New Zealand Football Championship

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Stirling Sports Premiership
Full name New Zealand Football Championship
Association New Zealand Football
First edition October 15, 2004
hierarchy 1st League
Teams 10
master Auckland City FC
Record champions Auckland City FC (7 wins)
Website www.nzfc.co.nz
Qualification for OFC Champions League

New Zealand Football Championship (NZFC) denotes the top division of football in New Zealand . The competition, founded in 2004, is a semi-professional franchise league and is operated by the national association, New Zealand Football . Between 2010 and 2016, the league was sponsored by ASB Bank and was named ASB Premiership . In the 2016/17 season the league was called the Stirling Sports Premiership and, since 2017, the ISPS Handa Premiership .

The league's status as the successor to the National Soccer League is controversial, as traditional teams were not taken into account and instead franchise teams take part in the competition.

Game operation

The league consists of eight clubs that each play against each other three times. At the end of the regular season, the best four teams qualify for the play-offs and play the champions. The first against the fourth and the second against the third in a double round (two-way round). The winners of these games compete against each other in the final. The winner qualifies as a New Zealand soccer champion for the OFC Champions League .

Current teams 2017/18

New Zealand Football Championship
team city Stadion capacity region
Auckland City FC Auckland Kiwitea Street 3,500 Auckland
Canterbury United Christchurch English Park 3,000 Canterbury
Eastern suburbs Kohimarama Bill McKinlay Park 5,000 Auckland
Hamilton Wanderers Hamilton Porritt Stadium 5,000 Waikato
Hawke's Bay United Napier Bluewater Stadium 5,000 Hawke's Bay
Southern United Dunedin Sunnyvale Park 1,000 Otago
Tasman United Nelson City Trafalgar Park 18,000 Nelson
Team Wellington Wellington Newtown Park 5,000 Wellington
Waitakere United Waitakere City Trusts Stadium 3,000 Auckland
Wellington Phoenix Reserve Wellington Newtown Park 5,000 Wellington

When the league was introduced there were eleven applicants. However, Olé Madrid , Team Bay of Plenty and East Auckland were all turned down. Then Olé Madrids tried to sue, but failed. However, an expansion of the league is being considered.

Previous masters

season master finalist Result
04/05 Auckland City Waitakere Utd 3: 2 (0: 1)
05/06 Auckland City Canterbury United 3: 3 n.V. , 4: 3 i. E.
06/07 Auckland City Waitakere Utd 3: 2
07/08 Waitakere Utd Team Wellington 2-0
08/09 Auckland City Waitakere Utd 2: 1
09/10 Waitakere Utd Canterbury United 3: 1 (1: 1)
10/11 Waitakere Utd Auckland City 3: 2 (2: 1)
11/12 Waitakere Utd Team Wellington 4: 1 (1: 0)
12/13 Waitakere Utd Auckland City 4: 3 a.d.
13/14 Auckland City Team Wellington 1-0
14/15 Auckland City Hawke's Bay United 2: 1
15/16 Team Wellington Auckland City 4: 2 a.d.
16/17 Team Wellington Auckland City 2: 1
17/18 Auckland City Team Wellington 1-0

Top scorer

season Surname society Gates
2007/08 Graham Little Team Wellington 12
2008/09 Luis Corrales Team Wellington 12
2009/10 Seule Soromon YoungHeart Manawatu 9
2010/11 Allan Pearce Waitakere United 13
2011/12 George Slefendorfas Canterbury United 12
2012/13 Roy Krishna Waitakere United 12
2013/14 Emiliano Tade Auckland City 12
2014/15 Tyler Boyd
Tom Jackson
Sean Lovemore 		Wellington Phoenix
Southern United
Hawke’s Bay United 		10
2015/16 Ryan De Vries Auckland City 15th
2016/17 Tom Jackson Team Wellington 16
2017/18 Emiliano Tade Auckland City 16

See also

Web links

  • www.nzfc.co.nz , official homepage of the New Zealand Championship (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] -official page of the ASB Premiership
  2. ^ [2] -official page of the ASB Premiership
  3. ^ [3] -official page of the ASB Premiership
  4. ^ [4] -official page of the ASB Premiership