Filipo Suraki Daugunu (born 4 March 1995) is a

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player who plays for the in the

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competition. His position of choice is

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. Fijian-born, Daugunu moved to Australia in 2016 at the age of 20 to pursue a professional sporting career. He was selected to play international rugby for in October 2020.

Early career

Daugunu started his sporting career playing football for his local district football team, Labasa Football. He played both as a goalkeeper and a striker, and became a regular in the Labasa team in 2013. In 2015, Daugunu gave up an

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career to play

, representing Fiji Under-20 at the World Rugby Junior Trophy in Portugal. He was involved with the Fiji 7s program in 2016, but opted out of joining the team to play on the world circuit. He moved to

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, Australia and began playing club rugby there. Daugunu gained significant attention in

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after scoring sixty-six points from eleven appearances for Wests Bulldogs in 2017. After helping Wests to their first finals appearance in ten years, losing 24–22 to Sunnybank in the semi-finals, he was recruited to play in the

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(NRC) for Queensland Country. Daugunu scored seventy-one points in just eight appearances for Queensland Country on the way to club's first national title. He scored a hat-trick of tries in the final against the

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which was instrumental to Country's 42–28 win.

Super Rugby

Because of his performances in the NRC, the

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signed him in late 2017 to join their squad for the

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. In 2024, Filipo joined

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. He returned to the Reds for the 2025 season on a one-year contract.

International tries

''As of 20 November 2021''

Super Rugby statistics

References

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