Moturoa AFC
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{{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2019}}
{{Short description|Association football club in New Zealand}}
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| clubname = Moturoa AFC
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| fullname = Moturoa Association Football Club
| nickname = The Reds
| founded = {{start date and age|1928}}
| ground = Onuku Taipari Domain, Moturoa, New Plymouth
| capacity =
| chairman = Scotty Manson
| coach =
| league = Taranaki Men's Premiership
Women's Central League
| season = 2024
| position = Taranaki Men's Premiership, 1st of 8 (champions)
Women's Central League, 6th of 8
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| coordinates = 39.0700° S, 174.0258° E
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Moturoa AFC is one of New Zealand's oldest association football clubs. Based in New Plymouth, the club traces its establishment back to the Watersiders Association Football Club.{{Cite web|url=https://collection.pukeariki.com/objects/70915|title=Watersides Soccer Team, Group|website=Puke Ariki |access-date=3 September 2019}}
Moturoa AFC has rich history with the club having success in many regional and national competitions.{{Cite web|url=https://collection.pukeariki.com/objects/103150|title=Moturoa Association Football Club, 1960|website=Puke Ariki|access-date=2 September 2019}}{{cite news |last1=Bird |first1=Tony |title=Moturoa women in league of their own |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/sport/9137046/Moturoa-women-in-league-of-their-own |agency=Stuff |publisher=Taranaki Daily News |date=7 September 2013}}{{cite news |last1=Reive |first1=Christopher |title=Moturoa and FC Western face off in top-of-table showdown |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/sport/93279403/moturoa-and-fc-western-face-off-in-topoftable-showdown |agency=Stuff |publisher=Taranaki Daily News |date=2 June 2017}}{{cite news |last1=Bird |first1=Tony |title=Moturoa crowned premier league football champions |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/sport/71390809/moturoa-crowned-premier-league-football-champions |agency=Stuff |publisher=Taranaki Daily News |date=24 August 2015}}
Its clubrooms and home ground are at Onuku Taipari Domain, Ngāmotu Road, Spotswood.
File:Onuku_Taipari_Domain_and_Ngamotu_Tavern._26th_December_1984._White's_Aviation.jpg
Early history
Originally the Moturoa Football Club was a short-lived rugby club, started by the Breakwater Sports Committee in the kiosk at Ngāmotu Beach in early 1914, before amalgamating with the Star club. Moturoa FC's home ground was the prison reserve field adjacent to Otaka Street in Moturoa. The club retained one junior team for a short period after the amalgamation that played in the Moturoa club's colour white, with the addition of a star emblem on the shirt chest.{{cite news |title=Taranaki Rugby Union. |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HNS19140328.2.39.1 |access-date=22 March 2022 |work=Hawera & Normanby Star |agency=Papers Past |issue=XLVI |date=28 March 1914 |page=5}}{{cite news |title=Football. |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TH19140425.2.82 |access-date=22 March 2022 |work=Taranaki Herald |agency=Papers Past |issue=144384 |date=25 April 1914 |page=8}}
From 1915 to 1921 there was no official Taranaki Association Football Championship due to the war. The New Plymouth club relied on friendly games against mariners of the trade shipping at the port of Moturoa.
The first ever recorded Moturoa association football team was published in the Taranaki Daily News on 25 May 1925, with players; Thompson, Matthews, Randell, the Spedding brothers, the Anderson brothers, Murray, Mells, Peere, Towes and Cole scheduled to face Fitzroy at the Tukapa Ground in Westown.{{cite news |title=FOOTBALL. |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19250523.2.13 |access-date=21 March 2022 |work=Taranaki Daily News |agency=Papers Part |date=23 May 1925 |page=5}}
There was an annual meeting of the New Plymouth Association Football Club in mid-May 1926 where it was decided that the Moturoa and New Plymouth Clubs' combine for the purpose of entering a team for the Julian Cup.{{cite news |title=SOCCER. |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HAWST19260517.2.7.3 |access-date=19 March 2022 |work=Hawera Star |publisher=Papers Past |date=17 May 1926 |page=3}}
File:New Plymouth Association Football Club - 1926 Chinese Residents Challenge Cup winners.jpg
At a meeting of the Northern sub-division of the football association executive on 4 July 1927, the recently donated trophy by Duff & Co. to the Watersiders club was discussed. As the four teams entered were not affiliated to the NZFA an approach was made to the Taranaki Football Association asking permission to run the competition.{{cite news |title=Representative Football |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19270707.2.9 |access-date=22 March 2022 |work=Taranaki Daily News |agency=Papers Past |date=7 July 1927 |page=4}}
In the final match of the inaugural Duff Rose Bowl at Western Park in 1927 the Watersiders beat the Fitzroy-based Rangers club with Ted Spedding scoring twice. The winning team also included; goalkeeper Tom Broughton, H. Lewis, W. Davis, I. Thompson, R. Murray, R. Hughes, Anderson, Young, Wylie, J. Spedding, and reserves Karim, White and McCullough.{{cite news |title=Association Football - Team to Play Manawatu |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19270813.2.92 |access-date=22 March 2022 |work=Taranaki Daily News |agency=Papers Past |date=13 August 1927 |page=15}}
The Watersiders Association Football Club committee met in March 1928 where a decision was made to change its name to the Moturoa Club. At the meeting the report detailing the 1927 season was presented. The Duff Rose Bowl was given to the Northern sub-division of the Taranaki Football Association for competition amongst local teams. The annual subscription was set at five shillings, colours of red shirts with white pants fixed and a squad of twenty players registered.{{Cite web |date=13 March 1928 |title=Management of Rugby - Association Football - Watersiders' Club Now Moturoa |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19280313.2.16 |access-date=23 March 2022 |website=Papers Past}}
Moturoa first affiliated with the Taranaki Football Association for the 1928 season. Moturoa won the 1929 Chinese Cup. Moturoa's intermediate team, competing for the 1929 Plunket Cup, lost the final to Caledonian.{{cite news |title=ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/STEP19290416.2.3 |access-date=19 March 2022 |work=Stratford Evening Post |agency=Papers Past |issue=83 |date=16 April 1929 |page=2}} Moturoa also won the Plumb Cup for the Taranaki junior championship.{{cite news |title=ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL Past Year Reviewed |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/STEP19300408.2.51 |access-date=5 December 2022 |work=Stratford Evening Post |issue=33 |date=8 April 1930 |page=5}}File:1931 Moturoa Association Football Club - Priest Shield 6-a-side winners.jpg
Moturoa won the annual six-a-side competition for the Priest Shield at New Plymouth in 1931. There were six teams in the competition which was conducted at Western Park. The players in the final for Moturoa were: goal-keeper Roy Johns, R. and F. Roper, Anderson, White, Smith. And for Stratford: Grierson, Thompson, Henderson, O’Shannessey, McGrory, Elgar. The final score was Moturoa – 3 Stratford – 1. White getting a hat-trick for Moturoa.{{cite news |title=THE ASSOCIATION GAME Tourney at New Plymouth |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/STEP19310914.2.68 |access-date=5 December 2022 |work=Stratford Evening Post |issue=236 |date=14 September 1931 |page=7}}File:1934 Moturoa Football Club.Moturoa Primary School. Malayan Shield Winners.jpg
The Moturoa School team won the Malayan Shield in 1934 with Mr. P. Gardner and Mr. E. Kenny as coaches, and D. Kendall as captain.
Moturoa have competed for the Chatham Cup since 1949,{{Cite news |date=26 July 1949 |title=CHATHAM CUP PLAY |pages=6 |work=Gisborne Herald |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GISH19490726.2.106 |access-date=30 March 2022}} reaching the North Island semi-final in 1954 against Stop Out at Western Park,{{cite news |date=10 August 1954 |title=ASSOCIATION CODE Chatham Cup Semi-final at New Plymouth |page=3 |work=The Press |issue=27424 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19540810.2.18 |access-date=5 December 2022}} and again in 1959 against Miramar Rangers at the Basin Reserve.{{Cite news |date=27 July 1959 |title=MIRAMAR TO MEET NORTH SHORE |pages=8 |work=The Christchurch Press |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19590727.2.64 |access-date=30 March 2022}} In 1960 the club reached the North Island final of the cup facing North Shore United at Blandford Park,{{Cite news |date=15 August 1960 |title=EASY WIN BY NORTH SHORE |pages=17 |work=The Christchurch Press |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19600815.2.206 |access-date=30 March 2022}} and again in 1962 facing Hamilton Technical Old Boys at Seddon Park.{{Cite news |title=CHATHAM CUP TOURNEY |pages=13 |work=The Christchurch Press |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19620820.2.174 |access-date=30 March 2022}} In 1966 Moturoa again reached the NI semi-final to face Miramar Rangers, but on this occasion at Western Park.{{Cite news |date=25 July 1966 |title=CHAMPION BEATEN |pages=16 |work=The Christchurch Press |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19660725.2.160 |access-date=30 March 2022}} Moturoa reached the fifth round of the Chatham Cup in the 1969, 1971 and 1972 seasons, with the 1972 competition notable for knocking out the holders of the trophy Western Suburbs in the fourth round. The club has since reached the fourth round in 1974, 1987, 2000 and 2002 and last competed in the competition in 2023.{{Cite web |last=Ruane |first=Jeremy |title=Moturoa |url=https://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/Database/id1430.htm |access-date=30 March 2022 |website=The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website}}
Moturoa Women's Football
The original Moturoa women's team formed in 1969.
In 1975 the Taranaki Women's Football Association was formed and Moturoa began playing league football.
Moturoa won the Taranaki Women's Football Association B division in 1981 and 1992.
In 2010 Moturoa won the Taranaki Women's Premiership for the first time.
In 2011 Moturoa won the Central Women's Federation Cup for the first time.{{cite news |title=Football |url=https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/taranaki-daily-news/20110906/281586647310787 |access-date=23 March 2022 |work=Taranaki Daily News |agency=Press Reader |date=6 September 2011}}
In 2013 Moturoa won the Taranaki title, the Duchess Cup and a second Federation Cup.{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Jared |title=Wanganui Athletic turn down trophy |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/whanganui-chronicle/sport/wanganui-athletic-turn-down-trophy/AM5HOOLO5RUJ7NG6IPC27P7CNE/ |access-date=23 March 2022 |work=The New Zealand Herald |date=3 September 2013}}{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Jared |title=Athletic XI save worst for the final |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/whanganui-chronicle/sport/athletic-xi-save-worst-for-the-final/HY33ZAPFFSQX7YGYW4NA23HXVQ/ |access-date=23 March 2022 |work=The New Zealand Herald |date=10 September 2013 |language=en-NZ}}{{cite news |title=Golden Boot Returns for World University Games |url=https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0612/S00016/golden-boot-returns-for-world-university-games.htm |access-date=19 March 2022 |work=University Sport |date=7 December 2006}}{{Cite web|date=2013-09-06|title=Moturoa women in league of their own|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/sport/9137046/Moturoa-women-in-league-of-their-own|access-date=2021-01-17|website=Stuff |language=en}}
In 2015 Moturoa entered the women's Central League competition administered by Capital Football and finished fifth in the first season.{{Cite web |date=18 August 2015 |title=Moturoa finish Central League football season with a win |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/sport/71203243/moturoa-finish-central-league-football-season-with-a-win |access-date=30 March 2022 |website=Stuff - Taranaki Daily News}}{{Cite web |last=Reive |first=Christopher |date=31 March 2016 |title=New Plymouth Rangers aiming for Western Premier League title |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/sport/78411809/new-plymouth-rangers-aiming-for-western-premier-league-title |access-date=30 March 2022 |website=Stuff }}
The 2018 season saw Moturoa finish as runner-up to Massey University after joining the Central Women's Federation League in 2017.{{cite web |title=GR Engineering Women's Federation League 2018 |url=https://www.fijifootball.com.fj/competition-list/gr-engineering-womens-federation-league-2018-479438/ |website=FijiFootball.com.fj |access-date=5 December 2022}}
In 2020 Moturoa won the Central Federation Women's Premier League.{{Cite web |last=Johnston |first=Will |date=18 August 2020 |title=Talented women top league |url=https://www.sportsnewstaranaki.co.nz/news-article?id=432 |access-date=30 March 2022 |website=Sport News Taranaki}}
In 2022 the Moturoa women's side won the Central Women's Federation Cup for the fourth time along with a treble of local Taranaki titles.
Moturoa entered the Kate Sheppard Cup for the first time in 2023.{{Cite web |last=New Zealand Football |date=14 May 2023 |title=Kate Sheppard Cup |url=https://www.nzfootball.co.nz/COMPETITIONS/Football/kate-sheppard-cup |website=New Zealand Football}}
Honours
= Men's =
- Taranaki Championship (Julian Cup): 1956, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964 (shared with Old Boys), 1965, 1968 ( & MBTC Cup), 1969, 1971.{{Cite web |date=2 December 2021 |title=New Zealand - List of Champions |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesn/nzchamp.html |access-date=19 March 2022 |website=RSSSF}}
- 1965 represented Taranaki in the regional representative Central Districts League.{{Cite web |last=Kungler/Zlotkowski |first=Peter/Andre |date=11 September 2004 |title=New Zealand 1965 |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesn/nz65.html |access-date=30 March 2022 |website=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation}}
- 1966 joined Western League.{{Cite web |date=5 October 2004 |title=New Zealand 1966 |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesn/nz66.html |access-date=19 March 2022 |website=RSSSF}}
- 1967 joined Central Districts Premier League as founding member.{{Cite web |date=5 October 2004 |title=New Zealand 1967 |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesn/nz67.html |access-date=19 March 2022 |website=RSSSF}}
- 1972 promoted to Western League, 1972 Western League runner-up, 1973 Central League Qualifiers tournament winner.
- 1973 promoted to Central League, Central League - 1973 Division Two Champions.{{Cite web |title=Honours Board |url=https://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/id1557.htm |access-date=19 March 2022 |website=The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website}} Promotion to Division One.
- 1976 - 1985 Western Tasman League. (Taranaki United composite side retained Central League position.){{Cite web |last=Ruane |first=Jeremy |date=24 August 2023 |title=Taranaki United |url=https://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/DBCentral/id56.htm |access-date=24 August 2023 |website=The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website}}
- 1985 Western Tasman League Champions. Promotion to 1986 Central League
- 1989 Central League Two - 2nd (promoted to Central League One).{{Cite web |title=1989 |url=https://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/id390.htm |access-date=19 March 2022 |website=The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website}}
- 1993 Central League One - 2nd (promoted to Central Premier League).{{Cite web |title=1993 |url=https://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/id374.htm |access-date=19 March 2022 |website=The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website}}
- 1995 withdrew from Central League One and joined the Taranaki Premiership.
- 2000 entered Central Federation League. (Federation League position given to Team Taranaki in 2004.){{Cite web |last=Ruane |first=Jeremy |date=24 August 2023 |title=Team Taranaki |url=https://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/DBCentral/id80.htm |access-date=24 August 2023 |website=The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website}}
- Taranaki Premiership champions: 1999 (promoted to Central Federation League), 2006, 2010, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2024
- Sheffield United F.C. Plate - 2019 {{Cite web |date=23 September 2019 |title=Taranaki Prize Giving Review 2019 |url=https://www.centralfootball.co.nz/newsarticle/82368?newsfeedId=551175 |website=Central Football}}
- Duff Rose Bowl Champions: 1927,{{Cite web |date=15 August 1927 |title=Association Football |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19270815.2.22 |access-date=22 March 2022 |website=Papers Past}} 1946, 1947, 1949, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 2001, 2003, 2016,{{Cite web |last=Reive |first=Christopher |date=5 September 2016 |title=Moturoa too strong for Woodleigh in Duff Rosebowl final |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/sport/83897007/moturoa-too-strong-for-woodleigh-in-duff-rosebowl-final |access-date=30 March 2022 |website=Stuff - Taranaki Daily News}} 2017, {{Cite web |last=Reive |first=Christopher |date=9 September 2017 |title=Moturoa beat New Plymouth Rangers to retain Duff Rosebowl |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/sport/96681875/moturoa-beat-new-plymouth-rangers-to-retain-duff-rosebowl |access-date=30 March 2022 |website=Stuff - Taranaki Daily News}} 2024
= Women's =
- Taranaki Women's Football Association - B Division Champions - 1981, 1992.
- Taranaki Women's Premiership Champions - 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
- Taranaki Women's League Challenge Trophy - 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
- Duchess Cup Champions - 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
- Promotion to 2015 Women's Central League (joined Central Federation Premier League in 2017)
- Central Federation Cup Champions - 2011,{{Cite news |last=Wilson |first=Zaryd |date=6 September 2011 |title=Moturoa 'stoked' to claim Federation Cup |url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/sport/5569147/Moturoa-stoked-to-claim-Federation-Cup |access-date=20 March 2022 |work=Stuff}} 2013,{{Cite news |date=9 September 2013 |title=Impressive end to season |url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/sport/9141141/Impressive-end-to-season |access-date=20 March 2022 |work=Stuff}} 2019,{{Cite web |date=4 September 2020 |title=Moturoa Motor to the Title |url=https://www.centralfootball.co.nz/newsarticle/94931 |access-date=20 March 2022 |website=Central Football}} 2022,{{Cite web |date=1 September 2022 |title=Moturoa win Central Football Women's Federation Cup for fourth time |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/sport/300676229/moturoa-win-central-football-womens-federation-cup-for-fourth-time |access-date=3 September 2022 |website=Stuff - Taranaki Daily News}} 2023
- Central Federation Premier League Champions - 2020,{{Cite web |last=Ruane |first=Jeremy |title=Roll of Honour |url=https://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/Scoreboard/roll_of_honour.htm |access-date=20 March 2022 |website=The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website}} 2023 {{Cite web |last=Football |first=Central |date=11 August 2023 |title=Moturoa coach reflects on successful year |url=https://sportsnewstaranaki.co.nz/news-article?id=1536 |access-date=24 August 2023 |website=Sport News Taranaki}}
- 2024 Capital Football W-League promotion playoff winners {{Cite web |last=Goldby |first=Bri |date=25 September 2023 |title=Taranaki's Moturoa earn right to play in next year's Women's Central League |url=https://www.friendsoffootballnz.com/2023/09/24/taranakis-moturoa-earn-right-to-play-in-next-years-womens-central-league/ |access-date=29 October 2023 |website=Friends of Football}}