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| Full name | Napier City Rovers | |
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| Nickname(s) | The Blues | |
| Founded | 1973 | |
| Ground | Bluewater Stadium, Napier, New Zealand | |
| Capacity | 4,000 (seated) | |
| Chairman | Graeme Sole | |
| Manager | Bill Robertson | |
| League | Central League National League | |
| 2024 | Central League, 3rd of 10 | |
Napier City Rovers is a football team based in Napier, New Zealand, as of 2024 competing in the Central League.
The team was founded in 1973 via a merger of Napier Rovers and Napier City.
Napier City Rovers have won New Zealand's premier knockout football competition (the Chatham Cup) five times, in 1985, 1993, 2000, 2002, and 2019 won the old New Zealand National Soccer League in 1989, 1993, 1998, and 2000. They represented New Zealand at the Oceania Club Championship in 2001, finishing third.
The Hawke's Bay region, of which Napier is a part, were represented by Napier City Soccer in the first year of New Zealand's new Football Championship in the summer of 2004, the only region that was not represented by an amalgamated franchise. That changed the following year with the change of name also to Hawke's Bay United. As with all teams making up the new franchises, they continue to compete in local winter football leagues, and also in the Chatham Cup.
Squad for the 2024 Central Premier League [1]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Kyle Baxter| Season | Qualifying league | League | New Zealand National League | Chatham Cup | Top scorer | ||||||||||||||||||
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| P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | Pos | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | Pos | Name | Goals | ||||
| 2021 | Central League | 18 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 37 | 51 | −14 | 17 | 7th | Cancelled [n 1] | 3R | Kailan Gould | 11 | |||||||||
| 2022 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 35 | 28 | +7 | 28 | 4th | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 23 | −9 | 6 | 8th | 4R | Jonathan McNamara | 9 | ||
| 2023 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 50 | 32 | +18 | 33 | 3rd | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 26 | −13 | 7 | 9th | 4R | Deri Corfe | 21 | ||
3 – 2 (stage 4 of 4)| Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | Position |
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| 2001 | Oceania Club Championship | Group A |  Unitech | 2–0 | 2nd | |
 Laugu United | 1–1 | |||||
 Lotoha'apai | 9–0 | |||||
 Foodtown Warriors Labasa | 4–0 | |||||
 Wollongong Wolves | 0–1 | |||||
| Semi Final |  Tafea | 2–4 | ||||
| 3rd play-off | Vénus | 3–2 | ||||
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