They did it. Auckland City began the National League as favourites and they finished it as champions. Chuck it onto the pile alongside the Northern League, Oceania Champions League, and Chatham Cup titles that they’d already won this year
The fellas wrapped things up this week with the exception of the grand final on Sunday. The ladies still have a couple more weeks to go meaning that, just like the start of the campaign, they’re about to get the spotlight all to themselves again
And so we arrive at the final round of the season, one last set of fixtures before the fellas can start spending their weekends doing the holiday shopping instead. Maybe head to the beach for a week
Clearly Vic Esson is a machine because less than a week after she saved that late penalty for the Football Ferns against South Korea she was lining up in goal for the biggest game of Rangers’ SWPL campaign so far
One more week of Men’s National League to go (plus a grand final). Like a summer holiday, it’s almost over when it feels like it’d only just begun.
Friday night as Seddon Fields, definitely the best time to be at Seddon Fields. Under the lights and out on the turf. Listen closely and you can sometimes hear the animals from the zoo down the road
Ideally the Wellington Phoenix would have celebrated their first ever (proper) home game with a memorable win. Realistically they were always up against it facing a Melbourne City team that finished second on the ladder last term
We didn’t get the wins that we were hoping for. Instead we got a 1-0 loss followed by a 1-1 draw in the two-game series against South Korea in Christchurch. But you know what? That’s a pretty decent outcome.
This will not have been a game that the Central girls were circling on the calendar. First versus last on the ladder, with Eastern Suburbs having beaten them 8-0 in the reverse fixture. At least they were at home this time
With twenty-two players all locked and loaded, the Wellington Phoenix are ready for their second season in the A-League Women’s. Some of those players are new to the team, many are returning from year one
How about Melville United? Bit of a slog over the first month of the National League but they’ve figured out their groove these past two weeks with wins over Christchurch United and Birkenhead. Scoring goals in the process
The Woodsman giving it a knee slide on a rainy afternoon on England’s south coast, that’s what we wanna see. Prior to the weekend’s game away against Southampton, Chris Wood had only scored once all season
We began this week in Christchurch, English Park to be more specific, as Cashmere Technical sought to apply their litmus test to Napier City Rovers. The litmus test being that…
The eighth week of this competition delivered the reverse fixtures of the first week of this competition. Safe to say that plenty has happened since then
The last time the Footy Ferns played was only a few weeks ago. October 9 in Nagano, they lost 2-0 to Japan. That result was about as expected and we didn’t really learn anything new, although the team did at least get…
Saturday arvo in sunny Napier, never a bad way to start a game week… particularly in a round that also saw torrential rain and thunderstorms elsewhere in the motu
Sometimes you’ve gotta take a step back in order to take two forward, right? When Ryan Thomas left PEC Zwolle for PSV Eindhoven back in 2018, it was on glowing terms with the club that had given him his big chances as a professional footballer
Here it was, finally. Into the last matchweek before every team had played each other at least once and that meant this fixture could wait no longer. The two runaway leaders atop the table
The task was simple for Marco Rojas and Colo-Colo: avoid defeat against Coquimbo Unido in their third-to-last match of the Primera División season and they’d be champions of Chile
The ol’ Southern Derby. Canterbury United Pride have been below their usual standards this season, stretched for depth by a few injuries and unavailabilities and also probably without the margin for error they’d otherwise be used to with these brutal Auckland sides around