| Team | Games | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nelson Suburbs W | 15 | D1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4/15 | 5-12 |
| Dunedin City Royals W | 15 | W1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7/15 | 11-10 |
Computed over each team's finished games before kickoff — see the Games column for the sample behind each row.
Aggregated from 3 finished meetings (2025-05-17 – 2026-07-26) in the GioScore fixtures corpus.
| Date | Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-26 | Dunedin City Royals W | 3-1 | Nelson Suburbs W |
| 2025-08-09 | Nelson Suburbs W | 1-3 | Dunedin City Royals W |
| 2025-05-17 | Dunedin City Royals W | 8-0 | Nelson Suburbs W |
| Team | Pos | Pld | Pts | GD | Form | Form rank | Form vs pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nelson Suburbs W | 7 | 14 | 11 | -17 | DLLDL | 24 | -17 |
| Dunedin City Royals W | 2 | 14 | 28 | 24 | LWWLW | 7 | -5 |
Form rank = league-wide rank by points from the last 5 league games; "Form vs pos" > 0 means over-performing the table.
Figures computed from the GioScore results database · data cutoff: kickoff 2026-08-15
Dunedin City Royals W, 2nd with 28 points, sat 17 points above Nelson Suburbs W (7th, 11). Recent form told a different story for Nelson Suburbs W: only 24th in the league over the last five rounds despite sitting 7th. Against a league average of 2.15 goals per team per game, Nelson Suburbs W ran at 0.79 scored and 2 conceded, Dunedin City Royals W at 2.86 and 1.14.
