1981 Chatham Cup

1981 Chatham Cup
Dates 22 August 1981
Championship venue Basin Reserve, Wellington
Champions Dunedin City (1st title)
Runners-up Mount Wellington
Championship match score 3 – 1
← 1980
1982 →

The 1981 Chatham Cup was the 54th annual nationwide knockout football competition in New Zealand.

Early stages of the competition were run in three regions (northern, central, and southern), with the National League teams receiving a bye until the Fourth Round of the competition. In all, 124 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 major talking-point of the 1981 competition was the giant-killing run of Stop Out, who caused upsets against the higher-ranked Nelson United, Miramar Rangers and Wellington Diamond United on their way to the semi-finals.[1]

The 1981 final

The final was a repeat of the 1980 final, but this time it was Dunedin City that finished victorious - the first win for any team from that southern city since 1961.

An early goal from a Billy McClure penalty put the Mount into the lead, but a brace of well-taken goals by Michael Glubb, complemented by a late strike from Terry Wilson were enough to take the cup south.[1]

Results

Third Round

Courier Rangers (Auckland) 0 – 7 Papatoetoe
Freyberg Old Boys (Palmerston N.) 1 – 2 Havelock North Wanderers
Horowhenua CPFP 3 – 2 Masterton
Kelston West 0 – 1 Waitemata City
Napier City Rovers 10 – 1 Taradale
Newlands Paparangi 1 – 4 Stokes Valley
Ngaruawahia Affco United 0 – 1 Rotorua City
Stop Out (Lower Hutt) 2 – 0 Nelson United
Taranaki United (New Plymouth) 1 – 6 Manawatu United (Palmerston N.)
Thames 0 – 4 Ellerslie
Waterside (Wellington) 3 – 0 Tawa
Western (Christchurch) 3 – 0 Shamrock (Christchurch)
Whangarei City 0 – 1 East Coast Bays

* Won on penalties by Papakura City (8-7)

Fourth Round

Horowhenua CPFP 1 – 5 Wellington Diamond United
North Shore United 3 – 0 Rotorua City
Stokes Valley 0 – 4 Wellington City

* Won on penalties by Christchurch Rangers (5-4)

Fifth Round

* North Shore United won 5-4 on penalties.

Quarter-finals

* Stop Out won 4-2 on penalties.

Semi-finals

Final

Dunedin City 3 – 1 Mount Wellington
Glubb 2, Wilson McClure (pen.)
Referee: N. Burt

References

  1. 1 2 Hilton, T. (1991) An association with soccer. Auckland: The New Zealand Football Association. ISBN 0-473-01291-X. p. 78
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