As at 5 November 2025, just under 40% of incorporated sport clubs* have re-registered under the 2022 Act, (at an average of 48 registrations per week, over the past 17 weeks, or 4 months).
(*representing the top 20 sporting codes by number of registered sport clubs)
Should this re-registration rate be maintained between now and “dissolution day,” we can conservatively estimate that only 58% of currently registered sport clubs will remain registered as at 5 April 2026. Expressed more bluntly, nearly half of currently incorporated community sport clubs will cease to have a legal identity.
The percentage of clubs that have re-registered under the 2022 Act, (for the "top 10" sporting codes, by number of clubs currently registered as incorporated societies) as at 5 November 2025, is as follows:
1. Rugby (Union & League), 22.4%
2. Tennis & Squash, 37.5%
3. Bowls (Indoor & Outdoor), 64.9%
4. Golf, 37.5%
5. Football (Association), 35.7%
6. Cricket, 39.6%
7. Shooting (Pistol, Rifle, Clay Target), 46.3%
8. Equestrian, 9.7%
9. Netball, 23.2%
10. Swimming, 34.4%
We understand that the advice of Ministry officials to the Responsible Minister is that the pace of re-registrations will accelerate over coming weeks, however as the summer holiday season looms ever closer, the Association questions (based on the current statistical evidence), if that this is even remotely likely to occur.
We continue to encourage the Minister for Commerce and Consumer Affairs to authorise an extension to the compliance date, to avoid the “extinction event” which seems increasingly probable based on the worrying low re-registration data. We say, that at this time, there is too much at stake to be ambivalent to the outcome.