What a stadium to host our national football team. Rectangle, national colours throughout, and an enclosed roof locks out the weather, amplifies the noise and bottles up the passion. We’re looking forward to bringing active passionate football support kiwi style and you can join us for the weekend.
What makes this more special is the support and passion of The Southern Front supporters’ group and South Island United FC. They have a vision for a passionate football city and selling out that beautiful stadium at the birth of the professional era . We look forward to doing it together for the All Whites as a warm up to the professional era in the city that gave us Sumner, Nelsen, Surman and De Vries.
Saturday:
- Hosted by South Island United and the Southern Front at the United Sports Centre:
- Fan Friendly Game has grown into a mini world cup tournament, register your interest here.
- Post Match Social will have some good food and drink around it too.
Sunday:
- 10:30am Pre Match Event at Drifters – tickets to come.
- ft. World Cup Fan Experience Exhibition – the thoughts and emotions of the fans that created the best ever away support for a NZ team.
- 2:15pm March to Stadium – 300m of road separates Drifters from the stadium. Absolute scenes incoming.
- 3:50pm Anthems and Kick-off
- 6:30pm Back to Drifters for Afters
These flights will get you there cheapest on either Friday night or early Saturday for the full schedule of activities and our Festival of Football. Jump on, let us know, wear your colours and sync in with each other for airport transfers.
The Drifter is friends of The Southern Front and South Island United. We have this beauty of a home to set-up as home base to stay, sleep and for prematch… just 300m from the stadium. We’re processing bookings for Dorm Beds direct so we can group our supporters into Kiwi Rooms. These are at 10% cheaper than an individual bed with FLYINGKIWIS code and 20% cheaper than full price. If you want to book a private room, or a dorm bed in a female room, please go direct to The Drifter and use the code FLYINGKIWIS so they know.
Tickets are absolutely flying for this game. Over 1000 tickets sold in the first day for active New Zealand support. Join the core of The Flying Kiwis support in section 324. With a drum, megaphone, banners and flags, we’re going full passion to support our All Whites.
The core will be in SECTION 324 if you want to join us and full send it.
Get your tickets to Prematch here before they run out.
Traditions set and expectations through the roof. Prematch turns a game of football into an all-dayer. Get in the pub early at the Rambler, connect with others, trade stories, share the passion and crescendo with energy and expectation until we set off for the fan march. Includes an art exhibition of banners by Laken Whitcliffe, and the best pictures and quotes from the World Cup experience. Free Flying Kiwis Coveralls and a flag on a 1m long plastic flagpole which is good for stadium regulations to enter.