The Auckland FC Sentinel
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
Graduation day at Auckland FC
2 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Auckland FC get the job done against Perth Glory
A 2‑0 win over Perth Glory, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Market26 Oct 2026
One of our own: Michael Cooper joins the Auckland FC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Michael Cooper is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market26 Oct 2026
Auckland FC promote Owen Mitchell from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Owen Mitchell 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
One of those days for Guillermo May
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.30, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Logan Rogerson
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Jamie Thompson has his say
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Jamie Thompson on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Logan Rogerson knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Logan Rogerson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
Auckland FC say no to the training-ground money
The plan went upstairs and came back down. Nothing about that will make a headline anywhere else, and everybody who works at the training ground will remember it for years.
In brief
- Looking ahead The leaders are next for Auckland FC
- The dugout Jonty Bidois left out for tactical reasons at Auckland FC
- Squad Logan Rogerson wants to know why he earns less