Tofaga FC

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Tofaga FC is a Tuvalu football club from Vaitupu, playing in the Tuvalu A-Division.

Full nameTofaga Football Club
Capacity1,500
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Tofaga FC
Full nameTofaga Football Club
GroundTuvalu Sports Ground,
Funafuti, Tuvalu
Capacity1,500
LeagueTuvalu A-Division
20211st[1]
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The team's home ground is the Tuvalu Sports Ground,[2] on Funafuti, which is the only football field in Tuvalu. Tofaga plays on an amateur level, as do all the teams in Tuvalu. They also have a reserve squad and a women's team.

History

The team was originally name Vatokami and was founded in the 1970s. In the 1990s, Paulson Panapa and Tapugao Falefou were the team's well-known players. In 1997 the team won its first prize, the Benson and Hedges Cup.[3] The team won the Independence Cup (held to recognise the independence of Tuvalu) in 1998.[3]

In 2005, the team changed its name to Tofaga.[4]

Toakai Puapua was coach from 2006 to 2008. He was also the football coach of Tuvalu during the 2007 South Pacific Games.[5]

Tofaga won the NBT Cup and the Independence Cup in 2006. After that, the club regularly won cups; the NBT Cup in 2007, 2008 and 2011, and three prizes in 2010 (Tuvalu Games, Independence Cup and Christmas Cup). Tofaga won the Independence Cup 5 times, and the team has also won the NBT Cup 9 times, and was the runner-up 4 times.[3]

Tofaga's only win of the Tuvalu A-Division competition was in 2021,[3] although its players, including Alopua Petoa[6] and James Lepaio,[7] were topscorers in the Tuvalu A-Division competition, in 2011, 2012, 2019 & 2021, and Alopua Petoa is the topscorer with the Tuvalu national football team with 11 goals in his international career.[8][9]

Tofaga was the runner-up in the 2023 Tuvalu A-Division competition.[10] Tofaga won the NBT Cup in 2023, beating Vaoloa 2–1.[10] The team included Etimoni Timuani (defender), James Lepaio (midfielder) and Alopua Petoa (striker).[11]

Honours

Tofaga A, winners of the Tuvalu Games competition 2012
The players celebrating being champions of the 2010 Christmas Cup

League

The Tofaga reserve team has been the B-Team Champions 5 times: 2006, 2009, 2011, 2013 & 2021.[1]

Cup

  • Tuvalu Games
    • Winners (3): 2010, 2012, 2013[3]
    • Runners-up (2): 2009, 2011[3]
  • Independence Cup
    • Winners (5): 1998, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2013[3]
    • Runners-up (2): 2008, 2009[3]
  • NBT Cup
    • Winners (9): 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023[3]
    • Runners-up (4): 2009, 2013, 2018, 2020[3]
  • Christmas Cup
    • Winners (2): 2010, 2019[3]
    • Runners-up (2): 2012, 2013[3]

See also

References

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