ODT Southern Football Premier League
CountryNew Zealand New Zealand
ConfederationOFC (Oceania)
Number of teams10
Level on pyramid3
Promotion toSouthern League
Relegation toDonald Gray Memorial Cup

South Canterbury Division One

Fletcher Cup
Domestic cup(s)Chatham Cup
Current championsMosgiel (2nd title)
(2023)
Most championshipsCaversham (15 titles)
WebsiteFootballSouth

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

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 (2) 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

[2]

Notes

  1. Now known as Dunedin City Royals

References

  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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