New Zealand national soccer team
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| Nickname(s) | All Whites |
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| Association | New Zealand Football (NZF) |
| Confederation | OFC (Oceania) |
| Head coach | Anthony Hudson |
| Captain | Winston Reid |
| Most caps | Ivan Vicelich (88) |
| Top scorer | Vaughan Coveny (28) |
| Home stadium | Westpac Stadium |
| FIFA code | NZL |
| FIFA ranking | |
| Current | 112  (4 May 2017)
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| Highest | 47 (August 2002) |
| Lowest | 161 (April–May 2016) |
| Elo ranking | |
| Current | 62 (7 May 2017)
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| Highest | 39 (June 1983) |
| Lowest | 95 (September 1997, February 1998) |
| First international | |
 New Zealand 3–1 Australia  (Dunedin, New Zealand; 17 June 1922) |
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| Biggest win | |
New Zealand 13–0 Fiji  (Auckland, New Zealand; 16 August 1981) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
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New Zealand 1–10 Australia (Wellington, New Zealand; 11 July 1936) |
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| World Cup | |
| Appearances | 2 (first in 1982) |
| Best result | Group stage, 1982 and 2010 |
| OFC Nations Cup | |
| Appearances | 10 (first in 1973) |
| Best result | Champions, 1973, 1998, 2002, 2008 and 2016 |
| Confederations Cup | |
| Appearances | 4 (first in 1999) |
| Best result | Group stage, 1999, 2003 and 2009 |
The New Zealand national football team represents New Zealand in international association football. The team is controlled by the governing body for football in New Zealand New Zealand Football (NZF), which is currently a member of the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC). The team's official nickname is the All Whites, being one of many national team nicknames related to the All Blacks.
New Zealand is a five-time OFC champion. The team represented New Zealand at the FIFA World Cup tournaments in 1982 and 2010, and the FIFA Confederations Cup tournaments in 1999, 2003 and 2009.
Because most New Zealand football clubs are semi-professional rather than fully professional, most top New Zealand footballers play abroad for clubs in Europe, the United States, Canada and in the Australian A-League.
New Zealand's first international football match was played in Dunedin at the old Caledonian Ground on 23 July 1904 against a team representing New South Wales. New Zealand lost by the game's only goal, but drew with the same team 3–3 in a game at Athletic Park, Wellington seven days later. The following year the team played a Wellington representative side on 10 June before embarking on a tour of Australia, during which they played eleven representative sides, including three "test matches" against New South Wales. Of these three matches they won one, lost one, and drew one.
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