Moturoa AFC
football club
Moturoa AFC is one of New Zealand's oldest association football clubs.
Based in New Plymouth, the club was established as the New Plymouth Watersiders Association Football Club.
Moturoa AFC has rich history, with the club having had success in many regional and national competitions.
The clubrooms and home grounds of Moturoa AFC are at the Onuku Taipari Domain, Ngāmotu Road, Spotswood, New Plymouth.
Early history
Originally the Moturoa Football Club was a short-lived rugby club, started by the Breakwater Sports Committee in the kiosk at Ngāmotu Beach in early 1914, before amalgamating with the Star club.
Moturoa FC's home ground was the "prison reserve field" adjacent to Ōtaka Street in Moturoa.The original club retained one junior team for a short period after the amalgamation that played in the club's colour – white, with the addition of the Star FC emblem on the shirt chest.
From 1915 to 1921 there was no official Taranaki Association Football Championship due to the war.
The New Plymouth club relied on friendly games against mariners of the trade shipping at the Port of Moturoa.
The first ever recorded Moturoa association football team was published in the Taranaki Daily News on 25 May 1925. Players; Thompson, Matthews, Randell, the Spedding brothers, the Anderson brothers, Murray, Mells, Peere, Towes and Cole were scheduled to face Fitzroy at the Tukapa Ground in Westown.
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