Home comforts for past winners in first round draw for Chatham Cup

Four heavyweights of past Chatham Cups have all landed home ties in the first round of the 2024 competition.

Holders and seven-time winners Christchurch United will host Western, who are four-time winners of the trophy but last raised it in 1955.

Six-time winners North Shore United will play neighbours Takapuna in a local derby.

Cashmere Technical, who won the cup in 2021, will play Canterbury Premier League side Burwood.

Dunedin’s Northern club, who were founded in 1888 and claim to be the oldest continuously operating football club in the Southern Hemisphere, will host Waihopai in the first round. Northern won the cup in 1959 and 1961.

Meanwhile, after beating Naenae 3-2 in the preliminary round, Greytown have been rewarded for their first-ever win in the Chatham Cup with an away tie at Tawa in the first round.

Eighty-two clubs will play in the first round, while 23 clubs have received byes.

First round draw

Games to be played over weekend of May 10-13, 2024

Northern region

Te Awamutu v Waikato Unicol

Ngaruawahia United v University of Auckland

Beachlands Maraetai v West Auckland

Hibiscus Coast v Waiuku

Papatoetoe v Northern United

Claudelands Rovers v Bucklands Beach

Waiheke United v Te Atatu

Waitemata v AFC Bohemian Celtic

Papakura City v Cambridge

Taupo v Franklin United

Central United v Northland

Northern Rovers v Mount Albert Ponsonby

Ellerslie v Otorohanga

Papamoa v Fencibles United

Metro v Oratia United

Albany United v South Auckland Rangers

Onehunga Mangere United v Matamata Swifts

Ngongotaha v Manukau United

North Shore United v Takapuna

Otumoetai v Te Puke United

Central region

Palmerston North Marist v Havelock North Wanderers

Paekakariki v Victoria University

Brooklyn Northern United v Upper Hutt City

Stokes Valley v Seatoun

Tawa v Greytown

Southern region

Nelson Suburbs v Richmond

Tahuna v FC Nelson

Cashmere Technical v Burwood

Waimakiriri United v UC Football

Christchurch United v Western

Coastal Spirit v FC Twenty 11

Nomads United v Halswell United

Geraldine v Otago University

Green Island v Queens Park

Thistle v Mosgiel

Wanaka v West End

Northern Hearts v Grants Braes

Northern v Waihopai

Roslyn Wakari v Queenstown

Byes

The following clubs receive byes in the first round:

Northern region: Auckland City, Western Springs, Birkenhead United, Eastern Suburbs, Bay Olympic, Auckland United, Manurewa, Tauranga City, East Coast Bays, Melville United, Hamilton Wanderers, West Coast Rangers.

Central region: Miramar Rangers, Wellington Olympic, Napier City Rovers, Western Suburbs, Waterside Karori, Wellington Phoenix Reserves, Petone, North Wellington, Island Bay United, Stop Out.

Southern region: Dunedin City Royals.

Key dates

Second round
Weekend of May 31-June 2, 2024

Third round
Weekend of June 14-16, 2024

Fourth round
Weekend of July 5-7, 2024

Quarter-finals
Weekend of July 26-28, 2024

Semi-finals
Weekend of August 16-18, 2024

Final
Sunday September 8, 2024

Preliminary round results

Games played on Thursday April 25, 2024

AFC Bohemian Celtic 2 (Sean O’Loughlin 2′, 19′)
West Hamilton United 1 (Jonathan Reid 72′)

Northern United 2 (Brett Kennedy 4′, Lockee Christian 46′)
Uni-Mount Bohemian AFC 1 (Luc Hamill 63′)

Pukekohe 1 (Charlie Seabrook 33′)
Matamata Swifts 2 (Peter Shannon 21′, Blake Bibby 45′)

Otorohanga 4 (Jamie Walker 29′, 54′, Waikato Ball 36′, Mason Apperley 55′)
Colo Boys 0

Mangere United 1 (Pawan Singh 52′)
South Auckland Rangers 3 (Josh Harford 42′, 83′, Ellis Breadmore 80′)

Upper Hutt City 7 (Matthew Warbrick 20′, Campbell Webster 22′, 28′, Elliot Porter-wallis 36′, Isaac Adams 80′, David Warbrick 80′, Matthew Fong 90’+1′)
Lower Hutt City 0

Paekakariki 1 (Cody Thorpe 65′)
Wainuiomata 0

Stokes Valley 8 (Dan Close 21′, 47′, Joshua Hinton 45′, Adam Ross 60′, 75′, 80′, Stephen Thomas 85′, Tim Woods 87′)
Carterton 0

Greytown 3 (Brodie Palmer 8′, Jarrod MacDonald 45′, Andy Traill 52′)
Naenae 2 (Cam Cross 25′, 90+1′)

Victoria University 2 (Lachlan Gilbert 19′, Jake Nicholson 22′)
Douglas Villa 1 (Josh McMenamin 35′)

Wellington Marist 1 (Lathim Greig 55′)
Seatoun 2 (own goal 6′, Ryan Geusebroek 45′)

Te Kotahitanga 3 (Taylor de Vries 38′, Lewis Jackson 90+5′, own goal 99′)
Tawa 3 (Dan Rose 71′, Munashe Zitye 90+4′, 97′)
*Tawa won 3-2 on penalties, after extra time

Wellington United 1 (Matthew Quin 47′)
Brooklyn Northern United 3 (Jake Sowersby 45′, Ciaran Kelly 45+3′, Dagmawi Weldeyohanes 45+4′)

Games played on Saturday April 27, 2024

Tikipunga 1 (Tyran Kitchen 15′)
Papatoetoe 10 (Matthew Ernst 7′. Evinish Aniket Prasad 17′, 23′, 62′, 88′, Christopher Groen 25′, 81′, 87′, Aakash Kumar 30′ pen, 90′)

Whanganui Athletic 0
Palmerston North United 2 (Nathan Cooksley 51′, Benjamin Mori 80′)

New Plymouth Rangers 1 (Devan Leggett 43′)
Havelock North Wanderers 3 (Guy Reeves 54′, Tom Speers 60′, Ollie Chapman 67′)

FC Nelson 9 (Tim Newson 3′, 53′, James Harris 23′, Tjark Hansen 45’+1′, Finn Rudy 60′, Jamane Wilson 61′, Canaan Khupchawn 76′, Andres Viveros Viveros Enrriquez 88′, 89′
Motueka 0

Mapua Rangers 0
Richmond 2 (Sam Barnett 48′, Findley Mold 71′)

Western 2 (Nicholas King 2′, Scott Zimmerman 40′)
St Albans Shirley 1 (Guilherme Simon 86′)

Parklands United 3 (Miles Gruschow 11′, James Bailey 32′, Jack Norris 90+8′)
Burwood 4 (Christopher Braithwaite 13′, Jack Woolcott 45+3′, Elijah Austen 101′, Joe Davis 115′)
*After extra time

Games played on Sunday April 28, 2024

Preliminary round

Sperm Whales 1 (Will East 9′)
University of Auckland 3 (Luke Spurr 60′, Lucas Andersen 83′, Tadiwa Masiyakurima 90+1’pen)

Waimakariki United 13 (Danny Loney 15′, 27′ pen, 40′ pen, 45’+4′, 59′, 84′, Liam Paterson 18′, Daniel Ribeiro De Abreu 49′, 72′, 88′, Liam Brandso 57′, Sebastian De Bono 67′, 90′)
Oxford 0

Game played on Monday April 29, 2024

High School Old Boys 0
Halswell United 2 (scorers not advised)

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