English Cup (Christchurch)

This article is about the Christchurch English Cup Competition. For the England FA Cup Competition, see FA Cup.

English Cup
Organising bodyMainland Football
Founded1913; 111 years ago (1913)
RegionCanterbury
Number of teams15 (2024)
Domestic cup(s)Chatham Cup
Current championsCoastal Spirit
(1st title)
Most successful club(s)Western
(26 titles)
WebsiteMainland Football
2024 English Cup

The English Cup, is an annual New Zealand knockout football competition for Mainland Football men's first teams. First played during the 1913 season, it has been running on for 10 years longer than the Chatham Cup.[1] It is organised by and named after Mainland Football. It has been known as the Morrison Mitsubishi English Cup after its headline sponsor. A concurrent Women's Cup has been held since 1974 called Reta Fitzpatrick Cup.

The tournament consists of 1 randomly drawn round followed by the quarter-final, semi-finals and the final. All quarter-final, semi-finals and final games are hosted at English Park during the week, generally on a Tuesday at 7:00pm. Entrants are not seeded, and depending on the amount of teams there are, teams can receive byes.

  1. ^ "Busy weekend and ANZAC Day as Cups Football starts". mff.nz. 20 April 2023. Retrieved 24 June 2023.