Queenstown Rovers FC

Queenstown Rovers FC
Full name Queenstown Rovers Football Club
Nickname(s) Rovers
Founded 1996
Ground Queenstown Events Centre, Queenstown
Coach Darren Rewi/Steve Henderson
League ODT FootballSouth Premier League
2012 ODT 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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