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Homes Of NZ Football
NZ's Largest Football Crowds
Date
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Crowd
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Venue
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Fixture
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11/11/17
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37034
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"Caketin"
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All Whites v. Peru
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14/11/09
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35179
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"Caketin"
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All Whites v. Bahrain
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25/9/22
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34985
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Eden Park
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All Whites v. Australia
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20/11/13
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33626
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"Caketin"
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All Whites v. Mexico
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7/3/10
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32941
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"Caketin"
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Wellington Phoenix v. Newcastle Jets
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1/12/07
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31853
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"Caketin"
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Wellington Phoenix v. LA Galaxy
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26/7/14
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26106
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"Caketin"
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Football United Tour
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21/2/10
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24360
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"Caketin"
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Wellington Phoenix v. Perth Glory
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22/5/21
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24105
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"Caketin"
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Wellington Phoenix v. Western United
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15/2/19
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22648
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Eden Park
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Wellington Phoenix v. Melbourne Victory
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30/5/21
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22233
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Eden Park
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Wellington Phoenix v. Perth Glory
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The abandoned Carlaw Park as seen at the start of 2006. It was the home of rugby league in Auckland for many years, but New Zealand played a handful of internationals on this ground
in the late 1950s. The Railway Stand, to the left, is so named because the railway line from Britomart Station to all points south is located above it. Carlaw Park #2 is in the background.
The ground is located a long goal kick away from Blandford Park - see below. Nowadays, its been swallowed up by buildings for student accommodation.
Bill McKinlay Park as it looks today, complete with artificial turf and significantly upgraded facilities.
This was where the Road to Spain '82 began, with a 4-0 trouncing of 1978 World Cup Finals contenders Mexico in 1980
 Blandford Park, the home of Auckland football between 1923 and 1964.
Click the pic for some interesting background information.
Now part of the Auckland motorway network. but its rough location is the other side of the road from the Auckland Bowling Club.
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 Action from the clash between Auckland and Tottenham Hotspur under the Newmarket Park floodlights on May 3, 1976. Note the massive crowd on the terraces, who witnessed an eight-goal thriller - Spurs won 5-3! Exactly three years and two months later, a large part of the ground and part of the Eastern Stand slid down into the gully below ... the ground was never used again, and is nowadays a public reserve.
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 The sun rises on the West Stand at Mt. Smart Stadium, the home ground for the All Whites' 1981 World Cup qualifying campaign, and numerous internationals since. Now the home of the NZ Warriors Rugby League team. There are significant plans afoot at Mt. Smart, but that can be said of all the stadiums in Auckland, none of which, unfortunately, are genuinely football-friendly, i.e. not designed like Anfield - four stands, right on top of the pitch ...
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 NHS, aka North Harbour Stadium, venue for the 1999 FIFA U-17 World Cup Final, the 2008 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup Final and the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup Final. Despite what Wellingtonians would have you believe, and its rabbit warren of a carpark (not to mention, given Auckland's traffic, its awkward location for those who reside on the city side of the Harbour Bridge!), NZ Football's base is NZ's home of football, and has hosted numerous internationals and noteworthy fixtures since the 1990s.
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 English Park, the spiritual home of football in Christchurch for many years, and home to numerous international fixtures over time. Take a panoramic view of the ground here. The Steve Sumner Stand makes the ground - a decent wee atmosphere emanates from same.
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 Rebecca Sowden and Zoe Thompson pose in front of the Speights Stand at Carisbrook, Dunedin's iconic venue, which, before its closure, played host to NZFC and National Women's League fixtures, as well as its usual diet of rugby and cricket matches. In days gone by, it hosted a fair few football internationals too. A new stadium has replaced it.
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 Wellington's Basin Reserve was the venue for internationals and Chatham Cup Finals galore in the days when the NZFA was based in NZ's capital. Thankfully they saw the light and moved north to the nation's most populous city!
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 It's got plenty of nicknames, some of which aren't printable (!), but officially it's Sky (previously Westpac) Stadium, and affectionately known as "The Caketin", the home ground of pretty much any Wellington representative sports team you'd care to mention!
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