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KEY CONTACTS

President and chair

Peter MartensMobile: 027 2943044

Vice chair

Steve ThomasMobile: 021 746863E: [email protected]

Secretary

Josh EasbyMobile: 021 0558854E: josh@hurricane–press.co.nz

Junior club co–captain

Catherine ClarkE: [email protected]

Junior club co–captain

Ingrid CookE: [email protected]

Treasurer (acting)

Craig ClarkMobile: 027 9153273E: [email protected]

Men’s club captain

Lee TurpittMobile: 027 2320100E: [email protected]

Women’s club captain

Fern FeaverMobile: 021 1323829E: [email protected]

Grounds

Harry BomansMobile: 027 4985075E: [email protected]

Facilities & Events

Tania ZeurenMobile: 027 2723830E: [email protected]

Bar manager

Fairlie MortonMobile: 021 2043412

Purchasing manager

Chrissy GoodinMobile: 021 307294E: [email protected]

Policy & planning

Pauline LewisMobile: 027 2747578E: [email protected]

Volunteer co–ordinator

Michaela McQuartersMobile: 021 621904E: [email protected]

Immediate past chairman

Greg ZeurenMobile: 027 5030629E: [email protected]

Senior gear

Jim ThomassenMobile: 022 4535432E: [email protected]

Treasurer (incoming)

Paul BlackstockMobile: 021 1282091E: [email protected]

Building project manager

Geoff WheelerMobile: 027 4952777E: Geoff @jetcreative.co.nz

Our club has a number of Facebook groups which you are invited to join. Search for Cambridge FC NZ (general club), Cambridge Football Club — Juniors or Cambridge Football Club — Women for the most popular.

2015 committee members

Keep in touch Club news, go to www.cambridgesoccer.co.nz

3RED: The matchday magazine of Cambridge FC

OFFICIAL MATCHDAY MAGAZINE

OF CAMBRIDGE FOOTBALL CLUB

Cambridge FC

John Kerkhof ParkVogel StCambridge 3434

Mailing address:PO Box 214Cambridge 3450

WWW.CAMBRIDGESOCCER.CO.NZ

Editor: Josh EasbyClub photographer: Louis Roberts.Copyright: None of the contents of this publication should be reproduced without prior permission.Inquiries: [email protected]

NZ Programme of the Year 2011

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A STORY IN the Waikato Times says an

athletics club at Tuakau might be forced

to close this summer because it can’t fi nd

enough volunteers to keep it going.

The out–going committee, all of whom feel they’ve done enough, said they had appealed to the membership for new volunteers but not one had come forward, despite the club having more than 160 children wanting to participate.

Clearly, it’s a shame for the kids who might miss out but the story is also a sign of how diffi cult it is becoming for organisations that depend on volunteers to keep going.

Josh Easby, the secretary of Cambridge Football Club, on the subject of volunteers ...

‘... time pressures on parents, particularly when both work, can restrict the number of volunteers ...’

Time pressures on parents, particularly when both work, can restrict the numbers who are willing and available to help.

Our club recently underwent an assessment for its Quality Club Mark (QCM) and discovered our volunteers contribute more than 30,000 hours of unpaid labour each year.

The key to ensuring we don’t fi nd ourselves in the same situation as the Tuakau athletics club is to keep reviewing how we best make use of our volunteers, and to continuously plan for succession.

A good example of how we’re trying to do this was the recent establishment of a linemarking team who have successfully managed the task of linemarking junior and senior pitches, which takes 22 hours of labour each week.

That group of about a dozen volunteers will also help guide us to fi nd the best way to deliver linemarking next year, whether that is through volunteer work or by using commercial contractors.

Another example is the current review of how our junior section operates, and the need for new roles and new volunteers.

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Club earns another awardCAMBRIDGE FC has landed another prestigious award — this time for quality

assurance.

CLUB NEWS

Peter Martens (left) and Josh Easby with the club’s QCM plaque. Photo: Graeme Blake (WaiBOP).

The club has earned the New Zealand Football’s Quality Club Mark (QCM).

It is one of only eight clubs in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty region, and fewer than 40 nationwide, to hold QCM 1 star – Developing Club accreditation.

“The award is quite an achievement for a club that tries to operate in a professional manner but entirely through the work of unpaid volunteers,” club president Peter Martens said.

“As part of the accreditation process, we had to calculate how many volunteers contribute and to what degree. We were surprised to realise that more than 100 volunteers collectively put in more than 30,000 hours of unpaid work a year for the club.

“That’s the equivalent of having about 14 full-time employees.”

Achieving QCM accreditation was a natural step for Cambridge. “This means that outside

assessors have looked at our club and instead of just us thinking we do a good job, other people have looked at it objectively, compared us to sets of standards and decided that we are doing a good job. And that’s really comforting,” said Martens.

New Zealand Football created the New Zealand Football Quality Club Mark to help football clubs perform at their peak. This is a

national partnership with the seven district Federations as well as 17 regional sports trusts and Sport New Zealand.

Quality Club Mark aims to promote continuous improvement in the way football is delivered and supports clubs as they adopt standards of best practice.

“Quality Club Mark means that Cambridge Football Club has demonstrated both desire and capability to achieve standards

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of best practice,” NZ Football’s community football director Cam Mitchell said in a letter confi rming the club’s QCM accreditation.

“The standards have been set by its parent body, leading to Cambridge Football Club delivering football in a safe environment for players, coaches, volunteers, administrators and parents.”

The QCM ‘1 star – Developing Club’ accreditation is valid from 2015 – 2017.

Football is a major contributor to healthy vibrant communities across New Zealand, with 83,633 registered junior, youth and college players, 24,557 registered senior players and 13,751 futsal players, all being supported by 1,000 offi cial referees and 6,000 coaches, plus thousands of volunteers.

“We acknowledge that we are only able to

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achieve this through clubs like Cambridge Football Club and therefore encourage partnership and support of Cambridge Football Club so that they can continue to deliver football in the community they serve,” Mitchell said.

The QCM follows several recent awards for the Cambridge club, including being named the Waipa Sports Club of the Year and the WaiBOP Football Club of the Year in 2014. The club also won last year’s Supreme Award in the Waipa Trustpower Community Service Awards.

Quality assurance award

Cambridge has set new records for its

junior teams and players this season.

With the season into its second half, the club has confi rmed that 430 junior players have registered this year — an increase of 90 (27%) on last year.

This makes Cambridge the second largest junior club in the region (behind Hukanui Rototuna FC), and signifi cantly bigger than the third.

The number of 8th-Open grade teams has risen from 20 to 28, and the club has introduced 151 Junior Kickers to the world’s most popular sport.

This year, WaiBOP Football have actively promoted girls-only football and Cambridge now has four girls teams in the junior ranks.

* If you want to volunteer to help our club’s juniors next season, please email [email protected]

Juniors set new records


Club to review coaching rolesCAMBRIDGE FC are seeking initial

expressions of interest from coaches and

team managers for its senior men’s and

women’s teams for next season.

With so many of the club’s senior teams faring well in their competitions, the club’s committee is keen to establish which coaches and managers will seek re-appointment for 2016 and which teams will need succession plans.Interested parties can indicate their

availability or seek more information by contacting the club secretary Josh Easby at [email protected] before September 30, 2015.The club’s aim is to make as many

appointments as possible this calendar year

so that planning can begin early for another successful season.Meanwhile, the club has appointed Mike

Woodlock and Patrick Woodlock as the coaches of our Under 19 squad to travel to the national youth tournament in Napier at Labour Weekend.Mike has taken our sides to Napier a number

of times in the past, reaching the fi nal of the satellite tournament fi ve years ago.Patrick is the captain of our club’s fi rst team

and coaches at Cambridge High School.The team will be co–managed by Chrissy

Goodin, Michaela McQuarters and Tania Zeuren.The Napier event is regarded as the country’s

premier youth tournament.


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THIS YEAR’S end of season senior

prizegiving will be held at the Cambridge

Town Hall on Friday October 16.

The success of last year’s function, at the same venue, was marked by a larger–than–usual attendance, encouraged by the switch to Friday night.

WITH ONLY two games to go in this

season’s WaiBOP Premiership, Cambridge

are nudging ever closer to this year’s title.

The club aims to win promotion to the Northern League second division and to do so, will need to win a two–legged play–off against Waitemata FC, who are the champions of the Auckland/Northern Football Conference.

The home leg of the play–off is planned for John Kerkhof Park on Saturday September 19 with the second leg in Auckland on Saturday September 26.

The club will encourage all its members and players, junior and senior, to get behind the team for the play–off s.

Let’s hope we can clinch the Waikato/Bay of Plenty title as well as promotion.


For latest club news, go to www.cambridgesoccer.co.nz


Fraser Nicholls (goalkeeper)Joined Cambridge in 2013 after fi ve years between the posts for Otorohanga, including two seasons of Federation 1. Four appearances for the Waikato All Stars .

Rex Fowler (goalkeeper)A promising young goalkeeper who has joined Cambridge from Hukanui-Rototuna.

Nathan Claridge (defender or midfi eld)Made his Northern League debut at 16. Won the club’s Young Player of the Year Award in 2011 when he captained the club’s U19s at the national youth championships.

Matt Wheeler (defender)A member of WaiBOP United’s youth team in the ASB Youth League for the past two summers, Wheeler rejoins Cambridge in 2015 after a spell with northern league club Ngaruawahia United.

Adrian Clark (defender)Experienced and reads the game well, played for top Wellington clubs Lower Hutt and Stop Out before joining Cambridge.

Henry Stephen (defender)Talented left–sided wide player with pace and an excellent cross, Stephen joins the Cambridge club for the 2015 season.

Kieran Hill (defender)A fi rst team regular at Ngaruawahia United until his transfer to John Kerkhof Park last year, he brings considerable Northern League experience to Cambridge.

Patrick Woodlock (midfi eld/captain)In his second spell at Cambridge, with Northern League experience here and with Wanderers and Ngaruawahia Utd. Waikato FC Youth player and Waikato age group rep .

Jason Szabo (forward or midfi eld)Experienced attacking midfi elder who has emigrated from the UK. Gets amongst the goals and was 2013 top scorer and ‘Player of the Year’ for our Waikato A team.

Josh Clark (defender or midfi eld)Made his Northern League debut at 15 and expected to return to Cambridge in mid–2015

Cambridge 2015: Back (from left) Bernardo Belladares, Sam Garmonsway, Rex Fowler, Kyle Wisnewski, Matt Wheeler, Tom Woutersen, Jason Szabo, Glen Carmichael, Fraser Nicholls. Front: Richard Armstrong, Henry Stephen, Adrian Clark, Jason Chewins, Nathan Claridge, Patrick Woodlock.

2015 squad


after playing for Murray State College, in Oklahoma, United States.

Ben Latham (defender or midfi eld)Played Northern League for Ngaruawahia United, joining them in 2011 as a 20–year–old before transferring to Cambridge in 2015. Played ASB Premiership with WaiBOP United in 2013–14 season.

Jason Chewins (defender or midfi eld)Rejoins Cambridge for 2015 after a spell with Northern League club Melville United, having won their Player of the Year title in 2011 and played national league football for Waikato FC. Before emigrating, Chewins set an all–time club record with 489 appearances for professional club Aldershot Town.

Glen Carmichael (defender or midfi eld)Joined Cambridge for the 2013 season after playing for Matamata Swifts in Northern League Divisions 1 and 2. Selected for last season’s Waikato All Stars team.

Robbie Greenhalgh (midfi eld/player coach)Signed for Cambridge in 2013 after an illustrious career as skipper of Northern League winners Bay Olympic, and a member of the Waikato FC national league squad. Previously at Central United and a former NZ U–17 international. Voted the Supporters’ Player of the Year for WaiBOP United after the 2014–15 ASB Premiership season.

Tom Woutersen (forward)Learned his football with Cambridge, helping win the U–19 Satellite Youth Tournament in Napier, before spending three seasons with Palmerston North Marist. Returned to Cambridge for 2013. Won the team’s Golden Boot in 2013.

Adam Brady (forward)Joins the club as a new arrival from the United Kingdom, where he played for Melbourne Inn in the Plymouth and West Devon Combination Football League.

Kyle Wisnewski (winger)This 17-year-old member of the WaiBOP futsal team has transferred to Cambridge from Melville United for the 2015 season.

Sam Garmonsway (defender or winger)Former Cambridge High School player who joined the club in 2014 after playing for Universities AFC while studying at Canterbury University.

Richard Armstrong (defender)Joined Cambridge for the start of the 2014 season from Ngaruawahia United where he was a regular in the Northern League Reserves Division.

Jordan Sylvester (defender or winger)Joined Cambridge for the 2014 season from Universities AFC, Christchurch.

Elton Leri (forward)Joined Cambridge in May 2015 from Hastings Hibernian, Hawke’s Bay.

Gavin Clark (forward)Signed from Waikato Unicol after fi nishing fourth on the 2014 Federation 1 goalscorers table with the highest tally of any Waikato–based player.

Shaun Kipara (forward)Joined Cambridge from Northern League outfi t AFC Fury in May 2015. A former WaiBOP United youth player and featured in last season’s WaiBOP All Stars match.

Brett Clark (coach)Veteran player with the club and former fi rst team player who has taken the reins in 2015, leading a newly–formed coaching group.

Mike Woodlock (assistant coach)Coached Cambridge between 2008 and 2010 in Northern League Division 2 and brings vast experience to the 2015 coaching team.

Kim Brierley (goalkeeper coach)Runs the Just4Keepers goalkeeping academy, coaches WaiBOP Federation goalkeepers and has been the WaiBOP women’s ASB League goalkeeper coach for the past two seasons.

Chrissy Goodin (team manager)The fi rst woman to manage a Cambridge men’s fi rst team, Goodin is an established member of the women’s fi rst team and serves on the club’s executive committee.


Mar 28 Matamata Swifts a D 0–0Apr 4 Tauranga Old Blues a D 2–2Apr 11 West Hamilton h W 4–0Apr 18 Ngongotaha a W 4–1 May 2 Whakatane Town a W 2–1May 9 ByeMay 16 Claudelands Rovers a W 1–0May 23 Tokoroa h D 1–1May 30 Te Awamutu h W 2–1Jun 13 Te Puke United a L 0–2Jun 27 Matamata Swifts h W 4–0Jul 4 Tauranga Old Blues h W 3–0Jul 11 West Hamilton a L 1–2Jul 25 Kawerau Sports a L 1–2Aug 1 Whakatane Town h W 4–2Aug 8 ByeAug 15 Claudelands Rovers h D 2–2Aug 22 Tokoroa a L 1–2Aug 29 Te Awamutu a D 1–1Sep 5 Te Puke United h 12.30pm

Sep 12 Kawerau Sports h 12.30pm

Sep 19 Ngongotaha h 12.30pm

Team P W D L F A Pts

Kawerau Sports 16 13 1 2 72 18 40West Hamilton 17 13 1 3 45 20 40Claudelands Rovers 17 12 2 3 54 31 38CAMBRIDGE 17 8 5 4 33 18 29

TE PUKE UNITED 16 8 3 5 45 34 27

Tokoroa 18 6 6 6 34 25 24Matamata Swifts 16 5 5 6 23 33 20Te Awamutu 19 4 5 10 24 43 17Tauranga Old Blues 19 4 1 14 21 49 13Whakatane Town 16 3 2 11 20 50 11Ngongotaha 17 2 1 14 20 70 7

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WEEKEND FIXTURES

Claudelands Rovers v Tauranga Old BluesWhakatane Town v NgongotahaTokoroa v Matamata SwiftsKawerau Sports v Te AwamutuWest Hamilton Utd — bye

CHAMPIONSHIP

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TODAY’S VISITORS

Otumoetai

Founded: 1964

Ground: Ferguson Park

Last season: 5th (Federation 1)

Today’s visitors, Otumoetai FC, formed in

1964 as a small club catering for just a few

players.

These days, the club fi elds many teams from fi ve-year-olds to veterans, sharing their facilities with fi ve other groups as part of the Otumoetai Sport and Recreation Club Inc.

Originally based at Belluevue Park, the club moved to Ferguson Park in 1975 and then benefi tted from a doubling in size of their clubroom facilities in 1988. After two years trialling a joint eff ort programme, 1994 saw the Albion Cricket Club formally amalgamated with the soccer club to become Otumoetai Sport and Recreation Club Inc. This gives the facilities at Ferguson Park all–year usage and the Tauranga Astronomy Club and the Matua Scouts and Guides have since also adopted the expanded clubrooms as their home.

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Mar 28 Matamata Swifts a W 4–0Apr 4 Tauranga City Utd a W 4–2Apr 11 Tauranga Old Blues h L 0–1Apr 18 Ngongotaha a W 2–1May 2 Melville United a W 4–1May 9 Tauranga Boys Coll. h W 2–0May 16 Rotorua United a W 2–0May 23 Katikati h W 2–0May 30 Papamoa h W 4–1Jun 13 Otumoetai a D 0–0Jun 27 Matamata Swifts h W 3–1Jul 4 Tauranga City Utd h W 8–0Jul 11 Tauranga Old Blues a W 3–1Jul 18 Ngongotaha h L 0–2Jul 25 Waikato Unicol a W 4–0Aug 1 Melville United h W 2–1Aug 8 Tauranga Boys Coll. a W 5–2Aug 15 Rotorua United h W 4–0Aug 22 Katikati a W 2–1Aug 29 Papamoa a W 2–0Sep 5 Otumoetai h 2.45pmSep 12 Waikato Unicol h 2.45pm

Team P W D L F A Pts

CAMBRIDGE 20 17 1 2 56 13 52

Ngongotaha 18 14 3 1 50 18 42Melville United 17 11 3 3 32 14 36Tauranga Old Blues 18 10 1 7 30 30 31Papamoa 21 7 7 7 31 31 28OTUMOETAI 18 7 4 7 26 20 25

Waikato Unicol 15 6 3 6 27 30 21Matamata Swifts 18 5 5 8 20 27 20Rotorua United 19 6 1 12 24 33 19Katikati 19 5 1 13 33 48 16Tauranga Boys’ College 21 4 2 15 26 57 14Tauranga City United 20 2 5 13 19 53 11

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Tom Woutersen 13 Jason Szabo 10Glen Carmichael 8 Robbie Greenhalgh 6 Henry Stephen 4 Patrick Woodlock 3 Kieran Hill 2 Ben Latham 2Jordan Silvester 2Matt Wheeler 2Jason Chewins 1Shaun Kipara 1Elton Leri 1Own goal 1

WEEKEND FIXTURES

Melville United v NgongotahaKatikati v Matamata SwiftsRotorua United v Tauranga City UnitedTauranga Boys College v Tauranga Old BluesWaikato Unicol v Papamoa

PREMIERSHIP

‘Two games to go for Cambridge’



GK Fraser Nicholls2 Tom Woutersen3 Nathan Claridge4 Sam Garmonsway5 Glen Carmichael6 Kyle Wisnewski7 Adam Brady8 Jason Szabo9 Henry Stephen10 Shaun Kipara11 Kieran Hill12 Adrian Clark13 Jordan Silvester14 Patrick Woodlock (c)15 Ben Latham16 Matthew Wheeler17 Robbie Greenhalgh18 Elton LeriGK Rex FowlerCoach: Brett ClarkCoach: Robbie GreenhalghGoalkeeper coach: Kim BrierleyAssistant coach: Michael WoodlockTeam manager: Chrissy Goodin

GK Graeme Blissett2 Brad Coad3 Joe Dixon4 Shane Smith8 Tom Livesey9 Matt Collins10 Taylor Cresswell11 Daniel Miller12 Phil Fletcher13 James Milford14 Jordan Hudson15 Trent Hickman16 Andrew Stanley17 Russell Wakeley18 Anthony Hall19 Paul Sykes20 Dave WrightCoach: Richard O’Regan

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Our club’s most successful year

The club was named WaiBOP Football’s Club of the Year for 2014, chosen from the region’s 106 affi liated clubs.

The honour refl ected the work by Cambridge’s army of volunteers to not only provide football for its own members but also to stage regional and national events for the sport.

These include hosting WaiBOP–run coaching courses and game days for youngsters, as well as being the home ground for ASB Premiership side WaiBOP United.

Cambridge is one of six bases for national league football (the others are Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin).

Cambridge was named the 2014 Waipa District Sports Club of the Year and was a fi nalist in the Waikato Sports Club of the Year.

Its chairman, Greg Zeuren, was named Administrator of the Year for both Waipa District and for the Waikato, for his leadership of the club’s committee.

The club was also awarded the Supreme

Award (pictured) for the Waipa District’s Trustpower Community Awards, becoming only the second sports club to take the trophy which recognises services to the local

community.Our club was

a fi nalist at the national Trustpower Community Awards held in Wellington in late March.

Cambridge also won two WaiBOP Football Best Practice awards.

Success in 2014 also came on the pitch. Our senior men’s fi rst team won the Federation

Challenge Shield last year and went into 2015 as the holder. The team were runners–up in the Waikato/Bay of Plenty Federation Division 1.

Our women’s fi rst team won the Waikato Women’s Cup, beating the previously unbeaten Claudelands Rovers 2–1 in the fi nal.

Our Under 15 boys’ youth team won the Waikato/Bay of Plenty Nike Cup tournament, a feat repeated this year. The side also won the WaiBOP Federation U–15 Youth League.

CAMBRIDGE Football Club swept a number of prestigious awards in 2014 — a period

called the club’s “golden season” by the Cambridge Edition.

CELEBRATING OUR ACHIEVEMENTS

‘ ... a golden season for the Cambridge

Football Club’ — Cambridge Edition


In its early days, the teams played in light blue after the colours used by Cambridge University, England.1951: The club held its fi rst formal

meeting on March 20, 1951, appointing Viv Butler as its fi rst president, and R.S.Entwistle as its patron.

Butler’s support of English club Arsenal led to a change of club colours and from the mid-1950s, Cambridge teams have played in red and white strips.1957: The club played its home games

on the Town Square until 1957 when a two-room wooden shed was built on the Leamington Domain for £134.19.1964: On December 1, 1964, the

Cambridge Borough Council agreed to provide the club with land on the town belt in Vogel Street and plans were drawn up for the clubrooms to be built.1967: The club moved into the Vogel St

grounds, where it has been based since. The grounds were renamed John Kerkhof Park after Dutch immigrant John Kerkhof who, with members of his family and other supporters, built the clubrooms and changing facilities.

The grounds are now owned by the Waipa District Council but leased to the club on a long-term basis.1972: The club applied for its senior

men’s team to join the Northern League competition. 1974: Extensions to the clubrooms

and playing fi elds became necessary and were built in 1974, with new junior grounds established beside the Polo Club grounds further north on Vogel St.1978: The club elected its fi rst women

committee member.1983: Junior teams (11,12 and 13 year

olds) entered the Waikato competitions for

the fi rst time in 1983.1984: The club achieved its fi rst

signifi cant success at senior level, winning the Northern League’s 4th Division in 1984.1993: The club reached new heights

in 1993, winning the Northern League 2nd

division.1995: The club built a concrete car

park that’s still in use today. The car park is where the club sometimes erects temporary grandstands for major fi xtures.2005: The Waipa District Council

approved the transfer of the Polo Grounds to the football club for use by its junior players, while the polo club moved to new grounds in Lamb St, Leamington.2007: The old polo clubhouse was

knocked down to make way for a new junior building. The Cambridge junior teams celebrated their new home by winning all fi ve 8th-Open grade WJSA knockout trophies, a fi rst for both Cambridge and the WJSA.2008: The club’s main senior clubrooms

survived a tornado in late 2008 but suff ered damage to walls, roof and windows, while shattered glass was sprayed over the nearby number one pitch. Other sports clubs and community groups came to help the club and helped it rebuild.2010: The club launched a fi ve–year

plan for its membership which had now grown to more than 600 players, with men’s, women’s and junior teams.2011: After many seasons in the

Northern League the club was relegated from the Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Division 2 in 2011 after fi nishing 12th and losing the challenger series playoff vs Manukau City AFC.

The club won the New Zealand Match Programme of the Year Award for 2011.2012: The club elected to drop two

OUR CLUB’S HISTORY

From humble beginnings ...CAMBRIDGE Football Club has been serving its community since its formation in

1948 when football enthusiasts began organising games for two junior teams.


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divisions into the Waikato Bay of Plenty Football Federation Division Two to rebuild under coach Karl Dagnall and won promotion in 2012 to Waikato Bay of Plenty Football Federation Division One.

In 2012, Cambridge FC announced that John Kerkhof Park would also become the home base for Cambridge Baseball Club.2013: Cambridge FC and the

neighbouring Cambridge Harriers and Athletics Club began a partnership, enabling the football club to play some games at the adjacent athletics track while it developed John Kerkhof Park.

In 2013, the club won the Soccer Shop Waikato Plate and hosted premium events such as the Soccer Shop Waikato Cup Final, the Waikato v Bay of Plenty All Stars game, and the WaiBOP Women's All Stars v WaiBOP National League side.

In late 2013, the club was appointed as the home ground for fi ve ASB Premiership matches for new franchise WaiBOP United.

This meant Cambridge became one of six bases for national league football in New Zealand (the others are Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin).

The appointment led to the club becoming an all-year operation, with investment in better facilities including upgraded playing surfaces, new changing rooms (scheduled for mid–2014) and a new irrigation system.2014: The club's fi rst team fi nished

runners–up in the 2014 WaiBOP Federation Division 1, while the U-15 team won the Federation Youth League. Our women won the Waikato Women's Cup.

The Cambidge Lacrosse Club moved its playing base to John Kerkhof Park in 2014.

In 2014, the club won a series of high profi le awards for its work in football and in the wider community.

WaiBOP Football named the club its 2014 Club of the Year for its successful eff orts to host ASP Premiership fi xtures and other premium matches.

Cambridge also won two WaiBOP Best Practice awards in 2014 (for building partnerships with sponsors, and for the participation of women at our club).

The club was named Waipa District’s 2014 Supreme winner for the Truspower Community Awards, becoming only the second sports club to take this award. This

Senior clubrooms at John Kerkhof Park : Home since 1967 with major extensions added to the original building in 1974 and 2015.


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also led to the club’s nomination for the national Trustpower Community Awards to be held in Wellington in March 2015.

Cambridge completed its hat-trick of major awards in 2014, being named Waipa District’s Sports Club of the Year. We were fi nalists in the Waikato Sports Club of the Year while chairman Greg Zeuren was named Sports Administrator of the Year for both Waipa and the Waikato in 2014.2015: As the club entered its 68th season,

it did so as an all–year operation, providing winter football for 600+ players, spring/early summer 5-a-side football for social players and acting as a base for national league summer football.

It continued to make history — on February 6, 2015, it staged the fi rst game of beach football by women played to FIFA rules and pitch standards in New Zealand, at the Karapiro Sandcourts.

In March 2015, construction began of the club’s $200,000 extension to its changing rooms, providing six more sets of showers/changing rooms for local and visiting players.

On 25 May 2015, the club staged its fi rst ever international match when Fiji and Hungary came to Cambridge for an U–20

international as preparation for the FIFA U–20 World Cup tournament.

In July 2015, our club was awarded the Quality Club Mark by New Zealand Football, becoming only the fourth club in our region to achieve the 1 Star status, and becoming one of fewer than 30 clubs throughout the contry to earn the QCM.

Our players

Probably the club's best known past player is New Zealand international striker Chris Wood who joined English Championship club Leeds United for $4.6 million from Leicester City in July 2015.

Wood made his senior debut at Cambridge as a 14–year–old, having previously played for our juniors.

Another former New Zealand international is Maria Anderton, who played for the Football Ferns in 1987, and captained the Cambridge women’s A team for 12 seasons until her retirement as a player in 2014. Life Members

Elected life members: Vic Butler, W.J.Sugden, Bert van Doorne, Eric Sugden, John Kerkhof, Alan Busst, Harry Bekkers, Hans Rakely, Rod Larnach, Kerry Dauphin, Bill Brown, Robert Bradley, Peter Martens.


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CLUB NEWS

Programme cuts injury risk CAMBRIDGE FC are getting behind

a warm–up programme that has been

proven to reduce the risk of injuries by

30%.

It’s the FIFA 11+ Complete Warm-Up Programme for youth and senior players and Senior Men’s Club Captain Lee Turpett and U–13 youth coach Steve Thomas recently attended a NZ Football–WaiBOP Football workshop to learn how it works.

The programme has direct performance benefi ts for footballers — making fi tter, faster and more agile players as well as reducing the risk of all injuries by 30%.

It is designed to be delivered by coaches, is easy to learn and implement into existing training sessions and completion of the course results in FIFA 11+ certifi cation in as

little as two hours.The All Whites and Football Ferns have

been using FIFA 11+ for some time and all the ASB Premiership teams undertook to use it last summer season.

WaiBOP Football plans to encourage all 106 affi liated clubs and schools to adopt the programme, and is running workshops to team club representatives how to use it.

So what is FIFA 11+?“The programme takes 15–20 minutes

to do and is designed to replace a standard warm–up,” explains NZ Football’s doctor, Mark Fulcher.

“If it is done twice a week, it reduces the risk of injury by 30% and the risk of severe injury by 50%. These are things like an ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) injury in the knee.”

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