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Otago United is a soccer club based in Dunedin, New Zealand.
It participates in the New Zealand Football Championship. Their home stadium is Sunnyvale in green island which is very much a park ground with no grandstand and no indoor viewing area. However for their first three seasons they were based at the enclosed Caledonian Ground (the traditional home of Otago Football) and in the fourth season they were based at the home of Otago Rugby Carisbrook.
In the inaugural season (2004/2005), Otago United finished second from bottom but they improved to finish 5th out of 8 in the next season. However Otago United went from bad to worse in 2006/07 finishing in dead last and ending the season being humiliated 8-0 by league winners Waitakere United. The following season was slightly better finishing in seventh, ahead of Canterbury United, despite achieving the record for the least goals scored in around robin season. The shortened 2008-09 season saw the team secure 2 wins (both 2-1 over Canterbury United, Home and Away) and Two draws (3-3 at home vs Waikato and 1-1 vs Wellington Away). Despite the season been seven games shorter they still managed to score three more goals than the previous season.
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Otago United was formed in 2004 to compete in the New Zealand Football Championship (NZFC). Based in Dunedin, Otago United, the sole representative from Federation 7, is one of eight teams competing in the NZFC. The club was formed by 21 clubs and 4 associations from within the geographic area from Timaru south to Invercargill.
Otago set the competition record for least goals scored in the Round Robin phase during the 2007-08 season.
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[edit] Current squad
As at the home game vs Canterbury United In the 2008/09 season
Head Coach Terry Phelan
Assistant Coach Malcolm Fleming
Physio Tim Dalman
Nationality given from place of birth for players with no international appearances.
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