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Queenstown AFC
Full nameQueenstown Association Football Club
Nickname(s)Rovers
Founded1983[1]
GroundQueenstown Events Centre, Queenstown
CoachDanniel Bocatios
LeagueFootballSouth Premier League
2023FootballSouth Premier League, 9th of 10

Queenstown AFC is an amateur association football club in Queenstown, New Zealand, they are currently playing in the ODT Southern Men's Premier League.

Their home games are played at the Frankton Events Centre.

Queenstown are five-times winners of the Donald Gray Memorial Cup, the premier tournament in football in Southland, New Zealand.

Club history

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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.[2]

In 2020 the club won the Football South Championship.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Club Info". Queenstown Football Association. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
  2. ^ Queenstown: Top Stories – Soccer shocker Archived 18 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "The Honours Board". The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
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