Metro FC (New Zealand)

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Metro FC (New Zealand) - Wikipedia

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Metro F.C.

Founded

1899; 125 years ago

Ground

Phyllis Street Reserve,
Mt Albert, Auckland, New Zealand

Capacity

3000 500 + seated

Chairman

Ants Owens

Manager

Neil Sykes

League

NRFL Northern Conference

2024

NRFL Championship, 11th of 12 (relegated)

Home colours

Metro F.C. is a New Zealand association football club, based in Auckland, that competes in the NRFL Championship, after winning promotion from Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Division 2 during the 2019 season.

The club was known as Metro College until the 1980s. They were members of the former top premier New Zealand football league the New Zealand National Soccer League which ended in 2004 to give way to the New Zealand Football Championship. The senior team is led by Nathan Christie;– an experienced coach both as a head coach and assistant coach, Nathan Christie took over in the 2018 season after the club was relegated to Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Division 2 after the 2017 season. The club has a good history of playing at one of the two top level football leagues in New Zealand after the New Zealand Football Championship, they have also won one of the top leagues in New Zealand football the Northern League in the 1998 season and also managing to set a record of scoring the most goals in any match of the top New Zealand football national cup the Chatham Cup demolishing Norwest 21–0.

History

Metro was established in 1899 as the Tabernacle-Metropolitan Club by parishioners of the local Baptist Church. Claiming to be Auckland's second-oldest existing club after North Shore United (founded in 1898), the club shortened its name to Metropolitan in 1921. Following a merger with College United in 1929, it adopted the name Metro College, which was later shortened to Metro in 1986.^[1]

The club is based at Phyllis Street Reserve in Mount Albert, Auckland, its home ground since 1950.^[2]

Metro shares the record for the largest victory in any stage of the Chatham Cup. In 1991, they defeatedNorwest 21–0, a record later equaled in 2005 by Central United (coincidentally also against Norwest). Metro has reached the semi-finals of the cup twice, in 1946 and 1998, but has never appeared in a final.

Youth team & Academy

Metro F.C. is recognized for its strong youth teams and organized academy system. The club's U-19 team reached the finals of the 2009 Auckland Football Federation U-19 tournament qualifications but lost 2–1 to Mangere United U-19 team, missing out on a spot at the top football national youth tournament in New Zealand, the 2009 Napier National U-19 Championships. However, they secured 2nd place and qualified for the tournament, later reaching the semi-finals of the 2009 Napier National U-19 Championship Satellite (2nd tier).

Honours

Season(s)	Achievement
1946	Semi-finals of the 1946 Chatham Cup
1971	Northern League Division Two, 1st Winners
1987	Northern League Division One Knockout, Winners
1994	Northern League Division One, 1st Winners
1996	National Superclub & Northern Superclub championship, Winners
1998	Northern League, 1st Winners Semi-finals of 1998 Chatham Cup
1999	North Island Soccer League, 6th placed
2000	New Zealand National Soccer League, 10th placed
2001	New Zealand National Soccer League, 10th placed

References

^ UltimateNZSoccer website's Metro page
^ Club website history page Archived 2010-05-19 at the Wayback Machine

External links

v t e NRFL Championship
Seasons	1965→2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Clubs	Ellerslie Fencibles United Hibiscus Coast Franklin United Manukau United Metro Mount Albert-Ponsonby Ngaruawahia United North Shore United Northern Rovers Onehunga Mangere United Takapuna

v t e Waitakere United constituent clubs
Bay Olympic Glen Eden United Lynn-Avon United Metro F.C. Mount Albert-Ponsonby Norwest United Oratia United Ranui Swanson AFC Waitakere City F.C. Waitemata FC West Auckland FC

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