Napier City Rovers FC

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

Napier City Rovers
Full nameNapier City Rovers
Nickname(s)The Blues
Founded1973 (1973)
GroundBluewater Stadium, Napier, New Zealand
Capacity4,000 (seated)
ChairmanGraeme Sole
ManagerBill Robertson
LeagueCentral League
2023Central League, 3rd of 10
National League, 9th of 10

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
Season Qualifying league League New Zealand National League Chatham
Cup		 Top scorer
P W D L F A GD Pts Pos P W D L F A GD Pts Pos Name Goals
2021 Central League1852113751−14177thCancelled[n 1]3R Kailan Gould11
2022 188463528+7284th 91351423−968th4R Jonathan McNamara9
2023 1810355032+18333rd 92161326−1379th 4R Deri Corfe21

Honours

Performance in OFC competitions
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


Notes
  1. 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
  1. "Competition".
  2. "National League Championship cancelled, new interregional competition announced and Chatham Cup moved to 2022". New Zealand Football.
  3. "Oceania Club Competitions 2000". RSSSF. Retrieved 13 February 2022.


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