Napier City Rovers FC

Napier City Rovers
Full nameNapier City Rovers
Nickname(s)The Blues
Founded1973; 51 years ago (1973)
GroundBluewater Stadium, Napier, New Zealand
Capacity4,000 (seated)
ChairmanGraeme Sole
ManagerBill Robertson
LeagueCentral League
National League
2024Central League, 3rd of 10

Napier City Rovers is a football team based in Napier, New Zealand, as of 2024 competing in the Central League.

Club history

Chart of yearly ladder positions for Napier City Rovers in NZ 1st division soccer

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 squad

Squad for the 2024 Central Premier League[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Denmark DEN William Tønning
2 DF New Zealand NZL George Andrew
3 DF New Zealand NZL Adam Hewson
4 DF New Zealand NZL Kaeden Atkins
5 DF New Zealand NZL Jack Albertini
6 DF New Zealand NZL Matthew Jones
7 MF England ENG Liam Schofield
8 MF New Zealand NZL Sam Lack
9 MF New Zealand NZL Cameron Emerson
10 MF England ENG Kieran Richards
11 FW England ENG Jonathan McNamara
No. Pos. Nation Player
12 MF New Zealand NZL Alex Mort
13 FW New Zealand NZL Harry Mason
15 DF England ENG Jim Hoyle
16 FW New Zealand NZL Ethan Spencer
17 DF New Zealand NZL Fergus Neil
18 FW Sweden SWE Oscar Faulds
19 FW England ENG Benjamin Stanley
20 MF New Zealand NZL Christian Leopard
21 GK Scotland SCO Kyle Baxter
22 GK New Zealand NZL Ben Graney

Staff

  • Head Coach: England Bill Robertson
  • Assistant Coach: England Stephen Hoyle
  • Goalkeeper Coach: Scotland Kyle Baxter

Season by season record

Season Qualifying league League New Zealand National League Chatham
Cup 		Top scorer
P W D L F A GD Pts Pos P W D L F A GD Pts Pos Name Goals
2021 Central League 18 5 2 11 37 51 −14 17 7th Cancelled[n 1] 3R England Kailan Gould 11
2022 18 8 4 6 35 28 +7 28 4th 9 1 3 5 14 23 −9 6 8th 4R England Jonathan McNamara 9
2023 18 10 3 5 50 32 +18 33 3rd 9 2 1 6 13 26 −13 7 9th 4R England Deri Corfe 21

Honours

Performance in OFC competitions

2000–01 – 3rd Place – Won against AS Vénus French Polynesia 3 – 2 (stage 4 of 4)
Season Competition Round Club Home Away Position
2001 Oceania Club Championship Group A Papua New Guinea Unitech 2–0 2nd
Solomon Islands Laugu United 1–1
Tonga Lotoha'apai 9–0
Fiji Foodtown Warriors Labasa 4–0
Australia Wollongong Wolves 0–1
Semi Final Vanuatu Tafea 2–4
3rd play-off French Polynesia Vénus 3–2

Notes

  1. ^ 2021 National League season cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in Northern regions;.[2] Championship played as South Central Series, with the northern clubs missing in the first edition.

References

  1. ^ "Competition".
  2. ^ "National League Championship cancelled, new interregional competition announced and Chatham Cup moved to 2022". New Zealand Football.
  3. ^ "Oceania Club Competitions 2000". RSSSF. Retrieved 13 February 2022.


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