2011 Chatham Cup

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

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

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

Melville United, Onehunga Sports, and Three Kings United

received byes to the Third Round.

Third round

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

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Manurewa
Van Ewert		Roberts, Kay

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East Coast Bays	1 – 2 (aet)	Onehunga Sports
Bresnahan		Day, Jabir

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Glenfield Rovers	0 – 2	Three Kings United
		Margetts, Del Monte

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Hibiscus Coast
Strom 3, Holloway 2, McKenzie, Coombes, Gardyne

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Melville United
Davies, Boss, Hobson-McVeigh		Douglas, Chewins

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Takapuna
Emblen, McDonald, Musa		Morrow

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Central United
Perkavic		Mulligan 3, Corrales 3, Hogg, Feneridis, Kelly

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Palmerston North Marist
		Mosquera 1', 34'

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Wellington United	5 – 2	Upper Hutt
Alderdyce 20', Pumpido 55', Tade 70', Harris 82', Little 85'		Garcias 58', 89'

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Red Sox Manawatu	0 – 6	Wairarapa United
		Cowen 4, Higham, Soromon

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Napier City Rovers
		Wilson 21'

Hutt Park, Lower Hutt

Referee: Andrew Phillips

Christchurch United	0 – 1 (aet)	Dunedin Technical
		Smith 109'

Fourth round

2 July

Birkenhead United
O'Brien 84'

Referee: Cory Mills

Central United
Linderboom 83'

Wellington United	0 – 1 (aet)	Wairarapa United
		Soromon 95'

Coastal Spirit
Ross 35', Schwarz 47', Overton 49', 79', Fleming 85', Hancock 86'	[2]	Wellbourn 41', Nicol 62', Turnbull 67', 80'

Caledonian Ground, Dunedin

Referee: E. Cook

Quarter-finals

24 July

Caversham
		Fleming 22' (pen.), Jackson 53', 65', Hancock 82'

Waikaraka Park, Onehunga

Referee: Mirko Benischke

24 July

Manurewa
Wilson 59' (pen.), 71', Single 103'		Kay 6', Bodman 54'

Jamie Cross

24 July

Waitakere City
Shailer 5', 44', Cowen 72', Sabatu 81'		Linderboom 29'

Colin Pugh Sports Bowl, Masterton

Referee: Matt Conger

24 July

Dunedin Technical	3 – 3 (aet)*	Bay Olympic
Burgess 83', 103', 112'		McKenzie 57' (pen.), Cunneen 110', Collett 114'

Caledonian Ground, Dunedin

Referee: Allan Martin

* Won on penalties by Bay Olympic (5-3)

Semi-finals

14 August

Caversham
Wilson 49' (pen.), Stevenson 59'		Jones 4'

Park Island, Napier

Referee: Nick Waldron

14 August

Bay Olympic	0 – 1	Wairarapa United
		Soromon 47'

Olympic Park, Auckland

Referee: Mirko Benischke

Final

28 August

Napier City Rovers
Soromon 24', Rabo 86'	report	Neil 67'

Memorial Park, Palmerston North

Referee: Peter O'Leary

References

• NZ Football 2011 Chatham Cup full results
• Sporting Pulse 2011 Chatham Cup page
• Photographs from the final