Victoria Esson is returning to Aotearoa after a successful seven seasons in Europe. The Football Ferns goalkeeper has signed with the Wellington Phoenix for the 2025-26 Ninja A-League season. Esson, 34, has spent the past three seasons at Rangers FC...
The Wellington Phoenix have made another statement signing in the Ninja A-League off-season. The Phoenix have signed former Dutch international Tessel Middag, joining Dominican Republic captain Lucía León and American defender Ellie Walker as the women’s first three new additions...
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...
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...
The Wellington Phoenix have made Ellie Walker their second visa signing for the 2025-26 Ninja A-League season. The American, 25, spent last season at SC Braga, helping them qualify for the UEFA Champions League with a third-place finish in the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...