Cashmere Technical will look to add the Reta Fitzpatrick Cup to their league titles when they meet Haswell United at English Park on Wednesday evening.
Technical go into the final as favourites, having won the Women’s South Island League and the Mainlaind Premier League.
The side are also the current holders of the Reta Fitzpatrick Cup, which is sponsored by Mitsibishi Motors.
When they met in the Mainland Premier League, Technical ran out winners 14-1.
However, Halswell have reached the final of the Reta Fitzpatrick Cup without conceding a goal, and get the opportunity to win the competition which began 50 years ago — of which, they were the first winners.
Main photo: Cashmere Technical … playing for a place in the final. Photo credit: Jim Watts Photography / @jimwattsphoto
Mainland Football will live stream the match on their YouTube channel (see link below).
Fixture
Game to be played on Wednesday September 11, 2024
Reta Fitzpatrick Cup
Final
Cashmere Technical v Halswell United
English Park, Christchurch, 7pm
The Reta Fitzpatrick Cup
The Reta Fitzpatrick Cup is Mainland Football’s premier women’s knockout competition, named after one of women’s football’s pioneers in Canterbury.
She was team manager for Rangers (a founding club of Coastal Spirit) from 1976 to 1992. Fitzpatrick served as an administrator at Rangers and the Canterbury Women’s Football Association, becoming a Life Member of both.
Canterbury’s women’s knockout competition began in 1974 but was renamed after Fitzpatrick in 2005.
Past winners
1974: Halswell United
1975: New Brighton
1976: Rangers
1977: Rangers
1978: Halswell United
1979: Halswell United
1980: Nomads United
1981: Nomads United
1982: Nomads United
1983: Nomads United
1984: Rangers
1985: Rangers
1986: Rangers
1987: Rangers
1988: Nomads United
1989: Nomads United
1990: Nomads United
1991: Nomads United
1992: Nomads United
1993: Nomads United
1994: Hillsborough
1995: Kaiapoi Town
1996: New Brighton
1997: New Brighton
1998: Avonhead
1999: Not contested
2000: New Brighton
2001: Rangers
2002: Rangers
2003: Not contested
2004: Not contested
2005: New Brighton
2006: New Brighton
2007: Mainland PDA
2008: Coastal Spirit
2009: Coastal Spirit
2010: Not contested
2011: Coastal Spirit
2012: Coastal Spirit
2013: Western
2014: Coastal Spirit
2015: Coastal Spirit
2016: Cashmere Technical
2017: Coastal Spirit
2018: Waimakariri United
2019: Cashmere Technical
2020: Coastal Spirit
2021: Coastal Spirit
2022: Coastal Spirit
2023: Cashmere Technical
This story was first published on September 11, 2024.