All athletes must qualify for the 2026 NL Summer Games through a regional tryouts/qualifiers process for their sport. Please check the Sport Information page to see if your Regional tryouts/qualifiers have started.

Don’t know what zone you live in, check out the map! Regional Map

*Please note the athletes region will depend on the address of their primary residence OR the location of where they go to school. For example, if the athlete primarily resides outside of the Host Boundaries but they go to school in Corner Brook, they are permitted to try out for the Host Region. Once an athlete declares their region, they are NOT permitted to try out for another region.

The Host Region

The Host Team is defined on a Games-by-Games basis by SportNL in consultation with the Host Committee; final decision rests with SportNL. For the 2026 NL Games the Host Region is defined by the polygon map linked here. This includes communities such as:

  • Corner Brook
  • Steady Brook
  • Massey Drive
  • Pasadena
  • Pinch Gut
  • Cox’s Cove
  • Lark Harbour
  • Gallants
  • George’s lake
  • Black duck siding
  • Mt Moriah
  • Summerside
  • meadows
  • McIvers

Western

  • West of Hampden, including all of the Northern Peninsula communities west of François
  • NOTE – for the 2026 Summer Games, the Western Region is excluding the communities listed in the Host Region

Avalon

  • Conception Bay South to Holyrood
  • Conception Bay north shore – Conception Harbour to Grates Cove
  • Trinity shore – Old Perlican to Blaketown, and up to, but not including Arnold’s Cove 
  • the areas surrounding Long Harbour
  • Whitbourne
  • Placentia
  • Cape Shore 
  • St. Mary’s Bay up to but excluding Trepassey
  • NOTE – Generally, all communities on the Avalon Peninsula and Isthmus of Avalon which are not included in the St. John’s/North, Mount Pearl/South regions. 

Mount Pearl / South 

  • Mount Pearl
  • Paradise
  • Southlands
  • all communities on the Southern Shore from Bay Bulls to Trepassey Inclusive

St. John’s / North

  • St. John’s and Northern Communities including; 
  • Cape St. Francis
  • Bell Island
  • Torbay
  • Portugal Cove-St. Philips 
  • Petty Harbour-Maddox Cove

Eastern

  • Northwest of and including Arnold’s Cove 
  • Bonavista Peninsula
  • Burin Peninsula west to Pool’s Cove inclusive
  • Clarenville 
  • northeast to Gambo but not including Gambo

Central

  • Gambo and west to Hampden

North to Notre Dame Bay and south to the south coast- This includes:

  • Bonavista North – Hare Bay, Wesleyville, Musgrave Harbour, Gander Bay
  • Gander
  • Fogo Island
  • Twillingate
  • Lewisporte
  • Botwood
  • Bishop’s Falls
  • Grand Falls – Windsor south to Harbour Breton
  • west of Harbour Breton to include François; east of Harbour Breton to (but exclusive of) Pool’s Cove
  • Springdale 
  • Baie Verte Peninsula south to Hampden

Labrador

Includes all communities in Labrador.

Team Indigenous

Includes athletes from the following Aboriginal Nations; Nunatsiavut, Innu, Mi’kmaq and NunatuKavut (Labrador Metis)

Saint-Pierre et Miquelon

Includes all islands and areas of Saint-Pierre et Miquelon.

*Regional Map is of Newfoundland only for visual guidance. Each boundary line is not 100% accurate and does not account for Host region. For accurate zoning, please contact Games Coordinator, kjackman@sportnl.ca. Labrador is not included, as noted above, it is the entire regional part of the province. Team Indigenous is not based on geographical boundaries and participation is organized by the Aboriginal Sport and Recreation Circle.