Auckland City FC

Auckland City FC
Basic data
Surname	Auckland City Football Club
Seat	Auckland , New Zealand
founding	2004
Colours	blue White
president	Ivan Vuksich
Website	aucklandcityfc.com
First soccer team
Head coach	Ramon Tribulietx
Venue	Kiwitea Street
Places	3250
league	Football Championship
2017/18	1st place (Grand Final) 1st place (Minor Premiership)
home Away

The Auckland City FC is a New Zealand football team from Auckland . The club, founded in 2004, plays its home games in the "Kiwitea Street" stadium. The club is the record winner of the OFC Champions League with nine titles .

The club won the first two championships (2004/05 and 2005/06) in the New Zealand Football Championship founded in 2004, New Zealand's top division.

With a 3-1 win against AS Pirae from Tahiti, Auckland City won the 2006 OFC Champions Cup and qualified as a representative of the Oceania Football Confederation for the 2006 FIFA Club World Cup in Japan. They also qualified for the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates . The quarterfinals of both competitions were the final destination. In the third, fourth and fifth participation in 2011 , 2012 and 2013 , the team was eliminated in the qualifying game. In 2014 they reached the semi-finals for the first time, after victories against Maghreb Tétouan in the elimination game and against ES Sétif in the quarter-finals. At the end of the tournament, the team finished third with a 4-2 on penalties against Mexican representative CD Cruz Azul .

successes

• OFC Champions League : 9

2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

• New Zealand Football Championship : 7

2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2018

Current squad

As of January 26, 2018

No. position Surname 1 TW Eñaut Zubikarai 2 FROM Liam Graham 3 FROM Takuya Iwata 4th MF Mario Bilen 5 FROM Ángel Berlanga ( ) 6th MF Te Atawhai Hudson-Wihongi 7th MF Cameron Howieson 8th MF Albert Riera 9 FROM Darren White 11 MF Fabrizio Tavano 12 ST Kris Bright

No. position Surname 13 FROM Alfie Rogers 14th MF Cole Peverley 15th MF Dan Morgan 16 MF Sam Burfoot 17th MF Reid Drake 19th MF Micah Lea'alafa 20th ST Emiliano Tade 21st FROM Harry Edge 22nd FROM Harshae Raniga 23 FROM Marko Đorđević 24 TW Conor Tracey

Well-known former players

Ben Sigmund in the Wellington Phoenix jersey (November 2011).

• Michael Boxall (2006 to 2007)
• Jeff Campbell (2007 to 2008)
• Reginald Davani (2004 to 2006)
• Sean Douglas (2006 to 2007)
• Henry Fa'arodo (2007 to 2008)
• Ian Hogg (2005 to 2006)
• Salesh Kumar (2007 to 2009)
• Ki-Hyung Lee (2007 to 2009)
• Alick Maemae (2008)
• Ross Nicholson (2005 to 2009)
• Jonathan Perry (2005 to 2007)
• Cole Peverley (2006 to 2007)
• James Pritchett (2004 to 2009)
• Rupesh Puna (2007 to 2008)
• Nelson Sale (2008)
• Ben Sigmund (2006 to 2008)
• Jacob Spoonley (2005 to 2007, 2008 to 2009)
• George Suri (2007 to 2009)
• Cole Tinkler (2006)
• Paul Urlovic (2005 to 2009)
• Ivan Vicelich (2008 to 2009)
• Tamati Williams (2007 to 2008)

Web links

• Homepage . Auckland City FC,accessed June 22, 2018. 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ #ISPSHandaPrem - Updated squad lists released. (No longer available online.) In: nzfootball.co.nz. New Zealand Football , January 26, 2018, archived from the original on February 17, 2018 ; accessed on February 13, 2018 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.