Created by the New Zealand Amateur Sport Association Inc. in 2018, the National Sport Club Survey (NSCS) generates insights about the management and operations of New Zealand’s community sport clubs. Every sport club in New Zealand is invited to participate in this annual project. That now includes more than 7,000 clubs across 90 sports and all 16 regions of New Zealand. It is one of only three global surveys of sport clubs, with Canada and Germany being the only other two countries which conduct surveys.

The survey operates as a partnership between the Association and the AUT Sports Performance Research Institute New Zealand (SPRINZ), with Dr. Michael Naylor, (currently Senior Lecturer in the Institute for Sport Business at Loughborough University in London and Life Member of the Association), creating the current academic framework which supports the delivery of the project  and the dissemination of annual survey insights. 

Today, the NSCS Project Team works with National Sport Organisations, Regional Sport Trusts, Regional Sport Organisations and community clubs so that NSCS insights can be used for a variety of strategic purposes.

NSCS Insights have been presented at the conferences of the Sport Management Association of Australia & New Zealand (SMAANZ) and the European Association of Sport Management (EASM). The New Zealand Herald, Otago Daily Times, Radio New Zealand and others have reported on NSCS insights.