The 2025 New Zealand Football Pyramids Resource is now available on the web here.
The aim of this resource is to pull together in one place all the disparate information about the New Zealand Men's and Women's SENIOR football pyramids; the clubs; their grounds; & links to the many places in which the draws, fixtures, tables and results are published.
If you spot any errors, inaccuracies, spelling mistakes, typos, or incorrect links, please let me know. We are always striving to correct any errors.
The Men's Pyramid and Women's Pyramid tabs depict the teams in each division of each tier in senior football. The coloured groups of columns represent the Zones (Northern, Central, and Southern) and Federations. Within Each Federation, where appropriate, the Regions within that Federation are shown with grey background subheading cells.
The Men's Divisions and Women's Divisions tabs are reference tabs, used for formulaic look ups, but can be used to see the Pyramid structure in a summary form. They are sorted by Tier.
The Men's Pyramid Diagrams and Women's Pyramid Diagrams tabs show graphical representations of the top 5 Tiers in each Pyramid and some additional diagrams of the promotion / relegation situations between some of the Tiers.
The Teams (By Division) and Teams (By Club) tabs are, hopefully, self explanatory. They list the teams sorted by: (a) Tier and Division for each of the Men's and Women's Pyramids; and (b) Club, and then by Division, and then by Team name, respectively.
The Club Listing tab lists all of the Clubs active in senior football in New Zealand in 2025 (and those who were active in at least one of 2023 or 2024 but not in 2025 as "Defunct"). There are counts of the Clubs' total Senior Teams, total Men's Teams, total Women's Teams, total Pyramid Teams, and total Masters, Veterans, Legends and Super Legends (combined) Teams. Each Club's logo, main home ground, other home grounds, website(s), Federation, highest Men's and Women's Tier, and entry status in each of the Chatham and Kate Sheppard Cups are listed.
The Latest Results & Standings tab provides links to all the disparate web pages that the draws, results, and standings for all of the various leagues in the various tiers, regions, and sub regions of both Pyramids are presented through.
The Maps tab provides a set of maps illustrating the location of the clubs in both Pyramids. The two maps put together by Simon Raven group the Clubs by the Tier in which their highest senior Men's and Women's Teams play.
The Other Non Pyramid Leagues and Unaffiliated Leagues tabs present the information about the relevant other leagues as per the tab names.
The Grounds, Cities, Regions, and Federations tabs are reference tables for the formulas used on the other tabs.
The 2024 and 2023 Pyramid tabs are archives of the previous years' Men's and Women's Pyramids.
The Stats tab is a copy of some of the columns from the Club Listing tab used to produce the stats in the section below.
1521 Senior Teams, of which: 1179 are Senior Men's Teams, and 342 are Senior Women's Teams
Of those 262 clubs:
66 are from the Northern Federation
38 are from the WaiBOP Federation
50 are from the Central Federation
35 are from the Capital Federation
38 are from the Mainland Federation
35 are from the Southern Federation
And:
221 clubs have both Senior Men's & Women's Teams
31 clubs have only Senior Men's Teams, namely:
Auckland City FC Northland FC Royal New Zealand Navy AFC Bay Cosmos FC Mangawhai FC Northern Wairoa FC Putaruru Rangers AFC Katikati FC Omokoroa FC Ohope Beach FC Eastern City Hauraki Plains FC Linton AFC Manawātu Plunderers FC Pahiatua FC Wairoa Athletic Ngatapa Rugby And Associated Sports Club Methven FC Hurunui Rangers FC Wanaka AFC Queenstown AFC Western Rovers FC Wyndham Town FC Pleasant Point AFC Highgate AFC Auckland FC St Kevin's College Waitaki Boys High School Hillcrest United FC Harbourside Football Club Renwick FC
10 clubs have only Senior Women's Teams, namely:
FC Tauranga Moana Lakes FC Wairarapa United Nomads / Waimakariri United Mangakino Women's Soccer Central Football Federation Durie Hills FC Canterbury United Pride Hornby Women's AFC Southern United
37 clubs have only one senior team*
* The clubs in the following NRF Leagues;
Men's Northern League
Women's Premiership
Men's Championship
Men's Northern Conference
Men's Southern Conference
Are required as part of the competition regulations to field an U23s team in those League's U23s competition. These 5 U23s competitions are NOT part of the Pyramid, and I have not counted these teams as senior teams, even though they meet the definition of "Senior". This is because a team whose Senior team is relegated sees the associated U23's team relegated with them even if that U23s team were Champions of the U23s league concerned.
There are 19 clubs which are defunct and are not fielding Senior Teams in 2025, but which have fielded Senior Teams in at least one of 2023, or 2024 (The years I have been compiling this resource).
Of those 19 defunct clubs, the following 8 are newly defunct in 2025:
Banks Peninsula AFC Clevedon FC Coastal Spirit / Shirley St. Albans Gisborne Bohemians FC Kaikohe AFC Kaitaia United FC Timaru City AFC West End AFC
Meanwhile the following 7 clubs are newly active in senior football in 2025:
Auckland FC St Kevin's College Waitaki Boys High School Hillcrest United FC Harbourside Football Club Renwick FC Timaru United Sports Club (Timaru City AFC & West End AFC amalgamated to form Timaru United)
The 15 largest clubs in terms of number of Senior Teams are:
Many people have contributed over the past 3 years to the work that produces this resource, and I am grateful to all of them.
A few people deserve special mention and thanks.
Simon Raven, fellow football tragic, anorak, and addict, has shared the vision and passion for this project almost from the start. He produces the Google Maps linked to on the Maps tab, but more than that, he actively monitors and reviews the plethora of source data web pages, social media sources, and online forums and alerts me to new clubs, teams, rumours and changes within the football Pyramid. Simon shares my interest and fascination with the obscure details of the NZ Footballscape and is the only person I know who smiled when I mentioned that a new club (Matakanui Rangers) had debuted this season in the unaffiliated Central Otago Football Leagues Aspiring (2nd) Division in the little known settlement of Omakau, 26.1 kms North East of Alexandra. Simon's interest and enthusiasm has kept me going, and I can't thank him enough.
Jeremy Ruane, is in my view the godfather of NZ Football knowledge, history, and traditions. His passion for the game, fastidious attention to detail and accuracy, and desire to honour the people who make football clubs work is an inspiration to me. His wise counsel and insights and advice have been fundamental to me developing my understanding of how things work. Thank you so much JR.
Simon Brady - who has willingly volunteered this year to help with the mind numbing, gruelling work of proof-reading and correcting typos and errors in the New Zealand Football Pyramids Resource - for example, he spotted that hyperlink on the Cass Square ground in Hokitika actually pointed to Jellyman Park in Westport - how many people knew those two grounds were used for football in NZ? Thanks for all your input and help Simon Number 2.
Iain Walker - Football Development & Operations Manager at Southland Football - one of the true gems I have unearthed in the far flung corners of the NZ Footballscape. His passion for the game and his responsiveness, help and support to understand things in the farthest away outpost of the pyramid from where I am is so much appreciated. We need more Iains!
Don Piper, Catherine Clark, and Ian McHenry - The Competition Managers at Central, WaiBOP and Southern Federations respectively, who have put up with and patiently answered email queries from this mad guy in Hamilton about details of the draws and web site functions. Your help is much appreciated, thank you.
And all the people who have commented and answered my questions and clarified things for me via the Yellow Fever Forums Regional Football - mPowered by Park Life forum board - massive thank yous to all of you for sharing your knowledge and expertise and advice.
Incredible stamina. No shame. Yellow Fever.
Phoenix fans. We have to win them over one fan at a time.
