{"id":818095,"date":"2026-07-23T05:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/818095\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T05:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:28:09","slug":"age-group-international-luke-supyk-joins-english-side-gateshead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/818095\/","title":{"rendered":"Age group international Luke Supyk joins English side Gateshead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand age group international Luke Supyk has signed a two-year contract with English club Gateshead.<\/p>\n<p>Supyk (20) landed his deal with the fifth-tier National League club after scoring three goals during a pre-season trial.<\/p>\n<p>His move to the United Kingdom follows his departure from A-League club Wellington Phoenix after the expiry of his three-year professional contract. He had previously been with the Phoenix academy.<\/p>\n<p>Forward Supyk impressed during the trial, scoring in pre-season games against non-league sides Blyth Town, Heaton Stannington and Hebburn Town.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo: Luke Supyk \u2026 \u2018I\u2019m buzzing.\u2019 Photo credit: Gateshead FC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had a few good games under the belt, and I\u2019m just excited to get going for the season and meet all the fans,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/luke-supyk-joins-gateshead-fc-on-two-year-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Supyk told Gateshead\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just tried working my hardest, obviously being a trialist, trying to earn a spot in the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m buzzing for [the first game of the National League season], I can\u2019t wait really. Pre-season games are all good, but the real edge starts when you\u2019re playing a competitive game so I\u2019m looking forward to that first game, definitely.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Wellington-born Supyk played his youth football with South Island clubs Waimakariri United and Nomads United, before joining the Phoenix academy.<\/p>\n<p>Supyk represented New Zealand at the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile and was a member of the title-winning New Zealand side at the 2024 OFC U-19 Men\u2019s Championship.<\/p>\n<p>He made 11 appearances for the Phoenix first team, including one start.<\/p>\n<p>Gateshead finished 18th in the 24-team National League last season but face their next season with new manager Lee Cattermole (38), a former England age group international who played 272 games in the English Premier League for teams including Wigan Athletic and Sunderland.<\/p>\n<p>This story was first published on July 23, 2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsoffootballnz.com\/latest-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More football stories<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand age group international Luke Supyk has signed a two-year contract with English club Gateshead. Supyk (20)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[32406,64,63,596,393925,85,234184],"class_list":["post-818095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-a-league","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-luke-supyk","tag-sports","tag-wellington-phoenix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}