2022 TOURNAMENT WEEK DATES


With the MoE recently releasing 2022 school term dates, the School Sport NZ board last week confirmed Tournament Week dates for 2022. To help you with your forward planning, confirmed Summer and Winter Tournament Week dates of the next 3 years are:

Summer:
2019 - w/s 25 March (3rd to last week of Term 1 - Easter in holidays)
2020 - w/s 30 March (2nd to last week of Term 1 - Easter in holidays)
2021 - w/s 22 March (4th to last week of Term 1 - Easter Fri 2nd April)
2022 - w/s 28 March (3rd to last week of Term 1 – Easter in holidays)


Winter:

​​​​​​​2019 - w/s 2 September (4th to last week Term 3)

​​​​​​​2020 - w/s 31 August (4th to last week of Term 3)

2021 - w/s 30 August (5th to last week of Term 3)

2022 - w/s 29 August (5th to last week of Term 3)

 

Summer Tournament Week is set;

  • as late in term 1 as possible to allow max time to prepare teams but not in the last week of term
  • cannot use the short weeks incorporating Easter Holidays
  • where possible begins the last week of March to avoid cold water and to precede local authority change-over of grounds from summer to winter sport.

 

Winter Tournament Week is set;

  • as close as possible to finish of winter sport season competitions
  • where possible, first week of September to precede local authority change-over of grounds from winter to summer sport.
  • where possible, allow schools 3 full school weeks following WTW


Article added: Tuesday 19 November 2019

 

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