2012 Chatham Cup Explained

2012 Chatham Cup Final
Event:	2012 Chatham Cup
Team1:	Lower Hutt City AFC
Team1score:	1
Team2:	Central United
Team2score:	6
Date:	26 August 2012
Stadium:	Newtown Park
City:	Wellington
Man Of The Match1a:	Emiliano Tade (Central United)
Attendance:	2,500
Previous:	2011
Next:	2013

The 2012 ASB Chatham Cup is New Zealand's 85th knockout football competition.

The 2012 competition has a preliminary round, a qualification round, and four rounds proper before quarter-finals, semi-finals, and a final. Competition is run in three regions (northern, central, southern) until the quarter-finals, from which stage the draw is open. In all, 124 teams entered the competition.

The 2012 final

Won 6-1 by Central United over Lower Hutt City

GK 1 Steve Bayard RB 2 CB 77 Andrew Coad CB 7 LB 19 Taylor Hall-Jones CM 8 Hamish Price AM 9 Tobias Bertsch RW 12 CM 6 LW 15 Martin Pereyra CF 10 Hamish Watson (c) Substitutes: GK 13 Shaun Melrose DF 20 MF 14 MF 5 Hayden Stuthridge MF 11 Manager: Chris Zoricich GK 1 Jacob Spoonley RB 3 CB 5 Ivan Vicelich (c) CB 14 Jacob Hall LB 5 Takuya Iwata CM 8 Jason Hicks CM 12 David Mulligan RW 16 AM 9 LW 18 Daniel Koprivcic CF 20 Emiliano Tade Substitutes: GK 22 Blaz Bugarin DF 17 Ouadhah Ragued DF 4 MF 10 Stuart Hogg MF 13 Adam Dickinson Manager: Brendan McIntyre

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Man of the match Emiliano Tade (Central United)

Results

Second round

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• Won on penalties by Eastern Suburbs (6–5)

Third round

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Fourth round

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• Won on penalties by Manukau City (4-3)

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Final

References

• NZ Football 2012 Chatham Cup full results