The Wallis and Futuna national soccer team is the regional

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team of

Wallis and Futuna Wallis and Futuna, officially the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands (; french: Wallis-et-Futuna or ', Fakauvea and Fakafutuna: '), is a French island collectivity in the South Pacific, situated between Tuvalu to the northwest, Fiji ...

. Wallis and Futuna is not a member of

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and, therefore, is not eligible to enter either the

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or the

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, 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. Wallis and Futuna has played twenty-four international matches, all at the

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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

that year. The proposal was carried out and Wallis and Futuna entered the group stage, losing 5–0 to

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and 9–1 to

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. They achieved their best results at the

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, qualifying to the knock-out stages with a 3–1 victory over

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after losing to

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6–0. They lost their quarter-final match against

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5–0 which qualified them for the Consolation Tournament, where they were eliminated by

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1–0. At the

1983 South Pacific Games The 1983 South Pacific Games, held at Apia in Western Samoa from 5–16 September 1983, was the seventh edition of the South Pacific Games. Participating countries Fifteen nations competed at the 1983 South Pacific Games: Sports Despite swimmi ...

, they lost their first group match 3–0 against

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but a 2–1 victory over

and a 3–0 win against

meant that they topped their group. In the quarter-finals they lost 4–0 to

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, eliminating them from the competition.

Decline

The

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was played as a round-robin, resulting in four defeats for Wallis and Futuna, with their only victory coming against

5–1. At the

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they lost in each of their group stage matches and were defeated by

in the Consolation Tournament, qualifying them for the seventh-place playoff where they beat

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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.

Fixtures and results

Competitive record

Pacific Games

Head-to-head record

References

External links

Wallis and Futuna match history

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