2004–05 New Zealand Football Championship

February 2020 March 2026 New Zealand Football Championship 2004–05 Auckland City Oceania Club Championship Auckland City 86 286 2003 NSL 2005–06 2004–05 was the first season of the New Zealand Football Championship, replacing the New Zealand National Football Leagues, which ran from 1970 to 2003. It was organised by the New Zealand Football and was contested by eight competing teams. Team locations New Zealand 370 right Location of teams in the 2004–05 New Zealand Football Championship New Zealand 90 12 -36.8001 174.5957 left waitakcolours.png Waitakere United New Zealand -36.848270 174.762491 90 12 Auckland City ACFCcolours.png right New Zealand -37.887384 175.455638 90 12 Waikato FC Waikatocolours.png top New Zealand -41.292504 174.778755 90 12 Team Wellington WellingtonColours.png right New Zealand 90 12 -43.530459 172.635102 left Cantabcolours.png Canterbury United New Zealand 90 12 -39.508197 176.856895 right Colors del Napier City Rovers.svg Napier City Rovers New Zealand 90 12 -45.863274 170.526950 right Otagocolours.png Otago United New Zealand 90 12 -40.3464 175.6346 bottom Yhmcolours.png YoungHeart Manawatu Club Name Home City Stadium 20px|border Auckland City FC Auckland Kiwitea Street 20px Canterbury United Christchurch English Park 20px Napier City Rovers FC Napier Bluewater Stadium 20px Otago United Dunedin Sunnyvale Park 20px Team Wellington FC Wellington Newtown Park 20px Waikato FC Ngaruawahia Centennial Park 20px Waitakere United Waitakere City Douglas Field 20px YoungHeart Manawatu Palmerston North Memorial Park Season summary The league kicked off on 15 October 2004, with a 3–1 victory for Auckland City at Napier City Rovers and it soon became clear that Auckland City, along with Waitakere United, were the class teams in the championship. Auckland lost only three games all year en route to becoming the first winners of the New Zealand Football Championship, while Waitakere lost four times to Auckland City, including the thrilling 3–2 final in front of 3,800 spectators at Auckland City's home field, Kiwitea Street, where Auckland came back from 2-1 down to win in the last minutes of the game.https://www.rsssf.org/tablesn/nz05.html New Zealand 2004/05 RSSSF 28 September 2005 11 June 2025http://aucklandcityfc.com/about/default.asp Auckland City Football Club aucklandcityfc.com 11 June 2025 22 December 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20151222192534/http://aucklandcityfc.com/about/default.asp dead Waikato FC came out best of the rest to take the final playoff position in third, despite making a slow start to the season. Notables among the other teams were Napier City Rovers, who also came back from a slow start to have a chance of making the playoffs in the final week of the season. Otago United won five games all year, but did not win any of their last twelve games. League table main WDL Q AC Auckland City WU Waitakere United WFC Waikato FC CU Canterbury United NCR Napier City Rovers TW Team Wellington OU Otago United YHM YoungHeart Manawatu 14 4 3 53 24 C 12 4 5 39 19 9 4 8 27 25 7 6 8 31 38 7 5 9 39 48 5 8 8 35 40 5 5 11 26 46 4 6 11 26 36 green1 Qualified for the finals and Club Championship OCC yellow1 Qualified for the finals ZFCF ZFCF complete https://www.rsssf.org/tablesn/nz05.html Results main FBR grey 2 AC Auckland City WU Waitakere United WFC Waikato FC CU Canterbury United NCR Napier City Rovers TW Team Wellington OU Otago United YHM YoungHeart Manawatu Finals Waitakere and Waikato play in the Elimination Final, the winner of which plays Auckland in Grand Final. Bracket yes high Elimination final 2 3 Waitakere United Waikato 4 1 Grand final 1 2 Auckland City Waitakere United 3 2 Elimination final 6 March 2005 Waitakere United Ellensohn 9 Wylie 37 Jordan 54 82 4–1 Waikato Callinan 33 pen. Grand final 12 March 2005 Auckland City Young 48 90 Mulrooney 81 3–2 Waitakere United Ellensohn 31 Jordan 70 Kiwitea Street, Auckland Oceania Club Championship By winning the NZFC, Auckland City went on to represent New Zealand in the Oceania Club Championship in Tahiti. Auckland lost their first game to Australian representatives Sydney FC, 3–2 in the dying minutes. Their next game, against tournament hosts AS Pirae of Tahiti, was also a loss, this time by 1–0. Auckland City would take some consolation from finishing third in their group after defeating the champions of Papua New Guinea, Sobou FC, by 6–1. National Soccer League New Zealand Football Championship 2004-05 2005–06 See also New Zealand Football Championship References Category:New Zealand Football Championship seasons 1 New Zealand