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Queenstown Rovers FC
Full nameQueenstown Rovers Football Club
Nickname(s)Rovers
Founded1996
GroundQueenstown Events Centre, Queenstown
CoachDarren Rewi/Steve Henderson
LeagueODT FootballSouth Premier League
2012ODT FootballSouth Premier League, 7th

Queenstown Rovers is a semi-professional association football club in Queenstown, New Zealand, they are currently playing in the ODT FootballSouth Premier League.

Their home games are played at the Frankton Events Centre. The team are notable within the league for the strong influence of foreign players.

Queenstown are five-times winners of the Donald Gray Memorial Cup, the premier tournament in soccer in Southland, New Zealand.

Club history

The team gained notoriety in May 2007 when a brawl erupted during a Chatham Cup match between Queenstown and Invercargill club Queens Park which was fierce enough for local police to become involved.[1]

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