title: List of New Zealand Knights FC players
text: # List of New Zealand Knights FC players
  
  New Zealand Knights Football Club was a New Zealand professional football club based in Auckland. The club was formed in 2004, and played their first competitive match in July 2005 when they participated in the 2005 A-League Pre-Season Challenge Cup. The club played its home matches at North Harbour Stadium. The Knights was dissolved in 2007, following two seasons of football.
  
  New Zealand Knights' record appearance-maker was Darren Bazeley, with 47 appearances over 2 seasons, ahead of Noah Hickey with 43.
  
  ## List of players
  
  * Appearances and goals are for first-team competitive matches only, including A-League and Pre-Season Challenge Cup matches.
  * Players are listed according to the date of their first team debut for the club.
  
  ### Table headers
  
  * Nationality – If a player played international football, the country/countries he played for are shown. Otherwise, the player's nationality is given as their country of birth.
  * New Zealand Knights career – The year of the player's first appearance for New Zealand Knights to the year of his last appearance.
  * Starts – The number of games started.
  * Sub – The number of games played as a substitute.
  * Total – The total number of games played, both as a starter and as a substitute.
  
  Position key :
  
  | GK | Goalkeeper |
  | - | - |
  | DF | Defender |
  | MF | Midfielder |
  | FW | Forward |
  | U | Utility player |
  
  List of New Zealand Knights FC players :
  
  | Name | Nationality | Position | New Zealand Knights career | Starts | Subs | Total | Goals |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Ref |||
  | Ronnie Bull | England | DF | 2005 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
  | Ben Collett | England | MF | 2005–2006 | 18 | 3 | 21 | 0 |
  | Sean Devine | Ireland | FW | 2005–2006 | 23 | 10 | 33 | 3 |
  | Neil Emblen | England | MF | 2005–2007 | 34 | 3 | 37 | 3 |
  | Steve Fitzsimmons | Australia | U | 2005 | 11 | 3 | 14 | 1 |
  | Danny Hay | New Zealand | DF | 2005 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
  | Danny Milosevic | Australia | GK | 2005–2006 | 23 | 0 | 23 | 0 |
  | Joshua Rose | Australia | DF | 2005–2006 | 12 | 3 | 15 | 1 |
  | John Tambouras | Australia | DF | 2005–2007 | 21 | 3 | 24 | 1 |
  | Cole Tinkler | New Zealand | DF | 2005–2006 | 11 | 2 | 13 | 0 |
  | Simon Yeo | England | FW | 2005 | 11 | 1 | 12 | 4 |
  | Noah Hickey | New Zealand | MF | 2005–2007 | 36 | 7 | 43 | 2 |
  | Zhang Xiaobin | China | MF | 2005–2006 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 1 |
  | Glen Moss | New Zealand | GK | 2005–2006 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 0 |
  | Frank van Eijs | Netherlands | DF | 2005–2006 | 15 | 0 | 15 | 0 |
  | Jeremy Brockie | New Zealand | FW | 2005–2006 | 9 | 5 | 14 | 4 |
  | Josh Maguire | Australia | MF | 2005–2006 | 8 | 6 | 14 | 0 |
  | Darren Bazeley | England | DF | 2005–2007 | 45 | 2 | 47 | 1 |
  | Jeremy Christie | New Zealand | U | 2005–2006 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 1 |
  | Zenon Caravella | Australia | MF | 2005–2006 | 20 | 1 | 21 | 0 |
  | Naoki Imaya | Japan | U | 2005–2006 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 0 |
  | Kris Bright | New Zealand | FW | 2005–2006 | 9 | 3 | 12 | 0 |
  | Sam Jasper | New Zealand | MF | 2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
  | Malik Buari | England | MF | 2006–2007 | 19 | 6 | 25 | 2 |
  | Che Bunce | New Zealand | DF | 2006–2007 | 22 | 0 | 22 | 1 |
  | Scot Gemmill | Scotland | MF | 2006–2007 | 14 | 4 | 18 | 0 |
  | Sime Kovacevic | Australia | DF | 2006 | 15 | 2 | 17 | 0 |
  | Jonti Richter | Australia | FW | 2006–2007 | 17 | 7 | 24 | 1 |
  | Jonas Salley | Ivory Coast | MF | 2006–2007 | 15 | 0 | 15 | 0 |
  | Michael Turnbull | Australia | GK | 2006 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
  | Michael White | New Zealand | U | 2006–2007 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 0 |
  | Grégory Duruz | Switzerland | DF | 2006 | 15 | 1 | 16 | 0 |
  | Adam Casey | Australia | FW | 2006 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 0 |
  | Dani Rodrigues | Portugal | MF | 2006 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 1 |
  | Richard Johnson | Australia | MF | 2006–2007 | 19 | 1 | 20 | 0 |
  | Ivan Necevski | Australia | GK | 2006 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
  | Franco Parisi | Australia | FW | 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
  | Campbell Banks | New Zealand | FW | 2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
  | Hamza Mohammed | Ghana | MF | 2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
  | Fernando de Moraes | Australia | MF | 2006 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
  | Dustin Wells | Australia | MF | 2006 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
  | Alen Marcina | Canada | FW | 2006–2007 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 2 |
  | Mark Paston | New Zealand | GK | 2006–2007 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
  | Dean Gordon | England | DF | 2006–2007 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
  | Gao Leilei | China | MF | 2006–2007 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
  | Jeff Fleming | New Zealand | MF | 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
  | Steven O'Dor | Australia | DF | 2006–2007 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
  | Li Yan | China | MF | 2006–2007 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
  
  ## Club captains
  
  Two players held the position of captain of the New Zealand Knights between 2005 and 2007. The first club captain was Danny Hay, who led the side in 2005. The longest-serving captain was Darren Bazeley, who was captain from 2005 to 2007 after taking over from Hay.
  
  | Dates | Name | Notes |
  | - | - | - |
  | 2005 | Danny Hay | |
  | 2005–2007 | Darren Bazeley | Longest-serving captain in Knights' history |
  