The fixture tomorrow for the Athletic ladies in Palmerston North is against PN Marist.
With a five-point gap on the only other team with the slimmest of opportunity to overtake Dave Downes' Athletic, and if past results are to be used as a gauge, they should ensure the trophy will be in Wanganui Athletic's cabinet for the year.
A bitter pill surely for the Manawatu sides to swallow given Wanganui teams in general are never too highly rated?
Locally, with the Women's league still to play a number of catch-up fixtures, it looks like a two-horse race between Athletic's local based side and a hard charging High School 1st XI which is set to go down to the wire.
On the men's side, unlike in the last two to three seasons whereby the title has been decided on the last day and usually with two or three sides still in contention, both of the divisions have been sorted with a weekend to spare.
Effectively today is the season's end for the competition within the leagues proper before all of the men's teams will contest the annual Charity competition, which sees the local based sides taking on the travelling sides.
After an initial qualifying round at the start of the year which saw all 12 sides play each other, two separate divisions were found.
The top six and bottom six were colloquially called the Premiership and the Championship by local pundit and Marist FC stalwart Paul (Podge) Maguire.
The Premiership consisting of City Hammers, Marist Celtic, Athletic Cosmos, Castlecliff Braves, City Development and newcomers Castlecliff Gold has been won by City Hammers, last season's defending Local League winners.
They were also winners of the qualifying round and are unbeaten as they face second-placed Cosmos in the 2.30pm main fixture at the park.
With third place still up for grabs, Celtic will know they have to see off the last-day challenge from City's Development side to secure that spot for the year.
As Gold are taking on the Braves, anything less than maximum points and Marist Celtic could surrender a podium finish to either of those two Castlecliff sides.
In the Championship it is a Castlecliff title, with their United side seeing off a challenge from Athletic Weekenders in what turned out to be a league-deciding 90 minutes last Saturday.
The 2-1 win to the Seasiders created an unassailable four-point lead heading into today's fixtures.
Third spot is also clear now, with Collegiate 1st X1 pulling away from the pack, which still has this afternoon's games to decide the final positions and seedings for next season.
Marist Casuals, who have not been the luckiest of sides since the split by usually finding themselves the odd goal behind in many matches, will be hoping United (Castlecliff) will be in party mode when they face off today.
City Thirstys, undoubtedly improvers by their own standards, will look to continue their good work of late against a Weekenders side maybe still frustrated after going so close to bringing the chase to this last day.
Then Athletic Cosmos Classics will be hoping Collegiate won't be giving them too much of a run-around at this time of the season.
