New Zealand Football Championship 2005-06

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The 2005-06 New Zealand Football Championship was won by Auckland City who successfully defended the title they won in 2005.

1 New Format
2 Final league table
3 Playoffs
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] New Format

In the regular season, all teams played each other three times, as before. But the playoff stage was changed slightly, with the top five teams now going through to the playoffs (as opposed to the previous three).

[edit] Final league table

Team	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Points
Auckland City	21	16	0	5	63	28	48
YoungHeart Manawatu	21	14	4	3	50	29	46
Canterbury United	21	13	2	6	36	22	41
Team Wellington	21	8	4	9	43	53	28
Otago United	21	7	6	8	27	25	27
Waitakere United	21	6	4	11	38	41	22
Waikato FC	21	6	4	11	31	44	22
Hawke's Bay United	21	1	2	18	17	63	5

Auckland win "Premiership" and qualify for Round 2 of the playoffs
Manawautu, Canterbury, Wellington and Otago all qualify for Round 1 of the playoffs

[edit] Playoffs

In this season's extended playoff system, the games are broken up into several rounds.

[edit] Round 1

The second place team plays the third place team in Game 1; and fourth place plays fifth place in Game 2. The second and fourth placed teams get home advantage. The winners of each game progress to Round 2, as does the loser of Game 1. The Game 2 loser is eliminated.

Game 1: April-2nd: YoungHeart Manawatu 0-0 Canterbury United (AET, Canterbury won on penalties 5-4)
Game 2: April-2nd: Team Wellington 2-2 Otago United (AET, Wellington won on penalties 4-1)

[edit] Round 2

Auckland City, as Premiers, receive a bye straight to Round 2 where they face the winner from Game 1. The loser of Game 1 gets a second chance by going into Round 2 to face the Game 2 winner.

Game 3: April-8th: Auckland City FC 3-0 Canterbury United
Game 4: April-9th: YoungHeart Manawatu 2-3 Team Wellington

The winner of Game 3 (Auckland) now goes into the Grand Final - and with home advantage. The loser of Game 3 (Canterbury) gets a second chance to make the Grand Final by playing the winner of Game 4 (Wellington). The Game 4 loser is eliminated.

[edit] Round 3

Game 5: April-15th: Canterbury United 2-1 Team Wellington

Canterbury, as winners, go on to face Auckland City in the Grand Final.

[edit] Grand Final

April-22nd: Auckland City 3-3 Canterbury United (AET, Auckland won on penalties 4-3)

Auckland City are the champions of the 2005-06 New Zealand Football Championship and, along with league runners up YoungHeart Manawatu, will go on to represent New Zealand in the Oceania Club Championship 2006