WaiBOP Football, also known as Waikato Bay of Plenty Football, is one of six federations of

New Zealand Football New Zealand Football () is the governing body for the sport of association football in New Zealand. It oversees the seven New Zealand Football federations, as well as the New Zealand men's national football team (nicknamed the "All Whites"), th ...

, representing regions of

Bay of Plenty The Bay of Plenty () is a large bight (geography), bight along the northern coast of New Zealand's North Island. It stretches from the Coromandel Peninsula in the west to Cape Runaway in the east. Called ''Te Moana-a-Toitehuatahi'' (the Ocean ...

Rotorua Rotorua () is a city in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand's North Island. It is sited on the southern shores of Lake Rotorua, from which it takes its name. It is the seat of the Rotorua Lakes District, a territorial authorities of New Zea ...

Taupō Taupō (), sometimes written Taupo, is a town located in the central North Island of New Zealand. It is situated on the edge of Lake Taupō, which is the largest freshwater lake in New Zealand. Taupō was constituted as a borough in 1953. It h ...

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Coromandel Coromandel may refer to: Places India *Coromandel Coast, India ** Presidency of Coromandel and Bengal Settlements **Dutch Coromandel * Coromandel, KGF, Karnataka, India New Zealand *Coromandel, New Zealand, a town on the Coromandel Peninsula *Cor ...

and

Waikato The Waikato () is a region of the upper North Island of New Zealand. It covers the Waikato District, Waipā District, Matamata-Piako District, South Waikato District and Hamilton City, as well as Hauraki, Coromandel Peninsula, the nort ...

History

Waikato/B.O.P. was founded in 2002, to represent the region for the

New Zealand Women's National League The New Zealand Women's National League, known as the Dettol Women's National League for sponsorship reasons (and formerly the National Women's League), is the top-level professional women's football (soccer) league in New Zealand. The teams w ...

from its inaugural season in 2002 until 2019. In 2021, the Northern franchise teams was replaced for more of a club based competition, causing the WaiBOP United is dissolve.

WaiBOP United WaiBOP United (known as Waikato FC until 2013) was a football club based in Hamilton, New Zealand. The club was founded in 2004 and disbanded in 2016 and played in the ASB Premiership. WaiBOP United played their home fixtures at John Kerkhof ...

was founded in 2004 as a conglomerate of various Waikato area clubs, in order to form a strong regional franchise team, and WaiBOP United was one of the eight competing teams. In 2016, WaiBOP United disbanded at the end of the season.

Competitions

Leagues * Men's Leagues ** Northern League **

NRFL Championship The Northern Regional Football League Championship, currently known as Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Championship for sponsorship reasons, is a semi-professional New Zealand association football league competition. Up until 2022, the competition was kn ...

** NRFL Conference Southern ** WaiBOP League One * Women's Leagues **

NRFL Women's Premiership The Northern Regional Football League Women's Premiership, currently known as Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Women's Premiership for sponsorship reasons, is a semi-professional New Zealand association football league competition. Up until 2022, the comp ...

NRFL Women's Championship The Northern Regional Football League Women's Championship, currently known as Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Women's Championship for sponsorship reasons, is a semi-professional New Zealand association football league competition. The league began in 1 ...

** WaiBOP W-League Note: Northern League and NRF League includes teams from the

Northern Region Football The Northern Region Football (NRF) is an association football organisation, responsible for local growth and development of the game from Northland to South Auckland South Auckland ( or ) is one of the major geographical regions of Auc ...

Federation, with the Northern League being a National competition run by New Zealand Football and managed by Northern Region Football.

History

Competitions

Current title holders

Affiliated clubs

See also

References