Napier City Rovers is a football team based in Napier, New Zealand, competing in the

Central Premier League The Central League is an amateur status league competition run by Capital Football for Association football clubs located in the southern and central parts of the North Island, New Zealand. From 2021 it is at the second level of New Zealand Footb ...

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 The Chatham Cup is New Zealand's premier Single-elimination tournament, knockout tournament in men's association football. It is held annually, with the final contested in September. The current champions of the Chatham Cup are 2022 winners Auck ...

) five times, in 1985, 1993, 2000, 2002, and 2019 won the old

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in 1989, 1993, 1998, and 2000. They represented New Zealand at the Oceania Club Championship in 2001, finishing third. The

Hawke's Bay Hawke's Bay ( mi, Te Matau-a-Māui) is a local government region on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island. The region's name derives from Hawke Bay, which was named by Captain James Cook in honour of Admiral Edward Hawke. The region i ...

region, of which Napier is a part, were represented by Napier City Soccer in the first year of New Zealand's new

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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 Hawke's Bay United was a professional Association football club based in Napier, New Zealand. HB United most recently played in the ISPS Handa Premiership – a semi-professional franchise based league, which ran independently of the winte ...

. 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

Staff

*Head Coach: Bill Robertson

Honours

**Champions (4): 1989, 1993, 1998, 2000. *

**Champions (5):

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, 2002,

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**Champions (3): 2012, 2015, 2018.

Performance in OFC competitions

* Oceania Club Championship (1 appearance) ::: 2000–01 – 3rd Place – Won against AS Vénus 3 – 2 (stage 4 of 4)

References

External links

Official website

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