WaiBOP United head coach, Peter Smith, has announced his squad for the 2013/14 ASB Premiership season. After an intensive five week pre-season period, during which Smith and his coaching staff assessed countless players, the final group has been determined. Notable inclusions, over and above those players already named, are Nick Robson, Mikhail Bredeveldt and Marcel …
FMG Stadium Waikato Hamilton’s premier sports ground will be our home for the next four ASB Premiership home games. FMG Stadium Waikato hosted 8 games during the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup, including the epic round of 16 match between New Zealand and Portugal, which was won 2-1 by the Europeans. The stadium was home to WaiBOP …
Auckland City FC will finish 2015 top of the ASB Premiership after a 2-0 away win over us at FMG Stadium Waikato on Sunday. Daewook Kim’s first goal for Auckland City, a tap-in in the 18th minute, and Emiliano Tade’s clinical finish five minutes after the break secured the points for the champions in an entertaining …
WaiBOP trail the ASB Women’s League after three rounds despite winning the battle for possession in all their games so far. The team lost 1-0 to Auckland on Sunday, to a late goal by substitute Stephanie Trowill, and WaiBOP coach Simon Mead felt his side could have taken the game if they had converted their …
The fifth issue of our match day magazine, The Range, is now available online. You can download a copy from here. Make sure to pick up your hard copy at the game on Saturday
WaiBOP travel to Auckland this weekend determined to show that last weekend’s big loss to Capital wasn’t as bad as the score suggests. “We’re not saying we should have won but 7-2 flattered Capital and we now want to bury the memories of that result with a good showing in Auckland,” coach Simon Mead says. …
We head to Rotorua International Stadium on Saturday for our final match before the ASB Premiership breaks for Christmas. Hawke’s Bay United are our opponents for what promises to be a real Christmas cracker. Both sides enter this fixture off the back of comfortable victories last weekend. The Bay dispatched Southern United 3-1 at Bluewater Stadium to go with …
Capital Football lead the ASB Women’s League after comfortably beating WaiBOP 7-2 in Sunday’s match at St Peter’s School, Cambridge. The win means Capital are the only side with a perfect record after two rounds while WaiBOP remain winless, having drawn their opening fixture against Central the week before. The round two game got off …
With a national league programme that involves up to 6,000kms of travel for some players, WaiBOP are looking forward to their first home match of this season’s ASB Women’s League. Squad members are spread throughout the region – from as far afield as Whakatane, Rotorua, Tauranga and Hamilton – and a big part of the …
The 2015 ASB Youth League has two rounds to go and it’s still anyone’s to win. Our heart-breaking, last moment, defeat to Canterbury last Sunday made our chances much tougher, but we still have a mathematical chance, so will head to Palmerston North looking for our sixth win of the season. For youth team head …