News
2009 news | 2008 news
Pre-Season Training
22 December 2009
Senior Men's (Div 1 and Reserves) Preseason Training
The club is calling a meeting of all players interested in competing for the men's first team or reserve men's teams Sunday 24th January 2010, 1pm at Linfield Sports (56 Kearney's Rd). This meeting will outline the structure of the preseason, key dates and expectations as well as the direction the coaching staff and club are wanting to head towards. Attendance is expected.
Official pre season training will commence Tuesday 26th January 6.30pm start at Eric Adam Park. Training days will be Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday mornings (10-11am).
Senior Men's preseason tournament commences 9th February. The reserve men's tournament commences 6th March.
The Div 1 competition starts 3rd April, with the PDL competition starting 10th April.
For enquiries, please contact Paul Hughes at paulh@edwardgibbon.co.nz or 0275226221
Senior Women's (WPL and Reserves) Preseason Training
Official preseason training will commence Monday 25th January 2010, 6.30pm start at Bexley Reserve. Training days will be Monday & Thursday with one Sunday morning (31st Jan).
Senior Women's preseason tournament commences 1st March.
The WPL competition starts 3rd April, with the women's reserve competition starting 10th April.
For enquiries, please contact Gareth Turnbull at gareth@linfield.co.nz or on 0277499283
Men's 1st Team Coach
20 December 2009
The club is proud to announce Paul Hughes as the new Division 1 Men's Head Coach for 2010. Paul, a long time servant of Rangers AFC will work with the assistance of Gareth Turnbull and Korouch Monsef whilst he finishes his formal qualifications. The club is pleased to be in a situation where we are able to appoint such a high calibre coach from within the club. This is a statement that the club is committed to providing internal pathways for its coaches network and senior players to take up appointments within the club. Preseason training dates will be published early next week.
Coastal Spirit Coaches' Network
19 November 2009
CSFC is proud to announce the creation of a coaching pathway program that will support, develop and guide selected coaches and key teams throughout the club as they move forward in football. This new initiative will complement our existing player pathway program. To facilitate this, the club has appointed Korouch Monsef for 10 hours per week to work with our promising junior, youth and senior coaches and give them the best opportunity and environment to fulfill their potential. Work will start next month and continue throughout the year. For more information, contact gareth@linfield.co.nz or Ph. 389-3007.
2009 Yearbook:
The Coastal Spirit FC Yearbook 2009, compiled by Jim Hawkey, is now available for purchase for $4 from the offices at Linfield Sport (56 Kearney’s Road). Once again thanks must go to life member Jim Hawkey for the dedication he has put into assembling the book over the past 12 months. The book comes in Junior's, Men's, Women's and Sunday sections of the club. Plenty of stats and photos so get in and buy one.
Coastal Spirit Senior Men's Coach 2010
October 2009
Coastal Spirit Football Club require a new coach for our Premier Men's team for 2010 and beyond. Applicants will need to have a minimum of the NACL or equivalent qualification. Our Premier Men are a leading side in the Division 1 competition and are striving to regain promotion to the MPL. We welcome any expressions of interest in this position. Please email our club Football Development Manager with your expression of interest or, if you wish to discuss the position, contact our club Chairman Wayne McTague on 9622894. Applications close 20th November, 2009.
Wong scores for NZ U-17 women
26 October 2009
Hannah Wong scored for NZ U-17 women in their 4-1 National Women's League Northern Conference win over Waikato-BoP. [Update 31 October: Match Report]. Meanwhile, Ashleigh Ward and Laura Merrin appeared for Mainland Pride in their 5-0 win over FootballSouth in the Southern conference.
Coastal Spirit - U-19 Girls South Island Champions
26 October 2009
Coastal Spirit are the inaugural Tsunami U-19 Girls South Island Champions. After a busy, enjoyable weekend of football at Bexley, a 6-0 thumping of Waimak in the Final capped an unbeaten tournament for our A team - although there was almost a scare in the quarter-finals when a penalty shoot-out was needed to separate Coastal Spirit A and Coastal Spirit B (who finished 6th). Monique Barker (Coastal Spirit A) was named Girls Tournament MVP.
In the boys Tsunami South Island U-19 Tournament, Western retained their title, beating Burnside 1-0 in the Final, after defeating Coastal Spirit A (who finished 7th) in the quarter-final. Coastal Spirit B finished 10th. Mickey Willis of Western was Boys Tournament MVP. Hornby boys won the Fair Play award.
Tournament Results: Boys | Girls
Hannah Wong in NZ U-17 women's squad
10 October 2009
Hannah Wong (CSFC Women's first team 35 games, 39 goals) has been named in the New Zealand Under-17 Women's squad to play in the National Women's League. The U-17 team will play in the Northern Conference of the League, while Mainland Pride (who Wong will no longer be playing for this season) play in the Southern Conference. The League commences in late October, with national playoffs in December.
Full NZ U-17 squad | Fixtures
Tsunami U-19 South Island Tournaments Draws
October 2009
The 2009 Tsunami South Island U-19 Tournaments will be held at Bexley, Labour Weekend, 24-26 October 2009. This year sees the inaugural girls U-19 tournament, with 8 teams involved. Coastal Spirit A have been drawn in Pool 1 along with Avon, Halswell and Mid-Canterbury. Coastal Spirit B are in Pool 2 with Ferrymead Bays, Waimak and Western. The boys tournament has 16 teams coming from around the South Island from Nelson to Southland. Coastal Spirit A are in Pool 1 with Burnside, Mid Canterbury and Waimak B. Coastal Spirit B are in Pool 3 with Nomads, Selwyn and Waimak A.
Draws and fixtures: Boys | Girls
Spirit players named in Mainland Pride squad
03 October 2009 - updated: 22 Oct 2009
5 Coastal Spirit players have been named in the 2009 Mainland Pride squad to play in the National Women's League - Ashleigh Ward, Hannah Wong, Laura Merrin, Hayley McKnight and Chloe Jones. The Pride start the season in Christchurch at home to FootballSouth at 1pm, 26 October 2009.
Full squad | Fixtures
Ashleigh Ward - Mainland Women's Youth Player of the Year
26 September 2009
Ashleigh Ward has been awarded Mainland Football's Women's Youth Player of the Year. See the list of Mainland award winners (pdf 20 kB)
Coastal Spirit Award Winners
20 September 2009
Jason Stapley and Sally Chetwin have (respectively) won the Men's and Women's First Team Player of the Year Awards presented at the Prizegiving evening last night at Linfield. Sally also won the Women's First Team Players' Player of the Year, while Nik Gebhardt picked up the Men's equivalent. Ashleigh Ward received Young Player of the Year, while the Ager Trophy for best performing team went to Men's Division 4 League and League Cup Winners, "Snow's" team. The Chellew Trophy for the Individual who has done the most for the club was awarded to Ryan Stewart ("Skippy"). See the list of award winners for each senior grade.
Reta Fitzpatrick Cup retained by Coastal Spirit
12 September 2009
Coastal Spirit have won the Reta Fitzpatrick Cup for the second successive year. Hannah Wong opened the scoring against Western at English Park, but the equaliser came shortly after. In the second-half, Maia Vink expertly scored from a penalty. Ashleigh Ward was named Player of the Final.
Sister School Wins National Secondary Schools Title
Gareth Turnbull reports:
Coastal Spirit affiliated school, Marian College have this past week won the national secondary schools title in Napier after beating Epsom Girls' Grammar in a penalty shootout. Four CSFC premier players - Kathryn Van Empel, Hannah Wong, Monique Barker and Maia Vink (Captain), as well as coach Gareth Turnbull were amongst the winning squad.
After competing pool play with wins over Otumoetai 2-1 (Monique Barker 2), St Cuthbert's College 4-1 (Monique Barker 2, Hannah Wong) and a loss to Kamo College 3-5 (Monique Barker 2), Marian qualified second in pool E and reached the round of 16.
The round of 16 game was against winners of Pool C, Tauranga Girls'. 0-0 at the end of normal time meant direct to penalty shootout. With Maia Vink and Kathryn Van Empel slotting their penalties, and ex CSFC goal keeper Megan Shea saving 3, Marian won the shootout 4-2.
The quarter-final match was against very highly rated and Auckland schools champions Mt Albert Grammar. The girls preformed very well, and despite going a goal down early in the second half, finished the game the strongest and equalised late in the match to draw 1-1. With no extra time, penalties would determine who would progress. Maia again led off, followed by Kathryn, and with 3 more saves from Megan meant the girls went on to win 3-1.
After achieving the original objective of making the top 8 and direct qualification for next year's tournament, our attention turned to the NZ age-group stacked private girls soccer academy that is St Peter's of Cambridge (last year's beaten finalist). A handful of these players played for Claudelands Rovers in the NZ Cup semi-final against Western last weekend, so I knew how they would shape up, and with some other scouting during the week I was able to devise a cunning plan. Full credit must go to the girls who stuck to the game plan for the entire match, rocking the star-studded team with 4 first-half goals (Monique Barker 2, Hannah Wong, Maia Vink). We were able to hold on in the second-half to win through to the final 4-2!!!!
The final saw us pitted against defending champions Epsom Girls', who in Annalie Longo had one of the best female players in the country. We used the same plan as in the semi-final that served us so well. That plan, along with the genuine desire to win for their mates, saw a very even final with both teams going toe to toe. After 80 minutes of football and no goals, the girls would have to complete 20 minutes of extra time. With concentration and heart being the two key words for this period, we battled through to the final whistle at 0-0. Penalties would again seal our fate (something we were now very confident at). Maia finished off her high-school career, slotting her third penalty of the week, however Kathryn would see hers saved. Three more Megan Shea saves meant, with the scores level at 2-2, Hannah Wong would score hers to see Marian crowned national champs with a 3-2 win.
Credit goes to all the girls, but in particular Monique Barker who secured team MVP honours, and Megan Shea who won goal keeper of the tournament and final MVP.
Mainland Award Finalists
Congratulations to the Coastal Spirit representatives who are finalists for the Mainland Football awards:
- Women's Goalkeeper of the Year: Lily Alfield
- Women's Defender of the Year: Alex Hepburn
- Women's Striker of the Year: Ashleigh Ward
- Women's Youth Player of the Year: Ashleigh Ward
- Female Team Coach of the Year: Gareth Turnbull
Winners will be announced at the Mainland Awards evening, 25 September 2009.
"Black Out at Barnett" as Coastal Spirit men's team strive for promotion to the Mainland Premier League. Get along at 2:00 pm to Barnett Park on Saturday 5 September 2009 and support our boys. Wear your biggest, brightest, blackest gear and show your true colours in the first play-off game, Ferrymead Bays v Coastal Spirit.
CSFC reach 2009 Reta Fitzpatrick Cup Final
Coastal Spirit have reached the Final of the Reta Fitzpatrick Cup (pictured). A 5-0 win over Halswell in the semi-finals on Saturday 27 June sets up a meeting in the Final with the winner of Avon United v Western.
Coastal Spirit Appoint New Coach
25 June 2009
Coastal Spirit Football Club have appointed Rob Stanton as Men's 1st team coach for the remainder of the 2009 season. This follows on from the recent appointment of current coach Alan Walker as Mainland Football's Director of Football.
Club Chairman, Wayne McTague, is confident that this is the best possible move for the club at this time.
"I am aware that Alan is still capable of gaining us promotion to the Matson's Premier League at the end of this season. I also know that Alan is bitterly disappointed not to have the opportunity to finish the job he has started in the manner he would have liked, but feel a clean break now is in the best interest of the club. Without question Alan has done a fantastic job on our behalf over the past season and a half and I thank him for that, and also wish him well at Mainland. The fact that many key players in this year's squad stayed on after the disappointment of missing out on promotion last season is solely down to him. He has certainly got the Spirit off to a fantastic start."
Stanton, a former 1st team coach at Western and assistant to Koroush Monsef at Canterbury United last NZFC season will be in charge after the conclusion of the Men's Div 1 game against Cashmere at Bexley.
Kanga Cup Draw
Coastal Spirit are sending an U-14 Boys and an U-15 Girls team to the Kanga Cup in Canberra, Australia in July. The U-15 Boys are in Pool A with 4 Australian teams: Belnorth, Brindabella Lightning, Woden Valley and Colo SFC. The U-15 Girls are in Pool A with 4 Australian teams: Gladesville Ravens, Tuggeranong Comets, Belnorth and Tuggeranong Meteors.
More Kanga Cup info | U-14 Boys Kanga Cup fixtures | U-15 Girls Kanga Cup fixtures | Fundraiser
Coastal Spirit Achieves Gold
Coastal Spirit have been awarded Gold Clubmark Accreditation.
ClubMark signals to the wider community that the club is well organised, well resourced, with systems in place that will assist with all volunteer positions within the club.
Some of the benefits from being part of the ClubMark programme include a better organised club which makes it easier for new office bearers to take on new responsibilities; a well organised financial system that has seamless and open procedures and it encourages clubs to be creative when recruiting, communicating and recognising their volunteers.
All accredited clubs receive letters highlighting the areas in which the club has excelled or has developed as a result of a ClubMark accreditation. These letters can be used with funding applications, sponsorship proposals, and for promoting the club to the wider community.
Well done to the Management Team for achieving this sought-after award.
23-24 May 2009 All Coastal Spirit FC matches postponed
Mainland Football report that all matches involving Coastal Spirit teams scheduled for 23-24 May 2009 have been postponed, with the exception of CSFC's Women's Premier team who have the bye.
2009 Mainland Pride
Coastal Spirit FC are well-represented in the extended Mainland Pride (representative squad to potentially play in the National Women's League). Maia Vink, Sally Chetwin, Alex Hepburn, Hannah Wong and Monique Barker are participating in the training squad.
See the full Mainland Pride squad
Longest Futsal Game World Record Attempt
This event, sanctioned by the Guinness Book of Records, will take place on the 9th and 10th of May 2009. With the support of all club members we aim to break the record (currently 30 hours) while raising money for our club development fund. This event represents a wonderful opportunity for everyone participating to be part of the world record setting Coastal Spirit Football Club, so I hope you take the opportunity to join in what will be the biggest club function we have run so far in our short history. I hope to see all of you at Bexley at some stage over the weekend of the 9th/10th. Your coaches will be in touch with more information in the next few days. Thank you in advance for your support.
Wayne McTague
Executive Chairman.
CSFC players and coach celebrate National Age Grade Tournament Wins
20 April 2009
Coastal Spirit was well-represented in the National Age Grade Tournaments won by Mainland U-15 Girls and Mainland U-14 Girls. Congratulations go to:
Under-14 Girls
- Haley McKnight
- Laura Merrin (captain)
- Lily Alfield
Under-15 Girls
- Coach: Gareth Turnbull
- Sarah Terris
- Isla Smith
- Chloe Jones (captain)
- Kathryn Van Empel
- Sorren Henderson
- Ashleigh Ward
- Melanie Cameron
- Mollie Cairns
- Jemma Dockerty
More National Age-Grade Tournament Details
Wayne McTague appointed Executive Chairman
07 April 2009
After the recent resignation of Mark Cini due to work pressure, Wayne McTague has been appointed by the Board of Coastal Spirit Football Club as acting Executive Chairman effective immediately.
Wayne's breadth of skills and familiarity with all facets of the club's operations will allow Coastal Spirit to continue the rapid growth shown to date!
Prior to his appointment as Chairman, Wayne was the Club Manager and chaired the club's Run The Game (RTG) group. He will maintain this dual role until the end of the season.
The Board would like to take this opportunity to thank Mark Cini for all of his efforts and wish him all the very best for the future. His energy and vision was instrumental in setting the Club along the correct path and will be sorely missed.
Pre-Season Tournament Finals
Coastal Spirit will play Western in the Final of the inaugural Women's Pre-Season Tournament, at Eric Adam Park on Saturday 21 March 2009 at 3pm (preceded at 1pm by 3/4 playoff Ferrymead Bays v Halswell). In the Men's Tournament Final, Woolston Technical overcame an early Michael Fifii goal to beat Christchurch United 3-1, with Coastal Spirit finishing 4th, after an even younger than usual CSFC side lost 4-1 to Ferrymead Bays.
Tournament Fixtures and Results: Men's | Women's
2009 Volunteer Junior Coordinator Required
Coastal Spirit FC is looking for a dedicated person to take control (responsibility for the development and day-to-day running) of our junior in-house grades for midgets (5th-8th grade) based at Bexley.
Responsibilities for this position:
- Allocation of playing fields
- To ensure draws (fixtures) and results are managed effectively
- Positive Communication reporting to Junior Club Captain.
- Management of team selections on a weekly basis to ensure the players are rotated regularly
Please contact Gareth Turnbull for more information.
Pre-Season Tournament Semi-Finals
The Semi-Finalists have been found for the Coastal Spirit Men's and Women's Pre-Season Tournaments. In the Men's Semi-Finals on Tuesday 10 March 2009, Coastal Spirit will play Christchurch United at 6.15pm, with Woolston Technical facing Ferrymead Bays at 8pm in the other semi. In the Women's semi-finals on Wednesday 11 March, Coastal Spirit will play Halswell United at 6.15pm, with Western facing Ferrymead Bays at 8pm. All matches at Eric Adam Park. Men's playoff semi-finals for 5th-8th place are on Thursday 12 March.
Tournament Fixtures and Results: Men's | Women's
2009 Coaching Criteria
In line with Coastal Spirit's philosophy to be the leaders, we have designed a coaches' development pathway that will ensure that all of our coaches are firstly striving towards a greater goal, but are also suitably qualified to be coaching the teams that they are responsible for.
Download the criteria: 
2009 Coaching Criteria [90kB PDF].
2009 Pre-Season Tournaments
The 2009 Coastal Spirit Pre-Season Tournaments commence on Tuesday 17 February 2009 with Group matches on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings at Eric Adam Park. The Men's Final will be at 3pm on Sunday 15 March, with the Women's Final on Saturday 21 March. Coastal Spirit's men's team is in Group A with Halswell (19 Feb), Ferrymead Bays (25 Feb) and Burnside (5 Mar). Coastal Spirit's women's team will meet Halswell (19 Feb), Ferrymead Bays (25 Feb) and Western (5 Mar).
Full Draws and Fixtures: Men's | Women's.
2009 Training begins
Coastal Spirit's Senior Men's and Women's teams have each started their training for the 2009 season. Men's Head Coach Alan Walker is looking forward to winning the league (after being cruelly denied for the past two seasons) and taking their rightful place in the Premier League. Trainings will be Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:30pm. Bonus practices will also be held on Saturday mornings at 9:30am at Bexley Reserve. For more information, contact Alan Walker, Head Coach on 021 240 0039
Women's Premier League (Women's First Team) training is on Monday and Wednesday nights, at Bexley Reserve. Head Coach Gareth Turnbull will be looking to continue the legacy created in 2008 when Coastal Spirit won both the League and Cup in our inaugural year. For more information, contact Gareth Turnbull
2009 Coaching Appointments
20 December 2008
Coastal Spirit FC have announced the following 2009 Coaches:
- Men's First Team: Alan Walker;
- Women's First Team: Gareth Turnbull.
Congratulations to the Coastal Spirit coaches selected in the sought-after positions of Mainland Federation Team Coaches. Gareth Turnbull has been selected to coach the Under-15 Girls team and Alan Walker has been selected to coach the Under-13 Boys team to the National Tournaments in 2009.
CSFC to enter Kanga Cup
14 December 2008
Coastal Spirit FC is intending to enter a team of 13-14 year olds in the 2009 Kanga Cup to be held in Canberra, Australia, 12 - 17 July 2009. The Kanga Cup claims to be the biggest youth football tournament in the Southern Hemisphere.
Find out more about the Kanga Cup.
100 Club
4 December 2008
Coastal Spirit would like to form a strategic partnership with your organisation.
We are setting up the '100 Club', a family of businesses. A network of companies prepared to donate $100 to assist in the development of our club.
A donation of $100 will entitle your company to the following:
- 12 month membership to the Coastal Spirit FC Sponsor Family
- Brand acknowledgement in the Coastal Spirit FC Dug Out newsletter
- Recognition on, and link to your company website from, this Coastal Spirit FC website.
- A copy of the sponsorship network with all contact information.
For more information, visit our 100 Club page.
Turnbull scores against Oceania champions
29 November 2008
In the NZFC, Gareth Turnbull scored the equaliser for Canterbury United in the 1-1 draw at Waitakere United (current Oceania champions). Michael Fifii also created several chances for Canterbury.
NZFC match report | Canterbury United 2008/09 squad | Canterbury United 2008/09 fixtures
Members' Details
20 November 2008
Attention! Coastal Spirit FC members.
Please let us
know if you have changed your address or any contact details
since the beginning of the 2008 season. It is important that we
have your details up-to-date. If they have changed or if you
are unsure, then please send an e-mail to Gareth Turnbull
with the subject "change of address".
CSFC Yearbook 2008
11 November 2008
The Coastal Spirit FC Yearbook 2008 has been compiled by Jim Hawkey and thanks to Wyatt & Wilson Print it is now available.
Over 100 pages, detailing:
- a brief history of the 2 clubs that formed CSFC
- key personalities
- men's section
- women's section
- juniors
- Sunday league
There are lots of photos and points of interest - such as brothers and sisters who have played in the first teams for CSFC (if you haven't worked out who they are, then buy a copy and see page 20).
The yearbook can be purchased from Jim Hawkey for $2, or contact us for purchase details.
Coastal Spirit FC Annual General Meeting
Notice is given for the holding of the 1st Annual General Meeting of the Coastal Spirit Football Club on Monday 10th November 2008 at 7.30pm at Linfield Sports, 56 Kearneys Road, Christchurch. Club members are encouraged to attend. Club members can (prior to the meeting) request from Gareth Turnbull documents relating to the meeting.
Turnbull, Fifii in Canterbury United squad
6 November 2008
Gareth Turnbull and Michael Fifii are both in the Canterbury United squad for the forthcoming NZ Football Championship season. Canterbury United start the season against YoungHeart Manawatu at English Park, 3pm, Saturday 8 November 2008.
Canterbury United 2008/09 squad | Canterbury United 2008/09 fixtures