The Wallis and Futuna national football team () is the national football team of Wallis and Futuna. Wallis and Futuna is not a member of FIFA and, therefore, is not eligible to enter either the FIFA World Cup or the OFC Nations Cup, 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 South Pacific Games 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 South Pacific Games that year. The proposal was carried out and Wallis and Futuna entered the group stage, losing 5–0 to Tahiti and 9–1 to Papua New Guinea.
They achieved their best results at the 1979 South Pacific Games, qualifying to the knock-out stages with a 3–1 victory over Western Samoa after losing to Solomon Islands 6–0. They lost their quarter-final match against Fiji 5–0 which qualified them for the Consolation Tournament, where they were eliminated by Tonga 1–0. At the 1983 South Pacific Games, they lost their first group match 3–0 against American Samoa but a 2–1 victory over Western Samoa and a 3–0 win against Tonga meant that they topped their group. In the quarter-finals they lost 4–0 to New Caledonia, eliminating them from the competition.
Decline The 1987 South Pacific Games was played as a round-robin, resulting in four defeats for Wallis and Futuna, with their only victory coming against American Samoa 5–1. At the 1991 South Pacific Games they lost in each of their group stage matches and were defeated by Tahiti in the Consolation Tournament, qualifying them for the seventh-place playoff where they beat Guam 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.
Competitive record Pacific Games Pacific Games recordYearRoundPosition* 1963Did not enter 1966Group stage6th2002114 1969Did not enter 1971 1975 1979Quarter-finals10th4103313 19836th420258 1987Fifth place5th5104718 1991Group stage7th5104618 19959th4004237 2003Did not enter 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023TotalQuarter finals6/1524501924108
Head-to-head record
Match history Wallis and Futuna's score is shown first in each case. No.DateVenueOpponentsScoreCompetitionWallis and Futuna scorersAtt.Ref.1Nouméa (N)0–5–2Nouméa (N)1–91966 South Pacific GamesUnknown–3Buckhurst Park, Suva (N)0–61979 South Pacific Games–4Ratu Cakobau Park, Nausori (N)3–11979 South Pacific GamesUnknown–5Ratu Cakobau Park, Nausori (A)0–51979 South Pacific Games–6Ratu Cakobau Park, Nausori (N)0–11979 South Pacific Games–7Apia (N)0–31983 South Pacific Games–8Apia (A)2–11983 South Pacific GamesUnknown–9Apia (N)3–01983 South Pacific GamesUnknown–10Apia (N)0–41983 South Pacific Games–11Nouméa (N)1–61987 South Pacific GamesUnknown–12Nouméa (N)0–41987 South Pacific Games–13Nouméa (N)5–11987 South Pacific GamesUnknown–14Nouméa (A)1–51987 South Pacific GamesUnknown–15Nouméa (A)0–21987 South Pacific Games–160–41991 South Pacific Games–17Sir Ignatius Kilage Stadium, Lae (N)0–51991 South Pacific Games–18Sir Ignatius Kilage Stadium, Lae (A)1–31991 South Pacific GamesUnknown–19Sir Ignatius Kilage Stadium, Lae (N)0–51991 South Pacific Games–20Sir Ignatius Kilage Stadium, Lae (N)5–01991 South Pacific GamesUnknown–21Papeete (N)1–121995 South Pacific GamesUnknown–22Papeete (A)0–131995 South Pacific Games–23Papeete (N)1–21995 South Pacific GamesUnknown–24Papeete (N)0–101995 South Pacific Games–
Coach history Marcel Mao (1979)
Historical kits
References
External links Wallis and Futuna match history World Football Elo Ratings