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

Napier City Rovers is a football team based in Napier, New Zealand, as of 2021 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 New Zealand NZL Oscar Mason
2 DF Solomon Islands SOL Iani Lagwai Kalu
3 DF England ENG Liam Schofield
4 DF New Zealand NZL Kaeden Atkins
5 DF New Zealand NZL Jack Albertini
6 MF Japan JPN Sho Goto
7 MF Myanmar MYA Ta Eh Doe
8 MF New Zealand NZL Sam Lack
9 FW United States Virgin Islands VIR J. C. Mack
10 FW England ENG Deri Corfe
11 FW England ENG Jonathan McNamara
No. Pos. Nation Player
12 MF New Zealand NZL Alex Mort
14 MF New Zealand NZL Kenny Willox
15 FW England ENG Jim Hoyle
16 DF England ENG Bill Robertson
17 DF New Zealand NZL Fergus Neil
18 MF New Zealand NZL Tai Barham
19 FW Solomon Islands SOL Andrew Abba
20 MF New Zealand NZL Christian Leopard
21 GK Scotland SCO Kyle Baxter
22 DF New Zealand NZL Ben Graney

Staff

  • Head Coach: England Bill Robertson

Honours

Performance in OFC competitions

2000–01 – 3rd Place – Won against AS Vénus French Polynesia 3 – 2 (stage 4 of 4)
Season Competition Round Club Home Away Position
2001 Oceania Club Championship Group A Papua New Guinea Unitech 2–0 2nd
Solomon Islands Laugu United 1–1
Tonga Lotoha'apai 9–0
Fiji Foodtown Warriors Labasa 4–0
Australia Wollongong Wolves 0–1
Semi Final Vanuatu Tafea 2–4
3rd play-off French Polynesia Vénus 3–2

References

  1. ↑ "Competition".
  2. ↑ "Oceania Club Competitions 2000". RSSSF. Retrieved 13 February 2022.


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