This article is about the A-League Men professional football club. For the Northern League association football club, see Auckland City FC.
Football club
Auckland FC
Full name
Auckland Football Club
Nickname(s)
Black Knights
Founded
November 21, 2023; 5 months ago (2023-11-21)[1]
Ground
Mount Smart Stadium
Capacity
25,000
Owner
Black Knight Sports & Entertainment
Chairman
Bill Foley
Manager
Steve Corica
League
A-League Men (from 2024/25 season)
Website
Club website
Home colours
Auckland FC is a professional football club based in Auckland, New Zealand. It will compete in the Australian A-League Men competition, under licence from the Australian Professional Leagues, from the 2024–25 season.
The club was established as part of the third tranche of expansion of the competition, and is likely to join the season prior to a team based in Canberra. Home matches will be played in Auckland. The club will also field a women's team in the A-League Women from the start of the 2025–26 season.[2]
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to the competition structure for the 2024 season to accommodate AucklandFC. AucklandFC will have a reserves team playing in the qualifying and championship...
since been replaced by the Wellington Phoenix. Football Kingz FC (promoted as "Auckland Kingz" within Australia) joined the Australian National Soccer...
Australian club Sydney FC. In December 2023, Corica was announced as the inaugural manager of A-League expansion club AucklandFC. A technically gifted...
as the home ground for the Auckland franchise in the Bartercard Premiership. In March 2024, new A-League Men club AucklandFC was announced to be playing...
to the competition structure for the 2024 season to accommodate AucklandFC. AucklandFC will have a reserves team playing in the qualifying and championship...
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René Hüssy, Timo Konietzka, and Willy Sommer They famously lost to West AucklandF.C., an English amateur team in what is thought to be the first international...
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later, the bid's success was announced, along with the bid from Macarthur FC. Western Melbourne will play its home games at Kardinia Park in Geelong for...
FC and Melbourne City. On 25 July 2008, the Melbourne City bid dropped out of the bidding process leaving the Melbourne Heart and Southern Cross FC bids...
Ben Cahn as manager. The club has a shared history with Queensland Lions F.C. who competed in the inaugural A-League season as Queensland Roar. Formed...
semi-final, before beating Auckland City 4–2 in an enthralling finale at QBE Stadium in Albany, Auckland. Team Wellington FC won back to back league titles...
England unrepresented in the competition, Thomas Lipton invited West AucklandFC, an amateur side from County Durham and mostly made up of coal miners...
small County Durham mining community and, in his youth, played for Bishop Auckland, before he signed for Liverpool in 1939. During the Second World War he...