Goalkeeper Alex Paulsen will start for the All Whites in Monday’s FIFA Series match against Chile at Auckland’s Eden Park.
Head coach Darren Bazeley has also included midfielder Joe Bell in his starting line-up, and given Kosta Barbarouses the job of leading the front line.
The match — part of the four-nation FIFA Series — will be streamed by TVNZ+ and FIFA+ (see links below).
It will also be broadcast on free-to-air channel TVNZ 2.
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New Zealand
12. Alex Paulsen
2. Tim Payne
4. Tyler Bindon
6. Joe Bell
8. Marko Stamenic (captain)
9. Jesse Randall
11. Eli Just
16. Finn Surman
17. Kosta Barbarouses
19. Ben Old
20. Callum McCowatt
Substitutes
Lachlan Bayliss
Andre de Jung
Callan Elliot
James McGarry
Logan Rogerson
Alex Rufer
Ryan Thomas
Bill Tuiluma
Ben Waine
Max Crocombe(gk)
Michael Woud (gk)
Head coach
Darren Bazeley
Chile
12 Lawrence Vigouroux (gk)
21 Ian Garguez
3 Guillermo Maripán
4 Igor Lichnovsky
17 Gabriel Suazo (captain)
6 Vicente Pizarro
8 Felipe Lovola
26 Felipe Faundez
20 Javier Altamirano
11 Dario Osorio
22 Ben Brereton
Substitutes
Thomas Gillier (gk)
23 Sebastián Mella (gk)
5 Iván Román
7 Lautaro Millán Alexander Aravena
10 Lucas Cepeda Benjamín Kuscevic
14 Ignacio Saavedra
15 Benjamin Chandia
16 Gonzalo Tapia
18 Rodrigo Echeverría
19 Maximiliano Gutiérrez
24 Diego Ulloa
25 Felipe Ogaz
Head coach
Nicolás Córdova.
FIFA Series fixtures
Game to be played on Monday March 30, 2026
# Current FIFA world rankings
New Zealand (#85) v Chile (#55)
Eden Park, Auckland, 7pm
This story was first published on March 30, 2026.