Napier City Rovers is a football team based in Napier, New Zealand, as of 2024 competing in the Central League.
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| Full name | Napier City Rovers | |
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| Nickname(s) | The Blues | |
| Founded | 1973 | |
| Ground | Bluewater Stadium, Napier, New Zealand | |
| Capacity | 4,000 (seated) | |
| Chairman | Graeme Sole | |
| Manager | Bill Robertson | |
| League | Central League National League | |
| 2024 | Central League, 3rd of 10 | |
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Club history
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The team was founded in 1973 via a merger of Napier Rovers and Napier City.
Napier City Rovers have won New Zealand's premier knockout football competition (the Chatham Cup) five times, in 1985, 1993, 2000, 2002, and 2019 won the old New Zealand National Soccer League in 1989, 1993, 1998, and 2000. They represented New Zealand at the Oceania Club Championship in 2001, finishing third.
The Hawke's Bay region, of which Napier is a part, were represented by Napier City Soccer in the first year of New Zealand's new Football Championship in the summer of 2004, the only region that was not represented by an amalgamated franchise. That changed the following year with the change of name also to Hawke's Bay United. As with all teams making up the new franchises, they continue to compete in local winter football leagues, and also in the Chatham Cup.
Current squad
editSquad for the 2024 Central Premier League[1]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Staff
edit- Head Coach:
Bill Robertson - Assistant Coach: Stephen Hoyle
- Goalkeeper Coach:
Kyle Baxter
Season by season record
edit| Season | Qualifying league | League | New Zealand National League | Chatham Cup |
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| P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | Pos | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | Pos | Name | Goals | ||||
| 2021 | Central League | 18 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 37 | 51 | −14 | 17 | 7th | Cancelled[n 1] | 3R |  Kailan Gould |
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| 2022 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 35 | 28 | +7 | 28 | 4th | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 23 | −9 | 6 | 8th | 4R | Jonathan McNamara |
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| 2023 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 50 | 32 | +18 | 33 | 3rd | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 26 | −13 | 7 | 9th | 4R | Deri Corfe |
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Honours
edit- New Zealand National Soccer League
- Champions (4): 1989, 1993, 1998, 2000.
- Central Premier League
- Champions (3): 2012, 2015, 2018.
Performance in OFC competitions
edit- Oceania Club Championship (1 appearance)[3]
| Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | Position |
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| 2001 | Oceania Club Championship | Group A |  Unitech
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2–0 | 2nd | |
 Laugu United
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 Lotoha'apai
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9–0 | |||||
 Foodtown Warriors Labasa
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4–0 | |||||
 Wollongong Wolves
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0–1 | |||||
| Semi Final |  Tafea
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2–4 | ||||
| 3rd play-off |  Vénus
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3–2 | ||||
Notes
edit- ^ 2021 National League season cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in Northern regions;.[2] Championship played as South Central Series, with the northern clubs missing in the first edition.
References
edit- ^ "Competition".
- ^ "National League Championship cancelled, new interregional competition announced and Chatham Cup moved to 2022". New Zealand Football.
- ^ "Oceania Club Competitions 2000". RSSSF. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
External links
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