Ngaruawahia United
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| Full name | Ngaruawahia United Association Football Club |
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| Founded | 1968 |
| Ground | Centennial Park, Ngaruawahia |
| Capacity | Public Park |
| League | Northern Region Football League |
| 2016 | Division 2 |
Ngaruawahia United AFC is an association football club based in Ngaruawahia, New Zealand. They compete in the Northern League Second Division.
Ngaruawahia United AFC play their home matches at Centennial Park, Ngaruawahia.
The club was formed in 1968 as Ngaruawahia United, made up primarily of the teenagers attending Ngaruawahia High School. Following the amalgamation of Ngaruawahia United and Affco Rangers in 1977 the club became known as Ngaruawahia-Affco United. Several years later the name Affco was dropped from the title.
The Ngaruawahia club website is gradually accumulating what will be an exhaustive record of the club's history, from its roots in 1921 and its re-emergence in 1968. Material from media records, administrative papers, photographs and tables are being added, and are immediately available on the site under the "Archives" menu. Over 68,000 photos and videos of matches and teams from 1964 to 2016 are available on the website.
In 1998 Ngaruawahia United went on a romantic Chatham Cup run that took the small club from the North Waikato all the way to the semi-finals. Ngaruawahia United occupied the sports headlines in New Zealand until they finally met their nemesis in the form of Dunedin Technical. Playing away from home, Ngaruawahia United had several chances to cause an upset but it was the South Islanders who would prevail 2–0.
In 2006 former National League players Richard Harris and Gordon Glen Watson took over the coaching reins at the club and led the team to promotion from Northern League Division Two. The team went 20 league matches without defeat and finished runners-up to Papatoetoe AFC despite losing just one match all season and defeating Papatoetoe 3–1 at home and drawing 1–1 away in the final league game of the season.
Ngaruawahia United defeated Northern League First Division champions Onehunga Sports 2–1 in the Chatham Cup and enjoyed similar success against Northern League Second Division champions Papatoetoe. Ngaruawahia United finished runners-up to Onehunga-Mangere after suffering a 3–0 defeat at the Cambridge Pre-season Tournament. Earlier, Ngaruawahia United had beaten Waikato-rivals, Melville United, on penalties in an exciting encounter that finished 3–3 after Ngaruawahia had taken a 3–0 lead.
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