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.
| Association | Wallis and Futuna Soccer Federation | |
|---|---|---|
| Home stadium | Stade de Mata Utu | |
| FIFA code | WLF | |
| ||
| 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.
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 |
 1963 | Did not enter | |||||||
| 1966 | Group stage | 6th | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 14 |
 1969 | Did not enter | |||||||
| 1971 | ||||||||
| 1975 | ||||||||
 1979 | Quarter-finals | 10th | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 13 |
 1983 | 6th | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 8 | |
| 1987 | Fifth place | 5th | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 18 |
 1991 | Group stage | 7th | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 18 |
| 1995 | 9th | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 37 | |
| 2003 | Did not enter | |||||||
| 2007 | ||||||||
 2011 | ||||||||
| 2015 | ||||||||
| 2019 | ||||||||
 2023 | ||||||||
| 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 | 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 |
Notes:
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 | 13 December 1966 | Nouméa (N) | Papua New Guinea | 1–9 | 1966 South Pacific Games | Unknown | – | |
| 3 | 29 August 1979 | Buckhurst Park, Suva (N) | Solomon Islands | 0–6 | 1979 South Pacific Games | – | ||
| 4 | 1 September 1979 | Ratu Cakobau Park, Nausori (N) | Western Samoa | 3–1 | 1979 South Pacific Games | Unknown | – | |
| 5 | 3 September 1979 | Ratu Cakobau Park, Nausori (A) | Fiji | 0–5 | 1979 South Pacific Games | – | ||
| 6 | 5 September 1979 | Ratu Cakobau Park, Nausori (N) | Tonga | 0–1 | 1979 South Pacific Games | – | ||
| 7 | 20 August 1983 | Apia (N) | American Samoa | 0–3 | 1983 South Pacific Games | – | ||
| 8 | 22 August 1983 | Apia (A) | Western Samoa | 2–1 | 1983 South Pacific Games | Unknown | – | |
| 9 | 24 August 1983 | Apia (N) | Tonga | 3–0 | 1983 South Pacific Games | Unknown | – | |
| 10 | 26 August 1983 | Apia (N) |  New Caledonia | 0–4 | 1983 South Pacific Games | – | ||
| 11 | 9 December 1987 | Nouméa (N) | Vanuatu | 1–6 | 1987 South Pacific Games | Unknown | – | |
| 12 | 10 December 1987 | Nouméa (N) | Tahiti | 0–4 | 1987 South Pacific Games | – | ||
| 13 | 12 December 1987 | Nouméa (N) | American Samoa | 5–1 | 1987 South Pacific Games | Unknown | – | |
| 14 | 15 December 1987 | Nouméa (A) | New Caledonia | 1–5 | 1987 South Pacific Games | Unknown | – | |
| 15 | 17 December 1987 | Nouméa (A) | Papua New Guinea | 0–2 | 1987 South Pacific Games | – | ||
| 16 | 9 September 1991 | Sir Ignatius Kilage Stadium, Lae (N) | Vanuatu | 0–4 | 1991 South Pacific Games | – | ||
| 17 | 11 September 1991 | Sir Ignatius Kilage Stadium, Lae (N) | Solomon Islands | 0–5 | 1991 South Pacific Games | – | ||
| 18 | 13 September 1991 | Sir Ignatius Kilage Stadium, Lae (A) | Papua New Guinea | 1–3 | 1991 South Pacific Games | Unknown | – | |
| 19 | 17 September 1991 | Sir Ignatius Kilage Stadium, Lae (N) | Tahiti | 0–5 | 1991 South Pacific Games | – | ||
| 20 | 18 September 1991 | Sir Ignatius Kilage Stadium, Lae (N) | Guam | 5–0 | 1991 South Pacific Games | Unknown | – | |
| 21 | 16 August 1995 | Papeete (N) | Solomon Islands | 1–12 | 1995 South Pacific Games | Unknown | – | |
| 22 | 17 August 1995 | Papeete (A) | Tahiti | 0–13 | 1995 South Pacific Games | – | ||
| 23 | 19 August 1995 | Papeete (N) | Cook Islands | 1–2 | 1995 South Pacific Games | Unknown | – | |
| 24 | 17 August 1995 | Papeete (N) | New Caledonia | 0–10 | 1995 South Pacific Games | – |
Historical kits
        1983 Pacific Games |  1983 Pacific Games (Gray version) |
References
External links
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