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Auckland City aim for five OFC titles
Auckland City FC are in line to make more history, after reaching yet another OFC Champions League final.

Football: Sacking stats show long-serving managers relic of past
English football is heading for a record number of managerial sackings this season, according to figures compiled by the country’s managers’ union.

Football: Last gasp win for Phoenix
Two late goals from Kenny Cunningham saw the Phoenix overturn a 2-0 halftime deficit and claim all three points against the Central Coast Mariners.

2026 admirable but unrealistic goal for staging Football World Cup
Talk of New Zealand one day co-hosting the Football World Cup is great to hear, but there is no realistic way it would happen before 2050.

Editorial: Time right for Snedden's Fifa World Cup bid
Six months ago, any suggestion this country could co-host the Football World Cup with Australia would have been dismissed as the stuff of idle dreams.

Rufer joins Cup campaign
Our greatest ever footballer says a Fifa World Cup Down Under would be "unbelievable", and would do wonders for the game in New Zealand.