As the final weekend of football dawns on Wembley Park, it's time for the Charity Plate and Charity Bowl finals to grace the main ground, and book-end another exciting season of local football here in Whanganui.
At 12.30pm on the main ground, the Charity Bowl final is an all-Athletic affair, with both the Athletic Cosmos and the Athletic Weekenders battling it out for the prestigious piece of silverware.
As the current holders of the trophy, the Weekenders will be looking to keep their name inscribed on the side, but will have their hands full against their more senior Cosmos club mates.
The Cosmos have always been a strong team, being made up of many players from the heady days of the Ken Dugdale-coached side which rose to the heights of the-then top flight competition in New Zealand, and only in recent years have fallen away from their dominance of local league competitions as age has caught up with them.
But while age wearies the body, the mind and skills are still as sharp as ever.
The Weekenders, however, are no slackers in their own right and will be out to show the Cosmos that being a 'once-were-great' team does not necessarily guarantee you silverware.
A squad made up of a mixture of senior players who have been at the core of the team for many seasons, and plenty of fresh faced youth keen to bring pride to the red checked shirt, the Weekenders are always a mixed bag of entertainment when they take the field.
With both sides keen to get the bragging rights back in the clubroom at the final whistle, this match could well turn into a goal fest, and put on plenty of good watching for those on the sidelines.
In the main match on Wembley's hallowed No1 ground, both the City Hammers and the City Wanderers will be itching to be the team who carries the trophy back to the clubrooms at the final whistle.
Locally, the season has been a strong one for Wanganui City after the Wanderers claimed the Division 1 title, and their Women's 1st team also took out their competition.
It has been capped off by both the Wanderers and the other finalist today - the Hammers - toppling their travelling Athletic opponents last weekend, a feat which would have left
Athletic scratching their heads as to what went wrong.
It's now down to heart and pride, showing the season long sabbatical from travelling football may have just been what the City needed to rebuild strong foundations for next season.
The meetings between these two sides during the regular season left little to the imagination.
Always a heated affair with plenty of passion and heart-on-sleeve intensity throughout the matches, the Wanderers just edged the Hammers in the points stake.
But the Hammers are a side which will not lie down, have their own point to prove against the Wanderers, and will fight for the entire 90 minute fixture.
With hordes of City supporters bound to be surrounding the park at 2.30pm for kickoff, this will be a match not to miss.
The atmosphere will be electric, and the football on display will be sure to entertain, with plenty of goals, and hard fought individual battles all over the park ensuring the fireworks on the pitch will translate into celebratory ones in the City clubrooms long into the night afterwards.