Gore Wanderers AFC is an
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
club based in the southern
New Zealand
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town of
Gore
Gore may refer to:
Places Australia
* Gore, Queensland
* Gore Creek (New South Wales)
* Gore Island (Queensland)
Canada
* Gore, Nova Scotia, a rural community
* Gore, Quebec, a township municipality
* Gore Bay, Ontario, a township on Manitouli ...
, and is the only senior club with men's and women's teams in
Eastern Southland.
The club was founded in 1964, several years after the demise of Gore's previous team, Gore Rovers. The team has won Southland's senior competition, the
Donald Gray Memorial Cup
The Donald Gray Memorial Cup is the premier men's football competition in Southland, New Zealand. It sits below the FootballSouth Premier League and above Southland Division 1.
Current clubs
''As of 2022 season.''
:(2) — Denotes club's se ...
, twice, in 1983 and 2017. The team combined with Gore's age-group team, Junior Wanderers, in 2018.
The team has competed in the country's premier club knockout competition — the
Chatham Cup — semi-regularly since 1965, reaching the last sixteen in
their debut season and
1967
Events
January
* January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair.
* January 5
** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and ...
.
References
Gore, New Zealand
Association football clubs in New Zealand
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