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Wellington Phoenix
Logo
Full nameWellington Phoenix Football Club
Nickname(s)The Nix
Founded2007
GroundWestpac Stadium
Capacity34,500[1]
ChairmanNew Zealand Rob Morrison
CoachScotland Ernie Merrick
LeagueA-League
2012–1310th (League)
DNQ (Finals)
Websitehttp://www.wellingtonphoenix.com/
Current season

Wellington Phoenix Football Club is a professional association football club based in Wellington, New Zealand. The Phoenix compete in the Football Federation of Australia's A-League. The club is notable for competing in a league of a different confederation (AFC) than that of the country where it is based (OFC). Ernie Merrick is the head coach following the resignation of founding coach Ricki Herbert late in the 2012–13 season. Andrew Durante has been the club captain since the 2008-09 season. The club's highest achievement is reaching the A-League Preliminary Final in 2010. The Phoenix play their home games at the Westpac Stadium, which is colloquially known as "The Cake Tin".

History

Foundation

During the later stages of the 2006–07 season, the Football Federation of Australia (FFA) removed the New Zealand Knights' (NZK) A-League licence due to the club's financial and administrative problems and poor on-field performance. After the resignation of the NZK board, FFA transferred the licence to New Zealand Soccer (NZS; now New Zealand Football), which administered the club for the rest of the season before its subsequent dissolution.

FFA then provided NZS a provisional A-League licence to sub-let to a suitable New Zealand team to enter the A-League 2007–08 season. The FFA set an application deadline to NZS and subsequently delayed that deadline to give more time for potential applicants in New Zealand to apply along with NZS support.

While NZS was given a chance to apply with a new sub-licencee, a Townsville-based consortium, Tropical Football Australia (TFA) also expressed interest and prepared an A-League application to replace the place previously held by the Knights.[2] However, TFA eventually pulled out with the understanding of the FFA's preference to retain a New Zealand team for the league. TFA later resubmitted its bid in the following year as a potential A-League expansion franchise under the name of "Northern Thunder FC", which was later changed to "North Queensland Thunder",[3] however this bid died after expansion for the 2007–08 season was cancelled.

After much delay, the final amount needed for the application came from Wellington property businessman Terry Serepisos in the last moments of the bid, giving much relief to the New Zealand football fans. Serepisos, the club's majority owner and chairman, provided NZD $1,000,000[citation needed] to ensure the beginnings of a new New Zealand franchise and a continuation of New Zealand's participation in the A-League. FFA finalised a three-year A-League licence to New Zealand Football who then sub-let the licence to the Wellington-based franchise.[4] The Wellington franchise was confirmed on 19 March 2007.

The name for the new club was picked from a shortlist of six, pruned from 250 names suggested by the public, and was announced on 28 March 2007.[5][6] Serepisos said of the name: "It symbolises the fresh start, the rising from the ashes, and the incredible Wellington support that has come out".[7]

Despite the backing of FIFA, AFC president Mohammed Bin Hammam has stated that due to AFC criteria the Wellington team must move to Australia or disband by 2011.[8] However in an interview aired on SBS on 21 December 2008 FIFA president Sepp Blatter stated unequivocally that "It is not the matter of the Confederation, it is the matter of the FIFA Executive Committee... If Wellington will go on play on in Australian League, then as long as Australian league wants to have them and Wellington wants to stay (and) Both association in this case, New Zealand Soccer and Australian Football are happy with that then we will give them the blessing. The Confederation can not interfere with that.".[9] This happens in other leagues, for example Welsh team Swansea City A.F.C. play in the English Premier League.

On 20 April 2010, the FFA granted the Phoenix a 5-year licence extension, keeping it in the competition until at least the conclusion of the 2015–16 season.[10]

Rise of the Phoenix

In the 2009–10 season the Phoenix became the first ever New Zealand side to reach the playoffs of an Australian Football competition when Adelaide United beat Brisbane Roar 2–0 in the 26th round. It meant that Brisbane, which before the match was the only team that was outside of the top 6 that had a chance of making the playoffs, no longer could. The Phoenix overcame the Central Coast Mariners on Friday the 12 February 2010 to finish fourth place which meant it would host a historic playoff game against Perth Glory on 21 February 2010. The Phoenix beat Perth by penalty shootout (4–2) after it was 1–1 after 120 minutes (90 plus 30 extra time). Phoenix then hosted a home game against Newcastle Jets on 7 March after the Jets won its away game against Gold Coast by way of penalty shootout (5–6). The Phoenix won in extra time 3–1 after it was 1–1 after 90 minutes.

In the Preliminary Final against Sydney FC, the Phoenix lost 4–2 in controversial circumstances. After being locked at 1–1 through goals from Chris Payne for Sydney and Andrew Durante for Wellington, Payne apparently missed a header and deflected the ball into the goal off his hand. Andrew Durante, who was marking Payne went straight over to the linesman, but the goal stood. "I went straight to the linesman. I knew 100 per cent it was handball. I spoke to the ref at halftime about it and he said it wasn't deliberate. It's pretty funny that one. Such a big game and such a big occasion, for something like that to change the game is very disappointing." Sydney FC strikers Alex Brosque and Mark Bridge both scored break-away goals as the Phoenix pushed forward. Eugene Dadi then added a late consolation goal. Phoenix striker Chris Greenacre said that it changed the dynamics of the game. "It just rips the heart out of you. We got back in the game with a good goal and that takes it away from you. It wasn't to be. I think we were right back in it. They played some good football but I thought we had withstood it OK. If we went into halftime [at 1–1] we were really confident we could get something out of it." Coach Ricki Herbert echoed those statements. The loss brought the end to the Phoenix's season, meaning that Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC would compete in the Grand Final.

On 20 April 2010, the FFA granted the Phoenix a 5-year license extension, keeping it in the competition until at least the conclusion of the 2015–16 season.[10]

Many argue Wellington's ability to play in the A-League has been instrumental to the progress of the New Zealand national side, the All Whites, and the wider football landscape.[11]

Change of Ownership

Prior to the 2011/12 season it emerged that Serepisos was experiencing financial difficulties, both personally and in the property empire. This included highly-publicised action by the Inland Revenue Department to liquidate a number of Serepisos' companies for unpaid taxes, including Century City Football Ltd, the club Serepisos owned the Phoenix through.[12]

Initially Serepisos claimed he had obtained finance through Swiss-based lenders, then announced he had agreed to a deal with Western Gulf Advisory, the Bahrain-based lender owned by Racing Santander owner Ahsan Ali Syed which would see 50% of the club sold. However these funds were never received and the partial transfer never took place.

While the liquidation action was resolved through an unnamed third-party Serepisos' financial troubles did not end. Despite this he stated he would not give up ownership of the club. Additional stories also emerged that coach Ricki Herbert was personally owed $100,000 in unpaid wages by the club.

However, on 23 September 2011, it was announced by Serepisos and the FFA that Serepisos had relinquished ownership of the club as a result of his ongoing financial difficulties. The clubs license was passed by the FFA to a new consortium of seven Wellington businessman headed by Rob Morrison and including Gareth Morgan.[13]

Change of Head Coach

On 26 February 2013, with the Phoenix sitting in last place, Ricki Herbert resigned from the position of Head Coach.[14] The Phoenix had endured a poor run of results in a season where they were expected to be challenging for the title.[15] Assistant Coach Chris Greenacre took the reins on an interim basis for the remainder of the season. Following a 'worldwide search', Ernie Merrick was announced as the new Head Coach on 20 May 2013. [16] Merrick had 6 successful years at the Melbourne Victory, and this A-League experience was seen as important. Merrick will once again become the most experienced A-League coach in the coming season, retaking this from Herbert who passed him towards the end of the 2012-13 season. [17] Greenacre was retained by Merrick as the Assistant Coach.[18]

Playing kit

The general consensus among Phoenix fans was for a kit featuring yellow and black vertical stripes, however this format did not comply with the A-League template required by Reebok at the time Phoenix was admitted into the League. Instead, players wore a predominantly black strip with yellow and white trim for the first two seasons.[19] When Reebok lifted constraints on kit designs in 2009, Phoenix adopted yellow and black vertical stripes. The Phoenix currently have a four-year contract with adidas, and the 2011/12 kit retains the stripes on the front, but has a solid yellow back. The badge is a shield depicting a rising phoenix.

The team's current kit sponsors are Sony (front of kit, and below number on back), TAB (sleeve), Export 33 (front of shorts), Revera (back of shorts) and Nova Energy (back of shirt).


 

2007 Pre-Season
2007–09 Home
2007–09 Away
2009–11 Home
2009–11 Away
2011–13 Home
2011–13 Away
2011–12 Special

Players

First team squad

As of 18 June 2013.[20]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK New Zealand NZL Glen Moss
2 DF Malta MLT Manny Muscat
7 MF New Zealand NZL Leo Bertos
8 FW Barbados BRB Paul Ifill
10 FW Belgium BEL Stein Huysegems
12 FW New Zealand NZL Tyler Boyd (Youth)
14 DF New Zealand NZL Ian Hogg
15 DF New Zealand NZL Cameron Lindsay (Youth)
No. Pos. Nation Player
16 MF New Zealand NZL Louis Fenton (Youth)
17 MF Australia AUS Vince Lia
18 DF New Zealand NZL Ben Sigmund (Vice Captain)
22 DF New Zealand NZL Andrew Durante (Captain)
29 MF New Zealand NZL Luke Rowe
–– GK Australia AUS Lewis Italiano
–– MF Costa Rica CRC Carlos Hernández

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
5 DF New Zealand NZL Michael Boxall (on loan to Oakleigh Cannons until August 2013)
No. Pos. Nation Player
11 FW New Zealand NZL Jeremy Brockie (on loan to Toronto FC until August 2013)

Reserve squad

Football School of Excellence players[21]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
29 DF New Zealand NZL Luke Rowe
30 GK New Zealand NZL Scott Basalaj
31 MF New Zealand NZL Tom Biss
32 MF New Zealand NZL Justin Gulley
No. Pos. Nation Player
35 MF New Zealand NZL Hamish Watson
36 DF New Zealand NZL Alec Solomons
39 MF Germany GER Tobias Bertsch

Internationally Capped Players

Player Country Caps Goals Years Active
Glen Moss New Zealand New Zealand 21 (0) 2006–
Manny Muscat Malta Malta 8 (0) 2009-
Tony Lochhead New Zealand New Zealand 43 (1) 2003-
Michael Boxall New Zealand New Zealand 7 (0) 2011-
Leo Bertos New Zealand New Zealand 52 (0) 2003–
Paul Ifill Barbados Barbados 10 (6) 2004–2008
Benjamin Totori Solomon Islands Solomon Islands 22 (14) 2007–
Stein Huysegems Belgium Belgium 15 (0) 2004–2009
Jeremy Brockie New Zealand New Zealand 34 (0) 2006–
Ian Hogg New Zealand New Zealand 6 (1) 2012-
Cameron Lindsay New Zealand New Zealand 1 (0) 2013-
Ben Sigmund New Zealand New Zealand 29 (2) 2000-
Andrew Durante New Zealand New Zealand 1 (0) 2013–
Luke Rowe New Zealand New Zealand 1 (0) 2013
Carlos Hernández Costa Rica Costa Rica 36 (7) 2004–

Former players

see List of Wellington Phoenix FC players

Club officials

Ricki Herbert, who managed the Wellington Phoenix since the clubs formation in 2007 to the year 2013.

Board of directors

As of 31 May 2012.[22]
Position Name
Chairman Rob Morrison
Board member Cameron Harland
Board member Kerry Prendergast
Board member Gareth Morgan
Board member Noah Hickey
Board member Mark Chote
Board member Campbell Gower

Coaching staff

Position Name
First Team coach Scotland Ernie Merrick[23]
Assistant coach England Chris Greenacre[24]
Strength and conditioning coach England Ed Baranowski[25]
Goalkeeping coach Scotland Jonathan Gould[26]

Medical staff

Position Name
Physiotherapist Wayne Roberts[27]
Masseur Dene Carroll

Club senior staff

As of 10 July 2012.[28][29]
Position Name
General Manager David Dome
Executive Assistant Lynsey Greenacre
Head of Commercial Operations Vacant
Events and Ticketing Manager Lizzie Cummings
Football Operations Manager Mal Impiombato
Media Manager Russell Gray
Community Development Officer Alida Shanks

End of season awards

See also: List of Wellington Phoenix FC End of Season Awards
Season Sony
Player of the Year 		Members'
Player of the Year 		Players'
Player of the Year 		Media
Player of the Year 		Under-23
Player of the Year 		Golden Boot Lloyd Morrison Spirit of the Phoenix Award
2007–08 New Zealand Shane Smeltz New Zealand Shane Smeltz New Zealand Shane Smeltz New Zealand Shane Smeltz not awarded New Zealand Shane Smeltz Award established in 2012-13 season
2008–09 New Zealand Leo Bertos New Zealand Ben Sigmund New Zealand Shane Smeltz New Zealand Shane Smeltz New Zealand Shane Smeltz
2009–10 Australia Andrew Durante Barbados Paul Ifill Barbados Paul Ifill Barbados Paul Ifill Australia Troy Hearfield Barbados Paul Ifill
2010–11 New Zealand Ben Sigmund Malta Manny Muscat Malta Manny Muscat New Zealand Marco Rojas New Zealand Marco Rojas England Chris Greenacre
2011–12 New Zealand Ben Sigmund New Zealand Ben Sigmund New Zealand Ben Sigmund New Zealand Ben Sigmund not awarded Barbados Paul Ifill
2012–13 New Zealand Andrew Durante not awarded New Zealand Jeremy Brockie not awarded New Zealand Louis Fenton New Zealand Jeremy Brockie New Zealand Ben Sigmund

Stadium

Main article: Westpac Stadium
Westpac Stadium
Ring of Fire
View from the stands of Westpac Stadium.
LocationWellington, New Zealand
OwnerWellington Regional Stadium Trust
OperatorWellington Regional Stadium Trust
Capacity34,500
Construction
Broke ground12 March 1998
Opened3 January 2000
Construction cost$130 million NZD
ArchitectArchitecture Warren & Mahoney Ltd Populous (then Bligh Lobb Sports Architecture)

Wellington Phoenix FC have played most of its home matches at the Westpac Stadium (referred to as the 'Ring of Fire' by fans). The Stadium has a capacity of 34,500.[1] Field dimensions: length (North to South) 235 metres, width (West to East) 185 metres. The NZD$130 million stadium was built in 1999 by Fletcher Construction and is situated close to major transport facilities (such as Wellington Railway Station) one kilometre north of the central business district.

The location of the Stadium near the Wellington Railway Station is a huge convenience since fans can catch the train and be walking distance from the Stadium. The Stadium is owned and operated by Wellington Regional Stadium Trust. It is built on surplus-to-requirements reclaimed railway land on the waterfront.

Home fans sit in the southern and western areas of the stadium, while away fans sit to the north.

In the 2009–2010 A-league season, Wellington Phoenix FC played two home games away from Westpac Stadium, the first at FMG Stadium in Palmerston North, the second at AMI Stadium in Christchurch. The two games were key to Wellington Phoenix expanding their fan base in New Zealand. This was followed by playing a game in Auckland at Eden Park in front of 20,078 attendees during the 2011–2012 A-league season.

The Phoenix trains at Newtown Park, on a ground that was specially redeveloped in 2008 and separate to the playing pitch. This ground is shared with NZFC franchise, Team Wellington.

Supporters

Wellington Phoenix has built a strong fan-base in Wellington, across New Zealand and amongst New Zealanders in Australia.

Home attendance

Crowd at the first game of the season, August 2007.

Yellow Fever

The Wellington Phoenix FC supporters club, calling itself "The Yellow Fever", was founded a day after Wellington's winning bid for the A-League slot was announced.[30] Yellow Fever founder Mike Greene met with the founder of New Zealand cricket supporter group the Beige Brigade to get ideas of how to get the group started.[31] The name was originally chosen on the assumption that the new Wellington-based team would play in a yellow playing strip (yellow being the dominant sporting colour of the region). Although the eventual strip is primarily black, Yellow Fever elected to retain the name. As such, many Yellow Fever members wear yellow to fixtures as opposed to black, such as the popular "Retro Ricki" t-shirt. The Phoenix have since moved to a predominantly Yellow strip.

A Phoenix fan in Algeria

The "Fever Zone" occupied by Yellow Fever members are the rows between Aisles 21 and 22. Although Westpac Stadium is an all-seater facility, most Yellow Fever members choose to stand in front of their seat – similar to terrace seating traditions in British football.

Yellow Fever is creating many traditions of its own. If the Phoenix is winning at the 80th minute mark members remove their supporter shirts.[32] Yellow Fever members also traditionally wear black and yellow Santa hats in the last match before Christmas. Also for the last home game before Christmas, the Yellow Fever organise a pub crawl, entitled 'The 12 pubs of Lochhead' after defender Tony Lochhead. Participants visit twelve pubs, beginning with Four Kings bar and finishing at the Backbencher bar.

Many Yellow Fever members have also lent their support to other football fixtures in Wellington and New Zealand, mostly notably the NZFC's Team Wellington and the New Zealand national football team (known as the "All Whites"), for which Yellow Fever temporarily rebranded itself as "White Noise".[33] Yellow Fever also lent its support to the New Zealand women's national under-17 football team during the 2008 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, held in New Zealand.

The Yellow Fever website, YellowFever.co.nz, has evolved into a community page for New Zealand football in general. The site publishes non-Phoenix news involving football at local and national levels, as well as information on all New Zealand national teams and footballers. The site, as of 29 January 2010, had 5,795 registered users.

The Yellow Fever supporters are considered to have one of the strongest relationship with their club in the A-League due to their ongoing Youth Scholarship and Charity initiatives.[citation needed]

The official podcast of Yellow Fever, 'In the Zone', is hosted by Guy Smith, produced by Dale Warburton, and features David Cross and Evald Subasic as panellists. Regularly claimed to be New Zealand's number on football podcast, the weekly recording often includes a guest interview and covers the Wellington Phoenix in the A-league, the All Whites and other national teams, New Zealanders playing overseas, the ASB Premiership, and local club football, including the Chatham Cup.[34]

Youth scholarship initiative

Yellow Fever is the first supporters club in the A-League to organise and sponsor an annual footballing scholarship.

The "Retro Ricki Youth Scholarship" is awarded annually to a promising young New Zealand footballer. Nominations for the scholarship are made by Yellow Fever members and the recipient is chosen by the Yellow Fever executive and Wellington Phoenix staff. The recipient receives a trial with the Phoenix, as well as travel and accommodation costs.[35]

Charity initiatives

Yellow Fever members have also combined charity campaigns with their support of the Phoenix, with supporters selling bandannas in the club colours every year as part of the youth-cancer charity CanTeen's "Bandanna Day" fundraiser.[37] Yellow Fever members have also notably participated in the Movember movement since 2007, leading to the club itself participating as of 2008,[38] and other Australian A-League clubs following suit in 2009.[39]

In 2010, Yellow Fever, The Dominion Post and local sportswear chain RYOS teamed up to release the "LifeFlight Shirt", a white t-shirt emblazoned with pictures of Phoenix players sent into the Dominion Post as part of a competition. 25% of the proceeds from the sale of these t-shirts were donated to the LifeFlight air ambulance service.[40]

Rivalries

Main article: The Distance Derby

Statistics

See also: Wellington Phoenix records and statistics and results by opposition

Current as of Sydney FC v Wellington Phoenix, 19 January 2013

Results by season

Regular season Finals
Season P W D L F A GD Pts Teams League Pos. P W D L F A GD Finals Pos.
2007–08 21 5 5 11 25 37 −12 20 8 8th Did not qualify
2008–09 21 7 5 9 23 31 −8 26 8 6th
2009–10 27 10 10 7 37 29 +8 40 10 4th 3 1 1 1 6 6 0 3rd
2010–11 30 12 5 13 39 41 −2 41 11 6th 1 0 0 1 0 1 −1 6th
2011–12 27 12 4 11 34 32 +2 40 10 4th 2 1 0 1 5 5 0 4th
2012–13 27 7 6 14 31 49 −18 27 10 10th Did not qualify
Wellington Phoenix Pre-Season Cup History
Season P W D L F A Position
2007 3 1 0 2 4 4 Group Stage
2008 3 (4) 2 1 0 (1) 5 3 Runner-up

Records

  • Biggest league victory: 6 – 0 v Template:ALeague GC, 25 October 2009
  • Biggest league defeat: 7 – 1 v Sydney FC, 19 January 2013
  • Most wins in a row: 4 matches; 15 January 2012 – 12 February 2012
  • Most losses in a row: 4 matches; 5 October 2007 – 28 October 2007

Firsts

Appearances

Goal scorers

Honours

Domestic

International

Minor Trohpies

ASB Phoenix Challenge

  • Winners (1): 2012

All-time match record

A-League results

Club Pld W D L GF GA GD
Template:ALeague AU 17 4 5 8 16 32 −16
Template:ALeague BR 16 2 5 9 15 28 −13
Template:ALeague CCM 16 5 2 9 12 18 −6
Template:ALeague GCU 9 4 3 2 15 9 +6
Template:ALeague MH 7 2 3 2 10 8 +2
Template:ALeague MV 17 2 6 9 17 34 −17
Template:ALeague NUJ 17 12 1 4 36 14 +22
Template:ALeague NQF 6 3 3 0 11 5 +6
Template:ALeague PG 18 7 4 7 23 18 +5
Template:ALeague SFC 17 8 1 8 25 28 −3
Total 140 50 33 57 180 192 −12

Further reading

See also

References

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