Roslyn-Wakari AFC explained

Clubname:Roslyn-Wakari
Fullname:Roslyn-Wakari Association Football Club
Founded:, as Wakari AFC
Ground:Ellis Park, Dunedin, New Zealand
Chrtitle:President
Chairman:Nigel Benn
Dan Todd
Manager:Tony van Gorp
Coach:Kris Ridley
League:Southern Premier League
Season:2023
Position:Southern Premier League, 2nd of 10
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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
1GKTom Stevens
2DEFNed Harris
2MIDGiovani Pribaz
3DEFBen Sallisbury
4DEFShay Thom
5DEFTom Connor
6DEFTom Bealin
7MIDBen Reeve
8MIDLuke Tolo-Kent
9FWDSimba Muwunganirwa
10DEFCallum Smith
11DEFLuke Sallisbury
12FWDLewis Wall
13FWDBen Williams-Davies
14FWDNathan Wilkie
15DEFJasper Moy
16MIDNick Treadwell
17DEFJosh Marshall
18MIDHarry Hawken
19MIDFraser Anderson
20DEFOscar Black

Notable players and club members

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