Wallis and Futuna national football team

The Wallis and Futuna national football team (French: Équipe de Wallis-et-Futuna de football) is the national soccer team of Wallis and Futuna. Wallis and Futuna is not a member of FIFA and, therefore, is not eligible to enter either the FIFA World Cup or the OFC Nations Cup, and due to the low investment in sport on the part of the country, it has been many years since it played an international match.

Wallis and Futuna
Shirt badge/Association crest
AssociationWallis and Futuna Soccer Federation
Home stadiumStade de Mata Utu
FIFA codeWLF
First colours
Second colours
First international
 Wallis and Futuna 0–5 Tahiti 
(Nouméa, New Caledonia; 11 December 1966)
Biggest win
 Wallis and Futuna 5–0 Guam 
(Lae, Papua New Guinea; 18 September 1991)
Biggest defeat
 Tahiti 13–0 Wallis and Futuna 
(Papeete, Tahiti; 17 August 1995)

Wallis and Futuna has played twenty-four international matches, all at the South Pacific Games between 1966 and 1995, and holds an overall record of five wins and nineteen defeats.[1]

History

Beginnings

In 1966, there was an initiative for the small country to play in the South Pacific Games that year. The proposal was carried out and Wallis and Futuna entered the group stage, losing 5–0 to Tahiti and 9–1 to Papua New Guinea.

They achieved their best results at the 1979 South Pacific Games, qualifying to the knock-out stages with a 3–1 victory over Western Samoa after losing to Solomon Islands 6–0. They lost their quarter-final match against Fiji 5–0 which qualified them for the Consolation Tournament, where they were eliminated by Tonga 1–0. At the 1983 South Pacific Games, they lost their first group match 3–0 against American Samoa but a 2–1 victory over Western Samoa and a 3–0 win against Tonga meant that they topped their group. In the quarter-finals they lost 4–0 to New Caledonia, eliminating them from the competition.

Decline

The 1987 South Pacific Games was played as a round-robin, resulting in four defeats for Wallis and Futuna, with their only victory coming against American Samoa 5–1. At the 1991 South Pacific Games they lost in each of their group stage matches and were defeated by Tahiti in the Consolation Tournament, qualifying them for the seventh-place playoff where they beat Guam 5–0.

Inactivity

The last time Wallis and Futuna played a game was in 1995. In this edition, the team lost all 4 games it played. Since then it has been completely inactive.

Competitive record

Pacific Games
Pacific Games record
Year Round Position Pld W D* L GF GA
Fiji 1963 Did not enter
New Caledonia 1966 Group stage 6th 2 0 0 2 1 14
Papua New Guinea 1969 Did not enter
French Polynesia 1971
Guam 1975
Fiji 1979 Quarter-finals 10th 4 1 0 3 3 13
Samoa 1983 6th 4 2 0 2 5 8
New Caledonia 1987 Fifth place 5th 5 1 0 4 7 18
Papua New Guinea 1991 Group stage 7th 5 1 0 4 6 18
French Polynesia 1995 9th 4 0 0 4 2 37
Fiji 2003 Did not enter
Samoa 2007
New Caledonia 2011
Papua New Guinea 2015
Samoa 2019
Total Quarter finals 6/15 24 5 0 19 24 108


Head-to-head record
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD WPCT
 American Samoa 2 1 0 1 5 4 +1 50.00
 Cook Islands 1 0 0 1 1 2 −1 0.00
 Fiji 1 0 0 1 0 5 −5 0.00
 Guam 1 1 0 0 5 0 +5 100.00
 New Caledonia 3 0 0 3 1 19 −18 0.00
 Papua New Guinea 3 0 0 3 2 14 −12 0.00
 Samoa[lower-alpha 1] 2 2 0 0 5 2 +3 100.00
 Solomon Islands 3 0 0 3 1 25 −24 0.00
 Tahiti 4 0 0 4 0 27 −27 0.00
 Tonga 2 1 0 1 3 1 +2 50.00
 Vanuatu 2 0 0 2 1 10 −9 0.00
Total 24 5 0 19 24 109 −85 20.83
Source: Results
Notes:
  1. Includes results as Western Samoa.

Match history

Wallis and Futuna's score is shown first in each case.

No.[A] Date Venue Opponents Score Competition Wallis and Futuna scorers Att. Ref.
1 11 December 1966 Nouméa (N)  Tahiti 0–5 1966 South Pacific Games – [2][3]
2 13 December 1966 Nouméa (N)  Papua New Guinea 1–9 1966 South Pacific Games Unknown – [2][3]
3 29 August 1979 Buckhurst Park, Suva (N)  Solomon Islands 0–6 1979 South Pacific Games – [2][4]
4 1 September 1979 Ratu Cakobau Park, Nausori (N)  Western Samoa 3–1 1979 South Pacific Games Unknown – [2][4]
5 3 September 1979 Ratu Cakobau Park, Nausori (A)  Fiji 0–5 1979 South Pacific Games – [2][4]
6 5 September 1979 Ratu Cakobau Park, Nausori (N)  Tonga 0–1 1979 South Pacific Games – [2][4]
7 20 August 1983 Apia (N)  American Samoa 0–3 1983 South Pacific Games – [2][5]
8 22 August 1983 Apia (A)  Western Samoa 2–1 1983 South Pacific Games Unknown – [2][5]
9 24 August 1983 Apia (N)  Tonga 3–0 1983 South Pacific Games Unknown – [2][5]
10 26 August 1983 Apia (N)  New Caledonia 0–4 1983 South Pacific Games – [2][5]
11 9 December 1987 Nouméa (N)  Vanuatu 1–6 1987 South Pacific Games Unknown – [2][6]
12 10 December 1987 Nouméa (N)  Tahiti 0–4 1987 South Pacific Games – [2][6]
13 12 December 1987 Nouméa (N)  American Samoa 5–1 1987 South Pacific Games Unknown – [2][6]
14 15 December 1987 Nouméa (A)  New Caledonia 1–5 1987 South Pacific Games Unknown – [2][6]
15 17 December 1987 Nouméa (A)  Papua New Guinea 0–2 1987 South Pacific Games – [2][6]
16 9 September 1991 Sir Ignatius Kilage Stadium, Lae (N)  Vanuatu 0–4 1991 South Pacific Games – [2][7]
17 11 September 1991 Sir Ignatius Kilage Stadium, Lae (N)  Solomon Islands 0–5 1991 South Pacific Games – [2][7]
18 13 September 1991 Sir Ignatius Kilage Stadium, Lae (A)  Papua New Guinea 1–3 1991 South Pacific Games Unknown – [2][7]
19 17 September 1991 Sir Ignatius Kilage Stadium, Lae (N)  Tahiti 0–5 1991 South Pacific Games – [2][7]
20 18 September 1991 Sir Ignatius Kilage Stadium, Lae (N)  Guam 5–0 1991 South Pacific Games Unknown – [2][7]
21 16 August 1995 Papeete (N)  Solomon Islands 1–12 1995 South Pacific Games Unknown – [2][8]
22 17 August 1995 Papeete (A)  Tahiti 0–13 1995 South Pacific Games – [2][8]
23 19 August 1995 Papeete (N)  Cook Islands 1–2 1995 South Pacific Games Unknown – [2][8]
24 17 August 1995 Papeete (N)  New Caledonia 0–10 1995 South Pacific Games – [2][8]

References
  1. Courtney, Barrie (30 October 2005). "Wallis and Futuna – List of International Matches". RSSSF. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
  2. "World Football Elo Ratings: Wallis and Futuna". Eloratings.net. World Football Elo Ratings. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  3. Cruickshank, Mark; Morrison, Neil; Veroeveren, Pieter (13 December 2012). "South Pacific Games 1966 (New Caledonia)". www.rsssf.com. RSSSF. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
  4. Abbink, Dinant; Morrison, Neil; Cruickshank, Mark (1 April 2015). "South Pacific Games 1979 (Fiji)". www.rsssf.com. RSSSF. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  5. Cruickshank, Mark; Morrison, Neil; Veroeveren, Pieter (17 October 2016). "South Pacific Games 1983 (Western Samoa)". www.rsssf.com. RSSSF. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  6. Garin, Erik (19 January 2017). "South Pacific Games 1987 (New Caledonia)". www.rsssf.com. RSSSF. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  7. Cruickshank, Mark; Morrison, Neil; Veroeveren, Pieter (21 July 2016). "South Pacific Games 1991 (Papua New Guinea)". www.rsssf.com. RSSSF. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  8. Morrison, Neil (9 October 2005). "South Pacific Games 1995 (Tahiti)". www.rsssf.com. RSSSF. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
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