Island Bay United is one of the largest football clubs in Wellington, known as the Island Bay Sharks, and it plays from Wakefield Park in Berhampore. The club says it offers competitive and social football to more than 1,000 players, from First Kicks through juniors, youth, women, men and masters. In 2024 it fielded 79 teams across its junior, youth, girls only, women's, men's and masters grades. Its clubrooms are busy through the winter season, and on a typical weekend thousands of players and supporters can be at Wakefield Park.
The club began in 1931 as Wellington Technical College Old Boys and took the name Island Bay United AFC in 1966. Its crest has a shark and a green, white and red flag, which the club links to the Italian families who settled in Island Bay in the early 1900s. Its junior programme, the Island Bay Way, follows a four-corners approach of physical, mental, social and technical and tactical development, with the aim that players have fun, learn and play attacking football. Club news and fixtures are shared through an app called Island Bay United.