Auckland Football's senior representative women's squad - nicknamed the “A Team” by the media since 1997 - certainly lived up to that tag in the final quarter of 2007, as they swept all before them in the Lion Foundation National Women's League competition. Coached by Jill Gilmore, the squad was the youngest in the 35-year history of Auckland women's football, and it was not uncommon to see a team boasting an average age of 21 running rings round opponents far older in years as well as experience. Coming from behind to down arch-rivals Capital Football 3-1 in their first match of the campaign - they trailed after just 110 seconds of the match, the “A Team” kept on gathering momentum, scoring convincing victories over Waikato-Bay of Plenty, North Harbour and Mainland Pride along the way. Whenever Auckland play at home in the league, the Ranfurly Shield-style NZ Women's Soccer Challenge Cup is on the line, and the visit of Central Soccer saw the trophy retained in emphatic fashion for the final time in 2007, despite the inclement conditions. Central were flattered by the 9-0 scoreline as the "A Team"

Some of the squad members with the spoils of war at the conclusion of the awards: Standing:  Kristy Hill (c), Sarah Gregorius, Dene Gilmore (Co-Coach), Merissa Smtih, Emma Kete, Carol Waller (Manager), Annalie Longo Kneeling:  Ria Percival, Betsy Hassett, Grace Vincent, Jill Gilmore (Co-Coach) By winning their categories, the only nominations the Auckland Football Federation submitted for the prestigious Sport Auckland awards evening received a surprise and very welcome bonus from the organisers. For the first time ever, Sport Auckland opted to reward the winners of each of the nine award categories by means other than a commemorative glass plaque and sponsors products. $1000 cash is now part of the prize package for each category winner, with the ever-innovative Sport Auckland team scrapping the formal dinner concept of previous awards evenings, and channelling the bulk of the funds saved from that approach into rewarding the people the evening seeks to celebrate - the city's sporting champions.

produced a stunning exhibition of wet-weather football at its best. Soccersouth were hit for five at Carisbrook in the final game of the round-robin phase of the competition, which entitled unbeaten Auckland to home advantage for the Grand Final, with Capital Football their opponents in the showpiece fixture for the fourth successive season. Auckland opted to play the game in Wellington, as part of a footballing weekend in the city. The venue mattered not, because the champions were simply too good for their arch-rivals, who were convincingly swept aside 3-1 by an “A Team” combination boasting a vibrant and refreshing joie de vivre about their football as they won both the national title and retained the Roy Cox Shield, the latter honour being up for grabs whenever NZ women's football's oldest rivals clash at senior level. A further measure of the squad's supremacy was the number of players chosen to represent New Zealand in various FIFA tournaments in 2008 - eight at the Olympics, seven at the U-20 Women's World Cup Finals, and two at the U-17 Women's World Cup Finals.