Glen Eden United Sports Club

club — Glen Eden · Auckland

About Glen Eden United Sports Club

Glen Eden United Sports Club is a football club on West Coast Road in Glen Eden, Auckland. It plays from Singer Park, named after Charlie Singer, the local groundsman who levelled a patch of bush by the rail line into a pitch almost 50 years ago, using earth from central Auckland building sites. The club started in 1974 as a women's team, and netball was added later, which is why the name changed. Its wooden clubrooms burned down in late 2009, and the membership rebuilt them in 2010. The club's most notable former player is Amber Hearn, who started at age five and later captained the White Ferns, including at the Beijing Olympics.

The club covers all ages, from players aged four to members in their sixties, and says it wants to be a friendly, fun club for players, coaches and families. Parents are part of it. Coaches do not need football experience, and the club helps with coaching courses. The committee meets one evening a month, and parents are asked for small jobs such as the BBQ at the end-of-season prizegiving and handing out uniforms. Supporters are asked to follow the club's Fairplay Promise, and three generations of one family have played for the club at once.