Queenstown Rovers

Queenstown Rovers

Queenstown Rovers is a soccer club in Queenstown, New Zealand, currently playing in the Soccersouth 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 wnners of the Donald Gray Memorial Cup, the premier tournament in soccer in Southland, New Zealand.

The team gained notoriety in May 2007 when a brawl erupted during a Chatham Cup match between Queenstown and Invercargill club Queen's Park which was fierce enough for local police to become involved. [ [http://www.scene.co.nz/cms/news/top_stories/2007/05/art1000887.php Queenstown: Top Stories - Soccer shocker ] ] Queenstown won the match, but withdrew from the competition as a result of the incident. [ [http://www.stuff.co.nz/4205227a11.html Police pursue football player after on-field brawl - New Zealand news on Stuff.co.nz ] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.nzsoccerscoreboard.com/id161.htm New Zealand 2006/07 Season Results]


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