WATCH: Top Christchurch clubs to meet in semi-final of Reta Fitzpatrick Cup

Canterbury’s top-ranked women’s teams go head-to-head under lights on Wednesday to decide who’ll meet Haswell United in the final of this year’s Reta Fitzpatrick Cup.

Coastal Spirit and Cashmere Technical play in the semi-final of the cup at English Park, kicking off at 7pm.

Main photo: Cashmere Technical … playing for a place in the final. Photo credit: Jim Watts Photography / @jimwattsphoto

Mainland Football will live stream the match on their YouTube channel (see link below).

Technical are currently second, behind Dunedin City Royals, in the Women’s South Island League, while Coastal Spirit are third on the table.

Wednesday’s winners will go into the final against Halswell United who beat Selwyn United 1-0 in the first semi-final, played on August 7.

Fixture

Game to be played on Wednesday August 14, 2024

Reta Fitzpatrick Cup

Semi-final

Coastal Spirit v Cashmere Technical
English Park, Christchurch, 7pm

The Reta Fitzpatrick Cup

The Reta Fitzpatrick Cup is Mainland Football’s premier women’s knockout competition, named after one of women’s football’s pioneers in Canterbury.

She was team manager for Rangers (a founding club of Coastal Spirit) from 1976 to 1992. Fitzpatrick served as an administrator at Rangers and the Canterbury Women’s Football Association, becoming a Life Member of both.

Canterbury’s women’s knockout competition began in 1974 but was renamed after Fitzpatrick in 2005.

Past winners

This story was first published on August 14, 2024.

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