WaiBOP Football

The Challenge Shield is played for in the highest level of competition in the WaiBOP Area, which in 2024 is the NRFL Southern Conference.

The competition works on similar rules to rugby’s Ranfurly Shield, with the club holding the shield defending it when playing at home.
It has previously been contested in the WaiBOP Premiership, and before that, the Fed 1 league.

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Date	Home Team	Away Team	Result	Notes
2007	Taupo			Shield introduced at the start of the 2007 season in the WaiBOP Fed 1 League. Taupo, as the title holder from 2006, were the inaugral holders of the sheild.
2007-2008	Various	Various		Taupo held the shield for all of the 2007 and 2008 seasons. Each season had 10 games they were challenged for the shield.
06/06/2009	Taupo	Whakatane	2-4	Taupo lost the shield after 24 successful defences
				Records missing
22/08/2009	Te Awamutu	Taupo	3-4
29/05/2010	Taupo	Rotorua United	1-5
???	Rotorua United	Tauranga Boys College		NZ Herald Story
28/09/2010	Tauranga Boys College	Otumoetai		Otumoetai win from Tauranga Boys College
4/6/2011	Otumoetai	Old Blues	0-2	NZ Herald Story
2/7/2011	Old Blues	AFC Fury	2-3	NZ Herald Story
23/07/2011	AFC Fury	Rotorua United	0-3	NZ Herald Story
13/08/2011	Rotorua United	Claudelands Rovers	0-3	NZ Herald Story
26/05/2012	Claudelands Rovers	Taupo	1-5	NZ Herald Story
				Taupo holders at the end of the 2012 season
2013
15/06/2013	Taupo	Cambridge	1-3	Taupo Lost shield after 10 defences
				Records missing
2014 - WaiBop Federation League Division One
				Records missing
28/06/2014	Otumoetai	Taupo	0-1
05/07/2014	Taupo	Cambridge	1-2
				Cambridge holders at the end of the 2014 season
2015
11/04/2015	Cambridge	Old Blues	0-1	NZ Herald Story
18/04/2015	Old Blues	Otumoetai	2-3	Otumoetai win from Old Blues NZ Herald Story
22/05/2015	Otumoetai	Rotorua United	0-1	NZ Herald Story
4/7/2015	Rotorua United	Ngongotaha		Rotorua United to Ngongotaha
2016
2015-2016	Ngongotaha			Ngongotaha holders for 18 months - Ngongotaha 2015 & 2016 WAIBOP CHALLENGE SHIELD HOLDERS. 18 months unbeaten at home.
				Ngongotaha's promotion to the Northern Region Football League means the shield passed to Rotorua United.
2017 Loaded WaiBOP Premiership Competition
01/04/2017	Rotorua United	West Hamilton	3-4	Sunlive Story Waikato Independant Story
08/04/2017	West Hamilton	Unicol	1-3	Unicol win from West Hamilton
08/07/2017	Unicol	Otumoetai	0-1
29/07/2017	Otumoetai	West Hamilton
5/08/2017	West Hamilton	Cambridge	2-5	Cambridge win from West Hamilton. Stuff Story
				Cambridge winners of the sheild at the end of the season - Cambridge Promoted to Northern League
2018 Loaded WaiBOP Premiership
				NZ Herald Story
21/04/2018	West Hamilton	Taupo	0-2	WaiBOP Story
				Taupo keep the sheild for the Summer
2019 - The Soccer Shop WaiBOP Premiership
06/04/2019	Taupo	Papamoa FC	2-5	Papamoa beat Taupo WaiBOP Story
				Papamoa hold until 2021?
2021 - WaiBOP Premiership
03/04/2021	Papamoa	West Hamilton	0-1	West Hamilton beat Papamoa
10/04/2021	West Hamilton	Taupo	1-4	WaiBOP Story
24/07/2021	Taupo	Waikato Unicol	0-1	Unicol beat Taupo
				Unicol then hold for almost 3 years?

2024 NRFL Southern Conference
13/04/2024	Waikato Unicol	Otumoetai AFC	1-4	Otumoetai AFC win the Challenge Shield
18/05/2024	Otumoetai AFC	Papamoa FC	1-2	Papamoa FC win the shield
08/06/2024	Papamoa FC	Ngongotaha Lakes	2-3	Ngongotaha Lakes win from Papamoa FC
06/07/2024	Ngongotaha Lakes	Claudelands Rovers	1-3
27/07/24	Claudelands Rovers	Otumoetai AFC	1-2
17/08/24	Otumoetai AFC	Taupo AFC	1-4
24/08/24	Taupo AFC	Waikato Unicol	0-2
31/08/24	Waikato Unicol	Cambridge FC	2-6	And Cambridge win to hold the sheild for the season