Mainland Football is the trading name for No 6 District Federation of New Zealand Football (NZF). It is an incorporated society and is the regional governing body for football in Canterbury, Nelson, Marlborough and the West Coast.
It is a membership organisation, made up of approximately 20,000 individual members who belong to Mainland Football through their associated football club and school of which there are 51 throughout the region plus memberships through recreational programmes of which Futsal is the biggest.
Mainland Football is governed by an elected Board headed by a Chairman. The membership of the Board comprises those that have been elected by the clubs, those that have been appointed and up to two members who can be co-opted. There is also one representative to be elected by the clubs from the Nelson Bays Region.
Mainland’s activities and structure is governed by a Constitution which sets out the powers and accountabilities of all committees. Mainland Football is managed by a CEO.
‘The Districts’ refer to Marlborough and Westcoast who have separate Boards or District Management Groups that govern their activities.
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