Here are all the weekend’s top results from the Northern, Central and Southern Leagues, the Women’s South Island league and the top men’s and women’s competitions in the Northern and WaiBOP regions.
Also, the Ferns played Italy behind closed doors in a warm-up game for the FIFA Women’s World Cup which starts on Thursday.
Here’s our round-up of the weekend of July 14-16, 2023:
Results
International
Game played on Friday July 14, 2023
Women’s international friendly
New Zealand 0
Italy 1 (Valentina Giacinti, 23′)
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Northern League
Game played on Friday July 14, 2023
Auckland City 2 (Ryan de Vries 13′, Joe Lee 18′)
Auckland United 1 (Oliver Middleton 66′)
Games played on Saturday July 15, 2023
Bay Olympic 4 (Sean Leadley 29′, 72′, Ibrahim Nadir 44′, Ryusei Ishibashi 82′)
West Coast Rangers 2 (Tristan Prattley 64′, Felix Van Hattum 84′)
Manukau United 2 (Meysum Shafahi 33′, TBC)
Melville United 1 (Quinton Kipara 66′)
Manurewa 0
Eastern Suburbs 3 (Luis Toomey 73′, Daniel Bunch 82′, Dylan Laing-McConnell 90+5′)
Hamilton Wanderers 1 (Luke Mitchell 1′)
Takapuna 0
Game played on Sunday July 16, 2023
Birkenhead United 1 (Rayhan Carlson-Du Toit)
Western Springs 2 (Patrick Tobin 37′, Adama Coulibaly 65′)
Central League
Game played on Friday July 14, 2023
Wellington Olympic 3 (Hamish Watson 9′, Jack-Henry Sinclair 70′, Ben Mata 90+2′ pen)
I’m Wellington Phoenix Reserves 2 (Dan McKay 15′, Luke Supyk 44′)
Games played on Saturday July 15, 2023
Miramar Rangers 1 (Liam Wood 37′)
Napier City Rovers 3 (Stefan Karajovanovic 26′, 48′, Deri Corfe 90′)
Stop Out 1 (Connor Gault 18′)
Waterside Karori 4 (Harry Fautley 40′, Stefan Cordwell 45′, Jorge Akers 59′, Seth Ward 80′)
North Wellington 2 (own goal 22′, Henry Sinclair 42′)
Whanganui Athletic 3 (Zachary Farmer 43′, Charlie Meredith 90+1′, 90+6′)
Game played on Sunday July 16, 2023
Western Suburbs 0
Petone 1 (Matthew Brazier 84′ pen)
Southern League
Games played on Friday July 14, 2023
Ferrymead Bays 4 (Daniel Thoms 26′, Chris Murphy 70′, 82′, Jamie Moores 78′)
Dunedin City Royals 1 (Kaleb de Groot-Green 61′)
Nelson Suburbs 4 (Lennon Whewell 27′, 81′, Jack Carter 36′, Ben Polak 54′)
Green Island 5 (Trevin Myers 42′, 76, Stefan Milidrag 70′, 73′, 79′)
Christchurch United 6 (Cameron Lindsay 7′, Joel Peterson 24′, Sam Philip 32′), Eoghan Stokes 60′, 90+3′, Ben Lapslie 85′)
Selwyn United 0
Cashmere Technical 2 (Garbhan Coughlan 38′, Dyclan Tyndall 44′)
Coastal Spirit 3 (Apisai Rabuka 7′, Omar Cameron 18′, Aashish Rai 26′)
FC Twenty 11 0
Nomads United 2 (George Campbell 8′, Flynn Holdem 31′)
Women’s South Island League
Games played on Friday July 14, 2023
Dunedin City Royals 6 (Hannah Mackay-Wright 3′, Toni Power 17′, Amelia Caltaux 37′, own goal 80′, Kelsey Kennard 87′, Rose Morton 89′)
UC AFC 0
Nelson Suburbs 0
Otago University 1 (Amy Hislop 72′)
Coastal Spirit 1 (Whitney Hepburn 85′)
Cashmere Technical 1 (Jess Dyer 45+2′)
Lotto NRFL Women’s Premier League
Games played on Sunday July 16, 2023
Auckland United 3 (Bree Johnson 20′, 35′, Talisha Green 73′)
Ellerslie 0
Eastern Suburbs 3 (Juliette Lucas 15′, 42′, Zoe Benson 33′)
Hibiscus Coast 4 (Peta van Hattum 45′, 67′, Danica Urlich-Beech 51′, Lauren Henry 72′)
Hamilton Wanderers 2 (Stella Neems 42′, Ayla Koopu 90+3′)
Northern Rovers 1 Gigi Cliffe 37′)
West Coast Rangers 1 (own goal 53′)
Western Springs 2 (Liz Savage 35′, own goal 56′)
Lotto NRFL Men’s Championship
Games played on Friday July 14, 2023
Mount Albert Ponsonby 3 (Nick Hindson 74′, Marshall Gurney 90+2′, Kevin Hajderaj 90+3′)
Waiheke United 0
Tauranga City 5 (Nathan Rostron 26′, 54′, Eamon O’Donoghue 33′, Jonty Bidois 50′, 76′)
Ellersiie 3 (Ermai Fusha 21′, Caylem Nelson 67′, Tawanda Marowa 70′)
Games played on Saturday July 15, 2023
East Coast Bays 4 (Dylan Stansfield 26′, Taeho Kim 42′, Moses Akimana 85′, Liam Andersen 89′)
Metro 0
Onehunga Mangere United 0
Hibiscus Coast 1 (Zachary Newman 48′)
Northern Rovers 3 (Dion Buckingham 48′, Gonzalo Freddi 81′, Jay Bracken 90+4′)
Ngaruawahia United 0
North Shore United 2 (Bronson Kelly 9′, Guy-frank Essome Penda 22′)
Fencibles United 2 (Sam Lonergan 10′, 15′)
Game played on Sunday July 16, 2023
Mount Albert Ponsonby 2 (own goal 4′, Jayden Rollinson 73′)
Tauranga City 0
Lotto NRFL Women’s Championship
Game played on Friday July 14, 2023
Fencibles United 3 (Nina Feliciano 4′, Mischa Marais 60′, Kate Berry 81′)
Onehunga Sports 1 (Sophie Stevenson 45′)
Games played on Sunday July 16, 2023
Central United 0
Manukau United 1 (Ashley Porter 50′)
Otumoetai 3 (Niamh Carter 6′, Grace Duncan 26′, 31′)
Franklin United 4 (Chloe Marthe 7′, Nikita Lieshout 78′, Marlies James 82′, Sarah Carpenter 84′)
Tauranga City 4 (own goal 8′, Briana Osborne 35′, Abi Whitney-Collins 50′, Talia Entwistle 53′)
Te Atatu 0
Lotto NRFL Men’s Northern Conference
Games played on Friday July 14, 2023
Beachlands Maraetai 1 (Aaron Parry 70′ pen)
Oratia United 4 (Andy Kapteyn 7′, Max Whitehead 45+1′, Tyler Cody 80′, Thomas Jacobson 83′)
Waitemata 0
Bucklands Beach 1 (Sander Waterland 55′)
Games played on Saturday July 15, 2023
Northland 2 (Archie Knox 62′, Waseem Abdalla 81′)
West Auckland 2 (Haylen West 54′, Matthew Hearn 65′)
Central United 0
Franklin United 2 (Ish Shah 19′, own goal 37′)
Albany United — Bye
Lotto NRFL Men’s Southern Conference
Games played on Friday July 14, 2023
Papamoa 3 (Andrew Cooper 42′, 66′, Vincent Callister 88′)
Waikato Unicol 3 (Bailey Webster 7′, Dominick Edwards 73′, Jarrod Briggs 85′)
Cambridge 6 (Josh Clarkin 23′ pen, 63′, Krishaant Singh 32′, Luke Brooke-Smith 34′, Nathan Monne 77′, 90+1′ pen)
Ngongotaha Lakes 0
Games played on Saturday July 15, 2023
Te Awamutu 1 (Jack Connor 53′)
Claudelands Rovers 3 (Henry Stephen 41′, 85′, Blair Pennell 81′)
Taupo 5 (Joe O’Donoghue 8′, 14′ pen, Ty Christensen 47′, 90′, David Floyd 87′)
Otumoetai 2 (Jack Boland 57′, Chaz Picton 85′)
WaiBOP Men’s League One
Game played on Friday July 14, 2023
West Hamilton 3 (Jibril Mire 2′, Noor Mire 26′, Abdifatah Adam 56′)
Tokoroa 3 (Jordan Rudman 35′, Hamish King 53′, Lloyd Clarke 75′)
Games played on Saturday July 15, 2023
Papatoetoe 1 (Sandhip Singh 44′)
South Auckland Rangers 3 (Joe Minto 9′, Jayden Reddy 88′, Netani Doli 90+1′)
Ranui Swanson 1 (Kevin Hevia 59′)
Te Atatu 8 (Tae Ryeon Kim 11′, Rhys Caples 17′, Jack Kelly 24′, Daniel Peak 32′, Jared Colligan 34′, 60′, 63′ pen, Campbell Batt 86′)
Uni-Mount Bohemian 0
Papakura City 4 (Vikil Nineet Prakash 7′, 26′, Logan Dixon 14′, 64′)
WaiBOP Men’s League One
Otorohanga 5 (Grayson Fortis 28′, Jamie Walker 32′, Trent Maguire 63′, Alex Bell 79′, Bailey Croad 85′)
Claudelands Rovers 1 (Riley Higgs 75′)
Tauranga City 4 (Cameron Stewart 8′, 17′, Thomas Crane 21′, Zachary Bell 50′)
Hamilton Wanderers 0
WaiBOP Women’s W-League
Games played on Sunday July 16, 2023
Otumoetai 0
Lakes 6 (Emily Downs 36′, 53′, 88′, Brooke Barclay 56′, 77′, Teneille Ogilvy 65′)
Waikato Unicol 2 (Stacey Palmer 62′, Sarah Stokes 83′)
Melville United 5 (Rylee Mardon 3′, Shion Hwang 23′, 29′, 51′, Marie O’Neill 64′)
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