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'''Stop Out Sports Club''', commonly known as '''Stop Out''', is an association football club in Lower Hutt, New Zealand is based at Hutt Park, Moera in Lower Hutt.
==History== thumb|Chart of yearly ladder positions for Stop Out in NZ 1st division soccer The Stop Out organisation started in 1919<ref name="Club History" /> with the aim of providing recreation to Te Aro Flat children in Wellington associated with the Wellington City Mission so as to prevent them becoming "stop outs" – period slang for "troubled youth". The club has been involved in a myriad of sports, including Boxing, Athletics and Softball; however, these days football is the heart and soul of the club.<ref>{{cite web|title=Club Philosophy|date=13 March 2014 |url=http://www.stopout.org.nz/philosophy/|publisher=Stop Out Sports Club|access-date=29 November 2017}}</ref>
Despite the change of sporting-code focus, the club highly values the founding principles and continues to abide by them. The football branch, established in 1929 as the club '''Moera Stop Out''', changed its name to ''Stop Out'' in 1932.<ref name="Club History" /> The club won the Chatham Cup in 1956, and was runner-up in the National League in 1977.<ref name="Club History">{{cite web|title=Stop Out|url=http://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/Database/id1512.htm|website=UltimateNZSoccer|access-date=29 November 2017}}</ref> In 1983 and 1984 Stop Out won the Central League title.<ref name="Club History" />
In the 2006 season, club's men's first team played in Central League for the first time in over a decade however at the 2008 season the team was relegated again to the Capital Premier League.<ref>{{cite web|date=31 January 2009|title=Challenges ahead for Wairarapa United |url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/local-papers/wairarapa-news/653761/Challenges-ahead-for-Wairarapa-United|publisher=The Dominion Post|access-date=28 November 2017}}</ref> After promotion in 2014, they once again played in the Central League<ref>{{cite web|date=26 September 2013|title=Central League Closes door on Stop Out|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/9196592/Central-League-door-closes-on-Stop-Out-team|publisher=The Dominion Post|access-date=28 November 2017}}</ref>
In men's football Stop Out were the 2014 Capital Premier League champions,<ref>{{cite web|date=15 September 2014|title=Stop Out secure promotion with emphatic win|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/sport/10498406/Stop-Out-secure-promotion-with-emphatic-win|publisher=The Dominion Post|access-date=28 November 2017}}</ref><ref name="Club History" /> a title they also won in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|title=Stop Out Clinch Premier Title, Miramar On Hold|url=http://websites.sportstg.com/assoc_page.cgi?client=1-4205-0-0-0&sID=233746&&news_task=DETAIL&articleID=25104885|website=Capital Football|access-date=18 August 2013}}</ref><ref name="2013 Winners">{{cite news|last1=Edwards|first1=Simon|title=Stop Out Men, Women top league|url=https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/the-hutt-news/20130820/282093454386889|accessdate=20 August 2013|publisher=Hutt News}}</ref>
The Women's first team has also won the Capital Premier Women's League in 2011 and again in 2013<ref name="2013 Winners" /> as well as being runners-up in the Kelly Cup in 2015.<ref name="Club History" />
==References== <references />
==External links== * {{official website|http://www.stopout.org.nz}} * [http://www.soccer.org.nz/index.php?page=stop_out Capital Football profile] * [http://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/Database/id1512.htm "Ultimate New Zealand Soccer" website]
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Category:Association football clubs in Wellington Category:Association football clubs established in 1922 Category:1922 establishments in New Zealand Category:Sport in Lower Hutt
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