1995 New Zealand Superclub League

The 1995 Superclub competition was the third and final season of a nationwide association football club competition in New Zealand. It was won by Waitakere City.

Structure

The competition was divided into three stages. In the first phase three regional round-robin leagues were played, with each team playing every other team home and away. The top teams from this stage progressed to a national league; the bottom teams were relegated to lower regional leagues. The Northern and Southern Leagues each contained ten teams, the Central League contained eleven.

The top eight teams (three from the northern and central regions and two from the southern region) then took part in the national league stage, with each team playing every other team once. Finally, the top four teams played a knockout competition to decide the champion. This involved the top two teams from the national league phase playing each other, and third and fourth place also playing each other. The winner of the match between first and second progressed through to the final; the loser of that match met the winner of the other match to decide the other finalist.

There was considerable reorganisation of the regional leagues at the end of the 1995 season, with several teams withdrawing from the following season's league. This fact, coupled with the clearly reduced standard of play in the national stage of the competition (diluted by the large number of teams involved in the competition) led to the creation of a new interim league, the National Summer Soccer League, which began in 1996.

Regional leagues

Northern League
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Waitakere City (A) 18 15 2 1 76 10 +66 47
2 North Shore United (A) 18 11 4 3 48 20 +28 37
3 Waikato United[lower-alpha 1] (A) 18 11 2 5 47 16 +31 35
4 Ellerslie 18 11 0 7 58 28 +30 33
5 Mount Wellington 18 10 2 6 48 33 +15 32
6 Central United 18 7 4 7 34 30 +4 25
7 Papatoetoe 18 7 1 10 21 52 −31 22
8 Mount Maunganui 18 6 2 10 29 31 −2 20
9 Manurewa 18 2 1 15 15 68 −53 7
10 Mount Albert-Ponsonby (R) 18 0 2 16 9 97 −88 2
Source: [1]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(A) Advance to a further round; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. Waikato United merged with Melville AFC at the end of the season to become Melville United

Central League
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Napier City Rovers (A) 20 16 1 3 66 23 +43 49
2 Miramar Rangers (A) 20 14 3 3 49 31 +18 45
3 Nelson United[lower-alpha 1] (A) 20 13 4 3 47 20 +27 43
4 Wellington United 20 13 0 7 45 24 +21 39
5 Wellington Olympic 20 9 3 8 41 29 +12 30
6 Wanganui East Athletic 20 9 1 10 43 43 0 28
7 Petone 20 5 6 9 21 29 −8 21
8 Lower Hutt City 20 5 4 11 19 30 −11 19
9 Tawa 20 5 4 11 21 42 −21 19
10 Red Sox Manawatu 20 3 4 13 17 50 −33 13
11 New Plymouth Rangers (R) 20 2 2 16 14 62 −48 8
Source: [1]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(A) Advance to a further round; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. Nelson United withdrew from the 1996 competition

Southern League
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Roslyn-Wakari[lower-alpha 1] (A) 18 15 3 0 58 13 +45 48
2 Woolston WMC (A) 18 12 3 3 37 15 +22 39
3 Rangers 18 12 2 4 40 18 +22 38
4 Christchurch Technical 18 11 3 4 54 25 +29 36
5 Dunedin Technical 18 8 3 7 35 23 +12 27
6 Christchurch United 18 8 2 8 25 21 +4 26
7 New Brighton 18 5 2 11 29 46 −17 17
8 Burnside[lower-alpha 1] 18 5 1 12 19 41 −22 16
9 Halswell United 18 3 1 14 20 61 −41 10
10 Cashmere Wanderers (R) 18 0 2 16 9 63 −54 2
Source: [1]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(A) Advance to a further round; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. Both Roslyn-Wakari and Burnside United withdrew from the 1996 regional competition

National League

League table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Waitakere City (A) 7 5 2 0 23 8 +15 17
2 North Shore United (A) 7 3 3 1 15 10 +5 12
3 Waikato United (A) 7 3 2 2 11 8 +3 11
4 Napier City Rovers (A) 7 3 1 3 11 9 +2 10
5 Miramar Rangers 7 3 1 3 11 11 0 10
6 Nelson United 7 3 1 3 10 14 −4 10
7 Roslyn-Wakari 7 1 2 4 10 19 −9 5
8 Woolston WMC 7 1 0 6 9 21 −12 3
Source: [1]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(A) Advance to a further round

Knockout phase

Playoffs
Waitakere City3 – 0North Shore United
Waikato United1 – 0Napier City Rovers
North Shore United1 – 1 (aet)*Waikato United

*Waikato United won 5-4 on penalties

Final
Waitakere City4 – 0Waikato United
Jorgensen, Gray, McClennan, T Edge
Bill McKinlay Park, Auckland

References
  1. "New Zealand 1995".
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