{"id":442758,"date":"2026-05-24T08:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T08:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/442758\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T08:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T08:52:14","slug":"a-league-champions-auckland-fc-take-over-queen-st-in-jubilant-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/442758\/","title":{"rendered":"A-League champions Auckland FC take over Queen St in jubilant scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Auckland FC players have jubilantly taken the A-League trophy in an open-top bus down Queen St to celebrate big win last night.<\/p>\n<p>Fans lined the route to cheer them on as the team were taken from Aotea Square to Britomart at 11:30am. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/fans-line-up-in-commercial-bay-to-celebrate-auckland-fc-win-FEENRKS2QNEJHPGZZKQZ2WHC7E.jpg\" alt=\"Fans line up in Commercial Bay to celebrate Auckland FC win.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Fans line up in Commercial Bay to celebrate Auckland FC win. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p>Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown earlier urged fans to turn out and celebrate a special moment for Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>The team, dressed in champion T-shirts, appeared to have been celebrating through the morning, if not overnight.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/auckland-fc-players-parade-in-open-top-bus-XDYSQYTGWVHLBEOZHRT2QPEOGA.jpg\" alt=\"Auckland FC players parade in open-top bus.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Auckland FC players parade in open-top bus. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p>One of the team members held the trophy aloft, to the cheers of supporters along the road.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds teemed along the main street, which was closed to other traffic, behind the bus as it headed to Britomart.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/auckland-fc-player-waves-trophy-at-fans-CBY4H674P5FCPCN5W55OVIEBYM.jpg\" alt=\"Auckland FC player waves trophy at fans.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Auckland FC player waves trophy at fans. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p>At Takutai Square, outside Britomart Station, delighted fans cheered, while clamouring onto vantage points for a view of the trophy and their  heroes.<\/p>\n<p>Auckland beat Sydney FC 1-0 at a sold-out Go Media Stadium on Saturday night, becoming the first New Zealand team to win an A-League grand final.<\/p>\n<p>The club&#8217;s inaugural signing Cameron Howieson scored the only goal in the 60th minute and claimed the Joe Marston Medal,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Auckland FC players have jubilantly taken the A-League trophy in an open-top bus down Queen St to celebrate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73757,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-442758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-auckland-fc","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442758","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=442758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}