Napier City Rovers are an association football (soccer) team based in Napier

Napier, New Zealand

Napier is a New Zealand city with a seaport, located in Hawke's Bay on the eastern coast of the North Island. The population of Napier is about About 18 kilometres south of Napier is the inland city of Hastings. These two neighboring cities are often called "The Twin Cities" or "The Bay Cities"...

, New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

. They are currently competing in the Central Premier League

Central Premier League

The Central League is a semi-professional status league competition run by for Association football clubs located in the southern and central parts of the North Island, New Zealand...

.

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

Chatham Cup

The Chatham Cup, currently known as the ASB Chatham Cup for sponsorship purposes, is New Zealand's premier knockout tournament in men's football...

) four times, in 1985, 1993, 2000, and 2002, and won the old New Zealand National Soccer League

New Zealand National Soccer League

The National Soccer League is a name given to competitions in which New Zealand's top soccer clubs play each other, at least two times, on a home and away basis . At the completion of the competition, the best-performed team is declared as the New Zealand champion...

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

Oceania Club Championship 2000-01

The 2000-01 Oceania Club Championships was held in January 2001. The tournament was designed to decide the Oceania Football Confederation's entrant into the 2001 FIFA Club World Championship, however that Club World Championship tournament was cancelled by FIFA. The competition was held in Port...

, finishing third.

The Hawke's Bay

Hawke's Bay

Hawke's Bay is a region of New Zealand. Hawke's Bay is recognised on the world stage for its award-winning wines. The regional council sits in both the cities of Napier and Hastings.-Geography:...

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

New Zealand Football Championship

The New Zealand Football Championship is the national association football league in New Zealand. It is a professional/semi-professional status Association football sports Franchise league that is operated by New Zealand Football...

 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

Hawke's Bay United is an association football club based in Napier, New Zealand. HB United play in the ASB Premiership - a semi-professional franchise based league, which runs independently of the winter club season. Local winter clubs provide the player pool for each franchise...

. As with all teams making up the new franchises, they continue to compete in local winter football leagues, and also in the Chatham Cup.

Major Honours

• National Champions 1989, 1993, 1998, 2000.
• Chatham Cup Winners 1985, 1993, 2000, 2002.

Notable former players

Bill Harris Brian Gayle

Brian Gayle

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 Roy Stanger Brian McAllister

Brian McAllister

Brian McAllister is a former Scottish footballer who played for Wimbledon and the Scotland national team.McAllister played for Wimbledon between 1989 and 2000 and had loan spells at Plymouth Argyle and Crewe Alexandra...

 Che Bunce

Che Bunce

Che Bunce is a New Zealand association football player who is currently the player-coach for Waikato FC in the NZFC.-Club career:...

 Chris Jackson Gary Locke

Gary Locke (English footballer)

Gary John Locke is a former English footballer born in Willesden, London, who played in the Football League for Chelsea and Crystal Palace, and in the Allsvenskan for Halmstads BK....

 Gary Parker Greg Brown Andy Rennie

Andy Rennie (New Zealander footballer)

Andrew "Andy" Rennie is a former football player who represented New Zealand at international level.Rennie scored on his full All Whites debut, a 1-3 loss to Chile on 18 June 1995 and ended his international playing career with 13 A-international caps and 1 goals to his credit, his final cap an...

Jonathan Gould

Jonathan Gould

Jonathan Alan Gould is a former Scottish international footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is currently the Goalkeeping Coach at Perth Glory of the Australian A-League.-Playing:...

 Kevin Hagan

Kevin Hagan

Kevin Hagan is an association football player who represented New Zealand at international level.-Career:His senior career began with Napier City Rovers and was followed by stints at Auckland clubs Manurewa and North Shore United in the New Zealand National League, before he moved to Australia to...

 Mark Paston

Mark Paston

Mark Nelson Paston is a New Zealand football goalkeeper who plays for the Wellington Phoenix in the A-League.-Early career:...

 Paul Halford

Paul Halford

Paul Halford is a former association football player who represented New Zealand at international level.He was a star player for Napier City Rovers, scoring a goal in their 1985 Chatham Cup final success, in the 1980s before joining the Brisbane Lions...

 Sandy Davie

Sandy Davie

Alexander Grimmond "Sandy" Davie, is a retired Scottish footballer who played as goalkeeper. Davie spent most of his career with Dundee United and represented Scotland at Under-23 level and New Zealand at senior level....

 Scott O'Donnell

Scott O'Donnell

Scott O'Donell is a retired Australian football player.Current AIFF Academy Instructor. FIFA Coaching Instructor.Former Director of Coach Education, Asian Football Confederation.S.League Coach of the Year 2003.-External links:...

 Shane Smeltz

Shane Smeltz

Shane Edward Smeltz is a New Zealand professional association football player. He plays as a striker for Perth Glory FC.-Club career:...

 Nick Woolward Martin Akers

Martin Akers

Martin Akers is a former association football player who represented New Zealand at international level.Akers made a solitary official international appearance for New Zealand in a 0-5 loss to Indonesia on 21 September 1997.-External links:...

 Perry Cotton

Perry Cotton

Perry Cotton is an association football player who represented New Zealand at international level.He played for Scunthorpe United....

 Malcolm Wilson

Performance in OFC competitions

• Oceania Club Championship (1 appearance)

2000-01

Oceania Club Championship 2000-01

The 2000-01 Oceania Club Championships was held in January 2001. The tournament was designed to decide the Oceania Football Confederation's entrant into the 2001 FIFA Club World Championship, however that Club World Championship tournament was cancelled by FIFA. The competition was held in Port...

 - 3rd Place - Won against AS Vénus   3 - 2 (stage 4 of 4)

Staff and board members

• President:   Barrie Hughes
• Chairman:   Russell Booth
• Secretary :   Jill Wilson
• Treasurer :   Chrystal Divers

External links

• Official website
• Ultimate NZ Soccer page