2001 New Zealand National Soccer League

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New Zealand National Soccer League
Season2001
Champions Central United
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The 2001 New Zealand National Club Championship, also known, due to naming-rights sponsorship, as the Qantas National Club Championship was the second season of a nationwide club competition in New Zealand football. The competition was won by Central United.

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The league was played during winter, with matches played from April to September, and was run in two stages. In the first stage, each team in the ten-team league played every other team home and away. In the second stage, the top four teams entered a knockout competition, with third place playing fourth place in one match and first playing second in the other, with home advantage being decided by final league position. The winners of the first against second match progressed straight through to the final; the losers of that match met the winners of the other match to decide the other finalist. [1]

The bonus point system used during the 2000 season was not used for the 2001 and subsequent seasons.

Promotion and relegation

Ten teams took part in the 2001 league. Eight of these remained from the previous season. Nelson Suburbs withdrew from the competition, and Metro were relegated and had to play in a play-off series with the winners of a competition between the northern, central, and southern regional competition winners for a place in the 2001 league. The play-off games between the three regional champions were played at Palmerston North during September 2000; the match between Metro and the winner of this series was played the following month at North Shore as the curtain-raiser to the 2000 league final. [2]

Team 1ScoreTeam 2
Caversham 3 – 3 Havelock North Wanderers
Tauranga City 1 – 3 Caversham
Havelock North Wanderers 1 – 4 Tauranga City
Metro 3– 2 Caversham

Metro thus retained their league place. Controversially, when Nelson Suburbs withdrew from the league, their place was offered not to Caversham, but to Tauranga City United, a new team formed by the merger of Tauranga City and Mount Maunganui.

Metro again finished last in 2001, but withdrew from the play-off series with the winners of the northern, central, and southern regional leagues.

League table

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification or relegation
1 Miramar Rangers 1813415324+2943 2001 National Soccer League Finals
2 Central United (C)1810534927+22352001 National Soccer League Champions
3 Red Sox Manawatu 1811163728+934 2001 National Soccer League Finals
4 University-Mount Wellington 1810443024+634
5 Napier City Rovers 188464141028
6 Waitakere City 187474637+925
7 Tauranga City United 1862103339−620
8 Dunedin Technical 1862103240−820
9 Woolston Technical 1825112139−1811
10 Metro (R)1811161558−434Relegated to the 2002 Northern Zone
Source: [1]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated

Finals

Bracket

Upper semifinalPreliminary finalGrand final
1 Miramar Rangers 1
1
Miramar Rangers 		2
2 Central United 0
2
Central United 		3
2
Central United 		5
3
Manawatu 		2
Lower semifinal
3 Manawatu 4
4 University-Mount Wellington 0

Play-offs

Miramar Rangers 1 – 0 Central United
Brown
Manawatu 4 – 0 University-Mount Wellington
Eaton, Field, Sandbrook, Lochhead
Central United 5 – 2 Manawatu
Ridenton 3, Aliaga, Eie Jeremy Brown, Cunniliffe

Final

Miramar Rangers 2 – 3 Central United
Brown 2Eie 3
North Harbour Stadium, North Shore City
Referee: Bruce Grimshaw

Records and statistics

Biggest winning margin
Highest aggregate score

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "New Zealand 2001". RSSSF . Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  2. ↑ "New Zealand 2000".
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