It was a weekend of late goals deciding critical results with three Men’s National League games and the Wellington Phoenix match all being decided in the dying moments.
Young footballers had plenty of chance to shine. The U-17s lost at the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup but the U-17 boys held their inaugural National Youth League finals tournament, won by Auckland United.
Here’s our round-up of results from the weekend of October 14-15:
FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup
Game played on Saturday October 15, 2022 (NZT)
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New Zealand 0
Nigeria 4 (Amina Omowunmi Bello 16′, Miracle Usani 34′, Taiwo Afalobi 75′, Edidiong Etim 90+4′)
Men’s A-League
Game played on Sunday October 16, 2022
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Wellington Phoenix 2 (Ben Waine 57′, own goal 88′)
Central Coast Mariners 2 (Sammy Silvera 58′, Jason Cummings 65′)
Women’s National League
Games played on Sunday October 16, 2022
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Eastern Suburbs 1 (Juliette Lucas 10′)
Southern United 0
Central Football 1 (Maddison Hughes 27′)
Western Springs 5 (Emma Pijnenburg 5′, Rina Hirano 61′, 76′, Jess Innes 62′, 86′)
Games played on Saturday October 15, 2022
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Canterbury United Pride 1 (own goal 47′)
Northern Rovers 4 (Rene Wasi 19′, Kelli Brown 60′, Talisha Green 65′, Maisy Dewell 81′)
Capital Football 4 (Pepi Olliver-Bell 3′, 90’+3′, Sydnie Madison Williams 45′, Danielle Ohlsson 86′)
Auckland United 4 (Alosi Bloomfield 14′, 89′, Isabella Richards 23′, Emmelin Bowala 70′)
Men’s National League
Games played on Sunday October 16, 2022
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Wellington Phoenix 1 (Adam Supyk )
Melville United 1 (Olliver Colloty 90′ pen)
Cashmere Technical 0
Wellington Olympic 3 (Jack-Henry Sinclair 43′, 84′, Gianni Bouzoukis 79′)
Games played on Saturday October 15, 2022
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Birkenhead United 2 (Sam Burfoot 4′, Nicholas Forrester 49′)
Auckland City 2 (Sam Brotherton 82′, Emiliano Tade 90+4′)
Napier City Rovers 2 (Own goal 4′, Christian Leopard 84′)
Miramar Rangers 2 (James Murdoch-Gibbs 87′, Sam Mason-Smith 90+4′ pen)
Auckland United 1 (Hiroyoshi Kamata 61′)
Christchurch United 1 (Eddie Wilkinson 65′)
U-17 Boys’ National Youth League
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Day 3 finals
Games played on Sunday October 16, 2022
Play-off 1st/2nd
Auckland United 3 (Victor Barbosa 55′, 61′, Ishveer Singh-Dhillon 68′)
Tauranga City 2 (Thomas Page 11′, Henry Kemp 66′)
Play-off 3rd/4th
Birkenhead United 4 (Luke Costello 46′, Shivam Nair 48′, James Taylor 52′, 77′)
Cashmere Technical 1 (Nathan Yates 16′)
Play-off 5th/6th
Western Suburbs 3 (Albie Albert Francis-Alles 64′, Muse Abrahaberhe 70′, Jamie Wildash-Chan 72′)
Wellington Phoenix Academy 1 (Luke Flowerdew 6′)
Play-off 7th/8th
Nomads United 8 (Neo Tsutsui 12′, Nicholas Wilson 18′, Luca Greasley 21′, Lewis Whiteside 30′, Cody Johnson 34′, Matias Baltar 52′, 68′, James Collier 90′)
Onslow/Wellington 1 (Lachlan MacGregor 73′)
Day 2 semi-finals
Games played on Saturday October 15, 2022
Western Suburbs 4 (Muse Abrahaberhe 7′, 86′, 90′, Michael Des Tombe 83′)
Nomads United 1 (Nicholas Wilson 3′)
Onslow/Wellington 1 (Caleb Turner 32′)
Wellington Phoenix Academy 5 (Luke Flowerdew 8′, 66′, Oliver Grosso 49′, Luke Supyk 77′, Jack Perniskie 86′)
Birkenhead United 1 (Shivam Nair 88′)
Auckland United 3 (Bronson Browne 6′, Ishveer Singh-Dhillon 22′, 66′)
Cashmere Technical 1 (Samuel Shelling 87′)
Tauranga City 2 (Thomas Page 4′, 43′)
Day 1 quarter-finals
Games played on Friday October 14, 2022
Cashmere Technical 7 (Yusuf van Dam 16′, 19′, Luka Fields 29′, 43′, Declan Allen 55′, Jamie Jeffrey-Dally 85′, Ewan Hyndman 90′)
Onslow/North Wellington 0
Western Suburbs 1 (Lucas Finnegan 90+2′)
Birkenhead United 2 (Shivam Nair 9′, Nick Petherick 10′)
Tauranga City 3 (Joby Reid 17′, Tristan Kawana 22′, Braetyn Allan 76′)
Wellington Phoenix Academy 0
Nomads United 0
Auckland United 1 (James Ray 54′)
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