2014–15 New Zealand Football Championship

ASB Premiership

Season	2014–15
Champions	Auckland City
Premiers	Auckland City
OFC Champions League	Auckland City Team Wellington
Matches played	72
Goals scored	261 (3.63 per match)
Top goalscorer	Tyler Boyd (10) Tom Jackson (10) Sean Lovemore (10)
Biggest home win	Wellington Phoenix 6–2 Southern United 14 February 2015 Waitakere United 4–0 Team Wellington 14 March 2015
Biggest away win	Wellington Phoenix 0–7 Auckland City 14 March 2015
Highest scoring	Waitakere United 6–3 Wellington Phoenix 3 February 2015
← 2013–14 2015–16 → All statistics correct as of 10 March 2015.

The 2014–15 New Zealand Football Championship season (currently known as the ASB Premiership for sponsorship reasons) was the eleventh season of the NZFC since its establishment in 2004. Nine teams are involved this season, which includes the newly formed Wellington Phoenix reserve team. Auckland City and Team Wellington will represent the ASB Premiership in the 2014–15 OFC Champions League after finishing Champions and Runners-up respectively in the 2013–14 competition.

Clubs

Team	Location	Stadium[1]	Capacity	Manager[1]	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Auckland City	Sandringham, Auckland	Kiwitea Street	3,500	Ramon Tribulietx	Nike	Trillian Trust Inc.
Canterbury United	Christchurch	ASB Football Park	9,000	Sean Devine	Samurai	Robbie's Bar and Bistro
Hawke's Bay United	Napier	Bluewater Stadium	5,000	Brett Angell[2]	Lotto Sport Italia	Kinetic Electrical
Southern United	Dunedin	Forsyth Barr Stadium	30,500	Mike Fridge[3]	Lotto Sport Italia	Gran's Remedy
Team Wellington	Wellington	David Farrington Park	3,000	Matt Calcott	Nike	Exodus Health & Fitness Club
WaiBOP United	Cambridge	John Kerkhof Park	2,700	Peter Smith	Lotto Sport Italia	The Soccer Shop
Waitakere United	Whenuapai, Auckland	Fred Taylor Park	2,500	Brian Shelley	Lotto Sport Italia	Cuesports Foundation
Wanderers SC	Albany, Auckland	QBE Stadium	25,000	Darren Bazeley	Nike	Trillian Trust Inc.
Wellington Phoenix	Wellington	Newtown Park	5,000	Andy Hedge[4]	Adidas	Huawei

Kits

Auckland City FC	Canterbury United	Hawke's Bay United	Southern United	Team Wellington
WaiBOP United	Waitakere United	Wanderers SC	Wellington Phoenix

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Auckland City (C)	16	14	0	2	39	14	+25	42	Qualification to the Champions League and Finals series
2	Team Wellington	16	9	3	4	32	24	+8	30
3	Hawke's Bay United	16	8	3	5	34	29	+5	27	Qualification to the Finals series
4	Waitakere United	16	8	2	6	29	23	+6	26
5	WaiBOP United	16	7	1	8	24	29	−5	22
6	Wellington Phoenix	16	7	0	9	37	42	−5	21
7	Wanderers SC	16	5	2	9	24	29	−5	17	Disbanded at end of season
8	Canterbury United	16	4	2	10	22	32	−10	14
9	Southern United	16	3	1	12	20	39	−19	10

Positions by round

Fixtures and results

The 2014–15 season sees every team play the other both home and away. With the introduction of the Wellington Phoenix Reserves side creating an uneven number of teams, each team has two byes in the regular season. However, due to Auckland City FC's participation in the 2014 OFC President's Cup and the 2014 FIFA Club World Cup, several matches and byes have been rescheduled.^[5][6]

Round 4 (rescheduled)

Round 1

Bye: Southern United

Round 8 (rescheduled)

Round 2

Round 6 (rescheduled)

Round 3

Bye: Wellington Phoenix
Bye: Canterbury United (rescheduled from Round 15)

Round 4

Bye: Hawke's Bay United

Round 5

Bye: WaiBOP United

Round 6

Bye: Canterbury United

Round 7

Bye: Auckland City FC

Round 8

Bye: Team Wellington
Bye: Waitakere United rescheduled from Round 2

Round 9

Bye: Wanderers SC

Round 15 (rescheduled)

Round 10

Bye: Southern United

Round 11

Bye: Waitakere United

Round 12

Bye: Wellington Phoenix

Round 13

Bye: Hawke's Bay United

Round 14

Bye: WaiBOP United

Round 2 (rescheduled)

Round 15

Bye: Wanderers SC

Round 16

Bye: Auckland City FC

Round 17

Bye: Team Wellington

Round 18

Bye: Wanderers SC

Finals series

Semi-finals first leg

Semi-finals second leg

Grand final

Statistics

Top Goal scorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals per Round																		Goals
			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
1=	Tyler Boyd	Wellington Phoenix	1	1		1		2							1	4					10
	Tom Jackson	Southern United					2		1	1			1		1	2	1		1		10
	Sean Lovemore	Hawke's Bay United	1							2						2	2			3	10
4	Nathaniel Hailemariam	Wellington Phoenix					1	2			2	1			1	1	1				9
5	Ryan Tinsley	Hawke's Bay United					1	1	1	1	1						1	1		1	8
6=	Joel Stevens	Wellington Phoenix					3				1	1						1	1		7
	Derice Richards	Waitakere United			1										1		1	2		2	7
8=	Luis Corrales	Team Wellington	1		1		1	1						1	1						6
	Michael Gwyther	Team Wellington			1		2					2					1				6
	Jarrod Smith	Team Wellington		1			1						1		2		1				6
	Federico Marquez	WaiBOP United			1				2				1	1					1		6
	Tom Biss	Waitakere United	1			1	1	1									1			1	6
	Aaron Clapham	Canterbury United								1	1	2	1							1	6
14=	Andre de Jong	Wanderers SC	1		1					1			1			1					5
	Chad Coombes	WaiBOP United				1				1							1	2			5
	Viktor Lekaj	Hawke's Bay United		1	1									1			1	1			5
17=	David Browne	Auckland City FC		1*						1*					2						4
	Bill Robertson	Team Wellington			1				1		1							1			4
	Nathaniel Bowen	Waitakere United													1	2				1	4
	Ivan Carril	Auckland City FC														1	1		1	1	4
21=	Tom Schwarz	Canterbury United	1				1			1											3
	Fabrizio Tavano	Auckland City FC	1					1*			1										3
	Emiliano Tade	Auckland City FC	1			1*						1									3
	Ivan Vicelich	Auckland City FC				1*						1					1*				3
	Dylan Manickum	Waitakere United									1			2							3
	Marko Dordevic	Auckland City FC											2		1						3
	Craig Wylie	WaiBOP United								1				1	1						3
	Clayton Lewis	Wanderers SC				1						1				1					3
	Judd Baker	Wanderers SC					1								1	1					3
	Sam Burfoot	Auckland City FC		1*								1	1								3
	Ryan De Vries	Auckland City FC												1						2	3
	Óscar García	Auckland City FC														1	1			1	3
	Joao Moreira	Auckland City FC															1			2	3
	Andrew Milne	Auckland City FC						2*												1	3
	Ross Haviland	Hawke's Bay United		1						1										1	3
	Aaron Spain	Canterbury United				1													1	1	3
37=	Liam Higgins	WaiBOP United			1	1															2
	Henry Fa'arodo	Team Wellington		1		1															2
	Saul Halpin	Hawke's Bay United	1						1												2
	Brock Messenger	Wanderers SC					1			1											2
	Sam O'Regan	WaiBOP United				1					1										2
	Cole Peverley	Team Wellington	1									1									2
	Alex Feneridis	Team Wellington						1				1									2
	Fergus Neil	WaiBOP United										2									2
	Mark Jones	WaiBOP United										1	1								2
	Shawn O'Brien	Canterbury United							1				1								2
	Benjudah Fitzpatrick	Southern United								1				1							2
	Te Atawahi Hudson-Wihongi	Wanderers SC											1	1							2
	David Mulligan	Waitakere United	1												1						2
	Andrew Boyens	Waitakere United	1												1						2
	Mario Hoffman	Canterbury United				1										1					2
	Regont Murati	Wanderers SC	1													1					2
	Ruairi Cahill-Fleury	Wellington Phoenix															1	1			2
	Andrew Ridden	Southern United			1													1			2
55=	Tim Payne	Auckland City FC				1*															1
	Dylan Stansfield	Canterbury United	1																		1
	George Milne	Southern United		1																	1
	Kenny Cunningham	Wellington Phoenix		1																	1
	Victor da Costa	Southern United			1																1
	Adam Dickinson	Waitakere United				1															1
	Cory Chettleburgh	Team Wellington				1															1
	Nicholas Hindson	Southern United					1														1
	Sam Brotherton	Wanderers SC					1														1
	Alexis Carcamo Varela	Waitakere United						1													1
	Mario Barcia	Hawke's Bay United						1													1
	Matthew Ridenton	Wellington Phoenix						1													1
	Andrew Barton	Canterbury United							1												1
	Facundo Barbero	Hawke's Bay United							1												1
	Adam Mitchell	Wanderers SC							1												1
	Patrick Fleming	Team Wellington							1												1
	Sean Morris	Team Wellington							1												1
	Nicolas Bechar	Team Wellington							1												1
	Angus Kilkolly	Wanderers SC								1											1
	Thomas Connor	Southern United								1											1
	Jacob Butler	Waitakere United									1										1
	Josh Brindall-South	Wellington Phoenix										1									1
	Wade Molony	WaiBOP United										1									1
	Ashley Wellbourn	Canterbury United										1									1
	Stuart Holthusen	Wanderers SC										1									1
	Jason Hicks	Wellington Phoenix											1								1
	Ryan Stanley	Canterbury United											1								1
	Jake Porter	Waitakere United												1							1
	Fin Milne	Hawke's Bay United												1							1
	William McIntyre	Southern United													1						1
	Alec Solomons	Waitakere United													1						1
	Chris Bale	Waitakere United													1						1
	Thomas Doyle	Wellington Phoenix													1						1
	Van Elia	WaiBOP United													1						1
	Alex Rufer	Wellington Phoenix														1					1
	John Irving	Auckland City FC														1					1
	Alex Palezevic	Hawke's Bay United														1					1
	Mark Peers	Canterbury United															1				1
	Dan Terris	Canterbury United																1			1
	Andrew Blake	Wellington Phoenix																1			1
	Cheauxyan Maukau-McPhee	Wanderers SC																1			1
	Xavier Pratt	Wellington Phoenix																	1		1
	Robbie Greenhalgh	WaiBOP United																		1	1
	Jarrod Young	WaiBOP United																		1	1
	Tim McLennan	Southern United																		1	1

  Goal scored from penalty kick     Two goals were scored from penalty kicks   Team had a bye in this round

*Goals were scored in matches that were rescheduled.

Own goals

Player	Team	Opposition	Round
Harry Morton	Hawke's Bay United	Auckland City	1
Brock Messenger	Wanderers SC	Wellington Phoenix	2
Gowan Stares	Wanderers SC	Hawke's Bay United	3
Benjudah Fitzpatrick	Southern United	Auckland City	13

Discipline

The 'total' column is based on 1 point for a yellow card, 2 points for two yellows equalling red, and 3 points for a straight red card.
As of end of round 3, 16 November 2014

Team				Total
Auckland City	6	0	0	6
Hawke's Bay United	5	0	0	5
Team Wellington	6	0	0	6
Waitakere United	5	0	0	5
Wanderers SC	5	0	0	5
WaiBOP United	0	0	1	3
Wellington Phoenix	1	1	0	3
Canterbury United	3	0	0	3
Southern United	1	0	0	1

References

External links

• ASB Premiership website
• ASB Premiership Facebook page