2002 New Zealand National Soccer League

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New Zealand National Soccer League
Season2002
Champions Miramar Rangers
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The 2002 New Zealand National Club Championship, also known, due to naming-rights sponsorship, as the Southern Trust National League was the third season of a nationwide club competition in New Zealand football. The competition was won by Miramar Rangers.

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The league was played mainly during autumn, with matches played from February to June, 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]

Promotion and relegation

Ten teams took part in the 2002 league. Eight of these remained from the previous season. Christchurch City withdrew from the competition, replaced by a composite team, Canterbury United, drawing players from all of Christchurch's main clubs. Metro were relegated and withdrew from the promotion play-offs against the winners of a competition between the northern, central, and southern regional competition winners. The play-off games between the three regional champions were played at Newtown Park, Wellington during August and September 2001. [2]

Team 1ScoreTeam 2
North Shore United 2 – 0 Caversham
Wellington United 5 – 0 Caversham
Wellington United 0 – 2 North Shore United

The tenth place in the 2002 league was thus gained by North Shore United.

Waitakere City finished last in 2002, and entered the play-off series with the winners of the northern, central, and southern regional leagues.

League table

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification or relegation
1 Napier City Rovers 1813325027+2342 2002 National Soccer League Finals
2 Miramar Rangers (C)1811435122+2937
3 North Shore United 1811433318+1537
4 Tauranga City United 189543618+1832
5 Canterbury United 188463130+128
6 Red Sox Manawatu 1871103243−1122
7 Central United 1852112546−2117
8 Dunedin Technical 1843111932−1315
9 University-Mount Wellington 183692136−1515
10 Waitakere City (R)1822141844−268Relegated to the 2003 Northern Zone
Source: [1]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Finals

Bracket

Play-offs

Napier City Rovers 0 – 3 Miramar Rangers
Ryan, Little, George
North Shore United 0 – 1 Tauranga City United
Derry
Napier City Rovers 5 – 3 Tauranga City United
Smeltz 4, BirniePilcher 2, Derry

Final

Miramar Rangers 3 – 1 Napier City Rovers
Little, Thompson, GeorgeGearey
Newtown Park, Wellington
Referee: Steve Sargent

Records and statistics

Biggest winning margin
Highest aggregate score

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "New Zealand 2002". RSSSF . Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  2. ↑ "New Zealand 2001".
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