West Coast Rangers Football Club is an amateur
football
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club based in
Whenuapai,
New Zealand.
Formed in 2021 as an amalgamation between
Waitakere City and
Norwest United
Norwest United AFC was a semi-professional association football club in Auckland, New Zealand. They merged with Waitakere City in 2021 to form West Coast Rangers
West Coast Rangers Football Club is an amateur football club based in Whenuap ...
,
West Coast Rangers previously competed in the
Northern League Northern League may refer to:
Sport
Baseball
* Northern League (baseball, 1902–71), a name used by several minor leagues that operated in the upper midwestern U.S. and Manitoba from 1902 to 1971
* Northern League (baseball, 1993–2010), an indep ...
which is part of the qualifying leagues for the
New Zealand National League but were relegated after
one season.
The women's team currently competes in the
New Zealand Women's National League.
The club also competes in both the
Chatham Cup and
Kate Sheppard Cup, New Zealand's premier knockout tournaments for men and women. Both teams received a bye in the
2021 Chatham Cup and
2021 Kate Sheppard Cup
The 2021 Kate Sheppard Cup is New Zealand's women's 27th annual knockout football competition after the competition was cancelled, for the first time in its history, last season due to COVID-19. This is the fourth year that the competition is k ...
preliminary round with the men's team also receiving a bye in the first round, along with other ranked teams. The men lost their first game of the Chatham Cup when they lost to
tier 4 side
Ngaruawahia United 2–1.
The women's team won their first game 2–0 over
Hibiscus Coast in the Kate Sheppard Cup.
Current squad
References
External links
Club websiteSoccerway profile
Association football clubs in Auckland
2021 establishments in New Zealand
Sport in West Auckland, New Zealand
Association football clubs established in 2021
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