North Plainfield's football team won the 2008 Skyland Conference Raritan Division championship. In 2011 North Plainfield's Canucks went undefeated during the regular season achieving the record of 9-0. They won the Skyland Conference and entered the conference playoffs as the number 1 seed and secured home field advantage for the remainder of the playoffs. The North Plainfield Canucks played the #8 seed Carteret High School Ramblers, losing by a score of 27-21. The 2011 Canucks were the 3rd football team in Canuck history to ever achieve the record of 9-0 during the regular season.