Northern Rovers Football Club is a Semi-Professional

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club based in Glenfield,

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. Formed in 2020 as an amalgamation between

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and Forrest Hill-Milford United, Northern Rovers men's team currently competes in the

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, while the women's team competes in the NRFL Premiership which is part of the qualifying leagues for the

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. The club also competes in both the Chatham and

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s, New Zealand's premier knockout tournaments for men and women. Both teams received byes in the 2021 Chatham Cup and

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for the preliminary and first round, along with other ranked teams. The men got their first win of the Chatham Cup when they beat West Hamilton 4–0, however they were deemed to have fielded an ineligible player and the result was overturned. The women's team won their first game 9–1 over

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in the Kate Sheppard Cup.

Current squad

Honours

* Northern League **Champions (3): 2002, 2003, 2014 *

**Champions (5): 1976, 1996, 2013, 2015, 2019 * NRFL Conference **Champions (2): 1976, 1987

Notes

References

External links

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