Napier City Rovers

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Napier City Rovers

Full name

Napier City Rovers

Founded

1973

Ground

Bluewater Stadium
Napier, New Zealand
(Capacity 4,000 (seated))

League

Central Premier League





Home colours

Napier City Rovers are an association football (soccer) team based in Napier. 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 soccer competition (the Chatham Cup) four times, in 1985, 1993, 2000, and 2002, and 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 Rovers 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. They were replaced by Hawke's Bay United in 2005, although City Rovers still provide the bulk of players for the amalgamated franchise. As with all teams making up the new franchises, they continue to compete local winter soccer leagues, and also continue to compete in the Chatham Cup.