Cema Nasau

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Cema Nasau
Personal information
Date of birth (1999-11-15) 15 November 1999 (age 24)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
Ba
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
Ba (9)
International career
2017 Fiji U20 5 (4)
2018– Fiji 23 [1] [2] [3] [4] (26)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 7 February 2024

Cema Nasau (born 15 November 1999) is a Fijian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ba FC and the Fiji women's national team.

Nasau is from Koroqaqa in Ba Province and plays for Ba F.C. [5] She started playing football in 2015. [6] In 2016 she was part of the Fiji women's national under-17 football team for the 2017 OFC U-16 Women's Championship. [7] In 2017 she was part of the Fiji women's national under-20 football team for the 2017 OFC U-19 Women's Championship. [8] In 2018 she was selected for the Fiji women's national football team for the 2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup. [9] In 2019 she was part of the team which won bronze at the 2019 Pacific Games in Apia. [10]

In 2022 she won the golden boot and golden ball awards in the Women’s Inter-District Championship. [11] During the 2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup she won two player of the match awards, [12] as well as best player of the tournament. [13] [14]

In 2023 she will move to the Babasiga Lionesses. [11]

International goals

No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.4 December 2017 Port Vila, Vanuatu Flag of Tonga.svg  Tonga 2–05–0 2017 Pacific Mini Games
2.4–0
3.11 December 2017Flag of the Solomon Islands.svg  Solomon Islands 1–02–0
4.14 December 2017Flag of Vanuatu.svg  Vanuatu 1–11–2
5.19 November 2018 Nouméa, New Caledonia Flag of the Cook Islands.svg  Cook Islands 1–03–0 2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup
6.22 November 2018Flag of Tonga.svg  Tonga 3–012–0
7.9–0
8.10–0
9.28 November 2018 Maré, New CaledoniaFlag of Papua New Guinea.svg  Papua New Guinea 4–15–1
10.8 July 2019 Apia, Samoa Flag of American Samoa.svg  American Samoa 2–011–0 2019 Pacific Games
11.3–0
12.15 July 2019New Caledonia flags merged (2017).svg  New Caledonia 2–04–0
13.18 July 2019Flag of Tonga.svg  Tonga 1–03–1
14.20 July 2019Flag of the Cook Islands.svg  Cook Islands 1–03–1
15.2–0
16.7 April 2022 Sydney, Australia Flag of the Philippines.svg  Philippines 1–62–7 Friendly
17.5 July 2022 Lautoka, Fiji Flag of Tonga.svg  Tonga 4–05–0
18.27 July 2022 Suva, FijiFlag of the Solomon Islands.svg  Solomon Islands 1–13–1 2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup
19.2–1
20.30 July 2022Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg  Papua New Guinea 1–21–2
21.8 November 2022 Canberra, Australia Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg  Papua New Guinea 1–02–0 2022 Pacific Women's Four Nations
22.21 November 2023 Honiara, Solomon Islands Flag of Vanuatu.svg  Vanuatu 1–03–2 2023 Pacific Games
23.27 November 2023New Caledonia flags merged (2017).svg  New Caledonia 2–03–0
24.7 February 2024Apia, SamoaFlag of American Samoa.svg  American Samoa 5–010–0 2024 OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
25.6–0
26.9–0
27.16 February 2024Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 1–71–7

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