Greg Gibbins had enjoyed a day at a local music festival and was looking for a late-night bite to eat at a pizza shop when he became involved in a stoush.

The 28-year-old car spray painter and Wyong Roos rugby league club player was stabbed with a knife, suffered a cardiac arrest, and in the early hours of Easter Monday died in hospital.

Greg Gibbins has died in hospital after being stabbed in a brawl on the Central Coast. Credit:Facebook

"A good citizen just getting some food after a night out behaving himself and now his family is making funeral arrangements and that's the tragedy of it," said Chief Inspector Rod Peet.

About midnight, a fight involving at least six people broke out opposite The Beachcomber Hotel on Main Road in Toukley, which was hosting the Sunbay music festival.