Southern Premier League (New Zealand)

This article is about the Southern Football premier leauge. For the men's national regional league, see Southern League (New Zealand).

ODT Southern Football Premier League

Country	New Zealand
Confederation	OFC (Oceania)
Number of clubs	10
Level on pyramid	3
Promotion to	Southern League
Relegation to	Donald Gray Memorial Cup South Canterbury Division One Fletcher Cup
Domestic cup(s)	Chatham Cup
Current champions	Mosgiel (3rd title) (2024)
Most championships	Caversham (15 titles)
Website	Southern Football

The Southern Premier League (known as the ODT Southern Men's Premier League for sponsorship reasons) is a New Zealand association football league competition administered by Southern Football involving clubs from the lower half of the South Island of New Zealand. Five of the clubs are from Dunedin and one each are from Wānaka, Queenstown, Mosgiel, Timaru, and Invercargill.

The league has also previously included an Otago youth development team. There is currently a U-15 Development League that runs alongside the competition.

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 and Dunedin Technical.

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 has the option to play in the Southern League Playoff, a two-leg home and away series against the Mainland Football Playoff winner, else Southern Football could nominate a club to participate in the playoff series. The winner of the Southern League Playoff will be promoted to the Southern League, assuming they will have the correct club licensing before the season starts.

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 (Southland) and South Canterbury Division 1 (South Canterbury) play in a play off for promotion into the Southern Premier League.

ODT Southern Men's Premier League clubs

Dunedin

Mosgiel

Northern Hearts

Queens Park

Queenstown

Green Island

Wanaka

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Location of clubs in the South Island for the 2024 Southern Men's Premier League season

Dunedin City Royals

Otago University

Northern

Roslyn-Wakari

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Location of clubs in Dunedin for the 2024 Southern Men's Premier League season

Teams which contested the 2024 season

Club	Location	Home Ground(s)	2023 season
Dunedin City Royals (2)	Dunedin North, Dunedin	Tahuna Park	8th
Green Island	Green Island, Dunedin	Sunnyvale Park	8th in Southern League (Relegated) 6th in Southern Premier League (Reserves)
Mosgiel	Mosgiel	Memorial Park Ground	1st
Northern	North East Valley, Dunedin	Caledonian Ground	3rd
Northern Hearts	Timaru	Aorangi Park	10th
Otago University	Dunedin North, Dunedin	Dunedin Artificial Turf	7th
Queens Park	Invercargill	Turnbull Thomson Park	5th
Queenstown	Queenstown	Queenstown Events Centre Stadium	9th
Roslyn-Wakari	Kaikorai Valley, Dunedin	Ellis Park	2nd
Wanaka	Wānaka	Wānaka Recreation Centre	4th

(2) — Denotes club's second team, ineligible for promotion to the Southern League

Champions

• 2000 – Caversham
• 2001 – Caversham
• 2002 – Caversham
• 2003 – Roslyn-Wakari
• 2004 – Caversham
• 2005 – Caversham
• 2006 – Caversham
• 2007 – Caversham
• 2008 – Caversham
• 2009 – Caversham
• 2010 – Caversham
• 2011 – Dunedin Technical
• 2012 – Caversham
• 2013 – Dunedin Technical
• 2014 – Caversham
• 2015 – Caversham
• 2016 – Caversham
• 2017 - Caversham
• 2018 - Dunedin Technical
• 2019 - Mosgiel
• 2020 - Green Island
• 2021 - South City Royals
• 2022 - Dunedin City Royals (2)
• 2023 - Mosgiel
• 2024 - Mosgiel

(2) — Denotes club's second team