2011 Chatham Cup
Dates | August 28, 2011 | ||
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Championship venue | Memorial Park, Palmerston North | ||
Champions | Wairarapa United (1st title) | ||
Runners-up | Napier City Rovers | ||
Championship match score | 2 – 1 | ||
Jack Batty Memorial Cup | Scott Robinson (Wairarapa United) | ||
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The 2011 ASB Chatham Cup is New Zealand's 84th knockout football competition.
The 2011 competition had a preliminary round, a qualification round, and four rounds proper before quarter-finals, semi-finals, and a final. Competition was run in three regions (northern, central, southern) until the quarter-finals, from which stage the draw was open. In all, 120 teams entered the competition.
The 2011 final
With both finalists coming from the lower North Island, it was decided by NZF to hold the final at a neutral venue in the same part of the country. As such, Palmerston North's Memorial Park played host to the final for the first time.[1]
The final was played in front of a crowd of some 3,000 spectators. Underdogs Wairarapa won the final largely through their Pacific Island combination of Seule Soromon and Pita Rabo. They took the lead in the 24th minute after a period of pressure, when striker Soromon latched onto a cross from right winger Dale Higham, heading the ball past Hawke's Bay goalkeeper Shaun Peta. Early in the second half, Wairarapa failed to double the lead, when a penalty taken by their captain Adam Cowan hit the woodwork. Napier came back strongly, scoring an equaliser through Fergus Neil in the 67th minute. From this point, however, the game was largely under Wairarapa's control, and a late goal from Rabo secured the win.[2]
The Jack Batty Memorial Cup for the final's most valuable player was awarded to Wairarapa's Scott Robinson.
Results
Second Round
- * Won on penalties by Manurewa (5-4) and Western (4-1)
- Central United, East Coast Bays, Melville United, Onehunga Sports, and Three Kings United received byes to the Third Round.
Third Round
Westlake BHS | 3 – 4 | Waitemata |
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Roberts 30', Buswell 35', Groen 50' | Corner 1', Aalbers 70', Goldsmith 75' (pen.), Williams 84' |
Forrest Hill Milford United | 1 – 9 | Central United |
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Perkavic | Mulligan 3, Corrales 3, Hogg, Feneridis, Kelly |
Wellington United | 5 – 2 | Upper Hutt |
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Alderdyce 20', Pumpido 55', Tade 70', Harris 82', Little 85' | Garcias 58', 89' |
Richmond Athletic | 3 – 5 | Coastal Spirit |
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Wright 2, Olea | Turnbull2, Gerhardt, Stewart, Wellbourn (pen.) |
Fourth Round
Caversham | 6 – 4 | Coastal Spirit |
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Ross 35', Schwarz 47', Overton 49', 79', Fleming 85', Hancock 86' | Wellbourn 41', Nicol 62', Turnbull 67', 80' |
Caledonian Ground, Dunedin Referee: E. Cook |
Quarter-finals
July 24 |
Onehunga Sports | 0 – 4 | Caversham |
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Fleming 22' (pen.), Jackson 53', 65', Hancock 82' |
Waikaraka Park, Onehunga Referee: Mirko Benischke |
July 24 |
Napier City Rovers | 3 – 2 (aet) | Manurewa |
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Wilson 59' (pen.), 71', Single 103' | Kay 6', Bodman 54' |
July 24 |
Wairarapa United | 4 – 1 | Waitakere City |
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Shailer 5', 44', Cowen 72', Sabatu 81' | Linderboom 29' |
Colin Pugh Sports Bowl, Masterton Referee: Matt Conger |
July 24 |
Dunedin Technical | 3 – 3 (aet)* | Bay Olympic |
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Burgess 83', 103', 112' | McKenzie 57' (pen.), Cunneen 110', Collett 114' |
Caledonian Ground, Dunedin |
- * Won on penalties by Bay Olympic (5-3)
Semi-finals
August 14 |
Napier City Rovers | 2 – 1 | Caversham |
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Wilson 49' (pen.), Stevenson 59' | Jones 4' |
Park Island, Napier Referee: Nick Waldron |
August 14 |
Bay Olympic | 0 – 1 | Wairarapa United |
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Soromon 47' |
Olympic Park, Auckland Referee: Mirko Benischke |
Final
References
- ↑ nzfootball.co.nz, 17 August 2011. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
- ↑ Richardson, Daniel (28 August 2011). "Soccer: Wairarapa Utd win Chatham Cup". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
- NZ Football 2011 Chatham Cup full results
- Sporting Pulse 2011 Chatham Cup page
- Photographs from the final
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