1967 Chatham Cup
Tournament details
Venue(s)Basin Reserve, Wellington
Dates2 September 1967
Final positions
ChampionsNorth Shore United (4th title)
Runner-upChristchurch City

The 1967 Chatham Cup was the 40th annual nationwide knockout football competition in New Zealand.

The competition was run on a regional basis, with 17 regional associations holding separate qualification rounds. The winners of each of these qualification tournaments, along with the second-placed team from Auckland, qualified for the competition proper. In all, 95 teams took part in the competition, 32 from the South Island and 63 from the North Island. Note: Different sources record different numbers for the rounds of this competition, with some confusion caused by differing numbers of rounds in regional qualification.

The 1967 final

North Shore United returned to the final, this time with former international Ken Armstrong as coach. In the final they met Christchurch City - soon to change its name to Christchurch United, a recently amalgamated team featuring players who had previously been with several strong southern sides, among them future internationals Terry Haydon and Tony Gowans. The game was an exciting one. The Christchurch side dominated for the entire first half, but a combination of missed chances, the woodwork, a disallowed goal, and heroics from Shore keeper Dennis Mack kept the first half scoreless. In the second spell, Billy Rimmer scored for the Aucklanders early but the lead was soon cancelled out by a strike from Haydon. A late penalty for City was missed by Gowans, and Shore made the most of their chance by stealing a late winner through Ian Campbell.[1]

Results

Third round

Blockhouse Bay3 – 0Lynndale (Auckland)
Dunedin HSOB3 – 0Caversham
Eastern Union (Gisborne)3 – 2Riverina (Wairoa)
Hungaria (Wellington)3 – 0Johnson Villa (Wellington)
Maori Hill (Dunedin)2 – 1Saint Kilda
Miramar Rangers2 – 1Stop Out (Lower Hutt)
Northern (Dunedin)5 – 2Mosgiel
Petone3 – 3¶Western Suburbs FC (Wellington)
Papatoetoe6 – 1Massey Rovers
Queens Park (Invercargill)6 – 0Old Boys (Invercargill)
Shirley-Nomads2 – 1Rangers (Christchurch)
Waterside (Wellington)5 – 2Lower Hutt City
Western (Christchurch)7 – 0Christchurch Celtic

* Won by Suburbs on toss of coin
† Won by North Shore on corners
¶ Won by Western Suburbs on corners

Fourth round

Dunedin HSOB1 – 0Maori Hill
Eastern Union (Gisborne)3 – 1Blockhouse Bay
Invercargill Thistle3 – 2Invercargill United
Waterside (Wellington)3 – 0Petone
Western Suburbs FC (Wellington)12 – 1Masterton Athletic
Whangarei8 – 0Kamo Swifts

Fifth round

Eastern Union2 – 0Whangarei
Miramar Rangers1 – 0Waterside (Wellington)
Nelson Suburbs2 – 3 (aet)Grosvenor Rovers (Marlborough)
Northern1 – 0Dunedin HSOB

Quarter-finals

Christchurch City12 – 1Grosvenor Rovers
Invercargill Thistle3 – 2Northern (Dunedin)

Semi-finals

* some sources give the result as 2-1 aet

Final

North Shore United2 – 1Christchurch City
Rimmer, Campbell Haydon
Referee: D.W. Grant

References

  1. ↑ Hilton, T. (1991) An association with soccer. Auckland: The New Zealand Football Association. ISBN 0-473-01291-X. pp. 74-5
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