Kapiti Coast United is an association football club in New Zealand. Their home ground is Weka Park in Raumati Beach on the Kapiti Coast. The club was formed by a merger of the Kapiti Hearts and Paraparaumu United in 2003. The Kapiti Hearts, founded as the Raumati Hearts in 1960, were named after Heart of Midlothian F.C., an Edinburgh soccer team commonly known as Hearts. Waikanae's football team was invited to join the merger but declined.
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