Waitakere City F.C. was a

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club. They merged with

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in 2021 to form

West Coast Rangers West Coast Rangers Football Club is an amateur football club based in Whenuapai, New Zealand. Formed in 2021 as an amalgamation between Waitakere City and Norwest United, West Coast Rangers previously competed in the Northern League which is ...

. They last competed in the

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League.

History

It was formed in 1989 with the purpose of representing West Auckland in the

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. At first the club was located in Western Springs, but following a merger with Massey AFC in 1991, it moved to its current location, at

Fred Taylor Park Fred Taylor Park is an association football ground based in Whenuapai, Auckland. It is the home ground of West Coast Rangers. It also is the former home to Waitakere City F.C. and Waitakere United before the clubs dissolved in 2020 and 2021 re ...

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, West Auckland. Waitakere City F.C. quickly established itself as one of New Zealand's top clubs, winning the

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on five occasions (1990, 1992, 1995, 1996 and 1997) and finishing as the runner-up once (1993). They also have three

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wins to their name (1994, 1995 and 1996) and they finished as runners-up four times (1999, 2004, 2013 and 2016).

Honours

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**Champions (5):

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

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**Champions (1): 2016 *

**Champions (3):

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

External links

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The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer WebsiteUS1 Waitakere City page
{{WUclubs Association football clubs in Auckland Association football clubs established in 1989 1989 establishments in New Zealand 2021 disestablishments in New Zealand