Waikato Bop Football
The Bay SportsMed WaiBOP United Youth Team has started off their season in the new look ASB Youth League with an impressive away win over Manawatu United. WaiBOP started off as dominant as ever, with a strong contingent of players from last season returning to the franchise for the new campaign. Goals from Dylan Bull and …
WaiBOP United’s Youth Team has secured a narrow, but vital, home victory over Auckland United at a blustery St Peter’s School in Cambridge. After last Saturday’s defeat at Team Wellington a victory here was necessary and, prior to kick-off, this match may have been considered a home banker. But the visiting Auckland United side was …
WaiBOP United has tumbled to our second ASB Youth League defeat of the season with leaders, Team Wellington, proving too clinical in this battle between what were the league’s top two sides. The first half was a real tussle, with both sides probing without causing too much damage. We forced several opportunities from set-pieces, while …
WaiBOP United have survived a second half revival from previous ASB Youth League leaders, Southern United, to record an impressive, and hopefully telling, victory and move to second in the standings. After a steady start the match burst to life in the 19th minute when a Southern goal sparked a burst of four goals in …
WaiBOP United has moved into the top four of a tight ASB Youth League table after comfortably dispatching Hawkes Bay United at St Peter’s School, Cambridge, on Sunday. The match was over as a contest less than ten minutes into the second half. We led 3-0 at half time then followed this up with a quick-fire double …
The seventh 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.
John Kerkhof Park is set to host a national league double header this Saturday, with the two games scheduled having massive play-off implications. In the ASB Premiership, we host defending champions, Waitakere United. Waitakere sit on the play-off bubble and know three points are a must if they’re to keep the fate of their defence in …
WaiBOP United Head Coach, Peter Smith, was a tiredly happy man after his team’s trip to the deep south. The somewhat epic trip home, that took in a flight from Dunedin to Auckland, a bus ride to Hamilton, then a drive to his home in Mt Maunganui, was more than made up for by United’s best …
The sixth 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.
On Thursday November 14 Matamata Swifts AFC will be visited by a group of players from WaiBOP United. Goalkeeper Andy McNeil and defender Liam Higgins will be among those present. Andy played professionally in Scotland for teams such as Hibernian and Livingston. He was also a youth team player with Gareth Bale and Theo Walcott at Southampton. …
