Hekari United FC
| Hekari United FC | ||
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| Basic data | ||
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| Surname | (Petroleum Resources Kutubu) Hekari United Football Club |
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| Seat | Port Moresby , Papua New Guinea | |
| founding | 2003 | |
| Colours | black-red-white | |
| First soccer team | ||
| Head coach |
 Jerry Allen
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| Venue | PNG Football Stadium , Port Moresby | |
| Places | 25,000 | |
| league | National Soccer League | |
| 2019 | 2nd place | |
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(PRK) Hekari United FC is a football club from the Papua New Guinean capital Port Moresby . He was best known for winning the OFC Champions League 2010 when he prevailed in the final against New Zealand favorites Waitakere United .
history
Hekari United was founded in 2003. Since the introduction of the semi-professional top division Papua New Guinea National Soccer League (officially Telikom NSL Cup ) in 2006, Hekari has won all national championship titles. In 2009 and 2010 the team also represented Papua New Guinea in the OFC Champions League . In their first participation, however, they were eliminated from the Solomon Islands with six points as second in the group behind Koloale FC Honiara .
After Hekari United was able to score only one point in the first two games of the 2010 OFC Champions League, the team won four times in a row and thus qualified for the final against Waitakere United , which had previously defeated Auckland City and AS Magenta . Although Waitakere was considered the clear favorite, Hekari prevailed 3-0 in the first leg in Port Moresby in front of 15,000 spectators. In the second leg in New Zealand a 2-1 defeat was enough to win the title. It was the first victory of a team in the OFC Champions League that did not come from Australia or New Zealand.
As winners of the OFC Champions League, Hekari United qualified as representative of Oceania for the 2010 FIFA Club World Cup in Abu Dhabi . There, however, the team was eliminated in the playoff for the quarter-finals against al-Wahda , the representative of the host country UAE , with a 3-0 defeat from the tournament.
successes
- National Soccer League: 8
- 2006 (as PRK Souths United FC), 2007/08, 2008/09, 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12, 2013, 2014
Web links
- Hekari celebrates triumph. In: fifa.com. May 3, 2010, accessed July 10, 2010 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Papua New Guinea - List of Champions - rsssf.com
- ↑ Al-Wahda is in the quarterfinals . In: fifa.com . December 8, 2010, accessed December 8, 2010
- ↑ 2006 -RSSSF
- ↑ PNG champions -RSSSF