Metro (soccer)

Metro F.C.

Metro Football Club Emblem
Founded	1899
Ground	Phyllis Street Reserve, Mt Albert, Auckland, New Zealand
Ground Capacity	3000 500 + seated
Chairman	Douglas Rencher
Manager	Ants Owens
Coach	Mike Taylor
League	Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Division 1

Metro F.C. is a New Zealand amateur association football club, based in Auckland, that will compete in the Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Division 1 for the 2014 season.

The club was known as Metro College until the 1980s. They were members of the former top premier New Zealand football league the New Zealand National Soccer League which ended in 2004 to give way to the New Zealand Football Championship. The senior team is led by Mike Taylor – an experienced coach both as a head coach and assistant coach at many levels of NRFL & Regional Football, Mike will be assisted by DoF Ants Owens. Mike previously led the Metro NRFL Reserve Team in 2014. The club has a good history of playing at one of the two top level football leagues in New Zealand after the New Zealand Football Championship, they have also won one of the top leagues in New Zealand football the Northern League in the 1998 season and also managing to set a record of scoring the most goals in any match of the top New Zealand football national cup the Chatham Cup demolishing Norwest 21–0.

2014 has seen the signing of NZ International Ian Hogg.

Metro was formed in 1899 as the Tabernacle-Metropolitan Club by parishioners of the local Baptist Church, and claims to Auckland's second-oldest existing club after North Shore United (which was founded in 1898). The club shortened its name to Metropolitan in 1921. Following amalgamation with College United in 1929 it changed its name to Metro College; the name was finally shortened to Metro in 1986.

The club's home ground is Phyllis Street Reserve in Mount Albert, Auckland, where it has been based since 1950.