Daniel Faleafa
| Date of birth | 13 February 1989 | ||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Auckland, New Zealand | ||||||||||||
| Height | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 108 kg (17 st 0 lb; 238 lb) | ||||||||||||
| Rugby union career | |||||||||||||
| Current status | |||||||||||||
| Current team | SCA Albi | ||||||||||||
| Playing career | |||||||||||||
| Position | Flanker/Lock | ||||||||||||
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| Provincial/State sides | |||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 2009 2009-2012 2013 |
Auckland Northland Havelock Sports Club |
2 16 |
(0) (5) |
| National team(s) | |||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 2009 2013 |
 NZ U20 Tonga
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5 10 |
(0) (5) |
Daniel Faleafa (born 13 February 1989 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a professional rugby player for the Sporting Club Albigeois in the ProD2 professional french competition. His usual position is Flanker.
Daniel Faleafa attended Mt Roskill Grammar School and Mount Albert Grammar School in Auckland. He played for the New Zealand national schoolboy rugby union team in 2007.
Daniel Faleafa is a powerful and athletic backrower who is very adept at playing lock due to his brilliant lineout ability. He started off as a member of the Auckland Rugby Academy and in 2009 was a key member of the New Zealand national under-20 rugby union team that won the 2009 IRB Junior World Championship. Daniel joined Northland in on loan in 2009 where he played 1 ITM Cup game before returning to Auckland to make another 2 ITM Cup appearances that same season. Faleafa joined Northland full-time from 2010 and made 15 appearances over the next three seasons.
Faleafa together with Tongan Internationals Villiame Hakalo and Hale T-Pole represented Sri Havelock Sports Club in the 2013 Sri Lankan club rugby season.
Faleafa is a former New Zealand representative at Secondary School and Under-20 level. In 2013 he was named to play for Tonga in the 2013 IRB Pacific Nations Cup.
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