Wellington Phoenix Football Club is a professional association football club based inWellington, New Zealand. The club competes in the Football Federation of Australia A-League. Ricki Herbert has been the coach since the club's inclusion in the A-League in July 2007. The current club captain is Andrew Durante who succeeded Ross Aloisi at the start of the 2008–09 season. The club's highest achievement is reaching the A-League Preliminary Final in 2010. That season they had an average attendance of 11,574 including finals.