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New-Zealand Football Championship

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Established
2004 (22 years old)

First Recorded Event
2019-11-02

Current Season
2020-2021

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Level Below
New Zealand Northern League

Sport
Soccer

Location
New Zealand

Gender
Male

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21 Mar 21	Auckland Auckland City FC	2 - 4	Team WellTeam Wellington
14 Mar 21	Auckland Auckland City FC	2 - 1	Eastern SEastern Suburbs
13 Mar 21	Team WellTeam Wellington	4 - 1	Hamilton Hamilton Wanderers
10 Mar 21	Hawkes BaHawkes Bay United	1 - 2	Eastern SEastern Suburbs
27 Feb 21	Auckland Auckland City FC	2 - 2	WaitakereWaitakere United
27 Feb 21	CanterburCanterbury United	5 - 1	WellingtoWellington Phoenix Reserves
27 Feb 21	Team WellTeam Wellington	3 - 2	Hamilton Hamilton Wanderers
21 Feb 21	Eastern SEastern Suburbs	1 - 1	Hamilton Hamilton Wanderers
21 Feb 21	WaitakereWaitakere United	2 - 0	Hawkes BaHawkes Bay United
20 Feb 21	WellingtoWellington Phoenix Reserves	1 - 1	Auckland Auckland City FC

Description

The New Zealand Football Championship is a professional men's association football league at the top of the New Zealand league system. Founded in 2004, the New Zealand Football Championship was the successor to a myriad of short-lived football leagues in the country, including the National Soccer League, the National Summer Soccer League and the New Zealand Superclub League. The league is currently contested by ten teams in a franchise system. For sponsorship reasons, the competition is known as the ISPS Handa Premiership.

Seasons run from October through to April, and consist of an eighteen-round regular season followed by a playoff series involving the four highest-placed teams, culminating in a Grand Final. Each season, two clubs gain qualification to the OFC Champions League, the continental competition for the Oceania region. The league does not use a system of promotion and relegation, unlike most other world leagues.

Auckland City are the most successful side since the competition's inception, with seven titles. A youth competition, called the National Youth League, runs parallel to the regular season from October to December – the most recent champions are also Auckland City.


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Teams

Canterbury Unit		Hawkes Bay Unit		Team Wellington
Waitakere Unite

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