1971 Chatham Cup

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1971 Chatham Cup
Dates11 September 1971
Championship venue Basin Reserve, Wellington
Champions Western Suburbs FC (1st title)
Runners-up Wellington City
Championship match score3 – 2 (aet)
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The 1971 Chatham Cup was the 44th annual nationwide knockout football competition in New Zealand.

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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

Fourth round

Fifth round

Sixth Round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

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

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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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