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Glenfield Rovers
Full nameGlenfield Rovers Association Football Club & Sports Club
Founded1960
GroundMcFetridge Park, Glenfield, Auckland
LeagueLotto Sport Italia NRFL Div 1B

Glenfield Rovers is a football (soccer) club based in North Shore City, New Zealand.

History

The club was founded as Chelsea FC - named not after the English team, but after the Chelsea Sugar Refinery where team members worked. The team's name was changed to its current name in 1963, the same year that the club moved to its present site in McFetridge Park. According to the club's website, the Gelnfield part of the club's new name reflected its new location, and "Rovers" was inspired by the fictional comic strip heroics of "Roy of the Rovers".[1] It should be noted that an earlier team called Chelsea also existed in the Auckland area in the 1920s and 1930s, though there is no known link between this club and the team which became Glenfield Rovers. The earlier team may, however, have also originated as a team for workers at the refinery.

Rovers currently play in the Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Div 1B. They were champions of the Northern League in 2002 and 2003, missing out on promotion to the 2003 national league in the play-off series.

Glenfield Rovers' best performance in the Chatham Cup came in 2008, when they reached the semi-finals. They have reached the quarter-finals on two other occasions, in 1996 and 2010.

Notable players

Men

Women

References

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