New Zealand Football Championship

The New Zealand Football Championship (known as the ASB Premiership from 2011 for sponsorship reasons) is the national association football league in New Zealand. It is a professional/semi-professional status Association football (soccer) sports Franchise league that is operated by New Zealand Football. The league is run separately from the New Zealand Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Premier and the other Winter Regional club competitions, and many of the teams competing are Franchises jointly run by Winter clubs. The Premiership does not include the Wellington Phoenix who play in the Australasian A-League. It is currently sponsored by ASB Bank.

Champions to date
O-League qualifiers in bold

All-time NZFC regular season records by club
Updated to the end of the 2009/10 season
 * * Waitakere were awarded a goalless win against Auckland in 2006/07
 * † Includes record as Napier City Rovers

All-time NZFC playoff records by club
Updated to, and including, the 2009/10 playoff semi-finals.


 * * Y.H. Manawatu finished 3rd in the 2008/09 playoffs with a better record than the other semi-finalist, Team Wellington. Team Wellington finished 3rd in the 2009/10 playoffs with a better record than the other semi-finalist, Auckland City.
 * † Includes record as Napier City Rovers