We run Midnight Basketball Bankstown Tournaments with our local community's help and would love you to get involved - see details below.

Midnight Basketball Bankstown is a late night, fun social basketball tournament with dinner and skills sessions and welcomes all teenagers aged 12-18. Running on Friday or Saturday nights from 7.00pm with a bus safely home by Midnight, it provides high energy, fun and safe nights.

Find out more:

• • Midnight Basketball Tournament Model and Midnight Basketball Australia, the national body → About
  • Community-run, for over 10 years, 250+ Tournaments across metropolitan, regional, and remote Australian communities.
  • Frequently Asked Questions → FAQ
  • Stats → View impact

    Some Stats and Testimonials

    We have run over 250 Tournaments in metropolitan, regional and remote locations across Australia.

    Why is this important? We know that it takes a highly effective and efficient organisational structure and design to be able to reach so many areas of this vast continent with relevance.

    
    

    Proudly including over a hundred and fifty thousand teenage attendances.

    Why is this important? We can say with confidence, when well run, teenagers will turn up in hoards - waitlists being the norm. We have a lot of trial and error under our belts which can help communities in getting it right - and importantly we also know when it does not work over the short, medium to long run.

    
    

    Attendance rate 99.9+% in all nightly elements

    Why is this important? This not only attests to the exceptional nature of our teenagers and their respect for the whole night, but that the elements are relevant.

    
    

    By bringing communities together, we have gratitude for the huge support including Donations and in-kind contributions of over $10 million of extremely kindly contributed cash, inkind and leveraged support.

    Why is this important? We want Midnight Basketball to be sustainable by being low cost, and when creatively and respectfully approached we have found many many provisions that organisations can provide at low cost and impact to them. This support includes leveraged and donated support and we believe harnessing this kind of support is the most valuable to deeper connections and community building.

    
    

    50,000+ volunteer roles have contributed hundreds of thousands of hours

    Why is this important? This keeps costs low, provides a wonderful opportunity for local volunteers to get involved and of course the neverending benefits they bring as individuals. 

    
    

    Serving 160,000+ hot, nutritious dinners

    Why is this important? We believe nutrition to be not only core to wellbeing and a happy life but the social opportunity of eating and chatting together is one of the most wonderful elements of the night.

    
    

    6,000+ mentoring sessions.

    Why is this important? We have found so many sources of knowledge, wisdom, skills development - from formal lesson structures to someone who is an elite performer or businessperson for example, through to someone locally who can describe with enormous impact the value of living a good life and ways to achieve it. We also know where this can be less valuable and what doesn't resonate.

    
    

    95% of players say that Midnight Basketball is "great and want to attend again”

    "Communities want Midnight Basketball to continue".

    
    

    Why is this important? Every 8 week tournament has been formally evaluated through a program review completed by various bodies including each Midnight Basketball Volunteer Management Team and the teen participants and while this is just a sample of their feedback, it is indicative of the value it brings, its likability and a reflection of our ongoing pursuit of improvement and commitment to excellence.
  • Testimonials → Community feedback

Midnight Basketball Bankstown Tournament dates

Tournament times

Generally run along the following times:

• Volunteer briefing 6:30pm.
• Players arrive 6:45pm.
• Dinner at 7:15pm.
• Skills sessions and Tournament matches finish around 10:30pm.
• Players collected (by approved parents/guardians) or dropped safely home by bus.
• Everyone fast asleep at Midnight.

Code of Conduct for this Tournament

This has been designed by previous Midnight Basketball players and will be updated after Midnight Basketball Bankstown's Week 1 Skills session.

We welcome all interested volunteers as we can help everyone to find a role to suit. Loads of support and training provided.

Management Team volunteer roles - help setup and oversee Midnight Basketball Bankstown Tournaments

• Chair
• Finance manager
• Logistics manager
• Marketing manager
• Player manager
• Skills sessions manager
• Support manager
• Volunteer manager
• Assistant roles for all of the above

Tournament night volunteer roles - help run each Tournament night

• Bus driver
• Bus logistics
• Bus supervisor
• Caterer
• Catering helper
• Coach/Coach assistant
• First aid officer
• General assistant
• Grader - week 1 only
• Laundry volunteer
• Photographer
• Referee
• Registration desk manager and assistant
• Security officer
• Scorer
• Scoreboard operator
• Skills sessions facilitator
• Skills sessions helper
• Tournament night manager
• Youth worker

Register as a volunteer: click here

More questions? See FAQs

Midnight Basketball welcomes all local teenagers aged 12-18. It is free and also includes dinner, team singlet, transport home and lots more. You'll have heaps of fun getting together with your friends and also meeting new friends, and sharpening and learning new basketball skills. There are best and fairest awards up for grabs and trophies at the end of the Tournament.

If any questions at all, please contact the Player Manager, see Contacts below.

Players - how to set up account/register

• Players can only register for Midnight Basketball Bankstown Tournaments if they reside in these postcodes: TBA
• Parent/Legal guardian needs to register their teenagers as a Player.
  • Players will be able to see personal details and dashboard once Parent/Guardian has created Player account.

Parents/legal guardian register Players (once registrations are open): click here

More questions? See FAQs

On behalf of the Midnight Basketball Bankstown Volunteer Management Team and our Midnight Basketballers

Our deepest thanks to our supporters

Along with all the motivated people stepping up to provide invaluable skills sessions for our Midnight Basketballers.

And an enormous thank you to all those who have already or are generously providing their time either on the Volunteer Management Team or on Tournament Nights. You are enhancing the life experience and growth opportunities of our Bankstown teenagers. We hope your interaction is as amazing and life changing for you as for our Players

Management Team member list

• Chair, TBA
• Finance manager, TBA
• Logistics manager, TBA
• Marketing manager, TBA
• Player manager, TBA
• Skills sessions manager, TBA
• Support manager, TBA
• Volunteer manager, TBA

Or contact Midnight Basketball Australia via the Contact MB Australia page.