Napier City Rovers FC

Napier City Rovers

Full name	Napier City Rovers
Nickname(s)	The Blues
Founded	1973; 51 years ago (1973)
Ground	Bluewater Stadium, Napier, New Zealand
Capacity	4,000 (seated)
Chairman	Graeme Sole
Manager	Bill Robertson
League	Central League
2023	Central League, 3rd of 10 National League, 9th of 10
Home colours

Napier City Rovers is a football team based in Napier, New Zealand, as of 2021^[update] competing in the Central Premier League.

Club history

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

Squad for the 2020 Central Premier League^[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  NZL Oscar Mason 2 DF  SOL Iani Lagwai Kalu 3 DF  ENG Liam Schofield 4 DF  NZL Kaeden Atkins 5 DF  NZL Jack Albertini 6 MF  JPN Sho Goto 7 MF  MYA Ta Eh Doe 8 MF  NZL Sam Lack 9 FW  VIR J. C. Mack 10 FW  ENG Deri Corfe 11 FW  ENG Jonathan McNamara

No. Pos. Nation Player 12 MF  NZL Alex Mort 14 MF  NZL Kenny Willox 15 FW  ENG Jim Hoyle 16 DF  ENG Bill Robertson 17 DF  NZL Fergus Neil 18 MF  NZL Tai Barham 19 FW  SOL Andrew Abba 20 MF  NZL Christian Leopard 21 GK  SCO Kyle Baxter 22 DF  NZL Ben Graney

Staff

• Head Coach: Bill Robertson

Season by season record

Honours

• New Zealand National Soccer League
  • Champions (4): 1989, 1993, 1998, 2000.

• Chatham Cup
  • Champions (5): 1985, 1993, 2000, 2002, 2019

• Central Premier League
  • Champions (3): 2012, 2015, 2018.

Performance in OFC competitions

• Oceania Club Championship (1 appearance)^[2]

2000–01 – 3rd Place – Won against AS Vénus 3 – 2 (stage 4 of 4)

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Position
2001	Oceania Club Championship	Group A	Unitech	2–0	2nd
			Laugu United	1–1
			Lotoha'apai	9–0
			Foodtown Warriors Labasa	4–0
			Wollongong Wolves	0–1
		Semi Final	Tafea	2–4
		3rd play-off	Vénus	3–2

References

External links

• Official website
• Ultimate NZ Soccer page

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