The Auckland City Post
Squad19 Oct 2026
Alfie Rogers damages knee ligaments — 40 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 40 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Ryan De Vries, 35, rolls back the years — 8.30
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.30 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Chris Smith at Auckland City
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Chris Smith is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Willem Ebbinge 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 Auckland City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A late step up for Willem Ebbinge
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.
Boardroom19 Oct 2026
Graduation day at Auckland City
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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Haris Zeb sends Auckland City past Southern United
It finished 3‑2, and it was Haris Zeb’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Auckland City.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Willem Ebbinge runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market19 Oct 2026
Auckland City promote Owen Colvey from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Owen Colvey 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.
In brief
- Market Matt Reid steps up from the Auckland City academy
- Market One of our own: Noah Bell joins the Auckland City first team
- Market Oliver Tuiloma steps up from the Auckland City academy