Ambitious New Zealand coaches will soon be able to undertake courses for the Pro Licence coaching diploma, the first time it has been available in Oceania. A partnership between New Zealand Football and Oceania Football Confederation will enable the Pro … Read More
Three New Zealand referees have completed a two-day course to learn how the video assistant referee (VAR) system works. Isaac Trevis, Anna-Marie Keighley and Campbell Kirk Kawana Waugh were among 14 officials from the Oceania Football Confederation who undertook the … Read More
In early 1973, one of New Zealand’s leading sports commentators, Geoff Sinclair, provided a ‘state of the nation’ review of football, or ‘soccer’ as the sport was widely known at the time. Sinclair, the sports editor of Sunday News, and … Read More
The Oceania Football Confederation aims to launch a professional league for the region’s clubs in 2025. The new competition would potentially replace the OFC Champions League, of which Auckland City are the current champions. Plans to form the new league … Read More
Former NZ Football manager Ashleigh Cox has joined Oceania Football Confederation’s Auckland-based staff as part of its women’s football division. In a statement at their website, OFC says: “After a year off on maternity leave, Ashleigh will return to continue … Read More
The New Zealand and Oceania football communities have lost a passionate advocate for coach education with the death of Glenn Turner. Turner devoted his career to football, and primarily to coach education, working for the New Zealand Football Association, FIFA … Read More
The OFC Champions League — contested by New Zealand’s national league title winners each year — is in line for a shake-up. The newly-elected president of the Oceania Football Confederation, Lambert Maltock, says it’s time the competition was given a … Read More
Whatever hurdles the All Whites face, they pale when compared to the efforts being made to bring together squad members for Oceania World Cup qualifying tournament outsiders Cook Islands. New Zealand head coach Danny Hay knows he may struggle to … Read More
Two players well known to New Zealand football fans will been named in squads to face the All Whites at the Oceania FIFA World Cup qualifying tournament in March. Former Wellington Phoenix striker Roy Krishna will captain Fiji while Hamilton … Read More
The New Caledonian squad to face the All Whites in the Oceania FIFA World Cup qualifying tournament have been training together three times a week since November in an effort to be in the best possible shape for the March … Read More