West End AFC

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{{Infobox football club

| clubname = West End AFC

| image =

| fullname = West End Association Football Club

| ground = West End Park, Timaru

| league = South Canterbury Division 1

| season = 2023

| position = South Canterbury Division 1, 3rd of 4

| manager = Jimmy Wilox

}}

West End AFC is an association football club in Timaru, New Zealand. The team home ground is West End Park, Timaru and they play in the South Canterbury 1st Division as well as enter into the National Chatham Cup.

West End AFC entered the Chatham Cup for the first time in 2009, completing a 9–0 win in their first game against Redemption before they lost to Queenstown 1–8 in the next round.{{cite web |last1=Ruane |first1=Jeremy |title=2009 Chatham Cup |url=https://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/NZClubSoccer/2009761.htm |website=The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website |access-date=20 April 2021}}{{cite web |title=New Zealand 2008/09 |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesn/nz09.html |website=RSSSF |access-date=20 April 2021}} West End did not enter the Chatham Cup again until 2014, where they again won their first game, this time against Southend United, before they went out in the second round against Pleasant Point.{{cite web |last1=Ruane |first1=Jeremy |title=2014 Chatham Cup |url=https://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/NZClubSoccer/201479f.htm |website=The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website}}{{cite web |title=New Zealand 2013/14 |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesn/nz2014.html |website=RSSSF |access-date=20 April 2021}} They have then completed in 2015{{cite web |last1=Ruane |first1=Jeremy |title=2015 Chatham Cup |url=https://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/NZClubSoccer/20157a9.htm |website=The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website |access-date=20 April 2021}}{{cite web |title=New Zealand 2014/15 |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesn/nz2015.html |website=RSSSF |access-date=20 April 2021}} and 2016.{{cite web |last1=Ruane |first1=Jeremy |title=2016 Chatham Cup |url=https://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/NZClubSoccer/20167b9.htm |website=The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website |access-date=20 April 2021}}{{cite web |title=New Zealand 2015/16 |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesn/nz2016.html |website=RSSSF |access-date=20 April 2021}}

In 2017, West End entered again,{{cite news |last1=Donaldson |first1=Scott |title=Southland football teams knocked out of the Chatham Cup |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/92559949/southland-football-teams-knocked-out-of-the-chatham-cup |access-date=20 April 2021 |work=Stuff |date=14 May 2017 |language=en}}{{cite web |last1=Ruane |first1=Jeremy |title=2017 Chatham Cup |url=https://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/NZClubSoccer/20177bb.htm |website=The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website |access-date=20 April 2021}}{{cite web |title=New Zealand 2016/17 |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesn/nz2017.html |website=RSSSF |access-date=20 April 2021}} first winning against Timaru Thistle in the qualifying round,{{cite news |last1=Lindsay |first1=Brayden |title=West End hoping to surprise Dunedin Technical in Chatham Cup clash |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/sport/93292670/west-end-hoping-to-surprise-dunedin-technical-in-chatham-cup-clash |access-date=20 April 2021 |work=Stuff |date=2 June 2017 |language=en}} then following it up with a 5–2 win over Queens Park in the first round,{{cite news |last1=Lindsay |first1=Brayden |title=West End draw Invercargill's Queen's Park FC in opening Chatham Cup round |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/sport/92249651/west-end-draw-invercargills-queens-park-fc-in-opening-chatham-cup-round |access-date=20 April 2021 |work=Stuff |date=5 May 2017 |language=en}} setting them up for a round 2 clash with Southern Premier League team Dunedin Technical. However they would go on to lose 6–0 to the higher placed team.{{cite news |last1=Lindsay |first1=Brayden |title=West End fight until the end despite falling 6-0 to Dunedin Technical in Chatham Cup |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/sport/93352910/west-end-fight-until-the-end-despite-falling-60-to-dunedin-technical-in-chatham-cup |access-date=20 April 2021 |work=Stuff |date=5 June 2017 |language=en}} In 2018 West End again could not get past the second round.{{cite web |last1=Ruane |first1=Jeremy |title=2018 Chatham Cup |url=https://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/NZClubSoccer/20187cb.htm |website=The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website |access-date=20 April 2021}}{{cite web |title=New Zealand 2017/18 |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesn/nz2018.html |website=RSSSF |access-date=20 April 2021}} Finally in the 2019 Chatham Cup they made the third round after winning against Mornington then Gore Wanderers on penalties, they lost to Mosgiel 5–0.{{cite web |last1=Ruane |first1=Jeremy |title=2019 Chatham Cup |url=https://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/NZClubSoccer/20197d4.htm |website=The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website |access-date=20 April 2021}}{{cite web |title=New Zealand 2018/19 |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesn/nz2019.html |website=RSSSF |access-date=20 April 2021}} However it was discovered that Mosgiel had fielded an ineligible player so New Zealand Football overturned the result and awarded the 3–0 win to West End.{{cite web |title=Mosgiel forfeit Chatham Cup match |url=https://www.nzfootball.co.nz/newsarticle/77966 |website=New Zealand Football |access-date=20 April 2021}}{{cite news |last1=Cheshire |first1=Jeff |title=Mosgiel out of Cup for fielding ineligible player |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/sport/football/mosgiel-out-cup-fielding-ineligible-player |access-date=20 April 2021 |work=Otago Daily Times |date=12 June 2019 |language=en}} The reprieve was short-lived however, losing their next match 1–7 to Roslyn-Wakari.{{cite news |title=Caversham, Roslyn win cup ties |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/sport/football/caversham-roslyn-win-cup-ties |access-date=20 April 2021 |work=Otago Daily Times |date=17 June 2019 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Roslyn Wakari vs. West End |url=https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2019/06/15/new-zealand/chatham-cup/roslyn-wakari/new-zealand-west-end-afc/3026260/ |website=Soccerway |access-date=20 April 2021 |date=15 June 2019}} With no Chatham Cup in 2020, West End are continuing their streak of entering each year by participating in the 2021 Chatham Cup.{{cite web |title=Chatham Cup and Kate Sheppard Cup preliminary draws |url=https://www.nzfootball.co.nz/newsarticle/102372 |website=New Zealand Football |access-date=20 April 2021}}

They are the largest junior club in South Canterbury with over 30 junior teams.{{Citation needed|reason=Reliable source needed for the whole sentence|date=October 2022}}

West End won the South Canterbury league a number of times in the 1950s and 1960s, most notably four times in a row from 1964 to 1967.{{cite web |title=New Zealand - List of Champions |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesn/nzchamp.html |website=RSSSF |access-date=20 April 2021}} They won the title again in 1989, following it up with three more titles in a four-year period in the 1990s.{{cite news |last1=Quinlivan |first1=Mark |title=West End secure back-to-back South Canterbury Football League titles |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/sport/105695786/west-end-secure-backtoback-south-canterbury-football-league-titles |access-date=20 April 2021 |work=Stuff |date=23 July 2018 |language=en}} It was then another 18 years before they won another South Canterbury title in 2017, beating Thistle in the final double header round completing the season with only one loss,{{cite news |last1=Lindsay |first1=Brayden |title=West End secure first South Canterbury Football League title in 18 years |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/sport/96464043/west-end-secure-first-south-canterbury-football-league-title-in-18-years |access-date=20 April 2021 |work=Stuff |date=4 September 2017 |language=en}} then in 2018 going back to back.{{cite news |last1=Quinlivan |first1=Mark |title=Defending champions West End remain on top of South Canterbury Football League |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/sport/105519504/defending-champions-west-end-remain-on-top-of-south-canterbury-football-league |access-date=20 April 2021 |work=Stuff |date=16 July 2018 |language=en}}