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The Tonga national rugby league team (Tongan: timi līki ʻakapulu fakafonua ʻa Tonga) represents Tonga in rugby league football. They are currently the fifth ranked team in the world. The team was formed to compete in the 1986 Pacific Cup , and have competed at six Rugby League World Cups , starting in 1995 and continuing consecutively until ...
20 October 2017 Italy: 6–16 Tonga: Friendly: Callendar Park, Innisfail: Unknown 29 October 2017 Scotland: 4–50 Tonga: 2017 Rugby League World Cup: Barlow Park, Cairns: 9,216 4 November 2017 Samoa: 18–32 Tonga: Waikato Stadium, Hamilton: 18,156 11 November 2017 New Zealand: 22–28 Tonga: Waikato Stadium, Hamilton: 24,041 18 November 2017 ...
One member, Teaghan Hartigan, was selected from the Currumbin Eagles. Six squad members played in the 2024 Australasian National Championships: Rusila Camaibure for Victoria; Taina Naividi for NSW City; Abigayle Sekitoga and Nanise Vakacavu for the Northern Territory; and Asenaca Diranuve and Mere Kilawekana for the Fiji team.
The first Tonga women's team was in 2003 and known as the Mate Ma'a Tonga women's team administered by the Tonga National Rugby League (TNRL) body. The newly formed Tonga women's national rugby league incorporated is under the Tongan Government with the national men's team. TNRL are no longer the national administrating body for Tonga Rugby League.
The Tonga national rugby union team (Tongan: timi feohi ʻakapulu fakafonua ʻa Tonga) represents the Tonga Rugby Union in men's international rugby union. The team is nicknamed ʻIkale Tahi (Sea Eagles). Like their Polynesian neighbours, the Tongans start their matches with a traditional challenge – the Sipi Tau.
England and Tonga had only played each other three times previously, twice during the 2006 Federation Shield and during the 2017 Rugby League World Cup Semi Final. All three games were won by England. Tonga however, beat Great Britain during the 2019 Lions tour of New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. [5]
The 2024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony may be a little less glossy compared to previous years due to the absence of Pita Taufatofua. However, the former Tongan flag bearer still took part in ...
It is the home ground of the Tonga national rugby union team. [1] Teufaiva is where the Secondary School sports in Tonga are held (every year). The stadium fell into disrepair in the early 2000s and was unused for eight years. It was reopened after being refurbished in 2017, [2] but badly damaged by Cyclone Gita just a few months later. [3]