ACFC Annual Awards · Yellow Fever Nga Wana Kowhai · Supporters of the Wellington Phoenix

The Auckland City FC Annual Awards evening was held last Saturday 16 May at Alexandra Park's "Top of the Park".

250 guests gathered to honour the players and team management who were successful in claiming a unique "treble" for the club over the 2008/09 season: Oceania Champions League, New Zealand Football Championship and National Youth League titles.

Dennis Katsanos from Sky Television hosted the event superbly and excellent live entertainment was provided by the "Mighty Groovediggers" www.groovediggers.co.nz

Individual award winners were as follows:

ACFC SENIOR AWARDS:

PLAYER OF THE YEAR ï¿½ IVAN VICELICH
PLAYERS PLAYER OF THE YEAR - KI-HYUNG LEE (2nd year running)
SUPPORTERS PLAYER OF THE YEAR ï¿½ CHAD COOMBES
GOLDEN BOOT ï¿½ KERYN JORDAN LITTLE
YOUNG PLAYER OF THE YEAR ï¿½ ALEX FENERIDIS

SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR ï¿½ MATT WILLIAMS

ACFC CLUB AWARDS:

CLUB MEMBER OF THE YEAR ï¿½ PAUL POSA
CAMERON JONES MEMORIAL AWARD FOR SUPPORTER OF THE YEAR ï¿½ PAUL MARINOVICH

ACFC ACADEMY AWARDS:

PLAYER OF THE YEAR ï¿½ KRIS CARPENTER
GOLDEN BOOT ï¿½ RORY KELLY
MOST IMPROVED PLAYER ï¿½ NICK BRANCH
SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR ï¿½ DANIEL MORGAN

OCEANIA FOOTBALL CONFEDERATION AWARDS:

O-LEAGUE GOLDEN BOOT 2008/09 ï¿½ KERYN JORDAN

Another highlight of the evening was the special audio/visual tribute that was made to Auckland City's "Originals" - the eight players who still remain with the club since it played it's first match back in 2004: Ross Nicholson, Greg Uhlmann, Liam Mulrooney, James Pritchett, Riki van Steeden, Chad Coombes, Paul Urlovic and Grant Young. These players have now won 4 NZFC titles and 2 O-Leagues over the last 5 years with Auckland City. Nicholson and Uhlmann now have a total 6 national league titles to their names, making them the all-time individual leaders in NZ football history.