Tonga national football team

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Tonga

Nickname

Association

Tonga Football Association

Head coach

Milan Jankovic

Most caps

Top scorer

FIFA code

TGA

FIFA ranking

191

Highest FIFA ranking

163 (October 1998)

Lowest FIFA ranking

191 (September 2006)

Elo ranking

199





Home kit





Away kit

First international

Tahiti 8 - 0 Tonga

(Fiji; August 29, 1979)

Largest win

Tonga 7 - 0 Micronesia

(Fiji; July 5, 2003)

Worst defeat

Australia 22 - 0 Tonga

(Coffs Harbour, Australia; April 9, 2001)

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

Football comes second after Rugby Union in Tonga as a sporting interest. 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, Ahongalu Fusimalohi, was appointed to the FIFA Executive Committee in 2002. The Tonga association is the only sports organisation on the island that employs full-time administrative staff.

The second Goal project

Tonga's second Goal project will develop and improve the national football academy and the associations headquarters in Atele, Tonganapu, 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.