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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.
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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.
New Zealand-born midfielder Matt Dibley-Dias has signed his first professional football contract for leading English second tier club Fulham.
Wellington Phoenix defender Steven Taylor sat in the seat usually occupied by his coach, looked around the changing room at Martin Luckie Park and told his team-mates he was retiring with immediate effect.
One of the top performers for the OlyWhites at the Tokyo Olympics appears to have decided the grass is greener on the other side of the Tasman.
Danny Hay will announce an All Whites squad consisting entirely of players based in Europe and the United States this week, as the national men’s football team prepares to return to action for the first time in almost 700 days.
Wellington Phoenix have shot down the prospect of signing All Whites captain Winston Reid following his West Ham exit and will instead look within the club’s academy ranks to finalise their A-League squad.
The first time Tom Jackson received a head knock, he was off the football field for a couple of weeks. His second concussion saw him sidelined for several months.
Players from the Wellington Phoenix men’s team hope a photoshoot won’t be the only time they get to wear their new home kit at Sky Stadium.
It hasn’t always been for lack of trying but All Whites games have been desperately rare for a long time.
New Zealand Football is set to leave any decisions on the future of the All Whites name until after the end of the team’s 2022 World Cup campaign.
The All Whites will be back in action for the first time in almost 700 days next month, but they might have to start their journey towards the 2022 World Cup without a couple of the country’s top players.
The Oceania Football Confederation is looking to conduct the regional phase of qualifying for next year's World Cup in March in Qatar, the Middle Eastern nation that will host men's football's showpiece event next November and December.
When Alex Paulsen and Ben Old packed their bags and moved to Wellington to join the Phoenix Football Academy three years ago, they did so with the hope that one day it would lead to a professional contract.
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Wellington Phoenix General Manager David Dome talks about the club's long awaited entry into the W-League with NZ's first professional women's team
Football Ferns midfielder Olivia Chance said she had “the tingles” after scoring her first goals for famous Scottish club Celtic.
New Zealand Football is yet to decide whether it supports the push to hold senior men’s and women’s World Cups every two years, rather than every four years as is the case at present.
Growing up in Wairarapa, Tui Dugan always thought she would have to move overseas to achieve her goal of becoming a professional football player.
The A-League is prepared for the possibility of delaying the start of the upcoming season amid NSW and Victoria's ongoing coronavirus outbreaks and lockdowns.
New Zealand Football says it will review its policy on heading by junior players next year “unless new major findings become available sooner’’.
The Wellington Phoenix could have a team in Australia’s semi-professional women’s football competition as soon as the coming season.
New Zealand Football could potentially send national team staff away for matches in October and November without having places in the managed isolation booked for their return.
When Ufuk Talay took over as manager of the Wellington Phoenix he spoke about recruitment.
New Zealand Football is hoping to provide continuity to the Football Ferns with the appointment of new coach Jitka Klimková on a six-year contract.
All Whites centreback Nando Pijnaker will join Kiwi compatriots Elijah Just and Callum McCowatt at promotion-chasing Danish second tier club FC Helsingør for the rest of the year.
Viking FK fans were chanting Joe Bell's name after the All Whites midfielder scored a superb solo goal in the Norwegian Eliteserien on Monday (NZT).
Wellington footballer Matthew Garbett could become the first New Zealand male to play in Italy’s famed Serie A football competition.
All Whites star Sarpreet Singh has not skipped a beat since skipping the Tokyo Olympics to focus on his club career.
English Championship club Barnsley have reportedly offered close to $1 million to sign All Whites midfielder Joe Bell from Norwegian Eliteserien side Viking FK.
