The Ricki Herbert Football Academy has confirmed a partnership with St Paul’s Collegiate School, Hamilton. The school will host the academy’s next national camp, to be held January 18-21, 2021, and RHFA Technical Director Kale Herbert will continue as the … Read More
Stuff’s Phillip Rollo has interviewed RHFA’s Technical Director Kale Herbert about his blossoming club coaching career in which he’s steered Hamilton Wanderers to the top of this year’s ISPS Handa Men’s Premiership. Here’s the article published by Stuff on December … Read More
After three years working together, the Ricki Herbert Football Academy and Waikato-based Hamilton Wanderers have extended their partnership to provide player pathways to the highest levels of domestic competition. Wanderers compete in the ISPS Handa Men’s Premiership – the eight-team … Read More
As the Ricki Herbert Football Academy grows in player numbers, so too does the distance travelled to ensure its courses and programmes run as planned. The travel to events around the upper North Island is made possible thanks to help … Read More
Our academy owes much to our mentor and source of inspiration, Clive Herbert. He died in Auckland, aged 85, after a short illness, on Saturday April 27, 2019. Clive was the father of academy founder Ricki Herbert, and grandfather to … Read More
Four graduates of the Ricki Herbert Football Academy will represent New Zealand at the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Poland. They are goalkeeper Zac Jones, defenders Dalton Wilkins and Liberato Cacace and midfielder Elijah Just. RHFA head coach Kale Herbert … Read More
Staff and supporters of the Ricki Herbert Football Academy felt a special part of Hamilton Wanderers’ last gasp local derby win against rivals Melville United. The two clubs met in the opening round of the Lotto NRFL Premier League with … Read More
Members of the Ricki Herbert Football Academy’s national development programme have completed four days of training in Term 1 of 2019. Players taking part came from New Plymouth, Tauranga, Tokoroa, Rotorua, Cambridge and Hamilton. Over four consecutive Saturdays, the group … Read More
One of the great things about football is the way friendships and families can continue to enjoy time together, long after the final whistle. A great example was last weekend when football provided another opportunity for Ricki and Kale Herbert … Read More
The second player from the Ricki Herbert Football Academy to train with top English club Fulham FC has called the experience “an honour and a privilege”. Albie Francis-Alles, who has been coached at the RHFA for several years, was selected for … Read More