Flying Kiwis – August 19
Champions League or Europa League... Viking FK’s season has reached a fork in the road with those two outcomes pointing in different directions on the street signs.
Aotearoa Domestic Football Roundup – August 17
Saturday evening on the turf at Riverhills Park, Fencibles United kicked off against Nelson Suburbs and in the time it’ll take you to read this sentence they’d already scored.
Flying Kiwis – August 12
When Katie Bowen signed with Fenerbahçe, the lure of continental football had to have been a major factor. Same as how when Fenerbahçe signed Katie Bowen, they were stocking up for those continental games most of all
Aotearoa Domestic Football Roundup – August 10
Cashmere Technical were supposed to seal the deal for the Southern League title when they hosted Coastal Spirit on Sunday... but it turns out it didn’t even have to wait that long. Instead they were crowned champs a day earlier without having to do anything…
Flying Kiwis – August 5
The Paraguayan Primera División restarted with its Clausura phase last week and for the first two Olimpia games, the closest we got to any Tim Payne action was the occasional close-up of his face on the bench…
Aotearoa Domestic Football Roundup – August 3
They’ve done it, Birkenhead United are champions of the Northern League with four games to spare – the first trophy winner to be confirmed across the top men’s and women’s footy leagues this year
Flying Kiwis – July 29
Still got another few weeks of preseason for most European clubs but they don’t wait around in Denmark. The Superliga is already underway for the 2026-27 campaign and for as long as Callum McCowatt remains a Silkeborg player he is going to be starting games for them
Aotearoa Domestic Football Roundup – July 27
That East Coast Bays vs Auckland City meeting was the only men’s league game to take place this week on account of the main event that was the Chatham Cup quarter-finals. Eight teams remained, only four would still be standing at the end of it.
Flying Kiwis – July 23
Nobody was expecting Elijah Just to remain a Motherwell player beyond this transfer window. Not after the twelve months he’s just had, shortlisted for the Scottish Premiership Player of the Year and then scoring three goals at the World Cup where he was New Zealand’s best performer.
Aotearoa Domestic Football Roundup – July 21
Friday night under lights at Ferrymead Park was the scene for a second versus third scrap-out between Ferrymead Bays and Coastal Spirit... although the scrapping only went in one direction…
Flying Kiwis – July 15
You never quite know what the situation is when a player is released by a club. After Hannah Blake was let go by Durham last week, that could have been the English club saying ka kite after two years…
Aotearoa Domestic Football Roundup – July 14
Might as well start with a heavy win on this side too because Wellington Olympic 9-0 FC Western was a completely anticipated result but the margin was something else, considering how Western had been going alright of late
How Can The All Whites Build Upon Their 2026 World Cup Efforts Moving Towards 2030?
The All Whites turned up to the 2026 FIFA World Cup with two stated intentions: to win a game and to progress to the knockout stages. They did neither of those things.
Aotearoa Domestic Football Roundup – July 6
Sixteen teams remained, eight of them have now been eliminated after the fourth round of the Chatham Cup took place over the weekend. Still regional match-ups to this stage but a surprising number of non-top tier teams made it this far up north to keep things interesting
Flying Kiwis – July 1
You won’t be seeing Emma Pijnenburg in a Wellington Phoenix jersey next season because she’s heading back to the Netherlands. She already spent a couple years with Feyenoord before joining the Nix…
Aotearoa Domestic Football Roundup – June 29
The top of the Central League table has taken another reshuffle after Napier City Rovers won 3-2 against Wellington Olympic in a fantastic game of footy. Luke Stoupe put Olympic ahead after 23 mins…
All Whites at the 2026 FIFA World Cup: Game Toru vs Belgium
For a while there, we had room to dream. The All Whites made it to their third game still in with a chance of making the knockout rounds, all it would have needed was the greatest result in the history of football in Aotearoa.
Flying Kiwis – June 24
The saying goes “No Payne, No Gain” therefore by logical extension Much Payne must equal Much Gain. Two years of contracted Tim Payne is a lot of Payne so when the biggest club in Paraguay, Club Olimpia, agreed a transfer for Tim Payne after the World Cup…
All Whites at the 2026 FIFA World Cup: Game Rua vs Egypt
It was all going swell at half-time. Finn Surman’s towering (unmarked) header and another intense, energetic performance from the All Whites, full of clever interplay and sturdy defence, had the lads leading 1-0 at the break against Mo Salah and his Pharaohs
Aotearoa Domestic Football Roundup – June 22
This was the week that the Oceania Pro League players returned. Four weeks after Auckland FC lifted that championship (overshadowed by another one they lifted that same weekend), we have begun to see the various kiwi players involved in that competition dispersed back around the league