The 2011 ASB Chatham Cup is New Zealand's 84th knockout football competition.

2011 Chatham Cup
Tournament details
Venue(s)Memorial Park, Palmerston North
Dates28 August 2011
Final positions
ChampionsWairarapa United (1st title)
Runner-upNapier City Rovers
Tournament statistics
Jack Batty Memorial CupScott Robson (Wairarapa United)
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The 2011 competition had a preliminary round, a qualification round, and four rounds proper before quarter-finals, semi-finals, and a final. Competition was run in three regions (northern, central, southern) until the quarter-finals, from which stage the draw was open. In all, 120 teams entered the competition.

The 2011 final edit

With both finalists coming from the lower North Island, it was decided by NZF to hold the final at a neutral venue in the same part of the country. As such, Palmerston North's Memorial Park played host to the final for the first time.[1]

The final was played in front of a crowd of some 3,000 spectators. Underdogs Wairarapa won the final largely through their Pacific Island combination of Seule Soromon and Pita Rabo. They took the lead in the 24th minute after a period of pressure, when striker Soromon latched onto a cross from right winger Dale Higham, heading the ball past Hawke's Bay goalkeeper Shaun Peta. Early in the second half, Wairarapa failed to double the lead, when a penalty taken by their captain Adam Cowan hit the woodwork. Napier came back strongly, scoring an equaliser through Fergus Neil in the 67th minute. From this point, however, the game was largely under Wairarapa's control, and a late goal from Rabo secured the win.[2]

The Jack Batty Memorial Cup for the final's most valuable player was awarded to Wairarapa's Scott Robinson.

Results edit

Second round edit

Warkworth0 – 2Hibiscus Coast
Manurewa1 – 1*Lynn-Avon United
Metro2 – 4Waitakere City
Takapuna4 – 1Mangere United
Upper Hutt2 – 0Tawa
Red Sox Manawatu2 – 1Taradale
Stop Out5 – 0Inglewood
Woolston Technical0 – 0*Western
Roslyn-Wakari2 – 0Northern
Otago University5 – 1 (aet)Grants Braes
Southend United0 – 4Caversham
* Won on penalties by Manurewa (5-4) and Western (4-1)
Central United, East Coast Bays, Melville United, Onehunga Sports, and Three Kings United received byes to the Third Round.

Third round edit

Westlake BHS3 – 4Waitemata
Roberts   30', Buswell   35', Groen   50' Corner   1', Aalbers   70', Goldsmith   75' (pen.), Williams   84'

Hamilton Wanderers1 – 2Manurewa
Van Ewert Roberts, Kay

East Coast Bays1 – 2 (aet)Onehunga Sports
Bresnahan Day, Jabir

Glenfield Rovers0 – 2Three Kings United
Margetts, Del Monte

Bay Olympic8 – 0Hibiscus Coast
Strom 3, Holloway 2, McKenzie, Coombes, Gardyne

Birkenhead United3 – 2Melville United
Davies, Boss, Hobson-McVeigh Douglas, Chewins

Waitakere City3 – 1Takapuna
Emblen, McDonald, Musa Morrow

Forrest Hill Milford United1 – 9Central United
Perkavic Mulligan 3, Corrales 3, Hogg, Feneridis, Kelly

Petone0 – 2Palmerston North Marist
Mosquera   1', 34'

Wellington United5 – 2Upper Hutt
Alderdyce   20', Pumpido   55', Tade   70', Harris   82', Little   85' Garcias   58', 89'

Red Sox Manawatu0 – 6Wairarapa United
Cowen 4, Higham, Soromon

Stop Out0 – 1Napier City Rovers
Wilson   21'
Referee: Andrew Phillips

Christchurch United0 – 1 (aet)Dunedin Technical
Smith   109'

Roslyn-Wakari5 – 1Otago University
Cunningham 2, Govan, Still, Pollak Stone

Caversham7 – 2Western
Chang 2, Fleming 2, Rodeka, Jackson, ? (o.g.) [1] Sansom, House

Richmond Athletic3 – 5Coastal Spirit
Wright 2, Olea Turnbull2, Gerhardt, Stewart, Wellbourn (pen.)

Fourth round edit

Manurewa1 – 0Birkenhead United
O'Brien   84'
Referee: Cory Mills

Bay Olympic5 – 0Waitemata
McKenzie 2, Gardyne, Butler, Al Shamsi

Onehunga Sports4 – 1Three Kings United
Murphy, Shaker, Day, Haviland ?

Waitakere City1 – 0Central United
Linderboom   83'



Roslyn-Wakari1 – 2Dunedin Technical
Govan Burgess 2

Caversham6 – 4Coastal Spirit
Ross   35', Schwarz   47', Overton   49', 79', Fleming   85', Hancock   86' [2] Wellbourn   41', Nicol   62', Turnbull   67', 80'
Referee: E. Cook

Quarter-finals edit

Onehunga Sports0 – 4Caversham
Fleming   22' (pen.), Jackson   53', 65', Hancock   82'
Waikaraka Park, Onehunga

Napier City Rovers3 – 2 (aet)Manurewa
Wilson   59' (pen.), 71', Single   103' Kay   6', Bodman   54'
Park Island, Napier
Referee: Jamie Cross

Wairarapa United4 – 1Waitakere City
Shailer   5', 44', Cowen   72', Sabatu   81' Linderboom   29'
Colin Pugh Sports Bowl, Masterton
Referee: Matt Conger

Dunedin Technical3 – 3 (aet)*Bay Olympic
Burgess   83', 103', 112' McKenzie   57' (pen.), Cunneen   110', Collett   114'
Referee: Allan Martin
* Won on penalties by Bay Olympic (5-3)

Semi-finals edit

Napier City Rovers2 – 1Caversham
Wilson   49' (pen.), Stevenson   59' Jones   4'
Park Island, Napier
Referee: Nick Waldron

Bay Olympic0 – 1Wairarapa United
Soromon   47'
Olympic Park, Auckland

Final edit

References edit

  1. ^ nzfootball.co.nz Archived 24 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine, 17 August 2011. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
  2. ^ Richardson, Daniel (28 August 2011). "Soccer: Wairarapa Utd win Chatham Cup". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 15 September 2011.