2019 National Women's League (New Zealand) Explained

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Season:	2019
Winners:	Canterbury United Pride
Matches:	42
Total Goals:	150
League Topscorer:	Emma Rolston (10)
Biggest Home Win:	Capital 8-0 WaiBOP (28 October 2019)
Biggest Away Win:	WaiBOP 0–5 Canterbury United Pride (6 October 2019) WaiBOP 0–5 Capital (26 October 2019)
Highest Scoring:	Southern United 5–5 Northern Lights (29 September 2019)
Longest Wins:	Canterbury United Pride (4 games)
Longest Unbeaten:	Northern Lights (13 games)
Longest Winless:	Central (12 games)
Longest Losses:	Central (11 games)
Updated:	15 December 2019

The 2019 National Women's League was the seventeenth season of the NWL, New Zealand's top level women's football league since its establishment in 2002. Seven teams were involved in this season representing the different regions in New Zealand. This was the second year that the league played two rounds, with the two highest-placed sides progressing to a one-off grand final. The season also featured a double header round over Labour weekend, in which all sides except Central played two matches over the weekend.^[1]

Teams

Team	Location	Ground	Coach
		Allen Hill Stadium	Shane Verma^[2]
		McLennan Park	Nic Downes
			Nico Girard^[3]
			Barry Scullion^[4]
			Natalie Lawrence^[5]
			Alana Gunn^[6]
			Nick Pierce^[7]

Regular season

League table

• Round 13 match between WaiBOP and Northern Lights was abandoned at half-time with the score 0-0
  

• • Round 13 match between Central and Capital was postponed due to inclement weather and road closures. Was not played and declared a 0–0 draw

Fixtures and results

New Zealand women's football league matches took place from September to December 2019 and for the second year running, included a double header round over the Labour weekend.^[8]

Round 1

Bye: Northern Lights

Round 2

Bye: Auckland

Round 3

Bye: Canterbury United

Round 4

Bye: Capital

Round 5

Bye: Southern United

Round 6

Bye: WaiBOP

Round 7 (Double Header Week)

Bye: Central

Round 8

Bye: Northern Lights

Round 9

Bye: Auckland

Round 10

Bye: Canterbury United

Round 11

Bye: Capital

Round 12

Bye: WaiBOP

Round 13

Bye: Southern United

• Match abandoned at half-time with the score 0-0
  

• • Postponed due to inclement weather and road closures. Not going to be played so declared a 0–0 draw

Statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Emma Rolston	Capital Football	10
2	Britney-Lee Nicholson	Canterbury United Pride	9
3	Britney Cunningham-Lee	Auckland Football	7
	Gabi Rennie	Canterbury United Pride
5	Amy Hislop	Southern United	6
6	Kelli Brown	Northern Lights	5
	Nicola Dominikovich	Canterbury United Pride
	Chloe Knott	Northern Lights
	Ava Pritchard	Northern Lights
	Steph Skilton	Auckland Football
11	Ruby Anderson	Southern United	4
	Renee Bacon	Southern United
	Kelsey Wilkinson	Capital Football

Hat-tricks

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Draw released for National Women's League. 13 August 2019. New Zealand Football. 15 August 2019.
2. Web site: Verma ready to Light-Up National Women's League . Northern Football Federation . 5 August 2019 .
3. Web site: Girard takes WaiBOP NWL helm . WaiBOP Football . 15 August 2019 . 30 July 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190730142147/http://www.waibopfootball.co.nz/newsarticle/78642 . dead .
4. Web site: Central Football announce NWL Head Coach . Central Football . 15 July 2019 . 13 October 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201013165600/http://www.centralfootball.co.nz/newsarticle/79390 . dead .
5. Web site: Lawrence to lead Capital Football National Women's League Team . Capital Football . 24 July 2019 . 13 October 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201013165600/http://www.capitalfootball.org.nz/newsarticle/79791 . dead .
6. Web site: 2019 Pride Staff . Mainland Football . 15 August 2019 . 11 August 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190811074414/http://www.mainlandfootball.co.nz/REPRESENTATIVE-1/PRIDE . dead .
7. News: Southern United Women's - The Team . 15 August 2019 . Southern United .
8. Web site: 2019 National Women's League Draw. New Zealand Football. 15 August 2019.
9. Web site: Pride big winners over double header . . 1 November 2019 . 31 October 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191031205434/https://www.nzfootball.co.nz/newsarticle/83715 . dead .