The Team Wellington Gazette
Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Youssef El Omari
45 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Team Wellington lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match17 Oct 2026
Marco Waine leads the rout of Waitakere United
5‑2, and Marco Waine took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Team Wellington tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Both of them Marco Waine's — 8.87
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.87, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Bill McCowatt at Team Wellington
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Bill McCowatt is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Rodrigo Cabrera 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A late step up for Dean Burns
At 25 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 4 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Match17 Oct 2026
Nobody could stop scoring
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Team Wellington and Waitakere United in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Boardroom19 Oct 2026
Graduation day at Team Wellington
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market19 Oct 2026
Marco Payne steps up from the Team Wellington academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Marco Payne 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.
In brief
- Market James Sutton steps up from the Team Wellington academy
- Market One of our own: Sam Lockyer joins the Team Wellington first team
- Market One of our own: Marco Boxall joins the Team Wellington first team