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Short name | TFA |
Founded | 1965 |
Headquarters | Loto-Tonga Soka Centre |
FIFA affiliation | 1994 |
OFC affiliation | 1994 |
President | Ve'ehala |
Vice-President | Paul Ma'u |
Website | tongafootball.to |
The Tonga Football Association (TFA) is the governing body of football in Tonga. It oversees the Tonga national football team, Tonga Major League and the Tonga Cup in international and club football respectively. Tonga is a full member of FIFA and OFC and participates in major tournaments like FIFA World Cup Qualifiers and OFC Nations Cup. [1]
The Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) is one of the six continental confederations of international association football. The OFC has 13 members, 11 of which are full members and two which are associate members not affiliated with FIFA. It promotes the game in Oceania and allows the member nations to qualify for the FIFA World Cup.
The American Samoa men's national football team represents American Samoa in men's international association football and is controlled by the Football Federation American Samoa, the governing body of the sport in the territory. American Samoa's home ground is the Pago Park Soccer Stadium in Pago Pago.
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The Cook Islands women's national football team represents the Cook Islands in international women's football. The team is controlled by the Cook Islands Football Association. With a population of around 18,000 people it remains one of the smallest FIFA teams.
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Football Federation American Samoa (FFAS) is the governing body for competitive football in the nation of American Samoa.
The Tonga national under-17 football team represents Tonga in international under-17 or youth football competitions and is controlled by the Tonga Football Association.
The Cook Islands national under-17 football team is the national U-17 team of the Cook Islands and is controlled by the Cook Islands Football Association. With a population of around 24,000 people, it remains one of the smallest FIFA teams.
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The first round of OFC matches for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification was played from 31 August to 4 September 2015 in Tonga.
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The Tonga national under-20 football team represents Tonga in international Under 20 or youth football competitions and is controlled by the Tonga Football Association.
The Cook Islands national under-20 football team is the national U-20 team of the Cook Islands and is controlled by the Cook Islands Football Association. With a population of around 24,000 people it remains one of the smallest FIFA teams.
The Samoa national under-20 association football team represents Samoa in under-20 competitions and is controlled by the Football Federation Samoa, the governing body for football in Samoa. Samoa's U20 home ground is Toleafoa J.S Blatter Soccer Stadium in Apia. It was known as the Western Samoa national under-20 football team until 1997, following the renaming of the country. Samoa is a part of the FIFA Goal project. The 2022 squad consisted of 18 non-Samoan based players out of a squad of 26, this was made possible through extensive worldwide scouting, no other country in the OFC region has seen this amount of off shore players in an U20 squad.
The Tonga women's national under-17 football team is the second highest women's youth team of women's football in Tonga and is controlled by the Tonga Football Association.
The Oceanian section of the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification acted as qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Qatar, for national teams which are members of the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC). A total of 0.5 slots in the final tournament were available for OFC teams, which equated to one inter-confederation play-off slot.
This page details the match results and statistics of the Tonga national football team.