Hawkes Bay United
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Wikipedia - Hawke's Bay United FC
Hawke's Bay United was a professional Association football club based in Napier, New Zealand. HB United most recently played in the ISPS Handa Premiership – a semi-professional franchise based league, which ran independently of the winter club season. Local winter clubs provide the player pool for each franchise. Their home stadium is Bluewater Stadium.
History
Hawke’s Bay United (HBU) was founded in 2005 under the name of Napier City Soccer, as the summer entity of Central League club Napier City Rovers. In the inaugural NZFC season (2004–05), they finished 5th out of 8. The following season, Napier City Soccer was renamed to their current moniker of "Hawke's Bay United" and changed their kit colour to the Hawke's Bay provincial sporting colours of white and black, as part of an effort to greater represent the greater East Coast instead of just the city of Napier. The rebranded Hawkes Bay United finished last in the season standings.
Hawkes Bay Uniteds hemmaarena är Bluewater Stadium i Napier. Lagets färger är grönt och vitt. Klubbens smeknamn är "The Green Machine".
Några av Hawkes Bay Uniteds mest kända spelare inkluderar:
* Ryan Nelsen (tidigare Blackburn Rovers och Queens Park Rangers)
* Ivan Vicelich (tidigare Auckland City och New Zealand)
* Ben Sigmund (tidigare Wellington Phoenix och New Zealand)
* Michael McGlinchey (tidigare Central Coast Mariners och New Zealand)
Hawkes Bay United är ett av de mest framgångsrika lagen i New Zealand Football Championship och är kända för sin anfallsspel och sina lojala fans.