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The Lotto Sport Italia
Lotto Sport Italia
Lotto Sport Italia is an Italian sports apparel manufacturer. Its products are now distributed in more than 60 countries.-History:Lotto was established in 1973 by the Caberlotto family in Montebelluna, northern Italy, the world centre of footwear manufacturing. In June 1973, Lotto made its debut...

NRFL Division 2 is a New Zealand Association football (soccer) semi-professional

Semi-professional

A semi-professional athlete is one who is paid to play and thus is not an amateur, but for whom sport is not a full-time occupation, generally because the level of pay is too low to make a reasonable living based solely upon that source, thus making the athlete not a full professional...

status league competition that is run by the Auckland Football Federation and includes soccer clubs located in the northern part of the North Island

North Island

The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the much less populous South Island by Cook Strait. The island is in area, making it the world's 14th-largest island...

, New Zealand

New Zealand

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. It is open to clubs from the Northland, Auckland

Auckland Region

The Auckland Region was one of the sixteen regions of New Zealand, named for the city of Auckland, the country's largest urban area. With one third of the nation's residents, it was by far the biggest population and economy of any region of New Zealand, but the second-smallest land area.On 1...

, Waikato

Waikato

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and Bay of Plenty

Bay of Plenty

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provinces. The promoted clubs go to the Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Division 1
Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Division 1
The Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Division 1 is a New Zealand Association football semi-professional status league competition that is run by the Auckland Football Federation and includes soccer clubs located in the northern part of the North Island, New Zealand...

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Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Division 2 Clubs – 2012

Matamata Swifts
Matamata Swifts
Matamata Swifts AFC is a semi-professional association football club in Matamata, New Zealand.Matamata Swifts currently compete in the Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Division 1.-History:...
Mangere United
Mangere United
Mangere United is a semi-professional football club in Mangere, Auckland, New Zealand. It is a member of No.2 District Federation of NZ Soccer and plays in the Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Division 2.-History:...

(Mangere
Mangere
Māngere is one of the larger suburbs in South Auckland, in northern New Zealand.The suburb is located on flat land at the northeastern shore of the Manukau Harbour, to the northwest of the centre of Manukau city and 15 kilometres south of Auckland city centre...

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Tauranga City United
Tauranga City United
Tauranga City United AFC is a semi-professional football club in Tauranga, New Zealand. They compete in the Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Division 2.It was formed in 2000 from a merger of Tauranga City F.C. and Mount Maunganui F.C.-Club history:...

(Tauranga City
Tauranga
Tauranga is the most populous city in the Bay of Plenty region, in the North Island of New Zealand.It was settled by Europeans in the early 19th century and was constituted as a city in 1963...

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Hibiscus Coast AFC
Hibiscus Coast AFC
Hibiscus Coast A.F.C is a semi-professional football club from Whangaparaoa Peninsula, New Zealand. They compete in the Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Division 2.Their home ground is at Stanmore Bay Park in the Hibiscus Coast region....

(Whangaparaoa Peninsula
Whangaparaoa Peninsula
Whangaparaoa Peninsula is a peninsula and suburban area, around 25 km north of Auckland, New Zealand. Part of Rodney District, as of 2006, it had 22,788 residents, many of them in the eponymous town of Whangaparaoa on its southern side.-Geography:...

)
Waiuku AFC
Waiuku AFC
Waiuku AFC is a semi-professional football club in Waiuku, New Zealand.Waiuku currently compete in the Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Division 2.-External links:**...

(Waiuku
Waiuku
Waiuku is a country town in the Franklin District, in the North Island of New Zealand. It is located at the southern end of the Waiuku River, which is an estuarial arm of the Manukau Harbour...

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Western Springs AFC (Western Springs
Western Springs
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Fencibles United
Fencibles United
Fencibles United AFC is a semi-professional association football club and one of the largest soccer clubs in New Zealand. They compete in the Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Division 2.The club is based in Howick/Pakuranga, Auckland...

(Howick
Howick
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/Pakuranga)
North Shore United
North Shore United
North Shore United is a semi-professional football club based in North Shore, Auckland, New Zealand. They compete in the Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Division 2.Their home ground, Allen Hill Stadium, is located in the suburb of Devonport.-History:...

(North Shore City)
Papakura City FC (Papakura
Papakura
The Papakura District was the name of a local council territory in New Zealand's Auckland Region that existed from 1989 until 2010. The area made up the southernmost part of the Auckland metropolitan area....

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Manukau City AFC
Warkworth AFC
Warkworth AFC
Warkworth AFC or Warkworth Jennian for sponsorship purposes is a semi-professional association football club in the Warkworth, New Zealand. They are currently competing in the Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Division 2 and are the Champions of the 2010 US1 Premiership season.-References:1. -External...

(Warkworth
Warkworth, New Zealand
Warkworth is a town in the upper North Island of New Zealand, within the Rodney District and lying at the far north of the Auckland Region but just south of the Northland Region...

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Onehunga Mangere United

_{Source: Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Division 2

(C)=Regular season champions
(P)=Regular season promoted clubs}

Overview

HOW THE 2010 SEASON WORKED! - At completion of championship round, the Div 2 winners contest play-offs with the teams placed 7th & 8th in Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Divs 1A & 1B

Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Division 1

The Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Division 1 is a New Zealand Association football semi-professional status league competition that is run by the Auckland Football Federation and includes soccer clubs located in the northern part of the North Island, New Zealand...

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The top two from this series contest the 2011 Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Division 1

Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Division 1

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The bottom three contest the 2011 Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Division Second Division, along with the teams placed 2nd to 9th in Div 2.

The bottom-placed team in Div 2 risks relegation from the Lotto Sport Italia NRFL pyramid structure.

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