Southern Premier League (New Zealand)

ODT Southern Football Premier League
Country	New Zealand
Confederation	OFC (Oceania)
Number of teams	10
Level on pyramid	3
Promotion to	Southern League
Relegation to	Donald Gray Memorial Cup South Canterbury Division One Fletcher Cup
Domestic cup(s)	Chatham Cup
Current champions	Mosgiel (2nd title) ; (2023)
Most championships	Caversham (15 titles)
Website	FootballSouth

The Southern Premier League (known as the ODT Southern Men's Premier League for sponsorship reasons) is a New Zealand association football league competition administered by Southern Football involving clubs from the lower half of the South Island of New Zealand. Five of the clubs are from Dunedin and one each are from Wanaka, Queenstown, Mosgiel, Timaru, and Invercargill.

The league has also previously included an Otago youth development team.

Until 2009, the league was known as the SoccerSouth Premier League. Since the inception of the competition, it has been dominated by Dunedin City Royals and the two predecessor teams which merged to form that club, Caversham AFC and Dunedin Technical.

The league was expanded from eight to ten clubs at the start of the 2022 season, with the addition of teams from Timaru and Invercargill.

As of 2022 the winner of the southern premier league enters to a promotion match against the winner of the Canterbury Premier League. The winner of this match gains a spot in the Southern League.

The team placed last in the Southern Premier League is automatically relegated to its appropriate regional league. The winners of Fletcher Cup (Otago), Donald Gray Memorial Cup (Southland) and South Canterbury Division 1 (South Canterbury) play in a play off for promotion into the Southern Premier League.

ODT Southern Men's Premier League clubs[edit]

Teams due to contest the 2024 season^[1]

Club	Location	Home Ground(s)	2023 season
Dunedin City Royals (2)	Dunedin North, Dunedin	Caledonian Ground	8th
Green Island	Green Island, Dunedin	Sunnyvale Park	6th
Mosgiel	Mosgiel	Memorial Park Ground	1st
Northern	North East Valley, Dunedin	Forrester Park	3rd
Northern Hearts	Timaru	Aorangi Stadium	10th
Otago University	Dunedin North, Dunedin	Dunedin Artificial Turf	7th
Queens Park	Invercargill	Surrey Park	5th
Queenstown Rovers	Queenstown	Queenstown Events Centre Stadium	9th
Roslyn-Wakari	Kaikorai Valley, Dunedin	Ellis Park	2nd
Wanaka	Wānaka	Wanaka Recreation Centre	4th

(2) — Denotes club's second team

Champions[edit]

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2000 – Caversham
2001 – Caversham
2002 – Caversham
2003 – Roslyn-Wakari
2004 – Caversham
2005 – Caversham
2006 – Caversham
2007 – Caversham
2008 – Caversham
2009 – Caversham
2010 – Caversham
2011 – Dunedin Technical
2012 – Caversham
2013 – Dunedin Technical
2014 – Caversham
2015 – Caversham
2016 – Caversham
2017 - Caversham
2018 - Dunedin Technical
2019 - Mosgiel
2020 - Green Island
2021 - South City Royals^[a]
2022 - Dunedin City Royals
2023 - Mosgiel

Notes[edit]

^ Now known as Dunedin City Royals

References[edit]

^ "Southern Football". www.footballsouth.co.nz. New Zealand. Archived from the original on 26 February 2023. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
^ "FootballSouth Honours Board". The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website. Retrieved 3 May 2021.

[3] Now known as Dunedin City Royals

[1] "Southern Football". www.footballsouth.co.nz. New Zealand. Archived from the original on 26 February 2023. Retrieved 5 July 2023.

[2] "FootballSouth Honours Board". The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website. Retrieved 3 May 2021.

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