which we've been posting on the Facebook page. Thankfully, we now have more to report (read on). Apologies for the length of this message...it won't happen...