Dunedin City is a former New Zealand

New Zealand

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 football club based in the South Island

South Island

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 city of Dunedin

Dunedin

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. The team won the Chatham Cup

Chatham Cup

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 in 1981

1981 Chatham Cup

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, and was a member of the National League

New Zealand National Soccer League

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 in 1977 and 1979-87, before withdrawing from the league for financial reasons. The team survived until about 1991 before being disbanded.

Dunedin City was founded in 1909 as Dunedin High School Old Boys, and changed their name to Dunedin City in 1970.

Notable players

Notable former Dunedin City players include:

• Ceri Evans
  Ceri Evans
  Ceri Evans is a former New Zealand association football player who frequently represented his country as a central defender in the 1980s and 90s. Evans attended Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar, where he studied Experimental Psychology and played for Oxford United FC...
  
  
• Mike McGarry
• Steve Wooddin
  Steve Wooddin
  Steven "Steve" Wooddin is a former New Zealand association football player who was a leading Striker during the country's successful campaign to qualify for the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain...