Callum McCowatt was injured this time last year, meaning that he missed out on Silkeborg’s Europa League qualifiers against Molde of Norway. This year it’s only Conference League qualifiers but McCowatt is fit and firing and coming off the finest form of his career.

Who saw that coming, aye? Wrexham had reportedly been after Liberato Cacace for weeks but they were only one of a long list of clubs you could say that about (and that’s just the ones we heard about).

Elijah Just’s Mothwerwell move was confirmed last Thursday NZT with the Scottish club paying an undisclosed fee to sign him on a two-year contract (with a club option for a third). This reunites him with coach Jens Berthel Askou who previously signed Just at AC Horsens.

Sarpreet Singh has landed in Serbia, ready to add another language to his Duolingo lessons. In a career that’s already taken him from Wellington to Germany to Portugal, he’s now signed a two-year contract with TSC Bačka Topola in the Serbian SuperLiga.

Michael Boxall may have told reporters that he didn’t want the spotlight of MLS All Star status but the voters didn’t listen, sending him on the way to his first ever selection. The squad was announced last Thursday NZT and…

This was a week for transfers... but there are a few stray games involving kiwi footballers sprinkled in here. Like, for instance, another silky victory for Joe Bell’s Viking FK as they continue to hang out at the very top of the Eliteserien.

Gabi Rennie was in a generous mood for Eskilstuna United’s penultimate game before the summer break. She didn’t score as Esky won 4-0 against Gamla Upsala, instead she simply set all four of them up.

Even in what ought to be a down week, with most European seasons wrapped up and the women all on an international break, the Flying Kiwis shelves can still produce bangers like this

It all came down to this. Nottingham Forest versus Chelsea on the final day of the season with Champions League football on the line. It’s a situation that would have been inconceivable to Forest fans at the beginning of the campaign.

Hold the phone... Empoli won another game of football! They went twenty games on the trot without winning in Serie A but suddenly they’ve grabbed two in a row just in time to give them renewed hope of avoiding relegation.

Callum McCowatt might be in the form of his life right now. He’s had other spells in his career where he’s become unstoppable, quite a few of them actually, but surely none as significant as this current spell.

Well, they did it: London City Lionesses are champions of the Championship and will be playing WSL football next season. They needed to avoid defeat against Birmingham on the final day to achieve that target and that’s exactly what they did.

Calgary Wild lost their inaugural game last week and it was Meikayla Moore who conceded the decisive penalty. This week the Mouse made amends.

It was a bummer when Silkeborg missed out on the championship rounds but dropping into the bottom half does have its benefits. Like, for example, it makes it a little easier for Callum McCowatt to do this…

If you read last week’s edition, you’ll know all about Joe Bell’s borderline addiction to kiwifruit – he claims to eat 20-40 of them per week (with the skins on too!). Well, fresh produce imports must be booming in Norway because Joe Bell has clearly not been going hungry.

It’s hard to imagine how the last few weeks could have gone any better for Finn Surman. He may have had some reluctance about skipping out on the last All Whites tour but it’s proven to be the best thing for him.

Every week there are goals being scored by the talented assortment of kiwi footballers around the world. Every single week... but rarely does anyone score a goal as spectacular as the one Moses Dyer just scored for Galway United.

Maggie Jenkins was one of the unluckier absentees when the squad for the Chinese Taipei trip was confirmed recently but that only seems to have motivated her because look what she did on the weekend.

Macey Fraser didn’t join the Royals until after their 2024 campaign had already begun due to the overlap with her Wellington Phoenix season, very quickly made a positive impact for struggling team, and then promptly hurt her ankle

Michael Boxall, aged 36, is laying down bars in interviews. There’s no stopping the bloke. It only took him two attempts to waltz into an MLS Team of the Week selection and now he’s done it twice in a row