Here’s our round-up of the weekend’s results from the Northern League, Central League and Southern League, and the top men’s and women’s competitions in the Northern and WaiBOP regions.
The FIFA Women’s World Cup’s Round of 16 determined who would play the quarter-finals in Auckland and Wellington, while the Women’s South Island League completed another full round.
Here’s our round-up of the weekend for August 4-6, 2023:
FIFA Women’s World Cup
Games played on Saturday August 5, 2023
Round of 16
Switzerland 1 (own goal 11′)
Spain 5 (Aitana Bonmati 5′, 36′, Alba Redondo 17′, Laia Codina 45′, Jennifer Hermoso 70′)
Eden Park, Auckland
Attendance: 43,217
Japan 3 (own goal 15′, Risa Shimizu 50′, Hinata Miyazawa 81′)
Norway 1 (Guro Reiten 20′)
Sky Stadium, Wellington
Attendance: 33,042
Australia Cup
Game played on Friday August 4, 2023
Round of 32
Peninsula Power 1 (Lewis Greenwood 71′)
Wellington Phoenix 2 (Nicholas Pennington 43′, Josh Rudland 119′)
*After extra time
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Northern League
Games played on Saturday August 5, 2023
West Coast Rangers 1 (Allan Pearce 67′)
Western Springs 1 (Kofi Dwamena 77′)
Birkenhead United 0
Auckland United 3 (Yousif Al-Kalisy 16′ pen, Matthew Conroy 26′, Xavier Green 33′)
Bay Olympic 1 (Sean Leadley 58′)
Melville United 1 (Ry McLeod 28′)
Eastern Suburbs 2 (Francis de Vries 67′ pen, Ryan Verney 87′)
Auckland City 2 (Cam Howieson 12′, Ryan de Vries 74′)
Manukau United 0
Takapuna 2 (Connor Cahill-Fahey 70′, Matthew Palmer 85′)
Manurewa 4 (Nico Bobadilla 54′, 83′, Monty Patterson 56′, Boon Ozawa 70′)
Hamilton Wanderers 1 (Derek Tieku 28′)
Central League
Games played on Saturday August 5, 2023
Miramar Rangers 2 (Connor Gillespie 34′, Andrew Bevin 88′)
Petone 3 (Sam Pickering 24′, 90+1′, Matthew Brazier 73′)
Stop Out 3 (Connor Gaul 85′ pen, 90′, Sam Cosgrave 90+5′)
Wellington Phoenix Reserves 3 (Daniel Makowem 4′, Matthew Sheridan 7′, Sam Proctor 78′)
North Wellington 0
Wellington Olympic 5 (Tor Davenport Petersen 9′, Ben Mata 41′ pen, Joel Stevens 45+1′, 74′, Tamupiwa Dimairo 54′ pen)
Games played on Sunday August 6, 2023
Napier City Rovers 1 (Deri Corfe 54′ pen)
Whanganui Athletic 1 (Ryan Holden 8′)
Western Suburbs 2 (Malik Smith 23′, 79′)
Waterside Karori 1 (Tomas Alvarado 19′)
Southern League
Game played on Friday August 4, 2023
Christchurch United 3 (Dan MacLennan 42′, 74′ 82′)
Ferrymead Bays 0
Games played on Saturday August 5, 2023
Green Island 1 (own goal 24′)
Nomads United 2 (Lorenzo Gauci 32′, Luca MacLeod-Watts 86′)
FC Twenty 11 0
Dunedin City Royals 7 (Hayden Aish 1′, Connor Neil 10′, 16′, Benjamin Stanley 21′, Hugh Jack 63′, Dafydd Spratt 79′, En Watanabe 90+2′)
Cashmere Technical 3 (Lyle Matthysen 15′, 20′, Garbhan Coughlan 28′)
Selwyn United 1 (Jamie Carroudus 59′)
Game played on Sunday August 6, 2023
Coastal Spirit 2 (Liam Cotter 37′, Omar Cameron 47′)
Nelson Suburbs 3 (Ben Polak 28′, Josh Creswell 55′, Alex Ridsdale 75′)
Women’s South Island League
Games played on Saturday August 5, 2023
Universities of Canterbury 0
Cashmere Technical 2 (Leanna Ryan 7′, Jonelle Arthur 40′)
Nelson Suburbs 0
Coastal Spirit 5 (Melanie Cameron 11′, Britney-Lee Nicolson 22′, 48′, 75′, Isla McPherson 23′)
Lotto NRFL Women’s Premier League
Game played on Friday August 4, 2023
Western Springs 1 (Sofia Garcia 62′)
Auckland United 1 (Talisha Green 44′)
Lotto NRFL Women’s Championship
Game played on Friday August 4, 2023
Fencibles United 1 (Zoe Brazier 53′)
Central United 1 (Narise Hansen 84′)
Games played on Sunday August 6, 2023
Manukau United 3 (Jasleen Kaur 34′, Ashley Porter 51′, Maureen Fitzpatrick 60′)
Te Atatu 0
Franklin United 0
Onehunga Sports 2 (Alice Hansen 37′, 90′)
Lotto NRFL Men’s Championship
Games played on Saturday August 5, 2023
Waiheke United 0
Tauranga City 2 (Tristan Kawana 22′, Campbell Higgins 45+2′)
East Coast Bays 0
North Shore United 1 (Thomas Page 50′)
Metro 3 (Matthew Kelly 42′, Ryan Cain 60′, Gilberto Souza 90+2′)
Northern Rovers 0
Ellerslie 1 (Tom Durkin 88′)
Onehunga Mangere United 1 (Abraham Khalil 23′)
Ngaruawahia United 2 (Reuben Henderson 48′, Stjepan Kovacic 90+5′)
Hibiscus Coast 0
Fencibles United 0
Mount Albert Ponsonby 2 (Jayden Rollinson 11′, own goal 35′)
Lotto NRFL Men’s Northern Conference
Games played on Saturday August 5, 2023
Oratia United 0
Northland 1 (Reuben Nicholl 16′)
Bucklands Beach 1 (Sander Waterland 82′)
Albany United 1 (Andrew O’Toole 76′ pen)
Franklin United 1 (Mohammed Shah 90+1′)
Waitemata 0
West Auckland 2 (Haylen West 52′, Mohammed Haj 84′)
Central United 0
Beachlands Maraetai — Bye
Lotto NRFL Men’s Southern Conference
Games played on Saturday August 5, 2023
Te Awamutu 3 (Jack Connor 43′ pen, 44′, 84′)
Papamoa 0
Cambridge 4 (Jordan Shaw 11′, Daniel Clarkin 14′, Josh Clarkin 37′, 82′)
Taupo 2 (Joe O’Donoghue 24′, 83′)
Waikato Unicol 5 (Dominick Edwards 6′, 90+2′, Jarrod Briggs 39′, Harry Christensen-Rose 52′, Bailey Webster 58′)
Otumoetai 2 (Connor Smythe 83′, 87′)
Ngongotaha Lakes 1 (Carl Chadwick 22′)
Claudelands Rovers 0
NRF Men’s League One
Games played on Saturday August 5, 2023
Ranui Swanson 2 (Kevin Hevia 60′, Keenan Peters 63′)
Papatoetoe 5 (Stephen McCoskrie 30′, James Hale 34′, Andre Colpi 39′, Fadeel Khan 45′, Amit Narayan 90+8′)
Te Atatu 3 (Daniel Peak 68′, Jared Colligan 88′, Benjamin McCafferty 90′)
Papakura City 0
Uni-Mount Bohemian 1 (Reinal Singh 7′)
South Auckland Rangers 6 (Hussaini Khan 8′, 62′, Ronald Kivolyn 56′, Calvin Opperman 59′, 82′, Keith Anderson 90′)
WaiBOP Men’s League One
Games played on Saturday August 5, 2023
West Hamilton 4 (Duale Mire 2′, 65′, Jibrill Mire 13′, 52′)
Matamata Swifts 5 (Ethan Davis 22′, Jamie Baxter 30′, Peter Shannon 62′, 74′, Reuben Davis 75′)
Otorohanga 0
Tauranga City 2 (Julien Hoffmann 51′, Thomas Crane 59′)
Cambridge 2 (Ryan Ashby 30′ pen, Jordan Silvester 62′)
Hamilton Wanderers 2 (Samuel Hawke 24′, Boston Ridgway 47′)
Claudelands Rovers 0
Tokoroa 1 (Joshua Drysdale 22′)
WaiBOP Women’s W-League
Games played on Sunday August 6, 2023
Waikato Unicol 1 (Ashleigh Ngow 42′)
Otumoetai 1 (Makenzie Kamo 14′)
Tauranga Blue Rovers 1 (Julia Edwards 51′)
Melville United 1 (Zaubeg Abdekrazeq 6′)
Lakes 2 (Brooke Barclay 2′, Sinead Doherty 28′)
Tauranga City 0
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