Uni-Mount Bohemian AFC

Uni-Mount Bohemian
Full nameUni-Mount Bohemian Association Football Club
NicknameUnimount
Founded1952; 74 years ago (1952) (as University-Mount Wellington Association Football Club)
2000; 26 years ago (2000) merger with Bohemian Celtic FC
GroundBill McKinlay Park, Panmure, Auckland, New Zealand
Capacity5,000[1]
ChairmanJohn Blair (2016)
CoachDavid Hernandez
LeagueNRF League One
2025NRF League One, 8th of 8

Uni-Mount Bohemian Association Football Club (formerly known as University-Mount Wellington) is an association football club in Auckland, New Zealand. It was formed from the amalgamation of University AFC and Mount Wellington AFC. The team play at Bill McKinlay Park, Panmure, Auckland.

Club history

During much of the 1970s and 1980s, Mt Wellington AFC was a strong club side, rivalled only by Christchurch United.[citation needed] The team won the Chatham Cup on five occasions, in 1973, 1980, 1982, 1983, and 1990. Since amalgamation, the cup has been won a further two times, in 2001 and 2003, making the club one of only two seven-time winners (together with Christchurch United) of the country's main knockout tournament. They also won the country's national league in 1972, 1974, 1980, 1982, and 1986.

Present day

In recent years, the club's senior contingent has been run primarily by Bohemian Celtic FC, formerly of the Auckland Sunday Football Association and 5-time-champions it the ASFA Premier League. Since Unimount & Bohemian Celtic FC aligned, the club has risen from AFF/NFF Conference football back into the NRFL 2nd Division.[citation needed]

Bill McKinlay Park is the clubs home ground and the club has an artificial pitch which can schedule up to five matches in one day.[citation needed]

Players

Many of the country's top players have played for either University-Mount Wellington or its predecessor teams, including several members of New Zealand's first World Cup qualifiers, the 1982 All Whites. These players include Ricki Herbert, Brian Turner, Tony Sibley, Dave Taylor, Darren McClennan, Peter Henry, Jeff Campbell, Rodger Gray, John Houghton, Leigh Kenyon, Michael Ridenton and Fred de Jong.[citation needed]

Season by season record

National League

Season Qualifying league League National League Chatham
Cup
Top scorer
P W D L F A GD Pts Pos P W D L F A GD Pts Pos Name Goals
2021 NRF Championship N/a Not eligible R1 N/a N/a
2022 21 5 4 12 32 53 –21 19 7th PR Unknown
2023 NRF League One 15 4 1 10 12 38 –26 13 6th R1 Unknown
2024 21 8 2 11 39 51 –12 26 5th PR Unknown
2025 20 0 0 20 7 151 –144 0 8th ↓ PR Unknown
2026 NRF Championship Division 1 To be determined TBD

Performance in OFC competitions

[2]

Season Competition Round Club Home Away Position
1987[a] Oceania Club Championship Final Australia Adelaide City 1–1 (1–4 p)
  1. ^ 1987 participation was as Mount Wellington.

Honours

Chart of yearly ladder positions for Mount Wellington in NZ 1st division soccer

National

Regional

References

*As Mount Wellington †As University-Mount Wellington