Cashmere Technical is an

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club based in

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. It was formed in early 2012 from the merger of two of the city's premier teams,

Cashmere Wanderers Cashmere Technical is an association football club based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was formed in early 2012 from the merger of two of the city's premier teams, Cashmere Wanderers and Woolston Technical. The two clubs had agreed to work t ...

and

Woolston Technical Cashmere Technical is an association football club based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was formed in early 2012 from the merger of two of the city's premier teams, Cashmere Wanderers and Woolston Technical. The two clubs had agreed to work ...

. The two clubs had agreed to work together in early 2011, and the

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which devastated their home city and resulted in the loss of many playing facilities hastened their merger into a combined side. Cashmere Technical play in the

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, and have won the Chatham Cup twice as Cashmere but also once as Christchurch Technical Old Boys.

Club history

Christchurch Technical

Christchurch Technical was formed in 1923 as Christchurch Technical Old Boys. The club changed its name to Christchurch Technical in 1968. It was also known temporarily as Christchurch City, when Woolston Working Men's Club and Christchurch Technical briefly merged to play in the

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2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

and

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

Woolston Working Men's Club

Was an association football club based in Woolston, Christchurch, New Zealand. It was formed in 1951 as Waterside, before the name was changed to Woolston Working Men's Club in 1969. The team played in the New Zealand National Soccer League in 1978 and 1981, being relegated back into the regional leagues at the end of both seasons.

Woolston Technical

Woolston Technical was formed in 2007, as a result of a merger between of Christchurch Technical and Woolston Working Men's Club. The two sides had previously merged briefly between 2000 and 2002, playing under the name Christchurch City.

Cashmere Wanderers

Cashmere Wanderers was formed in 1951 as Atlantis AFC, named for its origins among emigrants to New Zealand aboard the Shaw Savill Line ship Atlantis, which arrived in Lyttelton in 1950. In 1961, the club changed its name to Wanderers to reflect its nickname at the time. Then in 1967 it became the Cashmere Wanderers.

Cashmere Technical

In 2012 the clubs of Woolston Technical and Cashmere Wanderers merged to form Cashmere Technical. In 2013, the club would go on to complete a treble, winning the

, Christchurch Cup and the national

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. The club would win the Mainland Premier League again in 2014 and 2015, as well winning the Chatham Cup again in

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

Season by season record

Titles

;As Cashmere Technical *

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

* Southern League:

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

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: 2018 * South Island Football Championship: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2020 *

: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 * English Cup: 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 *McFarlane Cup (Men's): 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022 *McFarlane Cup (Women's): 2016, 2022, 2024 *Hurley Shield: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2022 * Women's South Island League:

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

* Reta Fitzpatrick Cup: 2016, 2019, 2023,

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Men's Team of the Year: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020 *

Women's Team of the Year: 2016, 2023, 2024 ;Without Cashmere Technical *

1948 Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The current Constitutions of Constitution of Italy, Italy and of Constitution of New Jersey, New Jersey (both later subject to amendment) ...

: 2009, 2010 * English Cup: 1928, 1947, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1974, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2007 *

Men's Team of the Year: 2009 *Hurley Shield: 2009 *McFarlane Cup (Men's): 2009

References

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