| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Venue(s) | Basin Reserve, Wellington |
| Dates | 11 September 1971 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | Western Suburbs FC (1st title) |
| Runner-up | Wellington City |
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.
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]
| Christchurch City | 4 – 1 | Burndale United (Christchurch) |
|---|---|---|
| Christian Youth | 3 – 1 | Wainuiomata |
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| Dunedin City | 3 – 0 | Caversham † |
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| Ellerslie | 3 – 1 | East Coast Bays |
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| Eden (Auckland) | 2 – 0 | Onehunga-Mangere |
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| Kiwi United (Palmerston North) | 1 – 0 | Palmerston City (Palmerston North) |
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| Manukau City | 2 – 1 | Manurewa |
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| Miramar Rangers | 1 – 0 | Johnson Villa (Wellington) |
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| Moturoa | 5 – 1 | New Plymouth United |
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| Napier City | 3 – 0 | Leopard United (Hastings) |
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| New Brighton | 6 – 2 | Shamrock (Christchurch) |
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| Papakura City | 2 – 1 | Papatoetoe |
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| Riccarton | 1 – 0 | Christchurch HSOB |
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| Seatoun | 2 – 0 | Brooklyn United |
|---|---|---|
| Takapuna City | 4 – 0 | Central (Auckland) |
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| Te Atatu | 4 – 4* | Pakuranga Town |
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| Tokoroa | 3 – 2 | Claudelands Rovers |
|---|---|---|
* 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
| Douglas Villa (Masterton) | 2 – 1 | Masterton United |
|---|---|---|
| Hamilton | 5 – 3 | Affco Rangers (Ngaruawahia) |
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| Huntly Thistle | 5 – 3 | Tokoroa |
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| Invercargill United | 3 – 1 | Caversham |
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| Kiwi United | 7 – 0 | Levin United |
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| Moturoa | 1 – 1* | New Plymouth Old Boys |
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| Napier City | 2 – 0 | Napier Rovers |
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| North Shore United | 3 – 0 | Te Atatu |
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| Papakura City | 1 – 0 | Manukau City |
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| Whangarei | 2 – 1 | Northern United (North Shore) |
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* Moturoa won on corners
| Douglas Villa | 1 – 3 | Seatoun |
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| Gisborne City | 3 – 0 | Kiwi United |
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| Hamilton | 1 – 4 | Mount Wellington |
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| Huntly Thistle | 2 – 4 | Eastern Suburbs (Auckland) |
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| Moturoa | 1 – 7 | Western Suburbs FC (Porirua) |
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| Napier City | 4 – 5 | Miramar Rangers |
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| Papakura City | 2 – 0 | Ellerslie |
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| Stop Out (Lower Hutt) | 0 – 6 | Wellington City |
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| Whangarei | 0 – 1 | Takapuna City |
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| Dunedin Suburbs | 3 – 1 | Dunedin City |
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| Miramar Rangers | 4 – 4 (aet)* | Gisborne City |
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| Seatoun | 0 – 2 | Wellington City |
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| Takapuna City | 2 – 0 | Papakura City |
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* Miramar Rangers won on corners.
| Takapuna City | 1 – 3 | Dunedin Suburbs |
|---|---|---|
| Western Suburbs FC | 2 – 0 (aet) | Dunedin Suburbs |
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| Western Suburbs FC | 3 – 2 (aet) | Wellington City |
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| Wallace, Jeffery, Humphreys | Cameron, Beck |