1971 Chatham Cup

1971 Chatham Cup
Dates 11 September 1971
Championship venue Basin Reserve, Wellington
Champions Western Suburbs FC (1st title)
Runners-up Wellington City
Championship match score 3 – 2 (aet)
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The 1971 Chatham Cup was the 44th annual nationwide knockout football competition in New Zealand.

Early stages of the competition were run on a regional basis, with the National League teams receiving a bye until the later stages of the competition. In all, 99 teams took part in the competition. Note: Different sources give different numberings for the rounds of the competition: some start round one with the beginning of the regional qualifications; others start numbering from the first national knock-out stage. The former numbering scheme is used in this article.

The 1971 final

Prior to the changes in the organisation of the competition in 1970, finals were always between North Island and South Island teams. With the reorganisation of the draw, this was no longer the case, and so the 1971 final became the first local derby ever to be played out in the final, with both teams coming from Wellington.

In the final, Western Suburbs made up for their defeat the previous year by seeing of neighbours Wellington City, who had been formed as a national league side through a merger of Miramar Rangers and Hungaria. In a howling Wellington southerly wind, Dave Wallace and Allan Jeffrey scored for Suburbs while Paul Cameron and Julius Beck countered for City. With the scores tied, the teams went to extra time, where the game remained locked at 2-2 until the last moments. With the final kick of the game Barry Humphreys sent a long ball forward which caught the breeze and bounced over the City keeper into his net.[1]

Results

Third Round

Canterbury University 1 – 0 Halswell United
Christchurch City 4 – 1 Burndale United (Christchurch)
Christchurch Rangers 4 – 1 Timaru City
Dunedin City 3 – 0 Caversham †
Eden (Auckland) 2 – 0 Onehunga-Mangere
Invercargill Thistle 4 – 1 Invercargill United †
Kiwi United (Palmerston North) 1 – 0 Palmerston City (Palmerston North)
Manukau City 2 – 1 Manurewa
Miramar Rangers 1 – 0 Johnson Villa (Wellington)
Napier City 3 – 0 Leopard United (Hastings)
New Brighton 6 – 2 Shamrock (Christchurch)
New Plymouth Old Boys 13 – 0 New Plymouth City
North Shore United 5 – 0 Sparta Newmarket
Takapuna City 4 – 0 Central (Auckland)
Te Atatu 4 – 4* Pakuranga Town
Tokoroa 3 – 2 Claudelands Rovers
Waterside (Wellington) 6 – 2 Adriatic (Wellington)

* Te Atatu won on corners

† Due to the regional nature of the early part of the competition, Caversham and Invercargill United both progressed to a regional play-off, despite their losses in this round of the competition

Fourth Round

Canterbury University 3 – 1 Riccarton
Douglas Villa (Masterton) 2 – 1 Masterton United
Ellerslie 4 – 3 Eden
Hamilton 5 – 3 Affco Rangers (Ngaruawahia)
Huntly Thistle 5 – 3 Tokoroa
Invercargill United 3 – 1 Caversham
Kiwi United 7 – 0 Levin United
North Shore United 3 – 0 Te Atatu
Papakura City 1 – 0 Manukau City
Seatoun 3 – 2 Waterside
Whangarei 2 – 1 Northern United (North Shore)

* Moturoa won on corners

Fifth Round

Christchurch United 5 – 1 Canterbury University
Douglas Villa 1 – 3 Seatoun
Dunedin City 2 – 0 Invercargill United
Huntly Thistle 2 – 4 Eastern Suburbs (Auckland)
Moturoa 1 – 7 Western Suburbs FC (Porirua)
Stop Out (Lower Hutt) 0 – 6 Wellington City
Whangarei 0 – 1 Takapuna City

Sixth Round

* Miramar Rangers won on corners.

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Western Suburbs FC 3 – 2 (aet) Wellington City
Wallace, Jeffery, Humphreys Cameron, Beck
Referee: E. Saker

References

  1. ↑ Hilton, T. (1991) An association with soccer. Auckland: The New Zealand Football Association. ISBN 0-473-01291-X. p. 76
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