{"id":198583,"date":"2025-12-23T20:47:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/198583\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T20:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:47:06","slug":"auckland-fcs-final-a-league-game-of-2025-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/198583\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland FC\u2019s final A-league game of 2025 postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The game will be rescheduled with a date yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe understand that weather and other factors can impact pitch maintenance and repairs, but for Leichhardt Oval to be unplayable and to be given little notice is unacceptable,\u201d APL chair Stephen Conroy said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s frustrating that football has to bear the burden of these pitch management issues. It\u2019s simply not good enough, and our game and our fans deserve better.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need venues, local councils and state governments to invest more into better management and the upgrade of venues to ensure the highest-quality conditions for our players and fans.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will continue to push this across our leagues and support the club for this fixture.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conroy acknowledged the fixture change would \u201cinconvenience many\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor that we apologise. It is imperative that we have the best possible playing surface to ensure quality football, player safety and the most entertaining product for our fans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Auckland FC<\/a> had been due to fly to Sydney on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The game will be rescheduled with a date yet to be confirmed. \u201cWe understand that weather and other…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[836,27500,51,83138,5904,5269,111,139,69,1118,42911,213],"class_list":["post-198583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-836","tag-aleague","tag-auckland","tag-fcs","tag-final","tag-game","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-postponed","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}