Napier City Rovers FC
Football club
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Napier City Rovers is a football team based in Napier, New Zealand, competing in the Central League.
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| Full name | Napier City Rovers |
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| Nickname | The Blues |
| Founded | 1973 |
| Ground | Bluewater Stadium, Napier, New Zealand |
| Capacity | 4,000 (seated) |
| Chairman | Graeme Sole |
| Manager | Bill Robertson |
| League | Central League |
| 2025 | Central League, 5th of 10 |
| Website | www |
Club history
The team was founded in 1973 by the 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, and 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, was represented by Napier City Soccer in the first year of the Football Championship in 2004.
Squad
Squad for the 2024 Central Premier League[1] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Season-by-season record
| Season | Qualifying league | League | National League | Chatham Cup |
Top scorer | ||||||||||||||||||
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| P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | Pos | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | Pos | Name | Goals | ||||
| 2021 | Central League | 18 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 37 | 51 | −14 | 17 | 7th | Cancelled[n 1] | R3 |  Kailan Gould | 11 | |||||||||
| 2022 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 35 | 28 | +7 | 28 | 4th | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 23 | −9 | 6 | 8th | R4 | Jonathan McNamara | 9 | ||
| 2023 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 50 | 32 | +18 | 33 | 3rd | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 26 | −13 | 7 | 9th | R4 | Deri Corfe | 21 | ||
| 2024 | 18 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 53 | 23 | +30 | 40 | 3rd | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 14 | +7 | 17 | 4th | QF |  Oscar Faulds | 27 | ||
| 2025 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 45 | 24 | +21 | 28 | 5th | Did not qualify | R4 | Sam Lack | 11 | ||||||||||
Honours
- New Zealand National Soccer League
- Champions (4): 1989, 1993, 1998, 2000
- Central Premier League
- Champions (3): 2012, 2015, 2018
Performance in OFC competitions
- Oceania Club Championship (1 appearance)[3]
- 2000–01 – 3rd place
| Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | Position |
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| 2001 | Oceania Club Championship | Group A |  Unitech |
2–0 | 2nd | |
 Laugu United |
1–1 | |||||
 Lotoha'apai |
9–0 | |||||
 Foodtown Warriors |
4–0 | |||||
 Wollongong Wolves |
0–1 | |||||
| Semi-finals |  Tafea |
2–4 | ||||
| Third place play-off |  Vénus |
3–2 | ||||
Notes
- 2021 National League season cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in Northern regions;.[2] Championship played as South Central Series, with the northern clubs missing in the first edition.