{{update|date=February 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2019}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=April 2019}} {{Infobox football club | clubname = Dunedin Technical | image = | fullname = Dunedin Technical Association Football Club | nickname = Tech | founded = 1920 | dissolved = {{end date |2021}} | ground = Culling Park, Dunedin | capacity = | coach = | league = ODT FootballSouth Premier League | season = | position = | website = | kit_alt1 = Claret jersey, white shorts, claret socks | pattern_so1 = | leftarm1 = 880000 | body1 = 880000 | rightarm1 = 880000 | shorts1 = FFFFFF | socks1 = 880000 | pattern_la1 = | pattern_b1 = | pattern_ra1 = | leftarm2 = 000000 | body2 = 000000 | rightarm2 = 000000 | shorts2 = 000000 | socks2 = 000000 }} '''Dunedin Technical Association Football Club''' (known locally as '''Tech''') was an amateur association football club in Dunedin, New Zealand. They competed in the ODT FootballSouth Premier League and were champions on three occasions.
==Club history== The club was founded as '''King Edward Technical College Old Boys''' in 1920, and changed their name to Dunedin Technical in 1980. They and are based at Culling Park, in the suburb of Saint Kilda.
The club has regularly reached the later stages of the Chatham Cup (New Zealand's premier knockout football competition), and have reached the final on four occasions, in each of which they have met a team from Auckland. Their sole win was in 1999, when they beat Waitakere City FC 4–0. They were losing finalists in 1964 (under their former name), 1998, and 2008.
Their respective women's team have won the Kingsgate Women's Premier League for the 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 seasons, also reaching the quarter-finals of the National Women's Knockout Cup on two occasions, semi finals in 2017, and winning the Kate Sheppard Cup (previously known as Knockout Cup) against Forrest Hill Milford in 2018.
Dunedin Technical's best season in the New Zealand National Soccer League was in 2000, when they finished third. The previous year they had reached the final of the national league competition, which at that time was run as separate North and South Island leagues, followed by a final between the winners of these two leagues.
Prior to the creation of a national league in 1970, King Edward Technical College Old Boys were Otago regional champions in 1934, 1955, 1957, and 1963.<ref>[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesn/nzchamp.html List of New Zealand club champions]</ref>
In 2021, '''Dunedin Technical AFC''' merged with '''Caversham AFC, Melchester Rovers and Hereweka''' to form '''Dunedin City Royals'''. Dunedin Technical’s history, facilities, and player base were incorporated into the new organisation, marking the end of the club’s independent existence and its continuation under the Dunedin City Royals name.
==Notable players== <!-- In alphabetical order, please! --> *{{Flagicon|New Zealand}} Andrew Boyens *{{Flagicon|New Zealand}} Sam Jasper *{{Flagicon|New Zealand}} Neil Jones *{{Flagicon|New Zealand}} Graham Marshall *{{Flagicon|New Zealand}} Emily Morison *{{Flagicon|Germany}} Lutz Pfannenstiel *{{Flagicon|New Zealand}} Blair Scoullar
== References ==
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== External links == * [http://www.dunedintechnical.nz Club home page] * [http://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/Database/id1273.htm Dunedin Technical's club record at ultimatenzsoccer.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131206104938/http://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/Database/id1273.htm |date=6 December 2013 }}
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