Coach Peter McAnelly | Founded 1950 | |
Full name Waihopai Association Football Club Grounds Surrey Park Road, Invercargill | ||
Waihopai is an association football club based in Invercargill, New Zealand. the side is one of the city's strongest club sides, and serves as a feeder club to the Southland Spirit FC team. Waihopai was founded in 1950 and plays its home games at Surrey Park.
Waihopai was part of the Southern League from 1975 to 1999 and was also a member of the Soccersouth Premier League in 2000, prior to the 2001 creation of the united Southland Spirit FC team.
Waihopai reached the quarter-finals of the Chatham Cup in 1964, having qualified as the champion side in the Southland Region. The club has reached the Fourth Round (last 32 stage) of the competition on four further occasions, in 1969, 1990, 1995, and 1997. Waihopai are also four-times winners of the Donald Gray Memorial Cup, in 1986, 2001, 2002, and 2003.