Tuvaluan national soccer team
Association | Tuvalu National Football Association | ||
confederacy |
OFC , CONIFA |
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Technical sponsor | Stingz | ||
Head coach | Lopati Taupili | ||
Record scorer | Alopua Petoa (8 goals) | ||
Record player | Mau Penisula (14 games) | ||
Home stadium | Tuvalu Sports Ground , Funafuti | ||
FIFA code | TUV | ||
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Balance sheet | |||
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31 games 7 wins 3 draws 21 losses |
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First international match Tahiti 18-0 Tuvalu ( Suva , Fiji ; August 30, 1979)
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Biggest win Tuvalu 6-1 Chagos Archipelago ( London , England ; June 9, 2018)
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Biggest defeat Tahiti 18-0 Tuvalu ( Suva , Fiji ; August 30, 1979)
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(As of June 11, 2018) |
The Tuvalu national football team is the selection team for the Pacific island state of Tuvalu .
Tuvalu is not a member of the world football association FIFA , so the country cannot qualify for football world championships. As an associated member of the regional association OFC , the team took part in the qualification for the Oceania Championship for the first time in 2007 . Since the qualification for the OFC Nations Cup (South Pacific Games 2007) also counted as a World Cup qualification, Tuvalu was the first non-FIFA member to - indirectly - take part in the qualification for the World Cup.
In September 2008, the Tuvaluan Prime Minister Apisai Ielemia and the President of the Tuvalu National Football Association , Tapugao Falefou, visited the FIFA headquarters in Zurich in the hope of attaining full membership of the organization. In 2011 the Dutch coach Foppe de Haan coached the national team, after which Leen Looijen took over the post. Bob Roosen currently holds the office.
The team scored four points at the 2011 Pacific Games , which is their best result to date.
International matches
Current squad
Status: 2018
No. | player | society | International matches | International goals | |||||
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1 | Katepu Iosua | FC Tofaga | 8th | 0 | |||||
90 | Roy Tanapa | Nauti FC | 0 | 0 | |||||
Defense | |||||||||
2 | Kalamelu Seloto | Nauti FC | 4th | 0 | |||||
3 | Paolo Taitai Talapai | Tamanuku | 5 | 0 | |||||
4th | Meauke Tuilagi | FC Niutao | 4th | 0 | |||||
6th | James Lepaio | FC Tofaga | 9 | 1 | |||||
8th | Etimoni Timuani | Lakena United | 6th | 0 | |||||
11 | Sueni Founuku | FC Tofaga | 1 | 0 | |||||
18th | Tausau Lopati | FC Manu Laeva | 0 | 0 | |||||
22nd | Vaiuli Nukualofa | FC Manu Laeva | 0 | 0 | |||||
24 | Leiatu Uoli | FC Manu Laeva | 2 | 0 | |||||
midfield | |||||||||
5 | Geoffrey Logoakina Maleko | Nauti FC | 0 | 0 | |||||
7th | Taufaiva Ionatana | Nauti FC | 5 | 1 | |||||
13 | Afelee Valoa | Nauti FC | 5 | 0 | |||||
14th | Suega Tonise | FC Manu Laeva | 0 | 0 | |||||
19th | Paulo Lotonu | Nauti FC | 5 | 1 | |||||
25th | Folomanu Kulene | FC Tofaga | 2 | 0 | |||||
attack | |||||||||
9 | Alopua Petoa | FC Tofaga | 10 | 8th | |||||
10 | Matti Hoffren Uaelesi | Lakena United | 4th | 1 | |||||
12 | Okilani Tinilau | FC Manu Laeva | 3 | 0 | |||||
15th | Sosene Junior Vailine | Nauti FC | 3 | 0 | |||||
16 | Teoliga Fakailoga | FC Niutao | 1 | 0 | |||||
17th | Adelau Peletiso Kalena | FC Nanumaga | 0 | 0 |
Participation in soccer world championships
- 1930 to 2006 - did not participate
- 2010 South Africa - participated in the qualification, but not qualified and eligible to play for the finals
- 2014 Brazil - did not participate
- 2018 Russia - did not participate
- 2022 Qatar - did not participate
Participation in the OFC Nations Cup
- 1973 to 2004 - did not participate
- 2008 - did not qualify
- 2012 - did not participate
- 2016 - did not participate
- 2020 - did not participate
Participation in the Pacific Games
- 1963 - 1975 - did not take part
- 1979 Fiji - consolation round for 5th place (result unknown)
- 1983 - 1995 - did not take part
- 2003 Fiji - preliminary round
- 2007 Samoa - preliminary round
- 2011 New Caledonia - preliminary round
- 2015 Papua New Guinea - did not participate
- 2019 Samoa - preliminary round
Trainer
- Kokea Malu (1979)
- Tim Jerks (2003)
- Toakai Puapua (2006-2010)
- Foppe de Haan (2011)
- Leen Looijen (2013)
- Frank Bakermans (2016)
- Taukiei İtuaso (2016-2018)
- Lopati Taupili (2018-)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leen Looijen national coach of Tuvalu. Tuvalu National Football Association, August 10, 2013
- ^ Frank Bakermans van Brabantia is the bond coach van Tuvalu in Oceanië. In: Eindhoven's Dagblad . Wegener, August 12, 2016, accessed September 9, 2016 (Dutch).
- ^ Paul Driessen and our new head coach Frank Bakermans in Suva, Fiji. Facebook , August 14, 2016, accessed September 9, 2016 .