From left, Sam Campbell, Blake Moorehouse and Atham Thompson in the ring.
Tikipunga Football Club celebrated its 50th anniversary with an anniversary dinner on Friday evening and fun and games on Saturday.
About 150 people and children took part in a range of activities, including indoor and outdoor games. Among reminiscences and memorabilia shared over the weekend were deeds and documents
dating back to the founding members' earliest attempts to get the club up and running at Tikipunga Domain.
Founding member and one of the event's organisers, Mike Gibson said children's activities took up much of Saturday morning.
Sharing the happy occasion were the neighbouring club and people associated with other football clubs around Whāngarei.
In the afternoon Tikipunga senior side (some of them quite senior) lost a friendly match with the Wasps, a team made from several other clubs, then Tikipunga's premiers lost to a select Northland team.
