Matthew Acton

Goalkeeper - Team Wellington
29 Aug 2026
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Marked for Matthew Acton

4 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

No thanks: Paris Domfeh rejects the move

Team Wellington had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Auckland City, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Matthew Acton in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Team Wellington this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Door shut on Simon Zibo

Team Wellington asked and Mosta said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market24 Aug 2026

A stepping stone, not a home, for Marco Stamatelopoulos

He is doing his job and he is not settling. Team Wellington were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.

Market24 Aug 2026

Team Wellington answer the question with Marco Stamatelopoulos from Canterbury United

The shape has not worked since the summer and the reason was never a mystery. Marco Stamatelopoulos comes in from Canterbury United to be the missing piece, which is a flattering description and a heavy one.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Team Wellington ask about Sodiq Ismaila

A loan enquiry to Primorje: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Michael Payne stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Michael Payne and Team Wellington agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Kosta Van Hattum

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kosta Van Hattum, and the manager let it.

Market24 Aug 2026

Marco Just arrives on loan

Team Wellington have taken Marco Just on loan from Hawke's Bay United — cover where cover was needed.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Alfie Rogers will not be coming to Team Wellington

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Auckland City is saying, and nobody at Team Wellington is enjoying the guessing.

Squad10 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Team Wellington

Matthew Acton and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Canterbury United tell Team Wellington: Marco Stamatelopoulos is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Noah Reid joins the Team Wellington first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Noah Reid is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market10 Aug 2026

Team Wellington promote Michael Payne from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Michael Payne has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market10 Aug 2026

Callum Boxall steps up from the Team Wellington academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Callum Boxall has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market10 Aug 2026

Kosta Van Hattum steps up from the Team Wellington academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kosta Van Hattum has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Steven Lustica needs a bigger stage

He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Team Wellington know which stage they are at.

Squad10 Aug 2026

The formation has left Christian Bracco behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Team Wellington will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

In brief

1 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Aug 2026

Walter Scott gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Walter Scott has just signed for Team Wellington, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Hassan El Hattab signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Hassan El Hattab commits to Team Wellington for another 2 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Team Wellington

Matthew Acton and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Market3 Aug 2026

A stepping stone, not a home, for Christian Bracco

He is doing his job and he is not settling. Team Wellington were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Matthew Acton has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Team Wellington know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Team Wellington ask about Alfie Rogers

A loan enquiry to Auckland City: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Team Wellington try to borrow Paris Domfeh

Auckland City have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

A loan move for Marco Stamatelopoulos is in the works

Team Wellington have made the call to Canterbury United. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

A loan move for Liberato McCowatt is in the works

Team Wellington have made the call to WaiBOP United. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief