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Tonga national football team

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Most caps
  
Lafaele Moala (16)

Home stadium
  
Loto-Tonga Soka Centre

Current
  
205 (9 March 2017)

Founded
  
1965

Head coach
  
Timote Moleni

Top scorer
  
Mark Uhatahi (3)

FIFA code
  
TGA

Highest
  
163 (October 1998)

Manager
  
Timote Moleni

Ground
  
Loto-Tonga Soka Centre

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Association
  
Tonga Football Association

Confederation
  
Oceania Football Confederation (Oceania)

The Tonga national football team is the national team of Tonga and is controlled by the Tonga Football Association.

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Football in Tonga

Tonga's greatest football triumph to date was their triumph in the first ever Polynesian Cup held in 1993 over Samoa and the Cook Islands. Although local players have not yet made their mark on big leagues abroad, the Chief Executive of the Tonga Football Association, Joe Topou, was appointed to the FIFA Executive Committee in 2002.

The second Goal project

Tonga's second Goal project will develop and improve the national football academy and the associations headquarters in Atele, Tongatapu, which was built in the country's first Goal project. This development work will ensure that all of the Tonga Football Associations needs are fully satisfied. Local matches will be held at the football academy, while the administration's requirements, including the needs of players, officials and spectators, will also be covered. The football school will be transformed into a House of Football.

OFC Nations Cup

  • 1973 to 1980 – Did not enter
  • 1996 to 2016 – Did not qualify
  • Current squad

    Players selected to compete in the First Round of the 2018 World Cup qualifiers against American Samoa, Samoa and the Cook Islands.
    Caps and goals updated as of 4 September 2015.

    List of Coaches

  • Rudi Gutendorf (1981)
  • Umberto Mottini (1997–1998)
  • Gary Phillips (2001)
  • Heinave Kaifa (2002–2003)
  • Milan Janković (2003–2005)
  • Ben Perry (2005–2006)
  • Reece Mclaughlin (2006–2007)
  • Jacob Swanson (2007-2011)
  • Chris Williams (2011)
  • Jack Hellon (2012–2013)
  • Timote Moleni (2015–2016)
  • References

    Tonga national football team Wikipedia