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Roslyn-Wakari AFC - Wikipedia

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Roslyn-Wakari

Full name

Roslyn-Wakari Association Football Club

Founded

1888; 136 years ago, as Wakari AFC

Ground

Ellis Park, Dunedin, New Zealand

President

Nigel Benn
Dan Todd

Manager

Tony van Gorp

Coach

Kris Ridley

League

Southern Premier League

2024

Southern Premier League, 6th of 10

Home colours

Roslyn-Wakari Association Football Club is an association football club based in Dunedin, New Zealand. They compete in the Southern Premier League.

History

The club's history began in 1888 when the Wakari Football Association first played in the local Dunedin league. This was only 44 years after the foundation of Dunedin, and the club is one of the oldest existing football clubs in the country (the oldest, North Shore United, was founded in 1886). The Wakari AFC consisted of 14 members with 11 or 12 playing members. The first committee included Sir Robert Stout (Premier of NZ 1884–1897) as its president. The club obtained a farmer's paddock and a ditch was dug as the perimeter for the pitch, outside the ditch the ball was out.

In 1890 the Wakari AFC changed its name to Roslyn AFC. In 1895 the Roslyn AFC split into two clubs with the second becoming Wakari AFC. The next ten years saw friendly rivalry between the two clubs as they competed for the "Otago Banner". In 1904 the two clubs amalgamated to become Roslyn-Wakari AFC. The club went into recess from 1914 until 1929 when they re-entered the Otago Football Association competition.

Roslyn-Wakari is one of Dunedin's stronger club sides. The team reached the semi-finals of the Chatham Cup in 1968 and 1995 along with reaching the quarterfinals in 2006 and 2023. Their senior men's team currently plays in the Southern Premier League.

The home ground for the club is Ellis Park in Kaikorai Valley. Ellis Park was developed on an old tip site. In 1949 clubrooms were developed in the old stables which housed the horses which pulled the rubbish carts that filled in the grounds. Some of the wood used in modifying the old stables came from the demolition of an open-air swimming pool at the end of the top training ground in the Kaikorai Stream. The horse's head was adopted as the club's logo in recognition of this fact. These clubrooms were burnt down as a fire brigade exercise when the club built the present clubrooms/gym/changing rooms facilities in 1971.

Players

Men's Southern Premier League
No.	Pos.	Player
1	GK	Tom Stevens
2	DEF	Ned Harris
2	MID	Giovani Pribaz
3	DEF	Ben Sallisbury
4	DEF	Shay Thom
5	DEF	Tom Connor
6	DEF	Tom Bealin
7	MID	Ben Reeve
8	MID	Luke Tolo-Kent
9	FWD	Simba Muwunganirwa
10	DEF	Callum Smith
11	DEF	Luke Sallisbury
12	FWD	Lewis Wall
13	FWD	Ben Williams-Davies
14	FWD	Nathan Wilkie
15	DEF	Jasper Moy
16	MID	Nick Treadwell
17	DEF	Josh Marshall
18	MID	Harry Hawken
19	MID	Fraser Anderson
20	DEF	Oscar Black

Notable players and club members

Robert Stout (1844–1930), New Zealand politician
Howard Broad (born 1957), New Zealand commissioner of Police
Michael McGarry (born 1965), New Zealand footballer
Graham Marshall, New Zealand footballer
Clare Taylor (born 1965), English sportswoman
Thomas Robins, New Zealand actor
Kelly Brazier (born 1989), New Zealand rugby union player

References

UltimateNZSoccer website's Roslyn-Wakari page

External links

Roslyn Wakari AFC website

Women's South Island League

Seasons

Qualifying Clubs

Mainland Football	Cashmere Technical Coastal Spirit SASFC Halswell United Nelson Suburbs Nomads-Waimakariri United Selwyn United University of Canterbury
Southern Football	Dunedin City Royals Green Island Northern Otago University Queens Park Roslyn-Wakari

South Island League

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