Wellington Phoenix FC Reserves

Wellington Phoenix Reserves

Full name	Wellington Phoenix FC Reserves
Founded	August 2014
Ground	Newtown Park Wellington, New Zealand
Ground Capacity	5,000
Chairman	Rob Morrison
Head Coach	Andy Hedge
League	ASB Premiership
2015–16	7th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Wellington Phoenix FC Reserves is a New Zealand semi-professional football team based in Wellington, New Zealand. They currently serve as the reserve side of the Wellington Phoenix FC of the A-League and compete in the New Zealand Football Championship.

History

From 2010–2013 a Wellington Phoenix reserve side took part in the ASB Phoenix Challenge against ASB Premiership sides, however these games were separate to the main competition.

On 22 August 2014 it was announced that A-League side, Wellington Phoenix, had been granted permission to play a reserve side in the 2014–15 ASB Premiership, the top division for football in New Zealand.^[1] The team made their debut in the competition on 1 November 2014 against Team Wellington. Tyler Boyd scored the first goal in Phoenix Reserves history but that could not prevent them losing 1–2.^[2]

On 2 October 2015 Wellington Phoenix named a Youth Squad to take part in the ASB Youth League.^[3]

2016-17 Squad

Reserves squad

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

No. Position Player GK Oliver Sail GK Keegan Smith DF Jack-Henry Sinclair DF Liam Wood DF Ben Mata DF Luke Johnson DF Luke Tongue DF Sam Philip DF Jake Williams MF Sam Sutton

No. Position Player MF Joe Bell MF Oliver Whyte MF Liberato Cacace MF Willem Ebbinge MF James McGarry MF Sarpreet Singh MF Ruairi Cahill-Fleury FW Max Mata FW Matthew Conroy FW Logan Rogerson

Youth squad

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

No. Position Player GK Keegan Smith GK Washington Bgoni GK Dylan Bennett DF Sam Philip DF Luke Tongue DF Ryosuke Shimizu DF Liam Wood DF Sam Gillespie DF Joel Peterson DF Sean Cooper DF William Gillingham MF Izak Papa

No. Position Player MF Leon van den Hoven MF Billy Jones MF Jacob Anderson MF Oliver Whyte MF Willem Ebbinge MF Eugenio Pizzuto MF Joe Bell MF Ruairi Cahill-Fleury MF Noah Tipene-Clegg FW Merlin Luke-Miny FW Max Mata

Senior team squad

Up to four professional players are eligible to play for the reserves side from this squad. Two under-20 players are also allowed if the reserves side's opposition agrees to their inclusion on match day.^[4]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Glen Moss 2 DF Jacob Tratt 4 MF Roly Bonevacia 5 DF Ryan Lowry 6 DF Dylan Fox 7 MF Gui Finkler 8 MF Alex Rodriguez 9 FW Kosta Barbarouses 10 MF Michael McGlinchey 11 FW Hamish Watson 12 MF Adam Parkhouse 13 DF Marco Rossi

No. Position Player 14 MF Alex Rufer 15 MF James McGarry 16 DF Louis Fenton 17 MF Vince Lia 18 MF Ben Litfin 19 DF Tom Doyle 20 GK Lewis Italiano 21 FW Roy Krishna 22 DF Andrew Durante (captain) 23 MF Matthew Ridenton 24 FW Logan Rogerson (Youth) 99 FW Shane Smeltz

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