Full name | Tawa AFC | ||
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Founded | 1971 | ||
Ground | Redwood Park, Tawa | ||
League | Central League 2 | ||
2024 | Capital Premier, 5th of 10 (promoted) | ||
Tawa AFC is an association football club in Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand. They currently compete in the Capital 1 run by Capital Football.
Tawa highest men's honour is winning the, as then known, Central League in 1994. [1] Since then, their second best finish was in 2009 when they won the Capital Premier League. [2]
The highest honour Tawa has got in the Women's game is winning the Wellington Premier Women's League in 2005. [3]
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