The Football Ferns went to Chile and they lost both games. The first was a disappointing tactical approach in front of a pretty decent local crowd. The second had no crowd at all, in fact it was played behind closed doors.
Returning to us unspoiled from the golden shores of the beyond, the 2023 Men’s National League season began with an enticing clash at Fraser Park between the two most professional-adjacent teams in the competition
Returning from the others realms to bless us with its presence once again, the 2023 National League kicked off on a soggy Palmerston North afternoon with the freshly-crowned Kate Sheppard Cup champions up against the perennial wooden spooners
Play that Champions League anthem and play it loud because Marko Stamenic just took on UCL title-holders Manchester City (again). Matchday one of the 2023-24 UCL and Man City hosted Red Star Belgrade
The temperatures are rising, footy pitches across the nation are finally starting to dry out, and the best domestic players in Aotearoa are preparing for another National League. The Women’s preview is already in the bag, now it’s time to breeze through what the blokes have to offer
Folks, it is that time once again: National League football is upon us. The cup finals have capped off the winter season and now, with no time to pause and catch breath, the summer season begins
The Meikayla Moore Resurgence continued into Champions League qualifiers this week... and will continue into more Champions League qualifiers in a few more weeks
Perhaps it was fitting that in the 100th edition of the Chatham Cup we got ourselves a historical champion. Christchurch United are now level with University-Mount Wellington for the most Chatham Cup wins after their penalty shootout triumph against Melville United
Western Springs AFC found themselves in a bit of a shambles earlier this year as an ongoing dispute between the women’s team and the club board made it into the national media. Now that very same women’s team are the Kate Sheppard Cup champions
The rumours were true, Joe Bell is a Viking. The curls are at the height of Stavanger fashion once again after Bell’s frustrating tenure with Brøndby in Denmark ended with a switch back to his old club in Norway
You know how champion boxers often have rematch clauses in their fight contracts so that they can instantly avenge an upset defeat? That seems to be how the Australia Cup works too
As far as club debuts go, this was a good one. James McGarry has only been with Aberdeen for two weeks and it wasn’t immediately clear how soon they’d unleash him into the action
Cometh the moment, cometh the Woodsman... you know how the saying goes. Nottingham Forest were hosting Sheffield United and it was poised at 1-1 deep into the match…
They were the worthiest champions. Dominant against the weaker teams and efficient against their fellow challengers. Spain delivered a clinic in possession-based football, built around an incredible midfield and a couple of superbly aggressive fullbacks
In the end, the thing that kept the Football Ferns from making the knockouts of their home World Cup was the thing that was always going to be the problem: their lack of goals
What can you say? The bro knows where the goal is. Given the start up front for Plymouth Argyle in their EFL Cup first round match against Leyton Orient, Ben Waine responded with a first half brace and went on to win man of the match
Every Wellington Phoenix season gets underway with an Australia Cup jaunt. They’re always played on the other side of the Tasman Sea, usually against a lower-tiered NPL club, and generally very early in their preseason activities.
The opening day of the new season is always a special occasion filled with hope and expectation. Players are fired up after another tough preseason, fans are brimming to be back in the stands again
The Football Ferns didn’t quite reach the resplendent realms of the World Cup knockout phase but the word ‘fail’ and its derivatives have no place in such conversations
It has begun. Following a preseason that went pretty much perfectly for both Marko Stamenic and Red Star Belgrade, the Serbian league season has kicked off in pretty much perfect fashion too