Puaikura FC

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Puaikura
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Ground Avarua National Stadium
Ground Capacity 3,000
Manager Flag of New Zealand.svg Matt Calcott
League Cook Islands Round Cup
2017 3rd

Puaikura FC (also known historically as Arorangi FC [1] ) is a Cook Islands football club located in Arorangi, Cook Islands. It currently plays in Cook Islands Round Cup the main football league competition. They have won two Cook Islands Round Cup championships in 1985 and 1987 and one Cook Islands Cup in 1985 as Arorangi FC. They competed in the 2004 Cook Islands Round Cup under the name Puaikura FC, where they finished sixth. [2]

Cook Islands Island country in the South Pacific Ocean

The Cook Islands is a self-governing island country in the South Pacific Ocean in free association with New Zealand. It comprises 15 islands whose total land area is 240 square kilometres (92.7 sq mi). The Cook Islands' Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) covers 1,800,000 square kilometres (690,000 sq mi) of ocean.

Arorangi is one of the five districts that make up the island of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. It is located in the west of the island, to the northwest of the district of Titikaveka, and southwest of the district of Avarua.

Cook Islands Round Cup is the top division of the Cook Islands Football Association in Cook Islands. The winner qualifies to the OFC Champions League.

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Titles

1985, 1987, 2013, 2016
1985

Current squad

Squad for the 2017 OFC Champions League

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

FIFA's eligibility rules also demand that in men's competitions, only men are eligible to play, and that in women's competitions, only women are eligible to play.

No.PositionPlayer
1 Flag of the Cook Islands.svg GK Keegan Inia
2 Flag of the Cook Islands.svg DF Jarves Aperau
3 Flag of the Cook Islands.svg MF Anthony Samuela
4 Flag of the Cook Islands.svg FW Pekay Edwards
5 Flag of New Zealand.svg DF Anthony Hobbs
6 Flag of the Cook Islands.svg MF Kimiora Samuela
7 Flag of the Cook Islands.svg MF Samuel Maoate-Cox
8 Flag of the Cook Islands.svg MF Paul Poila
9 Flag of the Cook Islands.svg FW Campbell Best
No.PositionPlayer
10 Flag of the Cook Islands.svg MF Grover Harmon
11 Flag of the Cook Islands.svg DF Temata Karika
12 Flag of the Cook Islands.svg FW Conroy Tiputoa
13 Flag of the Cook Islands.svg DF Tyrell Barringer-Tahiri
14 Flag of the Cook Islands.svg FW Maro Bonsu-Maro
15 Flag of New Zealand.svg DF Kris Carpenter
16 Flag of New Zealand.svg MF Renta Yamamoto
17 Flag of the Cook Islands.svg MF Dwayne Tiputoa
18 Flag of New Zealand.svg MF Paul Rhodes

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