Napier City Rovers FC

Napier City Rovers
Full name	Napier City Rovers
Nickname(s)	The Blues
Founded	1973
Ground	Bluewater Stadium, Napier, New Zealand
Capacity	4,000 (seated)
Chairman	Phil Doran
Manager	Bill Robertson
League	Central League
2020	5th
	Home colours
	Home colours

Napier City Rovers is a football team based in Napier, New Zealand, as of 2021 competing in the Central Premier League.

Club history[]

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 football competition (the Chatham Cup) five times, in 1985, 1993, 2000, 2002, and 2019 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 Soccer 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. That changed the following year with the change of name also to Hawke's Bay United. As with all teams making up the new franchises, they continue to compete in local winter football leagues, and also in the Chatham Cup.

Current squad[]

Squad for the 2020 Central Premier League^[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	SCO	Kyle Baxter
2	DF	ENG	James Hoyle
3	DF	ENG	Liam Schofield
4	FW	NZL	Kaeden Atkins
5	DF	NZL	Nick Yorke
6	MF	NZL	Ethan Ladd
7	MF	NZL	Karan Mandair
8	FW	NZL	Samuel Wall
9	FW	USA	J.C. Mack
10	MF	CAN	Gavin Hoy


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
12	DF	NZL	Kenny Willox
14	MF	ENG	Josh Stevenson
15	FW	NZL	Ethan Clarke
16	DF	ENG	Bill Robertson
17	DF	NZL	Fergus Neil
18	MF	NZL	Tai Barham
19	MF	NZL	Isaac Milley
20	MF	NZL	Zac Madsen
21	GK	NZL	Heath Caldwell