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2021 Chatham Cup
The 2021 Chatham Cup is New Zealand's 93rd annual knockout football competition. The competition returns for 2021 after being cancelled in 2020 due to Covid-19. It will have a preliminary round and four rounds proper before quarter-finals, semi-finals, and a final. Results Preliminary round Matches were played over the Anzac weekend of 23–26 April. This round contained three teams from the Auckland Sunday football leagues, University of Auckland FC, HNK Auckland, and AFC Bohemian Celtic, the lowest ranked teams left in the competition. A full list of results are as follows: ;Northern Region ;Central Region ;Mainland Region ;Southern Region All teams listed below received byes to the first round. :Northern Region: Albany United FC, Auckland City FC, Auckland United FC, Bay Olympic FC, Beachlands Maraetai AFC, Birkenhead United AFC, Bucklands Beach AFC, Cambridge FC, Claudelands Rovers SC, East Coast Bays AFC, Eastern Suburbs AFC, Ellerslie AFC, Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Napier City Rovers FC
Napier City Rovers is a football team based in Napier, New Zealand, 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 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otahuhu United
Otahuhu United is a football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ... club in Auckland, New Zealand. Otahuhu United was formed in 1975 as a breakaway side from the Courier Rangers club, formed by parents and junior players unhappy with the organisation of that club. Initially sited at Bert Henham Park, the side were granted the right to play as part of the Auckland Association on the condition that only junior clubs could be fielded for the first three years. The club fielded numerous junior teams, playing in strips modelled on those of English side Norwich City F.C. In 1990 the club moved to Seaside Park Reserve, the former home of Courier Rangers. External linksNew Zealand 2004/05 Season Results [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ÅŒtorohanga
ÅŒtorohanga is a north King Country town in the Waikato region in the North Island of New Zealand. It is located south of Hamilton and north of Te KÅ«iti, on the WaipÄ River. It is a service town for the surrounding dairy-farming district. It is recognised as the "gateway" to the Waitomo Caves and as the "Kiwiana Town" of New Zealand. Until 2007, ÅŒtorohanga held a yearly 'Kiwiana Festival.' History Early history Until the 1860s ÅŒtorohanga was a NgÄti Maniapoto village, with several whare (houses), peach trees and a flour mill. HuipÅ«tea is a 300-year-old kahikatea tree, just to the south east of ÅŒtorohanga, which was the site of a skirmish in 1822 between NgÄti Maniapoto and NgÄpuhi. The village was abandoned after the invasion of the Waikato, except for Lewis Hettit's (or Hetet) farm. The area remained insecure, with Hettit's store being robbed by Te Kooti in 1869, but a meeting with Donald McLean later that year signalled moves towards peace. John William Ell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Britain
Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It is dominated by a maritime climate with narrow temperature differences between seasons. The 60% smaller island of Ireland is to the west—these islands, along with over 1,000 smaller surrounding islands and named substantial rocks, form the British Isles archipelago. Connected to mainland Europe until 9,000 years ago by a landbridge now known as Doggerland, Great Britain has been inhabited by modern humans for around 30,000 years. In 2011, it had a population of about , making it the world's third-most-populous island after Java in Indonesia and Honshu in Japan. The term "Great Britain" is often used to refer to England, Scotland and Wales, including their component adjoining islands. Great Britain and Northern Ireland now constitute the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waipapa
Waipapa is a small town in the Bay of Islands, Northland, New Zealand. It is around 10 minutes drive from Kerikeri, the nearest urban centre to Waipapa, located on State Highway 10. Waipapa itself has no school and most people travel into Kerikeri on a daily basis. It is governed by the Far North District council. Demographics Statistics New Zealand describes Waipapa as a rural settlement. It covers . The settlement is part of the larger Waipapa statistical area. Waipapa settlement had a population of 174 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 3 people (1.8%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 45 people (34.9%) since the 2006 census. There were 51 households, comprising 81 males and 93 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.87 males per female. The median age was 28.1 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 57 people (32.8%) aged under 15 years, 42 (24.1%) aged 15 to 29, 60 (34.5%) aged 30 to 64, and 21 (12.1%) aged 65 or older. Ethnicities were 65.5% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranui Swanson
Ranui Swanson Football Club is an amateur football club in West Auckland, New Zealand. They currently compete in the NRF Championship which is step 5 on the New Zealand football pyramid. Ranui Swanson was formed in 1979, starting with 4 teams. The club has also competed in the Chatham Cup, New Zealand's premier knockout tournaments for men. Their first season in the competition was in 1983 The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is consid ... when they lost in the first round to Pt Chevalier 4–1. References External links Club website Association football clubs in Auckland 1979 establishments in New Zealand Sport in West Auckland, New Zealand {{NewZealand-footyclub-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Lynn
New Lynn is a residential suburb in West Auckland, New Zealand, located 10 kilometres to the southwest of the Auckland city centre. The suburb is located along the Whau River, one of the narrowest points of the North Island, and was the location of Te TÅanga Waka, a traditional waka portage between the WaitematÄ and Manukau harbours. The settlement developed in the early 20th century due to the brick and pottery industry, and in 1963 became a major commercial centre for Auckland with the opening of LynnMall, the first American-style shopping centre in New Zealand. Since 2010, New Lynn has been the focus of large-scale urban development, with the introduction of medium and high density housing close to the town centre and train station. History Early history and establishment The New Lynn area and the Whau River are a part of the traditional rohe of Te Kawerau Ä Maki, an iwi that traces their ancestry to some of the earliest inhabitants of the Auckland Region. The traditi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Maunder Park
Ken Maunder Park, previously known as Rewa Park is a reserve and sports ground in the suburb of New Lynn in Auckland, New Zealand. It is the home ground of Lynn-Avon United and the Suburbs Cricket Club. History The area south-east of Ken Maunder Park was traditionally known to TÄmaki MÄori as Kotuitanga, and was an important point along Te TÅanga Waka, the Whau River portage, as this marked the point where the river was no longer navigable by canoe. In 1852, a farmer Henry Hayr had a cattle run on the land before, in 1854, he brought the original 84 acres from the Crown. The area became known as “Hayr's Grant†then went through a number of ownership changes and was sub divided a number of times, until in 1887 two brothers Henry and James Binsted who were also butchers, purchased nearly 19 acres of the former ground and set up their own slaughterhouse. The brothers also ran a farm on the land, breeding and selling pedigree Berkshire and Yorkshire pigs. Runoffs from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellerslie, New Zealand
Ellerslie is a suburb of the city of Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand. Ellerslie lies seven kilometres to the southeast of the city centre, close to State Highway 1. Administratively, Ellerslie forms part of the ÅŒrÄkei Local Board, which also includes the suburbs of Orakei, Mission Bay, Kohimarama, Saint Heliers, Glendowie, St Johns, Meadowbank and Remuera. To the west, Ellerslie borders on the One Tree Hill area and Cornwall Park. Largely a residential suburb, the area is arguably best-known as the site of Auckland's main horse-racing venue, Ellerslie Racecourse, as well as the original site of the Ellerslie Flower Show. (From 2008 the Flower Show moved to Christchurch in the South Island.) History The Development of Ellerslie The suburb was named by early local politician and entrepreneur Robert Graham, after his father's home in Elderslie (sic) in Renfrewshire, Scotland. Graham arrived in Auckland in October 1842 as an assisted immigrant from Scotland. R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Auckland AFC
West Auckland Kiwi True Blues FC is an amateur association football club based in Auckland, New Zealand. Their home ground is Brains Park located in the suburb of Kelston in Auckland, they currently compete in the NRFL Northern Conference. West Auckland AFC and Kiwi True Blues FC, an Auckland Sunday Football Association team, merged their top teams in 2019, allowing Kiwi True Blues to play in the NRF Conference and together as one team in the Chatham Cup. Their first team coach is Scott MacKay, who won the National League with Waitakere City in 1990, 1992, 1995, 1996 and 1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t .... References External linksClub website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matamata
Matamata () is a town in Waikato, New Zealand. It is located near the base of the Kaimai Ranges, and is a thriving farming area known for Thoroughbred horse breeding and training pursuits. It is part of the Matamata-Piako District, which takes in the surrounding rural areas, as well as Morrinsville and Te Aroha. State Highway 27 and the Kinleith Branch railway run through the town. The town has a population of as of A nearby farm was the location for the Hobbiton Movie Set in Peter Jackson, Peter Jackson's ''The Lord of the Rings (film series), The Lord of the Rings''. The New Zealand government decided to leave the Hobbit holes built on location as tourist attractions. During the period between the filming of ''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' and ''The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey'' they had no furniture or props, but could be entered with vistas of the farm viewed from inside them. A "Welcome to Hobbiton" sign has been placed on the main road. In 2011, parts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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