Labasa F.C.

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Labasa F.C.

Full name

Labasa F.C.

Nickname(s)

Babasiga Lions

Founded

1942

Ground

Subrail Park
Labasa, Fiji

Capacity

10,000

League

National Football League (Fiji)

2006





Home colours





Away colours

Labasa F.C. is a Fijian football team playing in the first division of the Fiji Football Association competitions. It is based in Labasa, which is the largest town on the second largest island, Vanua Levu, in the Fiji group. Their home stadium is Subrail Park. Their uniform includes red and white striped shirt, red shorts and red socks.

[edit] History

A local football competition was held in Labasa from 1938. The competition included some ethnic Fijian Clubs. Labasa did not join the National Association when it was formed, in 1938, due to the distance of Labasa from the main island of Viti Levu, where all, except one, club was based. In 1942, under the Presidency of Harold B. Gibson,^[1] a former member of the Legislative Council, Labasa Soccer Association joined the national football body, then known as the Fiji Indian Football Association.

Labasa remained at the periphery of soccer in Fiji, struggling to compete with teams from Viti Levu, until 1969, when it hosted the Inter-District Championship(IDC) for the first time. Soccer suddenly flourished in Labasa and the team was runner-up in the IDC of 1972, 1973 and 1978. Labasa F.C. finally won the IDC for the first time in 1992, repeating the feat two years later in 1994.