1967 Chatham Cup

1967 Chatham Cup
Dates 2 September 1967
Championship venue Basin Reserve, Wellington
Champions North Shore United (4th title)
Runners-up Christchurch City
Championship match score 2 – 1
← 1966 1968 →

The 1967 Chatham Cup was the 40th annual nationwide knockout football competition in New Zealand.

The competition was run on a regional basis, with 17 regional associations holding separate qualification rounds. The winners of each of these qualification tournaments, along with the second-placed team from Auckland, qualified for the competition proper. In all, 95 teams took part in the competition, 32 from the South Island and 63 from the North Island. Note: Different sources record different numbers for the rounds of this competition, with some confusion caused by differing numbers of rounds in regional qualification.

The 1967 final

North Shore United returned to the final, this time with former international Ken Armstrong as coach. In the final they met Christchurch City - soon to change its name to Christchurch United, a recently amalgamated team featuring players who had previously been with several strong southern sides, among them future internationals Terry Haydon and Tony Gowans. The game was an exciting one. The Christchurch side dominated for the entire first half, but a combination of missed chances, the woodwork, a disallowed goal, and heroics from Shore keeper Dennis Mack kept the first half scoreless. In the second spell, Billy Rimmer scored for the Aucklanders early but the lead was soon cancelled out by a strike from Haydon. A late penalty for City was missed by Gowans, and Shore made the most of their chance by stealing a late winner through Ian Campbell.[1]

Results

Third round


Blockhouse Bay 3 – 0 Lynndale (Auckland)


Dunedin HSOB 3 – 0 Caversham


Eastern Union (Gisborne) 3 – 2 Riverina (Wairoa)


Hungaria (Wellington) 3 – 0 Johnson Villa (Wellington)


Maori Hill (Dunedin) 2 – 1 Saint Kilda


Miramar Rangers 2 – 1 Stop Out (Lower Hutt)


Northern (Dunedin) 5 – 2 Mosgiel


Petone 3 – 3¶ Western Suburbs FC (Wellington)


Papatoetoe 6 – 1 Massey Rovers


Queens Park (Invercargill) 6 – 0 Old Boys (Invercargill)


Shirley-Nomads 2 – 1 Rangers (Christchurch)


Waterside (Wellington) 5 – 2 Lower Hutt City


Western (Christchurch) 7 – 0 Christchurch Celtic

* Won by Suburbs on toss of coin
† Won by North Shore on corners
¶ Won by Western Suburbs on corners

Fourth round


Dunedin HSOB 1 – 0 Maori Hill


Eastern Union (Gisborne) 3 – 1 Blockhouse Bay


Gore Wanderers 2 – 1 Queens Park


Invercargill Thistle 3 – 2 Invercargill United


Rotorua City 5 – 0 Hamilton


Waterside (Wellington) 3 – 0 Petone


Western Suburbs FC (Wellington) 12 – 1 Masterton Athletic


Whangarei 8 – 0 Kamo Swifts

Fifth round


Eastern Union 2 – 0 Whangarei


Invercargill Thistle 9 – 0 Gore Wanderers


Miramar Rangers 1 – 0 Waterside (Wellington)


Nelson Suburbs 2 – 3 (aet) Grosvenor Rovers (Marlborough)


Northern 1 – 0 Dunedin HSOB


North Shore United 3 – 2 Rotorua City

Quarter-finals


Christchurch City 12 – 1 Grosvenor Rovers

Semi-finals

* some sources give the result as 2-1 aet

Final

2 September 1967
North Shore United 2 – 1 Christchurch City
Rimmer, Campbell Haydon
Basin Reserve, Wellington
Referee: D.W. Grant

References

  1. ↑ Hilton, T. (1991) An association with soccer. Auckland: The New Zealand Football Association. ISBN 0-473-01291-X. pp. 74-5
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