Football enthusiasts have enjoyed a day of banter, golf and friendship at Friends of Football’s tenth annual charity golf day.
The 2025 event was held at Huapai Golf Club beside Auckland’s Coatesville-Riverhead Highway in November 2025.
Teams of four competed for the Bill MacGowan Memorial Trophy and an array of prizes, as well as supporting our work through raffles and an auction.
Proceeds from the day support Friends of Football’s efforts to back projects and activities that benefit the game in New Zealand.
Winners of the golf event were a team made up of Andrew Marck, Yong Min Lee, Matthew Thomas and Rieny Marck.
Rieny Marck also won our prize for being closest to the pin, while Matthew Thomas won the prize for the longest drive.
Main photo: The winning team receive the Bill MacGowan Memorial Trophy from Trish MacGowan.
Photo gallery
Some of our teams. Please click on image to open to full size.
Sponsors
We thank our 2025 sponsors who included:
Those who helped make it possible
Friends of Football acknowledges all those who sponsored, supported or donated goods/services to our event, including All Birds, Altura Coffee, Auckland FC, Back to your Feet Physiotherapy, Dynasty Sport, Eagle Technologies/Duane Eagle, Giltraps North Shore, Golf NZ, Huapai Golf Club, Mae Richmond, Mark Matthews, NZ Breakers, NZ Football, Soccer United, The Clubroom, The Fieldhouse, The Northern Union, Tim Brown, Titirangi Golf Club, Waiuku Golf Club.
Remembering Bill MacGowan
Our trophy for the winning team is named after the late Bill MacGowan, one of New Zealand sport’s best administrators, who died in 2018.
With the help of Bill’s wife, Trish, we introduced the trophy in his name for our 2019 golf day.
We’re proud to celebrate the memory of Bill MacGowan again this year.
Previous winners
2024: The Northern Union Bill MacGowan team won the 2024 event.
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2023: Barfoot & Thompson were the 2023 winners of the Bill MacGowan Memorial Trophy.
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2022: 2JC Electrical were the 2022 winners.
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2021: 90s Waitakere City won the trophy in 2021.
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This story was first published on December 16, 2025.
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