{"id":847537,"date":"2026-08-08T03:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/847537\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T03:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:50:09","slug":"live-auckland-fc-womens-xi-v-chelsea-women-football-exhibition-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/847537\/","title":{"rendered":"Live: Auckland FC Women’s XI v Chelsea Women football exhibition match"},"content":{"rendered":"

Follow all the football action as the Auckland FC Women’s XI take on Chelsea for their exhibition match at Eden Park.<\/p>\n

Irrespective of the result on the scoreboard, Auckland FC’s first foray into women’s football could be pivotal in the careers of the women invited to take part.<\/p>\n

An Auckland FC Invitational XI side<\/a> made up of international stars, local club footballers, A-League stalwarts and professionals looking for their next contract have come together in unusual circumstances.<\/p>\n

With 10 days of preparation, the squad wearing Auckland FC colours will play eight-time WSL champions Chelsea FC Women at Eden Park.<\/p>\n

This will be the first time a Women’s Super League club has played in New Zealand.<\/p>\n

It is an exhibition match that in many ways should not be happening. The A-League club do not have a women’s side and will not for a couple of seasons yet. They will be the ‘away’ side when they take the field.<\/p>\n

Follow all the action in our live blog above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow all the football action as the Auckland FC Women’s XI take on Chelsea for their exhibition match…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-847537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847537","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=847537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}