Season 2- Pre-season Schedule and Fixtures
 

The Cricket Web Football Association has secured a link with New Zealand Football to promote the game within CWLand and the region.

This link will be in the form of 3 games to be played in the pre-season.

1) Winners of CW Premiership versus Winners of New Zealand Football Championship.
This will be East Coast Fury versus Auckland City to be played at Kiwitea Street, Auckland. Originally Fury were supposed to play Asian Champs, Urawa Reds of Japan, but they are unavailable and in the efforts to build a partnership with NZ Football it was replaced by this fixture.

2) CW Under 20s versus NZ Under 20s
Under 20s is the youth format used in the region and this is an opportunity for younger players to get exposure to the international game. The game will be played in CWLand and CW U'20s will be captained by Håkon Mørk.

3) NZ versus CW.
This International friendly game will be played North Harbour Stadium, Auckland and will be CWLands biggest football challenge so far. A captain has yet to be decided.

Pre-Season Cup

In addition to those 3 games there will be the CW Pre-Season Cup. It will follow roughly the same format of last seasons Pre-season tournament.

Teams will be split into 2 groups. Each will play members of their own group home and away. The top team from each group will play in the final.

Group A
East Coast Fury
Northern Power
Southern Dynamo

Group B
Island Swell
Central United
Nixontown Nomads

more to come...

Looking forward to it. I bet we'll be royally sick of playing New Zealand in a year or so though.

Looks good mate. Really liking your work with this, Goughy!

Nah, we'll only be royally sick of playing them if we are losing to 'em, and we all know that won't happen :p

Is there an U20 Thread? Hoping to be picked tbh.

good stuff mate. looking forward to it.......i will get ya on msn.

Even beating the same team is boring

Nah, not if it's the Kiwis :cool:

While I really look forward to NZ vs. CW rivalry, I do agree that it shouldn't be overdone as one of the great things about football is it's so global.

yer agree with that!

Still reckon we should play matches against Sri Lanka, a true football power.

Looking good.

Need to test our skills against the golden boot of Younis Mahmood and his Iraqi team imho

Pre-Season Schedule dates to be added

Matchday 1-
Auckland City v East Coast Fury at Kiwitea Street, Auckland

Matchday 2-
East Coast Fury vs Northern Power
Island Swell vs Central United

Matchday 3-
Southern Dynamo vs East Coast Fury
Nixontown Nomads vs Island Swell

Matchday 4-
Northern Power vs Southern Dynamo
Central United vs Nixontown Nomads

Matchday 5-
CW Under 20s versus NZ Under 20s

Matchday 6-
NZ versus CW

Matchday 7-
Northern Power vs East Coast Fury
Central United vs Island Swell

Matchday 8-
East Coast Fury vs Southern Dynamo
Island Swell vs Nixontown Nomads

Matchday 9-
Southern Dynamo vs Northern Power
Nixontown Nomads vs Central United

Matchday 10-
Pre-Season Final
Winner Group A vs Winner Group B

Auckland City squad to face East Coast Fury.

Auckland City have won 3 consecutive New Zealand Football Championship