Niche Cache
On behalf of The Niche Cache, you’re officially pardoned if a couple friendlies against Olympic champs Canada don’t quite wet your Football Ferns whistle.
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New Football Fern Aniela Jensen has fulfilled a dream she has had pinned to her bedroom wall since a young age.
Wellington Phoenix men’s coach Ufuk Talay says he is still hoping to sign a visa centre back and attacking midfielder in the January window.
Goalkeeper Lily Alfeld will go down in history as the first signing made by the Wellington Phoenix women.
The woman at the helm of the Football Ferns for the next six years, Jitka Klimková, has plans to push her young players in their upcoming tour to Canada, towards the 2023 World Cup.
Danny Hay needs his All Whites players getting as much game as possible for their clubs, as they look to build on a successful international window and continue their preparations for World Cup qualifying.
The last time the All Whites played against Bahrain, the kiwi team won 1-0 via a header off a wing-back’s cross by the son of a well known NZ sporting personality.
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The Wellington Phoenix women's side might not have to look far for a star signing in the near future, with Football Ferns striker Rosie White hinting at her interest in coming home.
Wellington Phoenix have made use of a rarely-used signing method to help fill the void created by captain Steven Taylor’s shock retirement.
The All Whites’ win over Bahrain wasn’t the first time Niko Kirwan helped secure a victory for a side coached by Danny Hay.
The Football Ferns' defensive stocks are set to be tested when they face the reigning Olympic champions in a pair of friendlies later this month with a squad featuring six uncapped players.
The 2021 All Whites are back in Bahrain on Wednesday at 4.30am for the first time since the World Cup playoffs in 2009.
You could call it graduation day.
Niko Kirwan scored a late header in his second match for the All Whites to give them a 1-0 win over Bahrain on Wednesday [NZ time].
The last time the All Whites played Bahrain, it was one of the most famous nights in New Zealand football history.
New Zealand under-20 women's team coach Gemma Lewis has been appointed as the inaugural coach of the Wellington Phoenix A-League Women’s team.
What is there to be gained from a couple of sneaky friendlies at this time?
Wins against teams from outside Oceania don’t come around often for the All Whites.
The All Whites returned to action in style with a 2-1 win over Curaçao on Sunday [NZ time], but had to work hard to close the match out.
Chris Wood feels he “should be alright” to play for the All Whites against Curaçao this weekend, despite picking up a knock in his last English Premier League outing with Burnley.
He waited seven seasons to become Wellington Phoenix’s number one goalkeeper but Oli Sail has turned down the opportunity to wear the No. 1 on the back of his shirt.
New Zealand Football will confirm at the start of November whether it will be able to hold the men’s and women’s National League Championships this year.
Reno Piscopo is counting down the days until his Wellington Phoenix team-mates can join him on the other side of the Tasman.
There are some things All Whites coach Danny Hay knows and some things he doesn’t, as the team sets its sights on a place at next year’s World Cup.
The leaves are back on the trees.
When the All Whites and Curaçao take the field at Al Muharraq Stadium in Bahrain this weekend, it will be a meeting of two of the more eclectic squads in international football.
Right back has long been a troublesome position as far as the All Whites are concerned.
New Zealand international Ryan Thomas continued his comeback from a serious injury by scoring his first goal of the season to help Dutch giants PSV Eindhoven clinch a crucial 2-1 win over Sparta Rotterdam on Monday (NZT).
Canterbury club Cashmere Technical remain in with a shot of winning five titles in the 2021 football season after advancing to the Chatham Cup final with a 1-0 win over Wellington’s Western Suburbs.
The Football Ferns will begin their preparations for the 2023 Fifa Women’s World Cup on home soil with a pair of matches against the freshly-crowned Olympic champions next month.
A sixth Football Fern has joined one of the nine Australian clubs ahead of the 2020-21 A-League Women season.
If you’re a lower league team that makes it deep enough in one of the cup competitions that the Premier League sides started popping up in the draw, you either want to play a similarly ranked lower league team for the best hope of advancing or you wanna play the biggest team possible away from home.
Once upon a time there was no way that you could have ever picked a New Zealand football team, male or female, worthy of the international stage built entirely from players based outside Australia and Aotearoa.
The tiredness, mud and more-often-than-not bad weather in Wellington doesn’t get to Yasin and Abdirizak Mohamed when they’re on the field playing football.
Wellington Phoenix’s refusal to offer captain Steven Taylor a two-year deal at the end of the last A-League season played a part in his decision to walk away from the game completely.
