North Shore United Association Football Club is an amateur

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club based in the North Shore,

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. They compete in the Northern League, where they last won the competition in 2019. Their home ground is Allen Hill Stadium, which is located in the suburb of Devonport.

History

The Club was founded in 1886, making it the oldest football club in New Zealand and Oceania. North Shore United was originally formed as North Shore in 1886 and in 1933

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with Belmont, taking the present name. As the result of a sponsorship deal with camera distributor

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, the team was known from 1979 to 1985 as Hanimex United or, unofficially, as Hanimex North Shore United.

Achievements

North Shore United is one of New Zealand's oldest and most successful football clubs. In addition to numerous provincial and regional titles, North Shore United won the

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, the

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and finished as the runner-up three times (

1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...

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). They also came runner-up in the

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(2012), promoting them to the

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the following season. The club was promoted to the

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in 2018 as runners-up. North Shore United also has a proud

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record, having won the competition on six occasions in 1952 (shared),

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, 1967,

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, and

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. They also finished as the runner-up six times in 1926 (as North Shore),

1959 Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...

1961 Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 ...

1973 Events January * January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. ...

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...

, and

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. North Shore United reached the semi-finals of the

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competition, but decided to withdraw due to the risks posed by the

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Players

Many prominent members of the

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have also played for North Shore United. These players include

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, Duncan Cole,

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, Robert Ironside,

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Heremaia Ngata Heremaia "Harry" Ngata (born 24 August 1971) is a former New Zealand association football player who played as a midfielder. Club career Ngata began his career with Hull City in England, and may have been the first Maori footballer to play in t ...

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, and Keith Hobbs.

Current squad

Honours

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(Level 1) **Champions (2):

**''Runners-up:'' 1975, 1982, 1983 * Northern League (Level 2) **Champions (3): 1973, 2001, 2019 **''Runners-up:'' 1971 *Auckland provincial championship **Champions (14): 1902, 1906, 1916, 1918, 1919, 1922, 1923, 1938, 1947, 1954, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963 *

**Champions (6): 1952 (shared),

, 1967,

**''Runners-up'': 1926,

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member as of 2017Hilton, Tony, (1991) ''An Association with Football,'' Auckland: New Zealand Football Association, p. 17.

References

External links

* {{Northern League (New Zealand) Association football clubs in Auckland Association football clubs established in 1886 1886 establishments in New Zealand