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club from Faʻaʻā,

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. The club plays their home matches at Stade Louis Ganivet. The club became the second

n team to have reached the final of the

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, which they achieved in

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Recent seasons

In 2010 AS Tefana won the Tahitian Championship for the second time in their history, finishing third in the initial league table but won the Championship Play-off comfortably, finishing nine points ahead of their closest rivals. In the 2010–11 OFC Champions League, Tefana only won one game, over

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's powerhouse Waitakere United. In 2011, Tefana won their third championship with three rounds remaining. In their return to the O-League, the 2011–12 tournament begun with a record-breaking defeat of 0–10 to Waitakere United. Afterwards Tefana won all its games on the way to the finals, the best result by a Tahitian team since A.S. Pirae featured in the final of the 2006 OFC Club Championship.

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wound up defeating Tefana at the 2012 OFC Champions League Final, with a 2–1 in

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and 1–0 in Faʻaʻā. They also won the Tahiti Cup, and qualified for the 2011–12 Coupe de France, where they were eliminated by Red Star 93. In 2012, Tefana lost the Tahitian Championship to AS Dragon, but won the Tahiti Cup. On the 2012-13 Coupe de France, they were defeated by

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. The team also signed a three-year partnership with French

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team

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Achievements

* Tahiti First Division: 6 :: 2005, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2016, 2023. * Tahiti Cup: 7 :: 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014,

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. * Tahiti Coupe des Champions: 3 :: 2007, 2014, 2017. * Coupe T.O.M: 1 ::2006.

Last seasons

Performance in OFC competitions

: 3 appearances :: OFC Champions League 2014-15, 2015: – ::

: Finalist ::

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: 4° in Group B

References

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