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The postponement of Friends of Football’s annual golf day has left us one team short of our capacity for entries. Torrential rain forced us to delay the event on May 11 till Thursday (June 1). Unfortunately, not all our entered … Read More
There’s plenty of top football to watch this weekend, either live or on a screen, as New Zealand gets its FIFA U-20 Men’s World Cup campaign underway and Auckland City play their last pool game at the OFC Champions League. … Read More
New Zealand will play the Cook Islands and Samoa in their pool games at September’s OFC U-16 Women’s Championship to be held in Tahiti. The 10-nation tournament decides who qualifies for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup, representing the … Read More
Here’s your guide to the weekend’s football with Northern League fixtures, and the first rounds of the Chatham Cup and Kate Sheppard Cup. On Sunday, Auckland City will begin the defence of their OFC Champions League title in Vanuatu with … Read More
Six-time winners Christchurch United kick off this weekend’s Chatham Cup first-round ties with a floodlight match against Parklands United on Friday. While Southern League leaders Christchurch United are favourites to win the tie, Parklands United have started their season well, … Read More
Forty sides go into this weekend’s second round of the Kate Sheppard Cup hopeful of joining the 12 clubs whose names are already sure of going into the next draw. Games take place over Saturday and Saturday, with one fixture … Read More
Torrential rain and flooding in Auckland have forced the postponement of Friends of Football’s annual golf day, planned for Thursday (May 11). The Toyo Tires-sponsored tournament will be rescheduled for Thursday June 1, 2023, at Huapai Golf Club beside Auckland’s … Read More
Organisers are looking for “cast members” to be part of their spectacular opening ceremony when the FIFA Women’s World Cup gets underway at Auckland’s Eden Park on Thursday July 20. The ceremony, which will be broadcast globally, will take place … Read More
Here’s your guide to the weekend’s football with Northern, Central and Southern League fixtures, as well as men’s and women’s Lotto NRFL games in the north. On Friday night, it’s all or nothing for the Wellington Phoenix as they play … Read More
National women’s champions Eastern Suburbs will learn their group opponents in the OFC Women’s Champions League in a draw to be live-streamed on Thursday May 4. Suburbs, who qualified for the inaugural OFC competition by winning the 2022 Women’s National … Read More
Friends of Football will host their eighth annual golf day at Huapai Golf Club on Thursday June 1, 2023. PLEASE NOTE: This story has been updated following the postponement of the event from May 11, due to weather. READ MORE: … Read More
Ticket sales have opened for the first-ever international to be played by the Football Ferns in Napier. New Zealand will play Vietnam — currently ranked 33rd in the FIFA women’s world rankings — on Monday July 10. It will be … Read More
Here’s your guide to the weekend’s football with Northern, Central and Southern League fixtures, as well as men’s and women’s Lotto NRFL games in the north. On Saturday night, it’s all or nothing for the Wellington Phoenix as they play … Read More
The first-round draw of the Kate Sheppard Cup has conjured four games in which sides from Auckland will face teams from the Waikato/Bay of Plenty. The national competition — with New Zealand’s premier women’s knockout trophy at stake — enables … Read More
Auckland Sunday League side Rapa Nui FC have drawn high-flying East Coast Bays in the first round of the Chatham Cup. The South Auckland side beat WaiBOP League One club West Hamilton 3-1 in the preliminary round to earn their … Read More
Auckland City’s group games at the OFC Champions League in Vanuatu will be played at 1pm and 4pm (NZT) and are likely to be live-streamed. The schedule for the 13-day tournament in May has allocated games to Luganville, where Auckland … Read More
Tuesday has 14 Chatham Cup matches and a solitary Kate Sheppard Cup tie for those in search of live football action on ANZAC Day. Some of the best women players in the WaiBOP Football region will play for the Legacy … Read More
Some of the best women players in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty will go head-to-head in two games on ANZAC Day, playing for WaiBOP Football’s Legacy Trophy. The games will be hosted by Tauranga Blue Rovers at Pemberton Park, … Read More