Tahitian national soccer team

Tahiti

Nickname (s)	Toa Aito ("Iron Warriors")
Association	Fédération Tahitienne de Football
confederacy	OFC
Head coach	Samuel Garcia (since 2019)
captain	Nicolas Vallar
Record scorer	Felix Tagawa (14)
Home stadium	Hamuta Stadium
FIFA code	TAH
FIFA rank	161. (1014 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
Balance sheet
95 games 48 wins 9 draws 38 losses
statistics
First international Tahiti 2-2 New Zealand ( Papeete , Tahiti ; September 21, 1952 )
Biggest win Tahiti 30-0 Cook Islands ( Papeete , Tahiti ; September 2, 1971 )
Biggest defeats New Zealand 10-0 Tahiti ( Adelaide , Australia ; June 4, 2004 ) Spain 10-0 Tahiti ( Rio de Janeiro , Brazil ; June 20, 2013 )
Successes in tournaments
Oceania Championship
Participation in the finals	8 ( first : 1973 )
Best results	Oceania Champion 2012
Confederations Cup
Participation in the finals	1 ( first : 2013 )
Best results	Preliminary round
(As of June 23, 2013)

The Tahitian national football team is the selection team for the French overseas territory of French Polynesia in the Pacific .

history

The Football Association of Tahiti has been a member of the world football association FIFA and the regional association OFC since 1990 . So far, the team has not yet managed to qualify for a soccer World Cup . At the Soccer Oceania Championship, the team took second place in the first three editions in 1973, 1980 and 1996, before becoming Oceania champions for the first time in 2012.

Tahiti has won the most (ten times) of all national teams with 13 or more goals and held out from September 7, 1963 to April 1, 1966 with an 18-0 win against the Solomon Islands and from September 2, 1971 to April 11, 2001 a 30-0 win against the Cook Islands set the record for the highest international wins. As Tahiti and their opponents were not members of FIFA at the time of the games, these games are missing from the FIFA lists.

The national team also takes part in the Coupe de l'Outre-Mer , the competition for national teams from France's overseas territories , which takes place in France . Tahiti has not yet been able to place itself, but played there for the first time against teams from South America ( French Guiana ), the Caribbean ( Martinique ) and against Mayotte , an island off the east coast of Africa.

On June 10, 2012 they became the first Pacific national team ever to become Oceania champions by beating New Caledonia 1-0 in the first final, in which neither Australia (no longer a member of the OFC since 2006) nor New Zealand (lost in the semifinals to New Caledonia) were involved . The favorite New Zealand was only third. Tahiti qualified for the Confederations Cup for the first time and met World and European champions Spain , South American champions Uruguay and Africa champions Nigeria . For Tahiti these were the first games in South America and against teams from CAF, CONMEBOL and UEFA. The team had to accept the highest defeat of an oceanic team against a team from another confederation with the 0:10 against Spain and the highest defeat of an oceanic team against a South American team with the 0: 8 against Uruguay. After all, Tahiti managed to score a goal in the first game in a 6-1 draw against Nigeria, to save the goalkeeper a penalty in the game against Uruguay and to win the hearts of the Brazilian spectators.

Participation in soccer world championships

• 1930 to 1990 - did not participate
• 1994 to 2018 - not qualified

Participation in the Oceania Championship

• 1973 - 2nd place
• 1980 - 2nd place
• 1996 - 2nd place
• 1998 - 4th place
• 2000 - preliminary round
• 2002 - 3rd place
• 2004 - 5th place
• 2008 - did not qualify
• 2012 - Oceania Champion
• 2016 - preliminary round

Participation in the Confederations Cup

• 1997 to 2009 - not qualified
• 2013 - preliminary round
• 2017 - did not qualify

Participation in the South Pacific and Pacific Games

Tahiti took part in all events and is the second most successful team with five titles and the only team to date to have won the title three times in a row.

• 1963 - third
• 1966 - winner
• 1969 - second
• 1971 - third as host
• 1975 - winner
• 1979 - winner
• 1983 - winner
• 1987 - second
• 1991 - preliminary round
• 1995 - Winner as host
• 2003 - fourth
• 2007 - preliminary round
• 2011 - third
• 2015 - second
• 2019 - preliminary round

Participation in the Polynesia Cup

Tahiti has won all three previous events.

• 1994 - winner
• 1998 - winner
• 2000 - winner

Coupe de l'Outre-Mer

• 2008: Seventh (out of 7 participants) - represented by the AS Manu-Ura team
• 2010: group stage (places 5 to 8 were not played out)
• 2012: sixth

Trainer

• Francois Vernaudon (1973)
• Umberto Mottini (1995–1996)
• Gerard Kautai (1996)
• Richard Vansam (1997)
• Alain Rousseau / Eddy Rousseau (1997–1998)
• Leon Gardikiotis (1999-2000)
• Patrick Jacquemet (2001-2002)
• Gérard Kautai (2004-2007)
• Eddy Etaeta (2010-2015)
• Patrice Flaccadori (2015)
• Ludovic Graugnard (2015-2018)
• Naea Bennett (2018-2019)
•  Samuel Garcia (2019–)

See also

• List of the international matches of the Tahitian national football team
• Tahitian National Football Team (U-17 Juniors)
• Tahitian National Football Team (U-20 Men)
• List of the highest international football results

Web links

• Official website of the football association (French)
• Country profile on the FIFA website
• International matches for the national team until 2004 with RSSSF

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Matches recognized by FIFA
3. ↑ Won one game on penalties .
4. ^ Tahiti crowned kings of Oceania. (No longer available online.) FIFA , June 10, 2012, archived from the original on June 4, 2016 ; accessed on June 10, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ fifa.com: Tahiti won the hearts of the fans
6. ↑ fifa.com: Tahiti is at home in Brazil