Tuvalu national football team
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| Association | TNFA |
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| Head coach | Leen Looijen |
| Most caps | Mau Penisula (14 caps) |
| Top scorer | Alopua Petoa (6 goals) |
| Home stadium | Tuvalu Sports Ground |
| FIFA code | TUV |
| Elo ranking | |
| Current | 202 (8 July 2015) |
| First international | |
 Tahiti 18–0 Tuvalu  (Suva, Fiji; August 29, 1979) |
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| Biggest win | |
 Tuvalu 4–0 American Samoa  (Nouméa, New Caledonia; August 27, 2011) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
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Tahiti 18–0 Tuvalu (Suva, Fiji; August 29, 1979) |
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The Tuvalu national football team is the international football team of Tuvalu, which trains at the Tuvalu Sports Ground in Funafuti. Football in Tuvalu is played at club and national team level. The Tuvalu national football team draws from players in the Tuvalu A-Division; with the national team training at the Tuvalu Sports Ground on Funafuti. The national team competes in the Pacific Games. The national team is controlled by the Tuvalu National Football Association (TNFA), which is an associate member of the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) but not a member of FIFA.
Tuvalu is a member of the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC), but not of FIFA. In September 2008, Tuvaluan Prime Minister Apisai Ielemia and the President of the Tuvalu Football Association, Tapugao Falefou, visited the headquarters of FIFA in Zurich, hoping to gain full membership in the organisation. In December 2013, OFC General Secretariat Tai Nicholas named Tuvalu's lack of a regulation pitch as the main factor preventing the country from being accepted into FIFA. The Tuvalu Football Association continues to seek membership of FIFA with the Dutch Support Tuvalu Foundation assisting Tuvalu with the FIFA application and with the development of football in Tuvalu.
The Tuvaluan team, captained by Karl Tili, played three international matches in the 1979 South Pacific Games, held in Fiji, with Kokea Malu as the coach. There, the team recorded both a large win, 5–3 against Tonga, and its worst defeat, losing 18–0 to Tahiti in the first game of the competition. Tuvalu recovered to beat Tonga in the second game, however in the third game Tuvalu was defeated by New Caledonia 10–2. The next game was against Kiribati, which was drawn 3–3; however Tuvalu won the replay game 7–5. In the final game of the first round Tuvalu was defeated by Guam 7–2.
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