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23 January A big turnout for our kick around tonight in hot conditions. Discussions about shirt pulling being only a foul if a defender does it, not an attacker, triggered by ref's decision in the Auckland v Adelaide game lst night. Some all in wrestling involving Rose and Sione. Last goal wins didn't have the desired effect! 20 January The Phoenix men survived an injury and player release crisis and came back to win miraculously at Macarthur. Kosta scored his 100th goal. Chris Wood scored again. The Phoenix women came back from 2 - 0 down to win 3 - 2 in injury time. Oh. and Auckland FC won too. A good weekend of Kiwi football! 17 January NZ striker Chris Wood is a headline act in the EPL at the moment, getting Nottingham Forest up to near the top (3rd at the moment). Here is a funny, cool song made about his exploits. Enjoy!! 16 January Kick arounds each Thursday at 6pm at Edgecumbe Domain. Men, women, senior high school students all welcome. Come and try out Plains Rangers! 9 January A very good turn out for kickaround. 8 aside. Some nice passing, a couple of injuries, sore muscles. Welcome Julius! Two Phoenix shirts v 1 Auckland shirt. The Phoenix women continued their run of form with a 3 - 0 win away at Western Sydney Wanderers, moving up to fourth on the table. Check out our Phoenix pages. 3 January Good turn out at the first kick around last night. Another one 6pm this coming Thursday. All welcome: men, women. 2 January 2025 Happy New Year!! Feel like a kick around? First one of the new year is tonight, 6pm at Edgecumbe Domain. All welcome: men, women. 8 December Sadly the Nix men lost 2 - 1 to Auckland yesterday. The Yellow Fever had great numbers there. Kosta scored a lovely goal to be the first player to score against Auckland (ever). Sheridan missed a sitter and Hughes scored an oggie. The Nix women made up for it today beating second places Brisbane 2 - 1. Captain Longo scored both. Chris Wood continued his outstanding form for Nottingham Forest too, helping them beat Man U at Old Trafford to become their leading goal scorer of all time ( as he is for Burnley I think). 30 November Auckland win again with late goals, while the Nix have the bye. Next Saturday's return derby between them, this time in Auckland should be a beauty! Sold out already. 24 November The Nix knocked over league leaders Melb Victory 1 - 0 with a fine goal from Kosta to claim top of the league, only for Auckland to win as well and take top of the league! Both games played at same venue in Sydney. 23 November The Phoenix women got their first win of the season last night in the Unite round. The unite round is played once a season, where all A League games are played in one city - Sydney, so fans can attend multiple games. The Nix women won 1 - 0 and the Nix and Auckland men play tomorrow. Check out our Phoenix / A League pages. 17 November Big congratulations to Rangers stalwart Matt Dalgity, who married his longtime partner Fiona yesterday. A lovely ceremony at the Whakatane Heads and an entertaining reception with many stories told. Chris Butler did a very good job as M.C. too. 15 November Tonight in Hamilton, see Chris Wood and the NZ team play Vanuatu in a World Cup qualifier, 7.30pm. Closest they will ever play to here most likely. Woodsy player of the month in the EPL. Amazing! If you can't get there, it's on FIFA+ for free. Update, NZ win 8 - 1. Played very well. Wood (2), Garbett, Bindon, Singh, Just and McCowatt all scored. 11 November The Phoenix bounced back with an excellent away win 3 - 0 at the champions Central Coast. Japanese import Ishige starred with a fantastic 25m free kick and two assists. The Nix women lost at home despite having many shots at goal and captain Longo's dog escaping onto the pitch and playing 'catch me'! 4 November First Kiwi derby was full of late drama, in front of over 26000 fans. Phoenix missed a glorious chance when header bounced over the bar, then Nix keeper gifted a clearance to Auckland who scored in 88th min, then a break away in 96th min to seal a 0 - 2 win and bragging rights. 28 October The Kiwi teams are 1st and 2nd in the A League after two rounds, after Auckland and Phoenix both had wins in the weekend. First ever Kiwi derby this Saturday in Welly, 5pm. Should be a cracker. 19 October Auckland FC started their first A League season in good style, filling Mt Smart with 24000 people and winning 2 - 0. Hopefully the Phoenix can get their new season off to a good start tomorrow. 6 October Rangers prize giving and break-up was a huge success, held in conjunction with the Edgecumbe Sports Club last night. The awards were of course the top highlight, but also not far behind were: the fabulous selection of food, looking over old press clippings and team photos, the great variety of 80s costumes, the awesome band and sharing the night with mates. The awards for 2024: (Go to our Honours Board to see all the past winners!)
22 September Congratulations to Tauranga City for winning both the Miller Cup and Bowl finals yesterday, with Juggernauts and Relics victorious. Here endeth the local football season! Still 26 days till the A League kicks off. In the meantime there is just the vagaries of the fantasy league for interest. Josiah is currently leading our minileague. 15 September Waipuna beat Ngongy in the final catch up game, confirming Rangers 4th place finish. The Miller Cup and Bowl finals are on this Saturday, otherwise, sadly, the football season is over. Watch out for kick arounds probably every second Thursday evening. Still 5 weeks to go till the A League kicks off. 14 September Elias has made the best golden boot tally for 12 years, equaling Ben McPherson's total of 17 in 2012. (Please let Bazza know if you have info that should be here, esp from the years up to 2000.) Here is the table of our best golden boot tallies:
13 September Great to have contact with the 1991 coach, Carl Allen, who started the current version of Edgecumbe FC / Plains Rangers. He forwarded a copy of the team photo of that year. See who you recognize from 33 years ago! He also says hi to them and wishes us all the best. 12 September The draw for the A League women is out. The Phoenix play their first game on Friday November 1st. The men will have kicked off two weeks prior. The new Auckland team on Sat 19 Oct and the Phoenix Sun 20th. 8 September A great celebration of local football yesterday. Rangers men gave a good account of themselves, going down 4 - 2 in the end. Elias dazzled with his footwork, scoring two excellent goals and setting up several other chances. Player of the day Elias, closely followed by Kobi and Jimmy. Rangers women were in fine form and earned a 1 - 1 draw, but lost the penalty shoot out 4 - 2. Goal to Dee. Rose player of the day, closely followed by Alex and Katie. 6 September This Saturday Rangers men kick off against Whakatane at 1 pm to try and defend the Sponsors' Cup. Rangers women kick off after that, 3pm against Whakatane for the Brooke Stilgoe Cup, to remember the late and sadly missed ex-Whakatane and NZ player. Both games at Rex Morpeth Park, Whakatane. 1 September Rangers men played out a 1 - 1 draw with Ngongy Lakes. A hard fought battle, probably a fair result. Elias scored the goal and Ronan was player of the day. Here's the report. 30 August Rangers men are fired up ready for their last league game. Ngongy come to visit. They are one point behind Rangers, with a game in hand, so it's a must win for Rangers, who welcome back newly betrothed Hamish to the line-up. A big thankyou to Pete for mowing the pitch after the WDC failed to get it done. Only 50 days till the Phoenix kick off their new season! 27 August Great to see Plains Rangers women in this article on Friends Of Football website. 25 August Coing up soon.... 18 August Rangers women went down 6 - 1 in their last game of the season. Rose was the scorer and Mariah player of the day. Here is the report. 17 August Rangers grabbed a 3 - 2 win at Pap United, with goals to Elias (2) and Elijah. Read the report. 16 August Good turn out from Rangers women at their last training of the season. Go girls, give Te Puke a shake up! Rangers men have their second last game tomorrow, away to Paps United. Last time we lost 3 - 2. Hoping for the reverse tomorrow. 11 August Rangers women ended up with the same scoreline as the men against Papamoa Legends after giving up two goals in the last five minutes. Gemma player of the day, always challenged the visitors. Good to see Dani getting back into action and Jenna talking well to her defenders from the goal. Here's the report. 10 August Rangers men (understrength by about six starting players) made a slow start and the league leaders Waipuna never let them recover. An early goal after half time meant a 3 - 0 score. Alex player of the day. Here's the report. 7 August Plains Rangers players, friends and fans are welcome to join in the Fantasy Premier League for 2024/25. We have a Plains Rangers mini-league. Click on this link and you will be automatically added after you've entered the game ( involves selecting players to form a team). https://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/dlt5io 4 August Rangers men had a dramatic game at Waiariki yesterday. Rangers, despite missing six starting players, came back three times to earn a 3 - 3 draw. Goals to Jesse, Ben and Anaaru. Sione player of the day. Read the report. 2 August Congratulations to the Wilde whanau. Brilliant performance from Hayden for the silver medal! Rangers are proud of you all! 30 July NZ men Olympic team play France tomorrow morning 5am. Unlikely to win, but you never know, a draw might get them through to the next round.. Also tomorrow hopefully Hayden Wilde will get to do his postponed Olympic triathlon. Go Hayden! 28 July Rangers women, missing a few players through illness, came as close as the men did to winning their game. Papamoa Icons held them out for a 0 - 0 draw. Lily player of the day. Here's the report. 27 July Rangers men had a very hard fought, entertaining 0 - 0 draw with Te Puke today. Missing Hamish, Jordan, Teimana and Jimmy meant quite a reshuffle. Hat-trick hero from last week Earle played centre back and was player of the day. Sione almost scored using an unusual part of his body and had to sub off to recover. Ben thought he'd earned a penalty in the last minutes after being tripped going into the box... Te Puke said we'd played their pickers line-up earlier this season, but today's was the pruners! Read the report. Tomorrow morning at 5am the NZ men's football team play USA at the Olympics. Live on Sky. 24 July Olympics football starts tomorrow morning in France. NZ men v Guinea 3am. Sunday NZ women v Canada who had an official arrested for filming part of NZ's training session with a drone last night! They would hardly need to, considering they are the current Olympic champs and we are ranked way below them. 21 July Rangers women echoed the men's result with a win and a clean sheet, 1 - 0 at Wahine Toa Te Puke. Gemma the scorer, Sarah W player of the day. Here's the report. 20 July Rangers men had a sound 4 - 0 win against Taupo today. Earle had family there to see him score a hat-trick. Jesse also scored and a number of people should have but didn't! Last game for Jordan, sadly leaving for Aussie; Hamish, off to support brother Hayden at the Olympics. Best wishes to Teimana who limped away with a knee injury today. Jordan player of the day. A great atmosphere in the clubrooms afterwards with the Edgecumbe and Matata rugby teams there having played their trophy game. Read the report. 14 July Rangers women had a 1 - 0 win today with Sarah Sheaff nabbing the goal and player of the day. Welcome back Dani Howard to the football pitch too! Two wins, two clean sheets for Rangers this weekend! Woohoo! Here's the report. Who will win the Euros tomorrow... Spain or England?? 13 July Rangers men made a lot of the play against Papamoa Rovers, but it took a 30m missile from Kobi at the end of the first half to open the game up. Captain Jimmy scored with a quick free kick to seal the win. The Papamoa keeper made several nice saves to keep the score down. Rangers won 2 - 0. Kobi was player of the day. Here's the report. 7 July Rangers women scored their first goals since May, with Dee getting 2. However Lakes just took the win 3 - 2. Player of the day Jenna. Here's the report. 6 July Rangers men had a good win away at Otumoetai. Teimana with two power headers from corners, then Elias with two penalties in the second half. Teimana player of the day. Here's the report. 2 July Here is the men's report from the weekend. Many thanks Chris. 30 June A good weekend for Rangers, with the men beating Omokoroa Fury 3 - 2 at Trident, thanks to a hat-trick by Elias (player of the day). In a bit of a shock result, Waipuna Rangers got turned over by Waiariki. Rangers women came away from Waiariki with a 0 - 0 draw. Olivia was player of the day day. Check out Ranee's report here. 26 June Excellent conditions for Rangers women's game against Whakatane tonight. Rangers played very well, lost 4 - 0 in the end, should have scored a couple too. Dee was player of the day. Here's the report. 25 June What with the excitement of the Euros, the All Whites currently playing in the Oceania Nations Cup, the looming football at the Olympics, there is also news of the Phoenix's first game of the next season: an Australia Cup fixture away to South Melbourne, who are a powerhouse non-A-League club. It's on August 6, 9.30pm. 22 June Rangers men overturned being behind at half time to come away with a 2 - 1 win at Ngongotaha. Young stand-in keeper Elijah Wetting stood out with his confident play, and was player of the day. Goals to Hamish and Jesse. Read the report. 21 June Rangers women's game has been transferred from Sunday to be played under lights in Whakatane on Wednesday at 6.30pm. Hopefully watching the Euros has inspired our men's team to play some great football against Ngongy tomorrow. 16 June Rangers women lost to league leaders Te Puke today. The 6 - 0 score didn't reflect some great play by our team. Shannon was player of the day. Read the report. 15 June Rangers men couldn't make the most of some good passing, going down 2 - 3 to Papamoa United after taking the lead. Goals to Elias and Ben, Jordan player of the day. Here's the match report. Mackem did a fine job refereeing although he had to ignore some unpleasant comments. Bruce Belcher has some excellent photos of the game. Click here to see them. 12 June Rangers men's fixture on 29 June is now being played at Trident High School, same time 2.30pm 9 June Rangers women turned in a good performance against the higher ranked Papamoa team today, going down 3 - 0 in the end. Player of the day for showing plenty of mongrel was Lauren Powell. Read the write-up. 8 June A full on game full of drama and goals today. Rangers men took the lead three times, but Waipuna won out 5 - 3 in the end. Brilliant goal from player of the day Elias after 58 seconds! Jesse and Elias scored the others. Here's the report. It doesn't mention Sione slapping his opponent's behind or Anaaru being tempted to flatten (even more then he did) one dirty opponent! 27 May Official from the Federation. The June 1st mens fixture with Waipuna is now a combined league AND Miller Cup game on June 8th. The league fixture ends at 90 minutes. But if it's a draw, the penalty shoot out is required for the cup game. 26 May Rangers women held their own well against a decent Tauranga City team. Samantha Stewart was player of the day in a 0 - 4 loss. It wasn't all doom and gloom though. Read the report. 25 May Rangers men played a lot of good football today, but wasted chances meant only a 1 - 1 draw with Waiariki. Towering Tei was the scorer and Ben player of the day. Here's the report. Tonight the A League Grand Final is on at 9.45. Sadly the Nix aren't in it. Central Coast host Melbourne Victory. Later on, the FA Cup Final is the Manchester derby. Should be good! 20 May Neither Rangers team managed to score a goal this weekend despite a number of chances. Rangers men drew 0 - 0 with Te Puke and Rangers women went down 1 - 0 to a Papamoa Icons team that pushed the limits with no official referee in charge. Hamish and Abby were players of the day. Read the reports. (Thanks again Chris and Ranee) 14 May The draws for the BOP Div 1 and 2 leagues came out last night. Juggernauts and Ots Special Reserve were added to the existing Bay One teams. Rangers men are away to Te Puke this Saturday, early kick off. 13 May A great weekend of football! Rangers men and women both won their games 3 - 1 and the Phoenix held Melbourne Victory to a 0 - 0 draw over there in the 1st leg of the semi-final, meaning it'll be a massive game in Wellington this coming Saturday evening for the 2nd leg. 6 May Two drama filled games (red cards, shoot outs ...) saw Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC get through to the A League semi finals against top placed Central Coast Mariners (who also just won the Asian Cup) and the Wellington Phoenix. 5 May Rangers women had a tight game at Otumoetai, earing a 1 - 1 draw via a Sarah Sheaff goal. Dee was player of the day. Here's the report. 4 May Rangers men had a good first half, shooting out to a 3 - 0 lead at halftime at Te Puke, but ended up seeing out the game for a 3 - 2 win. Goals to Earle (2) and Ben. Shane was player of the day. Read the report. 2 May Sadly Adelaide couldn't defeat Central Coast last night, so the Nix end up second, but still, their best ever finish. Massive away and home semi-finals to come. Who against? The first round of play-offs this weekend will determine that. Saturday has Sydney v Macarthur, Sunday has Melbourne Victory v Melb City. 28 April A great result for Rangers men, beating Tauranga City Juggernauts 6 - 5 on penalties after a 1 - 1 draw in ordinary time. Jesse scored after a great square ball from Elias. Well done to all our penalty takers. 6 out of seven. Awesome! Young Ollie Fort held his nerve to score the winning one. Wetts pulled off a strong save to give us the chance. Read the report. 23 April The Miller Cup game between Whakatane's Bay 1 and Bay 3 teams is on tomorrow (Wednesday) evening, 6pm, if anyone is at a loose end. See which one we hope to get drawn to play in the next round! 21 April Rangers women played unbeaten Lakes FC today, going down 5 - 1. Kiahli was the scorer (welcome back!) and Alex player of the day. Read the report. An interesting coincidence, in four of the five games played today, the winning teams scored 5 goals: 5 - 1, 5 - 1, 5 - 1, 5 - 2. 20 April Plains Rangers men grabbed their first win of the season proper, beating Waiariki 2 - 1. A hard fought encounter, ending with a red card to one of the visitors. Eli was the scorer and player of the day. Here's the report. 19 April A gutting draw for the Phoenix. Rufer hit the post with an injury time penalty. Better luck to Plains Rangers tomorrow. Check out our Phoenix pages. 14 April Rangers women had a 1 - 1 draw with Waiariki today. Rose was the scorer and Megan player of the day. Here's the report. It seems that 1 - 1 draws were just meant to be, for Rangers teams this weekend! 13 April Rangers men managed to grab a 1 - 1 draw at Ngongotaha, courtesy of an Eli calm finish. However, the home team had two goals ruled out for offside and squandered several other chances, so Rangers were rather lucky. Player of the day was Anaaru Awhimate. Read the report. 12 April A change of venue for tomorow's men's game at Ngongotaha. Kickoff is now at Jessie Martin Park, Hood Street Ngongotaha, still at 12.30. The game is followed by a Bay Three game Ngongy v Whakatane Reserves. 11 April The Miller Cup draw is out. Rangers men have got Juggernauts at home on April 27. 10 April Nice headline and photo in the Beacon today. Apparently there is more coverage and photos from the Brooke Stilgoe Cup event coming in the paper on Friday. 6 April Rangers men had a tough season opener. Waipuna pounced on an early error by Rangers and kept the pressure on with some slick attacking. Their 0 - 5 half time lead triggered a better second half effort by Rangers, final score 0 - 6. Player of the day Shane. Read the report. 5 April Rangers men kick off their season tomorrow, hosting Waipuna Rangers. The battle of the Rangers! 28 March Big increases in fines for abuse of officials or dissent. $75 if you get a yellow card for either of those reasons or $150 if you get sent off for those reasons. 26 March Women's draw is out. Rangers have.... Whakatane Town on April 7. Here is the draw. And.... Rangers women have a pre-season game against Whakatane under lights in Whakatane tomorrow night (Wed) starting 6pm. 25 March Our men's grading fixtures are out: 22 March The teams in Bay One and Two are now being redone, because of a team pulling out of Bay One. There will now be five weeks of grading games, and then an 8 team Bay One and 10 team Bay Two will be formed. Points will not carry over. Will Rangers end up in Bay One?! The downside is both leagues not get through the double round of home and away fixtures. Bay One might, but Bay Two won't. Luck of the draw as to who you get to play twice! 21 March Rangers men played Whakatane Town reserves under lights in Whakatane tonight. Rangers were keen to don their brand new strip and to do it proud. Early pressure brought about a scramble in the Whakatane goalmouth. Chris Butler whacked the ball into the net with his first touch of the game! A competitive half ensued. The defence limited Whakatane to the odd shot from distance, although Cammy Wills was causing trouble with his quick feet and swift movement. Late in the half Hamish Wilde was unlucky to see his flicked header bounce off the Whakatane crossbar. Rangers had the better of the play in the second half, but sometimes shot for goal too soon, although Alex Boyce was unlucky to see his strike also hit the crossbar. A late Whakatane raid went very close, but Rangers were good for their 0 - 1 win. 18 March If you haven't registered, hurry up!! (Scroll down to 2 March for helpful tips). 17 March Five Rangers players were in Auckland (or will it be renamed Greater Wellington?) for the massive Phoenix win over Sydney FC 2 - 1. The last Nix home game in Auckland. 18002 crowd. Check out our Phoenix pages. The Nix men are back on top of the league again. 14 March Rangers men kicked off their preseason with an evening game against new club Ohope Beach. The Ohope team appear to have been forced to play in the Bay One division, despite being a combination of people who haven't played football for a while, along with several who have. Ex-Rangers defender Jon Barnes lined up to face his old team. Rangers took a while to get their game flowing, but dominated the first half when they did. Elijah Wetting scored with a lovely lofted shot over the keeper. Rangers lost quite a bit of their flow in the second half, with keeper Christian Wetting having to make two excellent saves. However, in the last minute of play, a well weighted shot from 25 metres earned Ohope a 1 - 1 draw. 13 March The Federation have put out three options for the organisation of Bay 1, 2 and 3 men's leagues this season. Clubs have till Monday to tell the federation which is their prefered option. Here they are: 10 March The Nix men lost for the first time this year, although the women won away in Perth. The Nix men have been knocked off the top of the league by Central Coast. 29 March An excellent turn out to our player muster and AGM this evening. Player numbers for both the men's and women's teams are looking strong. Congratulations to Dani Howard who replaces Carl Imlig as vice-president. Christian Wetting and Margaret Nillesen continue their excellent work as President and Secretary-treasurer. Fees have increased a little to cover increases in the levies we are charged by Waibop and NZ Football. Fees need to be paid by the end of May, but preferably earlier. Full subs: $210. Under 19s sub: $110. School students sub: $60. Full or part payments can be made via internet banking to 01-0310-0056958-00 (make sure you reference your name!). If you register, you have to pay the subs. 26 March Reminder... player muster 6pm this Thursday, all welcome (adults, senior high school students). Followed by AGM at 7pm. Women practice runs Wednesdays 6pm. Edgecumbe Domain. 19 Feb Top notch Phoenix performance last night, after storm delay and lots of players injured, beat 3rd placed Macarthur away 2 - 1. Stay 5 points clear at top of table. People are starting to take notice!! 14 Feb Player muster! Roll up!! The Plains Rangers' AGM is on Thursday 29th, 7pm, following a kick about at 6pm. All welcome. Come and have your say about the upcoming season and the running of our club. The usual Thursday kick abouts continue at 6pm too. All Welcome! 10 Feb Crazy story of Nix home match delayed because Western accidentally brought their home kit and our kitman had to drive to Upper Hutt to fetch our yellow strip! (Which most fans would want us to wear anyway!) Another win and our closest rivals getting beaten, opens the lead up at top of the table. Check out our Phoenix pages. 9 Feb Reasonable numbers again at Thursday night's pre-season kick around. Teimana was in great goalscoring form. Earle, coping with being a new dad, managed a run and scored a couple of beauties. Congratulations Earle and partner on baby Slade's arrival. It sounds like Rangers women's team have been productive in the off-season as well. Congratulations to whom it may concern! 4 Feb The Phoenix men remain top of the table after a 1 - 1 draw, and have a massive game against second placed Central Coast on Waitangi Day in Wellington. Mariners are on an 11 game unbreaten streak and are scoring lots of goals. Its a must see, 4pm on Tuesday. 1 February Good numbers at Rangers pre-season kickarounds. Women on Wednesdays 6pm, men Thursdays. All welcome: Adult men, women, senior high school students. 6pm at the Edgecumbe Domain. Tonight's had 13 with lots of apologies, and there were 13 on Wednesday too. 27 January Rangers women had their first run on Wednesday and a decent turn out on Thursday too for the men. A few new recruits, welcome! The Phoenix went clear at the top of the A League tonight with a late win against Newcastle, Polish star Zawada is back! Check out our Phoenix pages. 20 January Exciting Phoenix games with them top of the A League and battling to a 1 - 1 draw away at Victory with only ten men. First kick about for Rangers people this Thursday at 6pm. Casual, fun, all welcome at the Edgecumbe Domain. 8 January 2024 A strange revelation had the Phoenix leading the table going into the New Year, when it was revealed that the A League has changed the customary way of ordering teams when they are equal on points, from goal difference to number of wins. The Melbourne Victory were thought to be on top with the Phoenix second, due to Victory's superior goal difference. Even the A League's official website had it this way. Then a fan questioned it on Twitter (X), quoting from the league's own rulebook. So the Phoenix was reinstated top, due to them having one more win! Crazy stuff! 31 December 2023 Happy New Year football fans, especially the Plains Rangers whanau. Best of luck and congratulations to Ben McPherson, getting married to Shani Rutland today. Have the best day. You'll never forget the wedding anniversary date! 23 December The 12 Pubs of Lochhead YF pub crawl would have been really sweet. First Rudan, who used to coach the Nix and is here with WSW, shouted a round, costing him $870. Then the Nix women win 2 - 0, then the Nix men beat Rudan's team 2 - 0 both goals in stoppage time. Kosta Barbarouses was in fine form, as was keeper Paulsen. The Nix stay top of the league for Christmas! The pub crawl would have been epic for the rest of the night! 18 December After the women frustratingly couldn't win, spurning many chances, the Phoenix men put in a superb performance to go back to the top of the table beating Macarthur 3 - 0 away. Kosta and Kraev the scorers. Ball, Payne and Old were also terrific and Paulsen saved yet another penalty. Check out our Phoenix pages. 2 December The Phoenix men go top of the league with a good 1 - 0 win away to Western United. Ben Old scored the winner, Kosta excellent too. 1 December Sad news that Chloe Knott has left the Nix women's team, citing pay and integrity issues. She even scored the winning goal last weekend. All the best Chloe and her remaining team mates. 25 November A great double header in Auckland today. Matt and Pete were lucky enough to be at Mt Smart to watch. The Phoenix men beat last year's league winners Melb City 1 - 0 with keeper Paulsen saving his second pen of the season, to go temporairly top of the league. The Nix women then beat league leaders Perth Glory 2 - 1 to stay in 3rd place in the standings. 21 November A League football is coming back to Auckland. Auckland is to have its own men's team next season and a women's team the following season. The licence has been bought by billionaire Bill Foley, who already owns several top sports teams including AFC Bournemouth. 19 November Despite a 1 - 0 away loss, the Nix women remain in third on the table. This coming Saturday the Phoenix play a double header at Mt Smart Stadium in Auckland, with the men playing at 4.30pm and the women at 7.15pm. The women host top of the table Perth, while the men host last season's champions Melbourne City. Big games! 12 November The Nix women have now won three in a row. A crazy stat that the same player scored goals for both the men's and women's teams this weekend! The name: Own Goal! Check out our Phoenix pages. 10 November The Nix hold out well for a 1 - 1 draw in Melbourne, despite a number of one-sided refereeing decisions. Mr O.G. was the scorer. 6 November Superb double header in Wellington with the Nix women (2 - 1) then the men (5 - 2) winning against well performing Brisbane Roar. A Zawada hat-trick and a goal on debut for Annalie Longo, which prompted the Yellow Fever into singing a LONGO song based on the BINGO song (There was a farmer had a dog and...). First goal to Tim Payne, a Kraev super goal, Speckmaier cool header... It was a very happy day for the fans, bathed in cool sunshine, shirts off twice! 30 October The Nix win their first home game of the season 2 - 1 against Perth Glory. Ex-Nix keeper Sail gifts Zawada a chance and he lobs it in perfectly. Perth's giant centre back gets a header from a free kick. Lovely team goal finished by Kraev. Young Lukas Kelly-Heald does a silly hand ball at a corner, but Paulsen saves the pen. Excitement plus! 22 October The Phoenix men and women played a double header against Western Sydney in hot 30 degrees conditions. The men defended resolutely to earn a 0 - 0 draw in their season opener. The Nix women were excellent, coming away with a 3 - 0 win with goals to Speckmaier, Fraser and Elliot. 15 October The All Whites played well in a 1 - 1 draw against Congo, after a late Chris Wood penalty. The Phoenix women were allowed visa players for the first time. The Canadian goalkeeper Foster was excellent. The Nix played well, but lost 1 - 0 to the strong Melbourne City team. 12 October Our team photos have been updated, you can check them out on the Player profiles page.
Congratulations to all our winners! Have a look at our Honours Board if you want to check out all our past winners! 17 September With most of Rangers players attention on the Warriors stunning finals series win in the NRL against Newcastle, neighbours Kawerau Town had an excruciating 4 - 3 loss in extra time to Otumoetai Special Reserve in the Miller Bowl final. Ex-Rangers players Teimana and Kirk gave it their all and would be frustrated that Kawerau had a goal disallowed when a push was spotted by the linesperson. 13 September Rangers men took the lead but couldn't knock over league champions TC Juggernauts in their final game of the season on Saturday, going down 2 - 1 in the end. Scorer Hamish, Player of the day Elijah. Read Chris's report. Thanks Chris! 3 September Rangers men couldn't finish their last home game on a high, denied by the crossbar, the sun and some ill luck, losing to Papamoa United 3 - 1. Phil the scorer and Chris player of the day. Here's the report. Rangers breakup is confirmed for October 7th. Put it in your diary!! 28 August Phoenix women start season on Oct 15, men on 22nd. 21 August Rangers women finished their season in style yesterday, a 4 - 1 against Otumoetai. Dani and Ella scored the goals and Dee was player of the day. Here's the report. Reports from the last few games can be found on the links for each game on the Rangers results page. 19 August Rangers men had a day to forget at Otumoetai today. A skilful Otumoetai number 9 created plenty for the home team and looked like he belonged in leagues higher than Bay Two. Rangers went close through Earle and Ollie, but lost 3 - 0. Read the report. 23 July We are back!! A great week for NZ football with the FIFA Women's World Cup starting and New Zealand scoring a brilliant win on Thursday over Norway in front of a record 43000 crowd (including Chris and Lucy Butler). Sadly Rangers men only played twenty minutes of good football on Saturday, ending up losing to Otumoetai 3 - 0. Rangers women though had a good game today with a 2 - 1 against Papamoa Icons. Dani and Danielle were the scorers. Read the reports of both games here. 28 May Rangers women grabbed a cool 1 - 0 win away at Papamoa Icons. Dani Howard scored again, and Dee was player of the day. Here's the report. 27 May Conceeding early goals in both halves cost Rangers men today, going down 2 - 1 to Tauranga City New Blues. A superb bicycle kick goal from Jesse Meadows was Rangers highlight. Isaiah was player of the day. Here's the Report. 20 May Rangers men had a win in a very windy and wet Rotorua against Waiariki. Goals to Phil and Jimmy. Ben McPherson player of the day. Earle and Levi made welcome returns to the pitch. Read the report. 17 May Rangers beat Whakatane Town 1 - 0 last night in a memorable catch-up Miller Cup game under lights in Whakatane, retaining the Sponsors' Cup in the process. Jesse scored the winner, minutes after player of the day Josiah saved a penalty. Here's the report. Some great match photos from Bruce Belcher, click here. 14 May Rangers women put up a good fight in their 2 - 0 loss at Tauranga City. Rose Sinkinson player of the day on debut. Read the reports. 13 May Rangers men fell to a 1 - 0 loss to Otumoetai SR. An unlucky deflection on a shot in the early minutes was the only goal. Player of the day Elijah Wetting. Here's the report. 8 May Well done Rangers women, a fine 4 - 0 win, Rhylee Mahy player of the day, Rangers men had a red card and a 3 - 1 loss. Ben McPherson player of the day. Read the reports! 1st May The Chatham Cup draw is out for the next round. Taupo who knocked us out have a winnable game against Te Awamutu, who are below them in the Northern League Southern Conference. Giant Killers Waipuna from Bay Three have a trip to play Bucklands Beach, who are in the Northern League Northern Conference. Good luck to both teams. These games are on 13 May. 30 April Rangers women suffered with the strong wind, but put up a valiant effort losing 6 - 0 to Te Puke. Ducatti player of the day. Read the report here. It does not mention Dani scoring with a good header into her own goal, outdoing Matt's effort yesterday! 29 April Rangers men suffered a 3 - 1 defeat to Tauranga City Juggernauts. Early goals to the visitors. Elijah scored a good goal and was player of the day. Read the report. Matt's bid for golden boot is not mentioned! The Phoenix are in the finals after a win against Macarthur tonight. Check out our Phoenix pages. 28 April Now sadly Tuesday night's game against Whakatane has been postponed due to the pitch not being marked out. Hopefully it will go ahead the following Tuesday 9th May. 26 April Confirmed. Rangers' postponed Miller Cup game against Whakatane Town will be played on Tuesday 2 May, at 6.30pm under lights in Whakatane. This game was postponed because of Rangers participation in the Chatham Cup. 23 April If you want to see some awesome photos of yesterday's Chatham Cup game, check out Bruce Belcher's flicker album. Also, hearty congratulations to BOP div 3 Waipuna Rangers who beat Pukekohe 2 - 1 in the Cup! 22 April Rangers put in a great defensive shift, keeping Taupo out till a penalty in the second half. A late goal gave the visitors a 2 - 0 win. Player of the day Wetts in goal, closely followed by Hamish and Jon. Here's the report. 20 April A full on crisp training tonight well done everyone. Looking forward to Saturday. If you want to check out the regulations for the Chatham Cup, click here! 19 April Nice item in the Beacon today of Rangers women's friendly with Whakatane. 17 April Rangers men had a tough day out at Papamoa United. Very windy. A 2 - 0 loss. Jon player of the day. Debuts to Jesse Meadows and Ronan Mitchell. Read the report. 4 April The website is back, yay! Sorry to all readers who looked on here for the last month. Computer woes now fixed! Lots to update, which might not come till after Easter, sorry. 19 March Rangers v TCU preseason. Jon good shot from midfield. Phil welcome back from injury pressurized their defence and pounced on an error to score. TCU scored late. Phil and Elijah in good form, midfield duo of Jimmy and Jon passed ball around well. Josiah good in goal. 2 – 1 win. 1 March 17 February The Nix were terrific tonight, beating champs Western United away 3 - 0, which made up for a very poor 5 - 0 loss by the Football Ferns against Portugal earlier. 16 February Plains Rangers AGM called off at the last minute tonight because of a severe electrical storm, heavy rain and hail! AGM to go ahead after training next Thursday, 23rd Feb. Training 6pm. 13 February Rangers men have their first preseason game locked in. Tauranga City Bay 2 team are coming to play Rangers at Edgecumbe on Saturday 25 March. 12.30pm kick off. 10 February Our Thursday evening kick arounds continue. 6 pm at the Edgecumbe Domain. All welcome (male, female, senior high school students). Plains Rangers AGM is after this week's one, at 7.30 in the Edgecumbe Rugby & Sports Club. Come and have your say. The vice-president's position is up for grabs. A big thank you to out going vice-pres Chris Butler for all his work for the club. 30 January Two crazy Phoenix games. Both the men and the women had a centre back sent off for DOGSO in their games. Both teams managed creditable draws despite playing with ten players, in fact the women came from 2 - 0 down and had a 4th goal denied in a late dodgy offside call. Check out our Phoenix pages. See you Thursday! 23 January Thursdays kick arounds continue each week. The council's grass mowing strategies gave us some extra challenges this week. See you again next week, 6pm. Men, women, high school students all welcome. 15 January Another fine win for the Nix men yesterday. Zawada header, Sail three fine saves in goal. Nix women today though, lost 2 - 0 at Perth. A player from each team sent off for fighting! Check out our Nix pages. 13 January Great turn out last night for our kick around. 9 aside. All welcome again next Thursday 6pm. Even if you want to just check us out. Men, women, high school students all welcome. 7 January A fun kick around tonight. Nine people turned up. Next one this Thursday, 6pm. All welcome! 3 January 2023 Happy New Year! Rangers first kick around for the year this Saturday at Edgecumbe Domain, 5pm. All Welcome!! (Includes men, women, teenagers...) See you there! There is lots of fascinating news and trivia from 2019- 22, 2017 - 18, 2015-16, 2013 - 14, 2008 - 2012, 2007-06, 2005, 2004, 2003 and 2002 and beyond. Have a read! |
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