2024 New Zealand National League

This article is about the men's season. For the women's season, see 2024 New Zealand Women's National League.

New Zealand National League
Season2024
Dates22 March 2024 – 1 December 2024
Matches played30
Goals scored112 (3.73 per match)
Top goalscorerDaniel Bunch
Garbhan Coughlan
David Yoo
(6 goals each)
Biggest home winCoastal Spirit 5–0 Western Suburbs
(13 October 2024)
Biggest away winWestern Suburbs 0–4 Cashmere Technical
(29 September 2024)
Cashmere Technical 0–4 Wellington Phoenix Reserves
(6 October 2024)
Highest scoringWestern Springs 6–2 Coastal Spirit
(5 October 2024)
Longest winning run4 matches
Birkenhead United
Longest unbeaten run5 matches
Auckland City
Longest winless run6 matches
Western Suburbs
Longest losing run4 match
Eastern Suburbs
Western Suburbs
← 2023
2025 →
All statistics correct as of 3 November 2024.

The 2024 New Zealand Men's National League is the fourth season of the National League since its restructuring in 2021.[1] 32 clubs compete in the competition, with four qualifying from the Northern League, three qualifying from the Central League and two qualifying from the Southern League for the National Championship phase.[2][3] Each team can field a maximum of four foreign players as well as one additional foreign player who has Oceania Football Confederation nationality.[4] Over the course of the season, each team must also ensure players aged 20 or under account for 10% of available playing minutes.[5][6]

The qualifying league fixtures were announced on 1 March 2024. The Northern League starts on 22 March 2024[7] with the Central and Southern leagues starting the following weekend on 29 and 28 March respectively. The Northern and Central leagues conclude on 31 August 2024 with the Southern League concluding on 1 September 2024.[8][9][10]

The week the Northern League started, NRF announced changes to the competition structure for the 2024 season to accommodate Auckland FC.[11] Auckland FC will have a reserves team playing in the qualifying and championship phases from next season to fulfil their A-League Men requirements.[3] To allow space for Auckland FC, the Northern League will now have a relegation play-off between the 10th place team and the runners up of the 2024 NRFL Championship for this season only.[11][12]

The championship phase fixtures were announced on 17 September 2024, with the opening games to be played on 28 September 2024.[13][14]

  1. ^ "National League Championship cancelled, new interregional competition announced and Chatham Cup moved to 2022". New Zealand Football.
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  3. ^ a b "New National League system". New Zealand Football. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  4. ^ "Two National League clubs found to have breached foreign player regulations". New Zealand Football. Archived from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  5. ^ "National League regulations for U-20 players revised". New Zealand Football. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
  6. ^ "Men's National League Regulations Season 2024 - Article 27: Registration of Players". Northern Region Football. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
  7. ^ "New Zealand National League preview". New Zealand Football. 21 March 2024. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
  8. ^ "Fixtures announced for the National League 2024". New Zealand Football. 1 March 2024. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  9. ^ "Northern League Fixtures 2024". New Zealand Football. 1 March 2024. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  10. ^ "New season fixtures released for Northern, Central and Southern Leagues". friendsoffootballnz.com. 1 March 2024. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  11. ^ a b "Auckland FC: Introduction of new team impacts Northern Region Football domestic competitions". New Zealand Herald. 23 March 2024. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
  12. ^ "LOTTO NRFL Regulations 2024: Appendix 1, Article 8 - Declaration of Winner". Northern Region Football. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
  13. ^ "MEN'S NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP 2024". New Zealand Football. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
  14. ^ "Fixtures Announced for National League Championship 2024". New Zealand Football. 16 September 2024. Retrieved 17 September 2024.