The Auckland City Post
Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Marc Tokich
102 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Auckland City lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match17 Oct 2026
Chastening afternoon for Auckland City
A 2‑5 beating by Southern United was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Ryan De Vries scores twice — 8.27
Two goals and a mark of 8.27 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Nathan Lobo is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Auckland City
Marc Tokich was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A late step up for Matt Ellis
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 Auckland City and Southern United in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
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.
Market19 Oct 2026
Chris Boxall steps up from the Auckland City academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Chris 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.
In brief
- Market Auckland City promote Jake Barbarouses from within
- Market One of our own: Oliver Stamatelopoulos joins the Auckland City first team
- Market One of our own: Francis Singh joins the Auckland City first team