Auckland lost only three games all year en route to be the first winners of the New Zealand Football Championship.
Waikato FC came out best of the rest to take the final playoff position in third, despite making a slow start to the season.
Notables among the other teams were Napier City Rovers, who also came back from a slow start to have a chance of making the playoffs in the final week of the season.
By winning the NZFC, Auckland City went on to represent New Zealand in the Oceania Club Championship in Tahiti.
Auckland City would take some consolation from finishing third in their group after defeating the champions of Papua New Guinea, Sobou FC, by 6–1.