Hawke's Bay United

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Hawke's Bay United
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Full name Hawke's Bay United Football Club
Founded 2004
Ground Bluewater Stadium
Napier, New Zealand
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Chairman Colin Stone
Manager Barrie Hughes
League NZFC
2006-07 NZFC 7th
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Hawke's Bay United is a soccer club, which is based in Napier, New Zealand.

It participates in the New Zealand Football Championship and their home stadium is Bluewater Stadium.

The player/coach is former Celtic FC and Scotland goalkeeper Jonathan Gould, who is assisted by his father Bobby Gould and former 'All White' Perry Cotton.

[edit] History

Hawke’s Bay United (HBU) was founded in 2005 and represents the east coast of the North Island in the New Zealand Football Championship (NZFC), a franchise based 8 team national league played annually October to March. Hawke’s Bay United is the adopted playing name of the Napier City Soccer Inc franchise. Central Premier League outfit Napier City Rovers provide the most of the team's players.

In the inaugural NZFC season (2004/2005), Napier City Rovers finished 5th out of 8. Renamed Hakwe's Bay United they finished as bottom club in the next season.

[edit] Current squad

As of December 22, 2006

Nationality given from place of birth

No. Position Player
1 Flag of New Zealand GK Mitch O'Brien
2 Flag of England DF Luke Firth
3 Flag of New Zealand DF Ian Hogg
4 Flag of Scotland MF Ricky Gillies (captain)
5 Flag of New Zealand DF Phil Edginton
6 Flag of New Zealand DF Regan Cameron
7 Flag of New Zealand FW Sam Jenkins
8 Flag of New Zealand MF Chris McIvor
9 Flag of New Zealand FW Joel Wakelin
10 Flag of New Zealand FW Leon Birnie
11 Flag of Scotland MF Graham Fyfe
12 Flag of New Zealand MF Dean Johnston
13 Flag of New Zealand GK Scott Dunn
14 Flag of New Zealand FW Sam Messam
No. Position Player
15 Flag of Switzerland DF Michael Frischknecht
16 Flag of New Zealand MF David Geary
17 Flag of New Zealand FW Jason Pepping
18 Flag of New Zealand MF Willie Stanger
19 Flag of Scotland GK Jonathan Gould (player/coach)
20 Flag of New Zealand DF Shannon Dally
21 Flag of New Zealand FW Leo Shin
22 Flag of New Zealand MF Reiner Bauerfeind
Flag of New Zealand MF Jimmy Cudd
Flag of New Zealand DF Dave Edmondson
Flag of New Zealand FW Mark Elrick
Flag of New Zealand DF Wayne Atkins
Flag of New Zealand DF Daniel Ball
New Zealand Football Championship

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