Green Island’s reign at the top of the NZ Football
Club Rankings proved to be short-lived following one of the upsets of the Round
1 Chatham Cup games played in the weekend – their 4-2 defeat by Northern AFC means Green Island fall five places as a
result. Wainuiomata’s home win
over two times Chatham Cup winners Western Suburbs (who fall six places), and
Canterbury University’s hammering of FC Twenty11 were the round’s other
surprise results. Among the
favourites for this year’s Chatham Cup are Wellington Olympic and Miramar
Rangers – both safely negotiated tricky fixtures and feature strongly in this
week’s Rankings. Incidentally, the
Rankings scoring system is slightly more strongly weighted for Chatham Cup
games.
The only league games played were in the NRPL, and in
the match of the round Birkenhead Utd continued their great start to the season
with a 2-1 home win over 2012 Champions Bay Olympic. This not only cements Birkenhead’s place at the top of the
NRPL, but it lifts them to #2 in the Rankings.
Other big Rankings movers this week are Western (up
six), Lower Hutt City (up seven), Halswell Utd (up six), Ellerslie AFC (down
eight), and Nomads Utd (down six).
This weeks Rankings have been updated to include
English Cup fixtures, which I’d forgotten about (Sorry Christchurch
teams!). These games will be
scored in the same way as league fixtures.
|
Ranking
|
Team
|
Points
|
Change
|
|
1
|
Wellington Olympic
|
1167.54
|
1
|
|
2
|
Birkenhead Utd
|
1165.93
|
1
|
|
3
|
Miramar Rangers
|
1165.62
|
1
|
|
4
|
Roslyn Wakari
|
1165.54
|
4
|
|
5
|
Ferrymead Bays
|
1164.22
|
0
|
|
6
|
Green Island
|
1163.72
|
-5
|
|
7
|
East Coast Bays
|
1159.95
|
3
|
|
8
|
Caversham AFC
|
1159.25
|
-2
|
|
9
|
Western
|
1158.97
|
6
|
|
10
|
Otago University
|
1158.82
|
2
|
|
11
|
Cashmere Technical
|
1157.40
|
-2
|
|
12
|
Nelson Suburbs
|
1157.05
|
-1
|
|
13
|
Western Suburbs
|
1156.19
|
-6
|
|
14
|
Lower Hutt City
|
1155.75
|
7
|
|
15
|
Hamilton Wanderers
|
1154.79
|
-1
|
|
16
|
Three Kings Utd
|
1154.18
|
-3
|
|
17
|
Napier City Rovers
|
1153.76
|
2
|
|
18
|
Halswell Utd
|
1153.40
|
6
|
|
19
|
Petone
|
1152.82
|
-1
|
|
20
|
Dunedin Technical
|
1152.64
|
-4
|
|
21
|
Central Utd
|
1151.30
|
2
|
|
22
|
Onehunga Sports
|
1151.13
|
-2
|
|
23
|
Wairarapa Utd
|
1149.54
|
3
|
|
24
|
Invercargill Old Boys
|
1148.47
|
3
|
|
25
|
Ellerslie AFC
|
1147.94
|
-8
|
|
26
|
Bay Olympic
|
1147.50
|
-4
|
|
27
|
Coastal Spirit
|
1146.15
|
-2
|
|
28
|
Northern AFC
|
1142.80
|
4
|
|
29
|
Mosgiel
|
1142.39
|
0
|
|
30
|
Upper Hutt City
|
1142.35
|
-2
|
|
31
|
Queenstown Rovers
|
1140.10
|
0
|
|
32
|
Tawa
|
1139.63
|
4
|
|
33
|
Grants Braes
|
1139.07
|
2
|
|
34
|
Wellington Utd
|
1135.26
|
0
|
|
35
|
Manurewa AFC
|
1135.04
|
-2
|
|
36
|
Nomads Utd
|
1133.71
|
-6
|
|
37
|
Waitakere City
|
1132.24
|
0
|
|
38
|
FC Twenty11
|
1128.60
|
0
|
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