A New Professional Team in Auckland,
with another franchise slated for Christchurch in the future? Football in this country is about to enter a brave new world. Whether it is too early – or too late – is up for debate – but the sport is ...
The Challenge For NZ Football
In the next few months, New Zealand Football will face its biggest challenge in more than a decade. Essentially, the question is this; Now that the Fifa Women’s World Cup party is over, what comes next? The tournament, which culminated ...
Football Ferns
The class of 1975 demonstrated, anything is possible when you pull on the silver fern. When the New Zealand’s women’s football team competed in their first major international tournament, they played in borrowed uniforms. The squad faced four matches in ...
FIFA Women’s World Cup
How's this for a surprising statistic, ahead of the FIFA Women's World Cup being held in New Zealand later this year. According to some unofficial – but reliable – tournament sources, there have been more tickets sold to people living ...
Australia vs. All Whites
When the All Whites run out onto Eden Park next month, it will mark the end of a long drought. Perhaps more importantly, it could also signal the beginning of a vital new partnership. Chris Wood and his teammates haven’t ...
The Football Ferns
are racing the clock. In just over a year’s time, New Zealand will co-host the biggest female sporting event on the planet. The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup is a unique chance, that we might never see again. But will ...
The All Whites
It’s time to get excited about the All Whites. That’s been difficult over the last four years, as they have barely played (just six games since the epic contests with Peru in November 2017), but that will change soon. They ...
National League Reboot
It’s a fact so unlikely it would make a great pub trivia question. Which sport in New Zealand was the first to launch an annual national league? It will surprise many to know that it wasn’t rugby, given the prominence ...