Looks like it's official:
New Zealand Football has confirmed the biggest changes to its domestic national leagues in a decade, overhauling the women’s and men’s competitions to make youth development and sustainability a priority.
Read the full announcement at https://t.co/xvOizKs0TQ pic.twitter.com/gOgwrqQTde— New Zealand Football (@NZ_Football) December 1, 2020
A terrible mistake IMHO. The current model worked for 16 years and created ACFC which represented Oceania at the global stage. We're going back to a failed model from the 90s which stopped working because no-one cared.
maybe NZF have a different view on what success looks like than you.
I am liking the focus they intend to put on player payments and imports and youth