Football club
Miramar Rangers AFC is an amateur New Zealand association football club in the Wellington suburb of Miramar. The club is one of the most successful in New Zealand having won the Chatham Cup four times and the National League title twice. Over the last decade the club has played in the Central League and has won the division seven times, most recently in 2020.[1]
In 2004 it became one of the founding principal clubs of the Team Wellington franchise in the ASB Premiership.[2]
Club history
Miramar won the Chatham Cup, New Zealand's premier knockout tournaments for men, in 1966,[3] 1992,[4] 2004[5] and 2010,[6] and were Central League winners in 1997, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2020.[1][7] Miramar also won the now-defunct club National League in 2002[8] and 2003;[9] the latter was the final National League season before it was revived again in 2021, which Miramar have since qualified for the Championship phase.[10]
Oceania Footballer of the Century Wynton Rufer played 8 games for the club in the 1982 season.
Stadium
Miramar Rangers play all their home games at David Farrington Park in Miramar.[11]
Current squad
- As of 24 July 2021[12][13][14]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Coaching and medical staff
[15]
| Position
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Name
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| Head coach
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Kale Herbert
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| Assistant coach
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TBC
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| Goalkeeper coach
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TBC
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| Goalkeeper coach
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TBC
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| Team manager
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TBC
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| Physiotherapist
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TBC
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| Strength and conditioning
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TBC
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