PREVIEW: Cashmere Technical chase trophy treble in Reta Fitzpatrick Cup

Cashmere Technical will look to add the Reta Fitzpatrick Cup to their league titles when they meet Haswell United at English Park on Wednesday evening.

Technical go into the final as favourites, having won the Women’s South Island League and the Mainlaind Premier League.

The side are also the current holders of the Reta Fitzpatrick Cup, which is sponsored by Mitsibishi Motors.

When they met in the Mainland Premier League, Technical ran out winners 14-1.

However, Halswell have reached the final of the Reta Fitzpatrick Cup without conceding a goal, and get the opportunity to win the competition which began 50 years ago — of which, they were the first winners.

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).

Fixture

Game to be played on Wednesday September 11, 2024

Reta Fitzpatrick Cup

Final

Cashmere Technical v Halswell United
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 September 11, 2024.

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