Moturoa AFC is one of New Zealand's oldest association football clubs. Based in New Plymouth, the club traces its establishment back to the Watersiders Association Football Club of New Plymouth. Moturoa AFC has rich history with the club having success in many regional and national competitions. Its clubrooms and home ground are at the Onuku Taipari Domain, Ngāmotu Road, Spotswood. Moturoa have competed for the Chatham Cup since 1949, reaching the North Island semi-final in 1954 against Stop Out at Western Park, and again in 1959 against Miramar Rangers at the Basin Reserve. In 1960 the club reached the North Island final of the cup facing North Shore United at Blandford Park, and again in 1962 facing Hamilton Technical Old Boys at Seddon Park. In 1966 Moturoa again reached the NI semi-final to face Miramar Rangers, but on this occasion at Western Park. Moturoa reached the fifth round of the Chatham Cup in the 1969, 1971 and 1972 seasons, with the 1972 competition notable for knocking out the holders of the trophy Western Suburbs in the fourth round. The club has since reached the fourth round in 1974, 1987, 2000 and 2002 and last competed in the competition in 2016 Early history Originally the Moturoa Football Club was a short-lived rugby club, started by the Breakwater Sports Committee in the kiosk at Ngāmotu Beach in early 1914, before amalgamating with the Star club. Moturoa FC's home ground was the prison reserve field adjacent to Otaka Street in Moturoa. The club retained one junior team for a short period after the amalgamation that played in the Moturoa club's colour white, with the addition of a star emblem on the shirt chest. From 1915 to 1921 there was no official Taranaki Association Football Championship due to the war. The New Plymouth club relied on friendly games against mariners of the trade shipping at the port of Moturoa. The first ever recorded Moturoa association football team was published in the Taranaki Daily News on 25 May 1925, with players; Thompson, Matthews, Randell, the Spedding brothers, the Anderson brothers, Murray, Mells, Peere, Towes and Cole scheduled to face Fitzroy at the Tukapa Ground in Westown. There was an annual meeting of the New Plymouth Association Football Club in mid-May 1926 where it was decided that the Moturoa and New Plymouth Clubs' combine for the purpose of entering a team for the Julian Cup. At