And so here we are again. For the sixth time in six attempts, the Football Ferns have been knocked out in the group stage of a FIFA World Cup... but this one wasn’t like the others
From the moment he was announced as the new Wellington Phoenix Men’s Manager, Giancarlo Italiano has made it clear that he backs the club’s academy system and the players coming through it
Well that clearly didn’t go to plan. After beating Norway in a thrilling, impassioned, amazing upset in the tournament opener the Football Ferns would have been all but on the brink of the World Cup knockouts…
You already know how Zac Jones got here. You know about how he won the gloves at Haverfordwest County with a series of strong performances last season. You know about his penalty heroics in helping them qualify for the Europa Conference League prelims
It was hard not to get caught up in the emotions of that legendary Football Ferns victory. All you had to do was peek at Ali Riley after the final whistle, eyes all watery, embraced by a beaming Vic Esson, leaning her head back and roaring into the night sky: “We did it!”
It began with a goal kick, it ended in a goal. In between five different players combined for six touches as the Football Ferns gave the 2023 World Cup its iconic opening game moment
The whole year has been building up towards this for FC Haka and their two kiwi compadres. We’re talking about the start of Europa Conference League qualifying, where Haka had been drawn up against Crusaders of Northern Ireland
We’re now only days away from kickoff at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup and preparations are complete. No more friendly games, no more training camps. Just fierce anticipation for the main event.
The squad is set, training camp is over, the practice games are finished, and all the rival nations have amassed in Aotearoa and Australia for the biggest standalone female sporting event on the planet
The New Zealand U19’s Women just spent a couple of weeks in Fiji working on qualifying for next year’s U20 World Cup. The Oceania Women’s U19s Championships.
This current transfer window burst open with all sorts of anticipation for impending kiwi transfers but that shouldn’t surprise anyone because that’s quickly become the norm these days
It was a Football Ferns victory in Napier. They gave Vietnam a whallopping and while they didn’t make it as emphatic on the scoreboard as they should have... a 2-0 victory definitely counts as a hiding by Footy Ferns standards
Roughly nine months after Danny Hay’s tenure as All Whites coach ended, New Zealand Football have finally announced his replacement: former assistant and interim coach Darren Bazeley
Last Friday NZT, Callum McCowatt lined up for FC Helsingør in the first friendly game of their preseason and he scored in a 2-0 win against Lyngby. It turned out to a fitting way to say farewell…
After nine weeks of training camp, beginning with a long-list of over 40 contending players, Jitka Klimková has now unveiled her 23-strong Football Ferns squad for the World Cup
The international breaks are special for any player fortunate enough to have been called up by their country but this past one is probably not going to be one of Michael Boxall’s favourites
For a game that technically didn’t happen, for which caps won’t count and there was no completed result, this one will be remembered for quite a long time.
It’s nice when you have those weeks where everything just goes right... ask Abby Erceg and her Racing Louisville team because they just learned how that goes
For roughly ninety-percent of the game against Sweden in Stockholm, the All Whites held their own. There was some impressive football on display and they certainly didn’t look like the rank underdogs that they should have been
Another week, another kiwi champion in Denmark. Daisy Cleverley joined HB Køge almost exactly a year ago, that transfer announced right around the time that they were wrapping up a second consecutive league title.