Ivan Vuksich

Ivan Vuksich (born 1948) is a New Zealand association football administrator. He is the chairman of Central United Football Club (1995–present) and also of Auckland City Football Club (2004–present).

Vuksich spent his childhood in Auckland and was educated at St Peter's College (1959–1965) where he played rugby union and cricket.

Central United was formed in 1962 and Auckland City was formed in 2004 after New Zealand Football introduced the new franchise-based ASB Premiership. Under Vuksich's reign Central United has won the national league twice, in 1999 & 2001 and the Chatham Cup five times, in 1997, 1998, 2005, 2007 & 2012. Vuksich has overseen Auckland City claim the ASB Premiership in five of the past ten years - 2004/05, 2005/06, 2006/07, 2008/09 & 2013/14. The club also claimed the Oceania Champions League in 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013 & 2014. They represented the Oceania Confederation at the FIFA Club World Cup in Japan in 2006 and in Abu Dhabi in 2009. The club followed their 6th placing in 2006 by winning two of their three matches at the tournament in 2009, including a 3-2 victory over TP Mazembe (Democratic Republic of the Congo), the champions of the African Confederation, in the 5th place play-off match. No New Zealand side had previously won a match at this tournament and the side's final placing equalled that of Sydney FC (Australia) in 2005 as Oceania's best result at the FIFA Club World Cup. The club returned to Japan again for this tournament as Oceania's representative in 2011 and 2012 where they faced the Japanese Champions Kashiwa Reysol and Sanfrecce Hiroshima respectively in the opening play-off match. The side produced brave performances before going down 0-2 and 0-1 claimeing 7th place on each occasion. In 2013 the tournament was held in Morocco with Auckland City putting up a valiant performance against local champions Raja Casablanca, losing 1-2 to an injury time winning goal.

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