Club World Cup Fantasy 2025: Auckland City Best Picks, Predicted Line-up and Team Overview

Club World Fantasy 2025 is here! Continuing with our team previews, we take a look at the Auckland City best picks, predicted line-up and team overview.

Knowing how a team could line-up, and their best assets, could be absolutely key for success in Club World Cup Fantasy, so let’s dive in!

Team Overview

Auckland City qualified for the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup by consistently dominating the OFC Champions League. They won the tournament three years in a row – in 2022, 2023, and 2024 – which gave them the most ranking points in Oceania across FIFA’s four-year qualification window. That streak meant no other team in the region could catch them, so they locked in their place well before the 2024 campaign even ended.

This will be Auckland City’s 12th appearance at the Club World Cup, more than any other team from the Oceania region. They’ve been drawn into Group C, where they’ll face some serious competition in Bayern Munich, Benfica, and Boca Juniors.

It is worth highlighting that Auckland City are officially an amateur club, they remain optimistic though. They also go into the next match off the back of four wins in their previous five games. During those games they scored a huge 16 goals, conceded six and kept two clean sheets.

Group and Fixtures

Auckland City face off against FC Bayern München (GER), CA Boca Juniors (ARG), and SL Benfica (POR) in Group C.

They have the following schedule:

• Matchday 1 – Bayern
• Matchday 2 – Benfica
• Matchday 3 – Boca Juniors

Auckland City head into all three of their upcoming matches as huge underdogs. The New Zealand side are set to lose every one of their fixtures and comfortably.

Predicted line-up

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You can check out our Club World Cup Fantasy Ultimate Guide to help prepare you for the upcoming competition.

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Top Picks

There aren’t many convincing options in the Auckland City backline. The fact they are an amateur club suggests that they are very unlikely to keep a clean sheet.

For those convinced, then full-back Adam Mitchell (€4.7m) could be an option. He has shown some attacking threat – scoring two goals this calendar year, but overall still has limited potential.

For those hoping to get lucky and benefit from a potential Auckland City goal then striker and penalty taker Myer Bevan (€5m) is the best of the bunch. Bevan has managed an impressive six goals in his previous five matches. Bevan heads into the Club World Cup in top form.

There we have it, our Auckland City Best Picks, Predicted Line-up and Team Overview. Will you be picking any of their players?