| Clubname: | Tofaga FC |
| Fullname: | Tofaga Football Club |
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| Ground: | Tuvalu Sports Ground, Funafuti, Tuvalu |
| Capacity: | 1,500 |
| League: | Tuvalu A-Division |
| Season: | 2021 |
| Position: | 1st[1] |
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Tofaga FC is a Tuvalu football club from Vaitupu, playing in the Tuvalu A-Division.
The team's home ground is the Tuvalu Sports Ground,[2] on Funafuti, which is the only football field in Tuvalu. Tofaga plays on an amateur level, as do all the teams in Tuvalu. They also have a reserve squad and a women's team.
The team was originally name Vatokami and was founded in the 1970s. In the 1990s, Paulson Panapa and Tapugao Falefou were the team’s well-known players. In 1997 the team won its first prize, the Benson and Hedges Cup.[3] The team won the Independence Cup (held to recognise the independence of Tuvalu) in 1998.[3]
In 2005, the team changed its name to Tofaga.[4]
Toakai Puapua was coach from 2006 to 2008. He was also the football coach of Tuvalu during the 2007 South Pacific Games.[5]
Tofaga won the NBT Cup and the Independence Cup in 2006. After that, the club regularly won cups; the NBT Cup in 2007, 2008 and 2011, and three prizes in 2010 (Tuvalu Games, Independence Cup and Christmas Cup). Tofaga won the Independence Cup 5 times, and the team has also won the NBT Cup 9 times, and was the runner-up 4 times.[3]
Tofaga’s only win of the Tuvalu A-Division competition was in 2021,[3] although its players, including Alopua Petoa[6] and James Lepaio, were topscorers in the Tuvalu A-Division competition, in 2011, 2012, 2019 & 2021, and Alopua Petoa is the topscorer with the Tuvalu national football team with 11 goals in his international career.[7] [8] [9]
Tofaga was the runner-up in the 2023 Tuvalu A-Division competition.[10] Tofaga won the NBT Cup in 2023, beating Vaoloa 2-1.[10] The team included Etimoni Timuani (defender), James Lepaio (midfielder) and Alopua Petoa (striker).[11]
The Tofaga reserve team has been the B-Team Champions 5 times: 2006, 2009, 2011, 2013 & 2021.[1]