New Zealand Football chairman Frank van Hattum is stepping down after five and a half years in the role.
Van Hattum will also leave the NZF board on which he has served as an elected member since 2006, due to increased commitments in his day job as BP's General Manager of Retail and Assets.
The former All White goalkeeper will officially resign at the NZF board meeting in February, at which the board will elect a new chair.
Van Hattum will continue to serve on the board until the sport's annual congress in May, when a replacement will be elected to take over the rest of his term.
Making a clean break from football governance for the time being at least, van Hattum also plans to transition out of roles on the Local Organising Committee for the 2015 FIFA Under-20 World Cup, Oceania Football Confederation's Executive Committee and a New Zealand Football Foundation trustee.
