The Team Taranaki concept was adopted and introduced in 2003. The concept which was signed off by all twelve senior men football clubs enabled Taranaki to have a senior representative football side playing its football outside of the province.

 This concept is aimed to provide elite football opportunities to all players who want to achieve and play the best possible standard without having to leave the province. 

As a composite side, all players that make up the Team Taranaki squad must be affiliated to one of the senior men clubs and are released to train and play for Team Taranaki. Those players not selected are released back to their home club each week.

The initial twelve clubs that signed the agreement to form Team Taranaki is now nine clubs. The nine being; Hawera, Kaponga, Eltham, Inglewood, Moturoa, Peringa, New Plymouth Rangers and the two school teams of Francis Douglas and New Plymouth Boys High. These nine clubs comprise of twenty-four senior men’s teams plus a number of women’s teams and junior sides of all ages.

In 2006 Team Taranaki won the Central Federation league and then the promotion – relegation play-off series which took them for the first time into the Central League.

In 2010 the team were relegated from the Central League to the Central Federation League and then in early 2011 the Central Federation League was cancelled due to the lack of team entries, leaving Team Taranaki no option but to play in the Central Western Premiership.