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Posted December 18, 2025 02:04 · last edited December 18, 2025 02:08

That could read 9 professional teams.
3 A League clubs each with a ALM, ALW and OFC Pro League team.

4 years ago there was one pro team in NZ.

https://www.nzfootball.co.nz/newsarticle/160958?newsfeedId=2064762

New Zealand Football (NZF) has unveiled its ambitious strategy to supercharge the game for the next decade, taking Aotearoa’s biggest team participation sport to the next level.

The strategy,
Shaping the Future of Football in Aotearoa New Zealand, builds on a recent successes and breakthroughs for the game in New Zealand, including hosting the best ever FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2023, a surge in player participation, especially for girls and women, the introduction of Auckland FC and the hotly contested rivalry with Wellington Phoenix capturing the imagination of the country, and the All Whites qualifying for the FIFA World Cup for the first time in 16 years.

Read document here.

Over the next ten years football’s high-performance landscape will be transformed.

This includes targets involving both the All Whites and Ford Football Ferns progressing to the knockout stages of FIFA World Cups and
six professional A-League teams (three men and three women) with the development of a South Island based A-League club.

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Unknown editor edited December 18, 2025 02:08
That could read 9 professional teams.
3 A League clubs each with a ALM, ALW and OFC Pro League team.

4 years ago there was 1 pro team in NZ.

https://www.nzfootball.co.nz/newsarticle/160958?newsfeedId=2064762

New Zealand Football (NZF) has unveiled its ambitious strategy to supercharge the game for the next decade, taking Aotearoa’s biggest team participation sport to the next level.

The strategy,
Shaping the Future of Football in Aotearoa New Zealand, builds on a recent successes and breakthroughs for the game in New Zealand, including hosting the best ever FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2023, a surge in player participation, especially for girls and women, the introduction of Auckland FC and the hotly contested rivalry with Wellington Phoenix capturing the imagination of the country, and the All Whites qualifying for the FIFA World Cup for the first time in 16 years.

Read document here.

Over the next ten years football’s high-performance landscape will be transformed.

This includes targets involving both the All Whites and Ford Football Ferns progressing to the knockout stages of FIFA World Cups and
six professional A-League teams (three men and three women) with the development of a South Island based A-League club.
Unknown editor edited December 18, 2025 02:07
https://www.nzfootball.co.nz/newsarticle/160958?newsfeedId=2064762

New Zealand Football (NZF) has unveiled its ambitious strategy to supercharge the game for the next decade, taking Aotearoa’s biggest team participation sport to the next level.

The strategy,
Shaping the Future of Football in Aotearoa New Zealand, builds on a recent successes and breakthroughs for the game in New Zealand, including hosting the best ever FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2023, a surge in player participation, especially for girls and women, the introduction of Auckland FC and the hotly contested rivalry with Wellington Phoenix capturing the imagination of the country, and the All Whites qualifying for the FIFA World Cup for the first time in 16 years.

Read document here.

Over the next ten years football’s high-performance landscape will be transformed.

This includes targets involving both the All Whites and Ford Football Ferns progressing to the knockout stages of FIFA World Cups and six professional A-League teams (three men and three women) with the development of a South Island based A-League club.