2018 NZ Football Foundation Kate Sheppard Cup

Women's Knockout cup was renamed the Kate Sheppard Cup with NZ Football Foundation being the sponsor, they are going with the hashtag #KSCup. All matches will be played on May 12-13

All Auckland and Northern teams get a bye

Capital/Central;

Petone FC v Waterside Karori

Victoria University v Brooklyn Northern United

Kapiti Coast United v Stop Out

Capital and Central bye;

PN Marist, Wairarapa United, Wellington United, Seatoun and Upper Hutt

Mainland

Cashmere Tech v Waimakariri United

Mainland bye:

Universities, Haswell United and Coastal Spirit

Football South

Queenstown Rovers v Green Island

Roslyn Wakari v Mosgiel

Football South bye;

Dunedin Tech and University of Otago

No Western Suburbs (W-League)?

Actually that's an interesting point. Must not of entered into the women's cup

A great document from Andrew Voerman that he will be updating through out the cup. https://docs.google.com/document/d/16ljusgUOtVhfbb...

35 teams

12 enter in first round (May 12/13)

20 enter in second round, joining six winners (June 2/3/4)

Three enter in third round, joining 13 winners (June 23/24)

Eight remain in quarterfinals (July 14/15)

Four make national quarterfinals (August 25/26)

Two remain in final (September 9)

Northern Region

13 teams

None enter in first round

10 enter in second round

Three enter in third round, joining five winners

Four remain in quarterfinals

Two make national semifinals

10 teams enter in second round: Norwest United (NFF), Central United, Ellerslie, Fencibles, Onehunga Sports (all aff), Otumoetai (Waibop) + four NRFL Premier Division teams chosen at random

Three teams enter in third round: Three NRFL Premier Division teams chosen at random

NRFL Premier Division teams: Forrest Hill Milford, Glenfield Rovers (both NFF); Eastern Suburbs, Three Kings United, Papakura City, Western Springs (all AFF); Hamilton Wanderers (WaiBop)

Central Region

11 teams

Six enter in first round

Five enter in second round, joining three winners

Four remain in third round

Two remain in quarterfinals

One makes national semifinals

Six teams enter in first round: Brooklyn Northern United, Kapiti Coast United, Petone, Stop Out, Victoria University, Waterside Karori

Five teams enter in second round: Palmerston North Marist, Seatoun, Upper Hutt City, Wairarapa United, Wellington United

Mainland Region

Five teams

Two enter in first round

Three enter in second round, joining one winner

Two remain in third round

One plays remaining Southern region team in quarterfinals

Two teams enter in preliminary round: Cashmere Technical v Waimakariri United

Three teams enter in first round: Universities, Halswell United, Coastal Spirit

Southern Region

Six teams

Four enter in first round

Two enter in second round, joining two winners.

Two remain in third round

One plays remaining Mainland region team in quarterfinals

Four teams enter in first round: Green Island, Mosgiel, Queenstown Rovers, Roslyn Wakari

Two teams enter in second round: Dunedin Technical, Otago University

Capital region preview for round 1 of the Kate Sheppard Cup on Sunday

Petone (CP) v Waterside Karori (CP), Petone Memorial, KO 1pm

Four time runners up, Petone, meet Waterside Karori who are returning to the cup for the first time since 2014

One meeting in the cup before, Petone won 3-0 in 1995

In the League Waterside Karori are top of the table 6 points ahead of Petone who are in 4th place and they beat Petone 1-0 in the opening game of the season

PICK Waterside Karori

Vic Uni (CP) v BNU (CP), Boyd Wilson Field, KO 1pm

One meeting between these clubs in the cup, BNU won 1-0 in 2009. This season Vic Uni are in 2nd place on 12 points, 9 points ahead of BNU. Although when they met in the league it was only 2-1 to Vic Uni

PICK Vic Uni

KCU (CP) v Stop Out (CP), Weka Park, KO 1pm

Never met in the cup before and also yet to meet in the league this season

Stop Out pulled out of W-League and are struggling in Cap Prem having conceded 31 goals in 4 games while only scoring 2

PICK KCU

Cashmere Technical 2 (Monique Barker, Lee Maoate-Cox) Waimakariri 1 (Katie Elstob) HT 1 - 0

Results from the weekend, draw for next round today around 12-1pm. 

Will include all the following teams who had byes in Round 1.

Northern Region: Forrest Hill Milford United, Glenfield Rovers, Norwest United, Three Kings United, Eastern Suburbs, Central United, Papakura City, Ellerslie, Onehunga Sports, Western Springs, Fencibles United, Otumoetai, Hamilton Wanderers.

Central/Capital Region: Palmerston North Marist, Wairarapa United, Wellington United, Seatoun, Upper Hutt City.

Mainland Region: Universities, Halswell United, Coastal Spirit.

Southern Region: Dunedin Technical, Otago University.

Round 2

Rapa v Palmy Marist

Seatoun v Waterside

Upper Hutt v KCU

Uni v Wellington United

Games played either 2nd or 3rd (Queens Birthday Weekend)

Few decent matchups particularly the Mainland one. Any predictions for what the Quarters/Semis/Final might end up like?

for Central region, I'd go with Rapa, Waterside, Upper Hutt and Wellington United

I would have picked Karori as well, but I think the hometown advantage is a biggie at this point of the year.

I’m predicting extra time with a Grace Surridge winner.

How many times will Coastal and Cashmere Tech play each other this season? 

Yup, it's sh!thouse. Gotta be time for a Southern League with the women, the only competitive games this season is between these two. And we had people poo pooing the idea of our best women playing tougher games in boys leagues, when they should be either participating in a bye or playing against the mighty Halswell or Uni. 

Where is the #equality in the southern league?

Tech only scraped past waimak 2-1 on the weekend Vim...

I am backing my first team at One-Sports to get past Central; we lucked out in not drawing a Prems team

I woulda thought that when Tech played Tech it would be a draw. :-)

probably why it was such a close gane

Sounds good but some clubs moaned about the cost when Tasman were in Mainland WPL, so how many clubs would seriously wish to commit to a Southern (South Island) League. 

Sadly teams seem to come and go from the WPL, since it was formed in 2004 there has only been two seasons on the trot that have had the same teams playing in the league.

Pros and cons about the better players playing in boys league - if the women's league is not strong enough then it only means the women's league becomes even weaker if the better players are not playing in it.

Central region preview for round 1 of the Kate Sheppard Cup on Monday

Upper Hutt City (WL) v Kapiti Coast United (CP), Maidstone Park KO 11am

Three times semi finalists, Upper Hutt meet Kapiti Coast United who are equaling their best ever performance (ie 2nd round) in their 5th time entering the competition

No previous meetings in the cup

current W-League champions Upper Hutt will prove too strong for the Cap prem side

PICK Upper Hutt City

Vic Uni (CP) v Wellington United (WL) Boyd Wilson Field, KO 1pm

Wellington United's best performance waas the Quarter Finals in 2015, while Vic Uni have never got past round 3

one previous meeting in the cup between the teams, Vic Uni won 5-1 in 2014

Vic Uni are battling it out at the top of Cap Prem with Waterside and Wellington United reserves. Wellington United have Jayme Lee Hunter back for the US Uni holidays as well as Michaela Robertson from the FFDP in Auckland.

Reckon Uni will put up a decent fight, but United will prove too good for them

Pick Wellington United

Seatoun (WL) v Waterside Karori (CP), Seatoun Park, KO 1pm

Two clubs that have been major players in Womens football in Wellington in the last 20 years, both on the waine a bit now with both clubs only having one team each. Seatoun have made it to the semi finals five times, while Waterside have done it once (2011)

Seatoun who have a feeder club arrangement with Island Bay this season, have yet to win a a game and are currently bottom of the W-League, Waterside meanwhile are unbeaten and 3 points clear in Cap prem

3 previous meetings Seatoun won 2-0 (2012) & 4-2 (2013) & Waterside won 3-1 in 2009

Pick Waterside Karori

Wairarapa United (WL) v Palmerston North Marist, Masterton Memorial, KO 2pm

Two times finalist Wairarapa (99,2000) meet 3 x quarter finalists PN Marist

One meeting in the past Marist won 7-0 in 2016

However things will likely be different this time, Wairarapa have recruited a large chunk of Palmy Marist's team from last season and should also have latest recruit Siobhan Patterson, another on holiday from US Uni in the team

They met in the W-League a couple of weeks ago and Rapa won 8-1

Pick Wairarapa United

what's the story with Toun in the cup as far as the composite club thing goes?

Island Bay didn't enter so there would be no issue

not the Q. Can IB play for Toun?

ahh, don't know how that would work

Are you already thinking about putting in a protest?

protest about rules that don't exist :)

Preparing excuses..

Bite me 

Good point - I guess if they all registered for Seatoun there won't be an issue ... but I doubt that they are.

This was their last match day squad:

Natasha Ingram
Grace Surridge
Nicola Blacklaws
Juliet Conway
Samantha O'Callaghan
Cara Chung
Tiffany Bock
Savannah Mastrodicasa
Natalie Johnstone
Julia Baldwin
Sarah Marsden

Philippa Brown
Carmen Harji
Sophie Surridge

Looking forward to cheering the OneSports first team on at the hallowed ground of Kiwitea tomorrow. Our main keeper is injured right now so I was kind of hoping I might get a run, but no luck, they've actually got Rebecca Rolls on the books. :D

3-0 victory! :D

Rebecca Rolls!!! How old is she now??? I remember seeing her turn out for North Wellington in the late 90s and that was supposedly just before she was going to retire!

42. Only one of 9 White Ferns to play 100 ODIs and used to hold the record for most dismissals as a keeper in ODIs (now second-most). Not sure I've ever actually seen her play football...

oh that's right forgot she played cricket - that may explain the reason I thought she was retiring in the late 90s - probably was retiring from top level football to concentrate on cricket. 

She played for NZ at football

It was something like 14 years between Football Ferns caps wasn't it? That must be an NZ record at least.

What I'm told is that Rebecca concentrates on her high-powered job these days but is happy to turn out as a "ringer" when she can. Funny thing is that last season she did the same job for Lynn-Avon, which was the club I was at also. Is she following me around?!

(I had to explain to my German reserves teammate what a "wicketkeeper" is. "You know the catcher in baseball? Same thing.")

Two defaults in the Northern region.

I can imagine why Otumoetai didn't feel like having their arses handed to them by Eastern Suburbs on such a miserable day; but why did Fencies pull out of their top-of-the-Conference clash with Norwest? Thus incurring a default fine on top of their entrance fee?

Only had nine available, not sure why.

Ah. Holiday weekends will sometimes do that.

Cashmere Technical 1 (Annie Gilchrist) Coasta Spirit 5 (Arna Roberts 2 Whitney Hepburn Lauren Dabner Melanie Cameron) HT 0 - 1