Coastal Spirit FC

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Coastal Spirit
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Coastal Spirit Football Club Logo
Full nameCoastal Spirit Football Club
Nickname(s)Coastal
Short nameCoastal Spirit
Founded2007;17 years ago (2007) [1]
GroundLinfield Park, Christchurch, New Zealand
League Southern League
2023 Southern League, 3rd of 10
Website Club website
Soccerball current event.svg Current season

Coastal Spirit FC is an association football club in Christchurch, New Zealand and are a part of Mainland Football's federation. Their Premier Men's team currently competes in the Southern League. Their Premier Women's team competes in the Women's South Island League and were the 2013 National Knockout Cup winners.

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History

Merge

Coastal Spirit FC was established through the merger of New Brighton AFC and Rangers AFC in 2007, [2] which was one of the oldest clubs in Christchurch having been founded in 1913. [1] Prior to the merge, New Brighton and Rangers competed in the Mainland Premier League, with New Brighton getting relegated in 2006 [3] and Rangers in 2007. [4]

Earthquake

In 2010, the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes ruined the home ground of Bexley park and Eric Adam park was not in use anymore, Coastal had to find a new home. Less than 2 kilometres south-west from Bexley park, Cuthberts Green was decided to be the new home ground of Coastal Spirit.

Coastal Spirit SASFC

In 2020, Coastal Spirit joined forces with St. Albans Shirley to help provide a pathway for women's youth and senior football. With the women's premier team having an outstanding season, by winning the league (Mainland Premier Women's League) and winning the local cup (Reta Fitzpatrick Cup). With the success of the premier season, 2021 season saw the arrangement expand into the Boys Youth competition. [5] [6] With the women's premier team having another outstanding season, by winning the league (Mainland Premier Women's League), the local cup (Reta Fitzpatrick Cup) and reaching the semi-finals of the delayed national cup (Kate Sheppard Cup) due to COVID-19. Following the end-of-season discussions, its now been agreed that all Girls Youth, Boys CDL Youth and Men's and Women's Premier/Reserves teams will be a joint enterprise between the two clubs for the 2022 season and beyond. The Junior and Social grades will continue to be run by the individual clubs. [5] [6] With the women's premier team having another outstanding season, by winning the league (Mainland Premier Women's League), the local cup (Reta Fitzpatrick Cup) and the winning the inaugural South Island Championships. In 2023, the introduction of Ōtākaro has taken the responsibility of Boys CDL Youth teams away from the 2 clubs. [5] [6] And the women's premier team winning the Women's South Island Qualifying League, runners-up in the local cup (Reta Fitzpatrick Cup) and reaching the semi-finals of the national cup (Kate Sheppard Cup). Throughout this time, the women's premier team have only recorded 2 losses out of 54 league games, over 4 seasons. [5] [6]

Ōtākaro

In 2023, 6 clubs on the eastern side of Christchurch merged their Boys Youth teams to provide the players the best possible option for aspirational youth players on the East side of Chirstchurch. [6] The 6 clubs that helped create the new entity of Ōtākaro FC are, Burwood, Coastal Spirit, Ferrymead Bays, Parklands United, St Albans Shirley and Western. The club has had success in the premier season, with the 13th grade boys winning their league, 14th grade boys winning their league, 15th grade boys coming runners up in their league, and the 17th grade boys coming 5th out of 6th in their league. [7] The 17th grade boys are also competing in the Youth Southern League for qualification to the Youth National League.

Home Grounds

Coastal Spirit play their home games at Linfield Park, as well as Linwood Rugby FC, a rugby union club in Christchurch. After moving to Linfield park, back in 2020, Coastal have played their home games on Linfield Park S1 behind the clubrooms. Prior to the move in 2020, Coastal played their home games at Cuthberts Green, but due to poor conditions and not being up to the standards in the recent years, the decision was made to move the club. [8] Throughout the years, Coastal have had many of their home games moved to English Park .

Coastal was originally based at Bexley Park for 4 years. They would occasionally play at Eric Adam park ((formerly known as Rangers Park), now a subdivision in Bromley) the former home of Rangers AFC, where both Eric Adam park and Bexley Park got damaged during the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes causing for a relocation. [9] On 19 September 2010, Coastal played Richmond Athletic FC in the second leg promotion playoff tie for promotion to Mainland Premier League at Eric Adam park, Coastal went on to win the game 3-0. Coastal Spirit won 5-4 on aggregate, this was the fairytale ending to Eric Adam park. [10]

In the Southern League era, Coastal have played their home games at Linfield Park, generally on Sunday compared to the normal Saturday game, this is because Linwood Rugby have the priority to play games at Linfield Park. On a few occasions when the field is torn up from rugby or its unplayable (not up to standard), the home games have moved to the Artificial turf of English Park. On 6 August 2023, St. Albans Park became a new venue that's hosted a Southern League game, the venue is where St. Albans Shirley FC are located, Coastal played Nelson Suburbs where Nelson won the game 2-3. [11] [12]

Season by season record

SeasonDivisionLeague Chatham Cup Reta Fitzpatrick Cup Kate Sheppard Cup Top League Scorer
PWDLFAGDPtsPosNameGoals
Senior (Men's)
2011 [13] Premier 219483132 -1313rd R4 ——
2012 [14] Premier 2194834277314th R3 —
2013 [15] Premier 216692835 -7246th R1 —
2014 [16] Premier 2173113750 -13245th R4 —
2015 [17] Premier 2193937307304th R4 —
2016 [18] Premier 211425402416443rd R3 —
2017 [19] Premier 211236412417393rd R3 —
2018 [20] Premier 141013351025312nd R3 —
2018 [21] Championship 72142114776th
2019 [22] Premier 14617352312195th R1 —
2019 [23] Championship 741218117133rd
2020 [24] Premier 211065482622364th — —
2021 [25] Premier 1491426188282nd R3 Flag of Fiji.svg Mika Rubuka4
2021 [26] Southern 73041212096th Flag of Japan.svg Kenshin Hayashi5
2022 [27] Southern 183783443 -9166th R3 Flag of New Zealand.svg Treye Butler
Flag of New Zealand.svg Michael Hogan		5
2023 [28] Southern 1810173036 -6313rd R2 Flag of New Zealand.svg Omar Cameron
Flag of New Zealand.svg Liam Cotter		8
Senior (Women's)
2010 [29] Premier 19144171962461st——R2 [30] —
2011 [29] Premier 151203501139362nd1st2nd—
2012 [29] Premier 20182082775561st1stSF [31] —
2013 [29] Premier 151401531142421st—1st—
2014 [29] Premier 151401691158421st1st SF —
2015 [32] Premier 12101155748311st1st SF —
2016 [32] Premier 1816021021785482nd— R2 —
2017 [32] Premier 151401631548421st1st QF —
2018 [32] Premier 12741431429251st— QF —
2019 [32] Premier 12101152745311st— 2nd —
2020 [33] Premier 12111067562341st1st — —
2021 [33] Premier 1515001176111451st1st SF ♦ Flag of New Zealand.svg Melanie Cameron
Flag of New Zealand.svg Britney-Lee Nicholson		31
29
2022 [33] Premier 990043439271st1st R3 ♦ Flag of New Zealand.svg Melanie Cameron15
2022 [34] Championship 33001311291st♦ Flag of New Zealand.svg Isla McPherson4
2023 [33] Qualifiying 651042240161stSF SF ♦ Flag of New Zealand.svg Britney-lee Nicholson15
2023 [34] South Island 9522351223173rd♦ Flag of New Zealand.svg Britney-lee Nicholson15
Promotion Playoffs
SeasonDivisionPWDLGFGAAggregateAgainst Chatham Cup
Senior (Men's)
2009 [35] Promotion Playoffs 2011454–5 Ferrymead Bays R2
2010 [36] Promotion Playoffs 2101545–4 Richmond Athletic FC R2
R1Round 1Champions
R2Round 2Runners-up
R3Round 3Third Place
R4Round 4Last Place
QFQuarter Final♦Top scorer in competition
SFSemi Final

Honours

Men's

Women's

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