The Southern Football Premier League (known as the ODT Southern Men's Premier League for sponsorship reasons) is a New Zealand

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

league competition administered b
Southern Football
involving clubs from the lower half of the

South Island The South Island, also officially named , is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman ...

of New Zealand. Five of the clubs are from

Dunedin Dunedin ( ; mi, Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region. Its name comes from , the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. Th ...

and one each are from Wanaka, Queenstown,

Mosgiel Mosgiel (Māori: ''Te Konika o te Matamata'') is an urban satellite of Dunedin in Otago, New Zealand, fifteen kilometres west of the city's centre. Since the re-organisation of New Zealand local government in 1989 it has been inside the Dunedin ...

Timaru Timaru (; mi, Te Tihi-o-Maru) is a port city in the southern Canterbury Region of New Zealand, located southwest of Christchurch and about northeast of Dunedin on the eastern Pacific coast of the South Island. The Timaru urban area is home to ...

, and

Invercargill Invercargill ( , mi, Waihōpai is the southernmost and westernmost city in New Zealand, and one of the southernmost cities in the world. It is the commercial centre of the Southland region. The city lies in the heart of the wide expanse ...

. The league has also previously included an Otago youth development team. Until 2009, the league was known as the SoccerSouth Premier League. Since the inception of the competition, it has been dominated by Dunedin City Royals and the two predecessor teams which merged to form that club,

Caversham AFC Caversham is an association football club based in Dunedin, New Zealand. They compete in the ODT FootballSouth Premier League. They are named for the suburb of Caversham to the southwest of Dunedin's city centre, best known for its former int ...

and

Dunedin Technical Dunedin Technical (known locally as Tech) is a semi-professional association football club in Dunedin, New Zealand. They compete in the ODT FootballSouth Premier League and were the 2018 ODT FootballSouth Premier League champions. Club histor ...

. The league was expanded from eight to ten clubs at the start of the 2022 season, with the addition of teams from Timaru and Invercargill. As of 2022 the winner of the southern premier league enters to a promotion match against the winner of the Canterbury Premier League. The winner of this match gains a spot in the Southern League. The team placed last in the Southern Premier League Is automatically relegated to its appropriate regional league. The winners of Fletcher Cup (Otago),

Donald Gray Memorial Cup The Donald Gray Memorial Cup is the premier men's football competition in Southland, New Zealand. It sits below the FootballSouth Premier League The Southern Football Premier League (known as the ODT Southern Men's Premier League for spo ...

(Southland) and South Canterbury Division 1 (South Canterbury) play in a play off for a Promotion Into the Southern Football Premier League.

ODT Southern Men's Premier League clubs

Teams due to contest the 2022 season (2) — Denotes club's second team

Champions

*2000 – Caversham *2001 – Caversham *2002 – Caversham *2003 –

Roslyn-Wakari Roslyn-Wakari Association Football Club is an association football club based in Dunedin, New Zealand. They compete in the FootballSouth Premier League. History The club's history began in 1888 when the Wakari Football Association first playe ...

*2004 – Caversham *2005 – Caversham *2006 – Caversham *2007 – Caversham *2008 – Caversham *2009 – Caversham *2010 – Caversham *2011 –

*2012 – Caversham *2013 –

*2014 – Caversham *2015 – Caversham *2016 – Caversham *2017 - Caversham *2018 -

*2019 -

*2020 - Green Island *2021 - South City Royals *2022 - Dunedin City Royals

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