1997–98 National Summer Soccer League
The 1997–98 National Summer Soccer League was the third and final season of New Zealand’s nationwide club competition. It was invitation-only, with no promotion or relegation, and Napier City Rovers won the title.
Seven of the teams from 1997 also played this season. Wellington United and Mount Maunganui did not participate in 1997 and were replaced by Mount Wellington, Team Otago, and Lower Hutt City. Woolston WMC did not participate, but Canterbury Woolston represented a composite side.
The season ran from November 1997 to April 1998, with a three-week break from late December to mid-January. The competition had two stages. In the first stage, eleven teams played a home-and-away round-robin. The top three moved to the playoffs, where the second- and third-placed teams played each other, and the winner faced the league’s top team in the final. In 1998 the league abandoned the unusual points system used in 1996 and 1997 in favor of the standard system: three points for a win, one for a draw, and none for a loss.
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