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2016 committee members President: Peter Martens Mobile: 027 2943044 Chair: Steve Thomas Mobile: 021746863 E: masterpiece@xtra.co.nz Vice Chair and Outdoor Facilities Manager: Greg Zeuren Mobile: 027 5030629 E: zeuren@xtra.co.nz Secretary: Josh Easby Mobile: 0210558854 E: cambridgesoccer@gmail.com Treasurer: Paul Blackstock Mobile: 0211282091 E: paul@herbertmorton.co.nz Senior Men’s club captain and acting Youth club captain: Lee Turpitt Mobile: 0272320100 E: lee.turpitt@gmail.com

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Junior club captain: Catherine Clark Mobile: 021950263 E: cfcjuniors@gmail.com Volunteer Army co-ordinator: Michaela McQuarters Mobile: 021621904 E: fareya123@gmail.com Purchasing Manager and Kit/ equipment Manager: Michaela McQuarters Mobile: 021621904 E: fareya123@gmail.com

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‘... football would be no fun if we didn’t have upsets and surprise results ... ’ Josh Easby, the secretary of Cambridge Football Club, says we can learn from Leicester City ...  THIS WEEKEND could see a significant milestone in the way we think about football. Leicester City travel to Manchester United’s Old Trafford ground, needing a win to clinch the English Premier League title. Requiring three points from their last three games means the Foxes could even afford to lose at Manchester and they’d still remain favourites for the title. Favourites? This was a team that started the season as 5,000–1 outsiders in a competition many believed had become the exclusive domain for only a few clubs, all boosted

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by owners prepared to invest hundreds of millions of pounds. The significance of Leicester winning the EPL is that it provides proof that dreams are possible in football, no matter how crazy they may seem at first. Leicester’s star players have been a midfielder plucked from the French second division and a striker who worked his way up football’s pyramind from non–league obscurity. Just about everyone was willing to write off Leicester’s chances before the season began, especially as the club narrowly escaped relegation the year before and had suffered from off–the–pitch scandals over the summer. Football would be no fun if we didn’t have upsets and surprise results. Next weekend, Cambridge host Auckland University in the Chatham Cup. A win would take our club into the last 64 of New Zealand’s oldest football competition. Who would give us a chance of reaching the final stages of the cup? Anything can happen on a football field. Ask the fans at Leicester.

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Women off to top start

CAMBRIDGE’S new-look women’s team are full of smiles before their latest win, a 3-0 victory over traditional rivals Claudelands Rovers. Photo: Josh Easby.

 CAMBRIDGE’S women’s team have started their season in top form, winning their three opening fixtures to go top of the Waikato Women’s League. Under coach Andrew Taylor, the team have overcome Huntly Thistle (6–0), Otorohangha (10–1) and Claudelands Rovers (3–0). Cambridge head the competition on goal difference from Melville United’s development team, who also have 100% record. The Cambridge effort so far is encouraging because the team is the youngest to represent the club in years, while it rebuilds after the retirement of a number of first team regulars. Goalkeeper Jen Hull, who has missed only one game in four seasons, has taken over the captaincy, while the club has recruited well from Cambridge High School. LEADING goalscorer Astrid Howarth puts the Rovers On Sunday, the side plays Mangokino (a). defence under pressure at John Kerkhof Park.

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Cambridge kids go into camp with Ricki Herbert  FORMER All Whites and Wellington Phoenix coach Ricki Herbert headed up a training camp for talented youngsters at Cambridge’s John Kerkhof Park during the school holidays. Herbert flew back to New Zealand from the Maldives, where he is the national coach, to oversee a five–day residential national training camp staged by the Ricki Herbert Football Academy.

Ricki Herbert works with some of the youngsters at John Kerkhof Park.

About 40 boys and girls aged 11-17 attended the camp, using nearby St Peter’s School for their accommodation and evening meal, while having breakfast and lunch at our senior clubrooms. Players travelled from as far north as Whangarei and as far south as Invercargill to attend the camp. Participants included five members of the Cambridge Tornadoes junior team, and women’s first team players Astrid Howarth and Kaylee Oosthuysen.

Bay teams off to good start  BAY OF PLENTY clubs have got off to a flying start in this year’s Federation competitions. After four rounds of the WaiBOP Premiership, Ngongotaha and Rotorua United sit at the top of the table, both with 100% records. And in the WaiBOP Championship, a resurgent Taupo tops the table with three wins from as many games. In the WaiBOP Women’s Premier League — a new Federation competition this year — Otumoetai and Rotorua United have quickly shown they are capable of winning the title this year. For once, the strength of the Bay doesn’t lie within Tauranga where Tauranga City United and Old Blues struggle in both the WaiBOP competitions.

Worse, Tauranga–based AFC Fury have been forced to withdraw from the Northern League after the club was unable to field a team in the reserves competition for three consecutive weeks, and a number of first team players quit the club after the death of backer Dave Cook. Cambridge eyes will be tracking Ngongotaha who pushed our club to within a point of last year’s Premiership title. In 2015, Cambridge finished its programme first, forcing Ngongotaha to play catch–up with its games in hand. This time round, Cambridge has already got a game in hand on Ngongotaha after last weekend’s postponement of the WaiBOP Premiership fixture with Old Blues. Both Ngongotaha and Cambridge remain in the Chatham Cup.

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First cup hurdle crossed  CAMBRIDGE have overcome the first hurdle in pursuit of football’s oldest club competition, the Chatham Cup. Drawn away to Auckland’s Colo Boys FC, Cambridge secured an 8-0 win in the cup’s preliminary round on ANZAC Day. The goals came from leading scorer Callum MacLeod (2), Jordan Silvester (2), Tom Woutersen (2), Danny Styles and Adam Brady. MacLeod opened the scoring in the 15th minute while Silvester and Woutersen added their efforts to take Cambridge into a 3-0 halftime lead at Greenhithe War Memorial Park. A four-goal burst in a 10-minute period made sure of the win, enabling coach Mike Woodlock to introduce youngsters Theo Petropolous and Quest Tipping off the bench for their first team debuts. The cup victory earns Cambridge a home

draw in the first round proper of the cup along with 127 other survivors after the preliminary round. Cambridge will host Auckland University, who beat Northern Wairo 6-2 in the preliminary round, on the weekend of May 14-15. The Chatham Cup is contested by teams from throughout New Zealand, and has been held annually in all but five of the past 93 years.

LAST WEEK’S PREMIERSHIP RESULTS Papamoa 4-3 Waikato Unicol AFC (ht: 2-2) PAP: Leo Pardini 2, Tommy Crane, Luke Barlow. UNI: ? Melville United 3-0 Matamata Swifts (ht: 1-0) MEL: Terry Blunt, Ernest Pidoke, Arvi Raju. MAT: none. Katikati FC Ambria 1-3 Ngongotaha (ht: 0-1) KAT: Dane Stollery. NGO: Mitch Miller 2, Josh O’Sullivan. Rotorua United 7-1 Tauranga City United (ht: 5-0) ROT: Ash Gower-Rudman 2, Josh Cave 3, Nathan Tina, OG. TGA: Kieran Kite. Tauranga Boys’ College 1-1 Otumoetai (ht: 1-0) TBC: Jordan Roberts. OTU: Juan Pedro Rosende.

NEW FATHER Kieran Hills had plenty to celebrate in April and explained it well in a post on the Cambridge FC Facebook page: “Brand new Cambridge FC supporter. She was so stoked with our 3 nil win yesterday that she only got 2 hours sleep. What a trooper. Introducing Ayla Grace Hill.” Welcome to our club, Ayla!

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2015 CHAMPIONS

2015 champions: Back (from left) Kim Brierley, Ben Latham, Brett Clark, Gerard Hay, Tom Woutersen, Rex Fowler, Robbie Greenhalgh, Fraser Nicholls, Jason Szabo, Mike Woodlock, Sam Garmonsway, Jordan Silvester, Kieran Hill, Chrissy Goodin. Front: Henry Stephen, Adrian Clark, Adam Brady, Patrick Woodlock, Shaun Kipara, Nathan Claridge. Foreground: Glen Carmichael. Photo: Louis Roberts.  Fraser Nicholls (goalkeeper) Joined Cambridge in 2013 after five 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 joined Cambridge from Hukanui-Rototuna in 2015.  Nathan Claridge (defender or midfield) 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.

 Patrick Woodlock (midfield/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. Has won Cambridge’s Player of Year award four times.  Danny Styles (midfield) A hard–working midfielder, Styles joined Cambridge in 2013 and was a first–team regular in 2014. In 2015, work commitments limited his appearances but the club hopes to see more of him on the pitch this season.

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

 Jason Szabo (forward or midfield) Experienced attacking midfielder who hails from the UK. Gets amongst the goals and was 2013 top scorer and ‘Player of the Year’ for our Waikato A team, and runner–up for the Premiership team’s 2015 Golden Boot.

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

 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.

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Won the team’s Golden Boot in 2013 and again in 2015 with 14 goals in the WaiBOP Premiership.  Adam Brady (forward) Joined the club as a new arrival from the United Kingdom in 2015, where he played for Melbourne Inn in the Plymouth and West Devon Combination Football League. Was a regular goalscorer for the WaiBOP Championship side and scored a memorable goal in the end–of– season promotion play–off against Waitemata.  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.  Dan Podjursky (forward) A speedy forward with good ball control, Podjursky made his first team debut as a 17– year–old in the Northern League, and played a season for Hawkes Bay in the national youth league.  Josh Dagnall (winger) Made his first team debut as a schoolboy, helping the side win promotion from the ‘old’ Federation 2 League to what is now the WaiBOP Premiership. Returned to the pitch last season after leaving Cambridge for a stint in the army.  Callum MacLeod (forward) The leading goalscorer for the 2015 Cambridge U–17 team, MacLeod also won the Golden Boot for leading all scoring in the WaiBOP U–17 Federation League. Promising youngster who marked his senior club debut with a goal in the opening game of the 2016 WaiBOP Championship.  Jack Taylor (forward) In his second spell at Cambridge, having returned to the club for the 2016 season. In 2014, he was the club’s top goalscorer in the ‘old’ Federation 1, and he led the forward line to help the side win promotion from Federation 2 the year before.

 Jason Chewins (defender or midfield) Rejoineds 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.  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. Assistant coach for our Championship side.  Andrew Taylor (utility) First joined Cambridge in 2011 to play Northern League and returned after a spell at Matamata to play at the club where he also coaches the women’s first team. Versatile and able to play in most positions.  Brett Clark (co–coach) Veteran player with the club and former first team player who has taken the reins in 2015, leading a newly–formed coaching group.  Mike Woodlock (co– coach) Coached Cambridge between 2008 and 2010 in Northern League Division 2 and brings vast experience to the 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 first woman to manage a Cambridge men’s first team, Goodin is an established member of the women’s first team and has served on the club’s committee in various roles.

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

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‘First win of season for Cambridge ...’

CHAMPIONSHIP Team P W D L F A Pts Taupo 3 3 0 0 9 2 9 West Hamilton 4 2 2 0 10 3 8 Hamilton Wanderers 4 2 1 1 12 5 7 Waikato Unicol 4 2 1 1 8 7 7 Te Awamutu 3 2 0 1 9 4 6 Ngongotaha 3 1 2 0 4 3 5 Tokoroa 4 1 2 1 6 9 5 Matamata Swifts 4 1 1 2 4 7 4 Otumoetai 4 1 0 3 5 9 3 WHAKATANE TOWN 3 1 0 2 4 9 3 CAMBRIDGE 4 1 0 3 5 13 3 Old Blues 4 0 1 3 5 10 1 LAST WEEK’S RESULTS Old Blues 2-4 Cambridge (ht: 1-2) OBL: ?, CAM: Ewan Bussey 2, Quest Tipping 2. Hamilton Wanderers 1-2 Taupo AFC (ht: ) WAN: Flynn Connolly. TAU: Joseph O’Donoghue 2. Whakatane Town 1-2 Matamata Swifts (ht: 0-1) WHA: Scott Mitchell. MAT: Reuben Wigelsworth, Finn Challis. Tokoroa AFC 1-1 Ngongotaha Champ (ht: 0-1) TOK: ? NGO: Daniel Collier-Baker. Te Awamutu 3-0 Otumoetai (ht: 2-0) TAW: Joel Roil 3. West Hamilton 2-2 Waikato Unicol (ht: 1-0) WHM: Jarred Tooley, Adam Rose. UNI: Lachlan Robertson, Robbie Hammond.

GOLDEN BOOT Ewan Bussey Quest Tipping Callum MacLeod

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WEEKEND FIXTURES Cambridge v Whakatane Town Otumoetai v Hamilton Wanderers Ngongotaha v Te Awamutu Matamata Swifts v Tokoroa Waikato Unicol v Old Blues Taupo v West Hamilton

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Waikato Unicol a L 1–2 Taupo h L 0–4 West Hamilton h L 0–5 Tauranga Old Blues a W 4–2 Whakatane Town h 12.30pm Tokoroa a 2.45pm Te Awamutu h 12.30pm Hamilton Wanderers a 2.45pm Otumoetai h 12.30pm Ngongotaha a 12.30pm Matamata Swifts h 12.30pm Taupo a 2.45pm Waikato Unicol h 12.30pm West Hamilton a 2.45pmTauranga Old Blues h 12.30pm Whakatane Town a 2.45pm Tokoroa h 12.30pm Te Awamutu a 2.45pm Hamilton Wanderers h 12.30pm Otumoetai a 12.30pm Ngongotaha h 12.30pm Matamata Swifts a 12.30pm

‘Visitors Melville have fine record at regional and national level ...’ LAST GAME

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Melville United Founded: 1972 Ground: Gower Park Last season: 3rd

Chatham Cup Preliminary Round Colo Boys FC 0 (0) Cambridge 8 (4)

April 25, 2016 Greenhithe War Memorial Park, Auckland

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Cambridge: Callum MacLeod (15th min, 54th min), Tom Woutersen (32nd min, 83rd min), Adam Brady (47th min), Jordan Silvester (20th min, 42nd min), Danny Styles (52nd min). Off–field apparel for our Premiership and Championship squads is sponsored by Jet Creative.

Formed as Melville District Schoolboys AFC, founders Bob Owens and Tony Tatler sought to combine the strengths of all the schools in the Melville area and originally operated from a base at Te Anau Park. In 1981 the club moved to Gower Park. Melville steadily worked their way up the football ladder, winning the northern league third division in 1991, the first division in 1993, and the northern premier league in 1995. In 1996 national league side Waikato United amalgamated with Melville to form Melville United, and it was under this name that the new entity contested the summer national league in 1996-97 and 1997-98. Melville reached the final of the Chatham Cup in 2003, losing 3-1 to Uni-Mt Wellington. The club’s first team currently competes in Northern League Premier Division.

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‘Rotorua sides remain unbeaten ...’

PREMIERSHIP Team P W D L F A Pts Ngongotaha 4 4 0 0 19 4 12 Rotorua United 4 4 0 0 13 3 12 Waikato Unicol 4 2 1 1 10 7 7 Matamata Swifts 4 2 1 1 9 8 7 Otumoetai 4 2 1 1 6 5 7 CAMBRIDGE 3 2 0 1 18 2 6 MELVILLE UNITED 4 2 0 2 8 8 6 Tauranga Boys College 4 1 1 2 8 6 4 Katikati 4 1 0 3 3 7 3 Papamoa 4 1 0 3 6 15 3 Old Blues 3 0 0 3 4 12 0 Tauranga City United 4 0 0 4 2 29 0 SCHEDULE GOLDEN BOOT Callum MacLeod 6 (2) Tom Woutersen 5 (2) Jordan Silvester 3 (2) Adam Brady 2 (1) Jason Szabo 2 Patrick Woodlock 2 Daniel Podjursky 1 Danny Styles 1 (1) Jack Taylor 1 * Goals in brackets scored in Chatham Cup

WEEKEND FIXTURES Matamata Swifts v Katikati Tauranga City United v Papamoa Waikato Unicol v Old Blues Ngongotaha v Tauranga Boys College Otumoetail v Rotorua United

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Waikato Unicol a L 1–2 Tauranga City Utd h W14-0 Papamoa h W 3-0 Colo Boys (Chatham Cup) a W 8-0 Melville United h 2.45pmKatikati a 2.45pm Auck. Uni (Chatham Cup) h 2.30pmRotorua United a 2.45pm Otumoetai h 2.45pmNgongotaha a 2.45pmMatamata Swifts h 2.45pm Tauranga City Utd a 2.45pm Waikato Unicol h 2.45pmPapamoa a 2.45pmMelville United h 2.45pm Katikati a 2.45pm Tauranga Boys Coll. h 2.45pmRotorua United a 2.45pm Otumoetai h 2.45pm Otumoetai a 2.45pm Ngongotaha h 2.45pm Matamata Swifts a 2.45pm Tauranga Old Blues a 2.45pm Tauranga Boys Coll. h 2.45pm 15

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Established: 1972

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GK Rex Fowler 2 Tom Woutersen 3 Nathan Claridge 4 Patrick Woodlock (c) 5 Kieran Hill 6 Jordan Silvester 7 Shaun Kipara 8 Jason Szabo 9 Jack Taylor 10 Adam Brady 11 Josh Dagnall 12 Adrian Clark 13 Danny Moore 14 Sam Garmonsway 15 Daniel Podjursky 16 Callum MacLeod 17 Danny Styles 18 Andrew Taylor GK Fraser Nicholls GK Paul McCann Coach: Brett Clark Coach: Michael Woodlock Goalkeeper coach: Kim Brierley Team manager: Chrissy Goodin

GK Keegan Hansen 5 Ben Wheatly 3 Tom Goodwin 17 Avi Raju 4 Thomas Mouncher 23 Terry Blunt 12 Dennis Essenden 14 Earnest Pidoke 15 Luke Goodwin 19 Mahmoad Alfarraji 12 Matt Shaw 7 Dylan Blair 2 Hussaini Ahmed 9 Marc Glenister 18 Alex Walters 11 Mahmoad Azzuz Coach: Neil Mouncher Team manager: Greg Hansen TODAY’S OFFICIALS

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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. In its early days, the teams played in light the first time in 1983. blue after the colours used by Cambridge  1984: The club achieved its first University, England. significant success at senior level, winning  1951: The club held its first formal the Northern League’s 4th Division in 1984. meeting on March 20, 1951, appointing Viv  1993: The club reached new heights Butler as its first president, and R.S.Entwistle in 1993, winning the Northern League 2nd as its patron. division. Butler’s support of English club Arsenal led  1995: The club built a concrete car to a change of club colours and from the mid- park that’s still in use today. The car park is 1950s, Cambridge teams have played in red where the club sometimes erects temporary and white strips. grandstands for major fixtures.  1957: The club played its home games  2005: The Waipa District Council on the Town Square until 1957 when a approved the transfer of the Polo Grounds to two-room wooden shed was built on the the football club for use by its junior players, Leamington Domain for £134.19. while the polo club moved to new grounds in  1964: On December 1, 1964, the Lamb St, Leamington. Cambridge Borough Council agreed to  2007: The old polo clubhouse was provide the club with land on the town belt knocked down to make way for a new in Vogel Street and plans were drawn up for junior building. The Cambridge junior teams the clubrooms to be built. celebrated their new home by winning all five  1967: The club moved into the Vogel St 8th-Open grade WJSA knockout trophies, a grounds, where it has been based since. The first for both Cambridge and the WJSA. grounds were renamed John Kerkhof Park  2008: The club’s main senior clubrooms after Dutch immigrant John Kerkhof who, with survived a tornado in late 2008 but suffered members of his family and other supporters, damage to walls, roof and windows, while built the clubrooms and changing facilities. shattered glass was sprayed over the nearby The grounds are now owned by the Waipa number one pitch. Other sports clubs and District Council but leased to the club on a community groups came to help the club long-term basis. and helped it rebuild.  1972: The club applied for its senior  2010: The club launched a five–year men’s team to join the Northern League plan for its membership which had now competition. grown to more than 600 players, with men’s,  1974: Extensions to the clubrooms women’s and junior teams. and playing fields became necessary and  2011: After many seasons in the were built in 1974, with new junior grounds Northern League the club was relegated from established beside the Polo Club grounds the Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Division 2 in 2011 further north on Vogel St. after finishing 12th and losing the challenger  1978: The club elected its first women series playoff vs Manukau City AFC. committee member. The club won the New Zealand Match  1983: Junior teams (11,12 and 13 year Programme of the Year Award for 2011. olds) entered the Waikato competitions for  2012: The club elected to drop two

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Senior clubrooms at John Kerkhof Park : Home since 1967 with major extensions added to the original building in 1974 and 2015. 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 five 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 first team finished 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 profile 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 efforts to host ASP Premiership fixtures 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

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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 finalists 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 first 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 first 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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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 benefits for footballers — making fitter, 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+ certification 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 affiliated 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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