1967 Chatham Cup

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1967 Chatham Cup
Dates2 September 1967
Championship venue Basin Reserve, Wellington
Champions North Shore United (4th title)
Runners-up Christchurch City
Championship match score 2 – 1
1966
1968

The 1967 Chatham Cup was the 40th annual nationwide knockout football competition in New Zealand.

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The competition was run on a regional basis, with 17 regional associations holding separate qualification rounds. The winners of each of these qualification tournaments, along with the second-placed team from Auckland, qualified for the competition proper. In all, 95 teams took part in the competition, 32 from the South Island and 63 from the North Island. Note: Different sources record different numbers for the rounds of this competition, with some confusion caused by differing numbers of rounds in regional qualification.

The 1967 final

North Shore United returned to the final, this time with former international Ken Armstrong as coach. In the final they met Christchurch City - soon to change its name to Christchurch United, a recently amalgamated team featuring players who had previously been with several strong southern sides, among them future internationals Terry Haydon and Tony Gowans. The game was an exciting one. The Christchurch side dominated for the entire first half, but a combination of missed chances, the woodwork, a disallowed goal, and heroics from Shore keeper Dennis Mack kept the first half scoreless. In the second spell, Billy Rimmer scored for the Aucklanders early but the lead was soon cancelled out by a strike from Haydon. A late penalty for City was missed by Gowans, and Shore made the most of their chance by stealing a late winner through Ian Campbell. [1]

Terry Haydon is a former association football player who represented New Zealand at international level.

Tony Gowans is a former association football player who represented New Zealand at international level.

Results

Third round

Blockhouse Bay 3 – 0 Lynndale (Auckland)
Christchurch City 2 – 0 Christchurch Technical
Dunedin HSOB 3 – 0 Caversham
Eastern Union (Gisborne) 3 – 2 Riverina (Wairoa)
Hamilton 5 – 1 Claudelands Rovers
Hungaria (Wellington) 3 – 0 Johnson Villa (Wellington)
Maori Hill (Dunedin) 2 – 1 Saint Kilda
Miramar Rangers 2 – 1 Stop Out (Lower Hutt)
Napier Rovers 6 – 2 Moturoa
Nelson Thistle 2 – 2* Nelson Suburbs
New Brighton 4 – 0 Christchurch HSOB
Northern (Dunedin) 5 – 2 Mosgiel
North Shore United 1 – 1† Mount Wellington
Palmerston North Thistle 3 – 1 Kiwi United
Petone 3 – 3¶ Western Suburbs FC (Wellington)
Papatoetoe 6 – 1 Massey Rovers
Queens Park (Invercargill) 6 – 0 Old Boys (Invercargill)
Richmond Athletic 1 – 0 Nelson Rangers
Roslyn-Wakari 2 – 1 Otago University
Shirley-Nomads 2 – 1 Rangers (Christchurch)
Waterside (Wellington) 5 – 2 Lower Hutt City
Western (Christchurch) 7 – 0 Christchurch Celtic
Western Suburbs FC (Wellington) 4 – 2 Wanganui East Athletic

* Won by Suburbs on toss of coin
† Won by North Shore on corners
¶ Won by Western Suburbs on corners

Fourth round

Fifth round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Invercargill Thistle 1 – 4 Christchurch City
North Shore United 1 – 0 (aet)* Miramar Rangers

* some sources give the result as 2-1 aet

Final

North Shore United 2 – 1 Christchurch City
Rimmer, Campbell Haydon
Basin Reserve, Wellington
Referee: D.W. Grant

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References

  1. Hilton, T. (1991) An association with soccer. Auckland: The New Zealand Football Association. ISBN   0-473-01291-X . pp. 74-5