Wellington Phoenix

10 months ago

2025-26 Wellington Phoenix memberships on sale now!

You were with us through every challenge, every chant, and every moment last season. Now it’s time to go again – together. We know last season didn’t deliver the results any of us were hoping for. But through every high...

10 months ago

Phoenix take part in World Refugee Day celebrations in Māngere

The Wellington Phoenix proudly joined the World Refugee Day celebrations held at the Māngere Refugee Resettlement Centre, Te Āhuru Mōwai o Aotearoa, in Auckland on Saturday. The centre is the spiritual home of the Phoenix’s award-winning Football For All community programme. The...

10 months ago

The Nix sign MOU with Blind Low Vision NZ and Lower Hutt City AFC

The Wellington Phoenix have entered into an exciting new partnership with Blind Low Vision New Zealand and Lower Hutt City AFC. The three organisations have joined forces to stage football sessions for members of the blind and low vision community...

10 months ago

Men’s first team staff takes shape

The Wellington Phoenix have appointed Giancarlo Italiano’s first support staff for the 2025-26 Isuzu UTE A-League. Matthew Hastings, Grayson Harwood and Sebastian Bayliss have come on board as the men’s operations manager, head physiotherapist and equipment manager/analyst respectively, while Weijie...

10 months ago

Barbarouses farewells the Phoenix

Kosta Barbarouses has decided to cut short his successful third spell at the Wellington Phoenix. The veteran All Whites forward has turned down his option of a contract extension and has informed the club he intends to play elsewhere next...

10 months ago

Women’s support staff confirmed for 2025-26 season

The Wellington Phoenix have reappointed the women’s backroom staff for the 2025-26 Ninja A-League. Head analyst and assistant coach Tory Schiltgen, goalkeeper coach Nick Stanton, operations and equipment manager Toni West-Luamanu, head physical performance scientist Kieran McMinn and head physiotherapist...

10 months ago

Phoenix farewell men’s staff

Five members of the men’s first team staff are moving on. Assistant coach Adam Griffiths, goalkeeper coach Ruben Parker, second assistant/head analyst Jordi Manning, head physiotherapist Cory Glover and kitman Jack Mapp are finishing up with the Wellington Phoenix following...

10 months ago

Two Nix called up to All Whites for June internationals

Wellington Phoenix captain Alex Rufer and men’s player of the season Kosta Barbarouses have been named in the All Whites squad for next month’s Canadian Shield tournament. New Zealand will play Côte d’Ivoire and Ukraine at BMO Field in Toronto,...

10 months ago

Holmes appointed NZ U-20 women’s coach

The Wellington Phoenix wish to congratulate Callum Holmes on his new role with New Zealand Football. Holmes, who leads our female academy, has been appointed head coach of the New Zealand U-20 women’s side for the next World Cup cycle....

10 months ago

Big Nix presence in NZ U-20 squad

Seven Wellington Phoenix players have been called up to represent the New Zealand men’s U-20 team in Chile next month. Phoenix first team squad members Luke Brooke-Smith, Lukas Kelly-Heald, Xuan Loke, Gabriel Sloane-Rodrigues, Jayden Smith and Luke Supyk, and Fergus...