Queenstown Rovers FC
| Full name | Queenstown Rovers Football Club | |
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| Nickname(s) | Rovers | |
| Founded | 1996 | |
| Ground | Queenstown Events Centre, Queenstown | |
| Coach | Darren Rewi/Steve Henderson | |
| League | ODT FootballSouth Premier League | |
| 2012 | ODT FootballSouth Premier League, 7th | |
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Queenstown Rovers is a semi-professional association football club in Queenstown, New Zealand, they are currently playing in the ODT FootballSouth Premier League.
Their home games are played at the Frankton Events Centre. The team are notable within the league for the strong influence of foreign players.
Queenstown are five-times winners of the Donald Gray Memorial Cup, the premier tournament in soccer in Southland, New Zealand.
Club history
The team gained notoriety in May 2007 when a brawl erupted during a Chatham Cup match between Queenstown and Invercargill club Queen's Park which was fierce enough for local police to become involved.[1] Queenstown won the match, but withdrew from the competition as a result of the incident.[2]
References
- ↑ Queenstown: Top Stories - Soccer shocker
- ↑ "Police pursue football player after on-field brawl". The Press. 18 September 2007. Retrieved 4 November 2011.
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