2024 NRFL Leagues

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The 2024 NRFL Leagues is the 60th and 58th seasons respectively of the NRFL Championship and NRFL Conference, football competitions in New Zealand. Established in 1965, currently twelve teams compete in the championship while eight teams compete in the Northern and Southern sections of the Conference League.

The week the Northern League and NRFL Championship started, NRF announced changes to the competition structure for the 2024 season to accommodate Auckland FC.[1] Auckland FC will have a reserves team playing in the qualifying and championship phases of the New Zealand National League from next season to fulfil their A-League Men requirements.[2] 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 NRFL Championship for this season only. This also means an additional team will be relegated from the NRFL Championship and from the NRFL Conference leagues (with potential for further relegations to keep the conference leagues at 8 teams).[1][3]

  1. ^ a b "Auckland FC: Introduction of new team impacts Northern Region Football domestic competitions". New Zealand Herald. 23 March 2024. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
  2. ^ "New National League system". New Zealand Football. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference 2024 Rules March was invoked but never defined (see the help page).