New Zealand men's national football team

The New Zealand national football team is the national football team of New Zealand. They are commonly known as the All Whites. In New Zealand, football is often called soccer in spoken English.

New Zealand

Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)	All Whites
Association	New Zealand Football (NZF)
Confederation	OFC (Oceania)
Head coach	Danny Hay
Captain	Winston Reid
Most caps	Ivan Vicelich (88)
Top scorer	Chris Wood (33)
Home stadium	QBE Stadium Westpac Stadium
FIFA code	NZL
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FIFA ranking
Current
Highest	47 (August 2002)
Lowest	161 (April–May 2016)
First international
New Zealand 3–1 Australia (Dunedin, New Zealand; 17 June 1922)
Biggest win
New Zealand 13–0 Fiji (Auckland, New Zealand; 16 August 1981) New Zealand 26–0 American Samoa (Auckland, New Zealand; 6 June 2024) New Zealand 13–0 Samoa (Auckland, New Zealand; 9 October 2024) New Zealand 11–0 New Caledonia (Auckland, New Zealand; 11 November 2024)
Biggest defeat
New Zealand 0–10 Australia (Wellington, New Zealand; 11 July 1936)
World Cup
Appearances	2 (first in 1982)
Best result	Group stage (1982 and 2010)
OFC Nations Cup
Appearances	10 (first in 1973)
Best result	Champions (1973, 1998, 2002, 2008 and 2016)
Confederations Cup
Appearances	4 (first in 1999)
Best result	Group stage, 1999, 2003, 2009 and 2017

FIFA 2010

In the 2010 FIFA world cup, the All whites played in group F, along with Italy, Paraguay and Slovakia. The All Whites played Slovakia to start off with and drew 1-1. The All Whites then played Italy, and surprisingly also drew 1-1, taking all of New Zealand by surprise. NZ then played Paraguay as the deciding match, in this game, Paraguay and New Zealand drew 0-0. This is the first world cup where New Zealand has scored a goal and the first world cup where NZ is undefeated. The All whites have so much help by the fans, Ricki Herbert and Neil Emblen so I would like to celebrate them for all they have done and support.

New Zealand Men's National Football Team Media

• Newzealand australia football 1922.jpg

  New Zealand playing Australia in 1922

• Israel v New Zealand - Ramat Gan, 1989 - Ronny Rosenthal.jpg

  New Zealand playing against Israel during the 1990 FIFA World Cup qualifiers

• Westpac Stadium 14112009.jpg

  New Zealand playing against Bahrain in the 2010 FIFA World Cup inter-confederation play-offs at the Westpac Stadium.

• Russia-New Zeland (13).jpg

  New Zealand playing against Russia in the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup.

• New Zealand playing Australia at home at Eden Park in a match commemorating the rivalry.

• Panorama from the 'White Noise' zone during New Zealand v Peru – 2018 FIFA World Cup inter-confederation play-offs at the Sky Stadium.

• Ivan Vicelich MNZM (cropped).jpg

  Ivan Vicelich is the most capped player in the history of New Zealand with 88 caps.

• 2017 Confederation Cup - MEXNZL - Chris Wood.jpg

  Chris Wood is New Zealand's top scorer with 44 goals.