Hawke's Bay United
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Full name | Hawke's Bay United Football Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Founded | 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
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