Port Vila Football League

Port Vila Football League
Founded	1994
Country	Vanuatu
Confederation	OFC
Number of teams	27
Level on pyramid	3 (in Port Vila)
Domestic cup(s)	Port Vila Shield ; Port Vila FA Cup
Current champions	Tafea ; (2018–19)
Most championships	Tafea (16)
Website	http://www.vanuafoot.vu/
	Current: 2019–20 Port Vila Premier League

Port Vila Football League, also known as the Digicel League or more simply, the Digicel Premier League is the main football competition in Port Vila, Vanuatu. It consists of 3 competitions: Port Vila Premier League, and the . The league's domestic cup is the Port Vila FA Cup, in which all 3 divisions compete in.

The Port Vila Premier League is considered to be the best football league in Vanuatu while the Port Vila Football Association is considered to be the main football association in Vanuatu. The top 4 of the Port Vila Premier League qualifies for the PVFA top four competition, and the winner of that competition is one of the two teams that takes part for Vanuatu in the OFC Champions League. The other team is the winner of the VFF National Super League which is a round-robin competition of the best teams of the islands of Vanuatu. The main island where Port Vila is, Efate is not included in this competition.

The league is not fully professional.^[1]^[2]

Members[]

Port Vila Premier League
Level on pyramid – 1	Level on pyramid – 2	Level on pyramid – 3	Level on pyramid - none
Erakor Golden Star Ifira Black Bird ABM Galaxy Mauwia Sia-Raga Tafea Yatel Tupuji Imere	Shepherds United* Mauriki Pango Green Bird Seveners United	Narak Tegapu Varona	Spirit 08 Amicale

All teams and leagues are for the 2019/20 season

List of champions[]

Port Vila Premier League[]

The list with Port Villa Champions:^[3]^[4]

Season	Winner	Runner-up
1994	Tafea
1995	Tafea
1996	Tafea
1997	Tafea
1998	Tafea
1999	Tafea
2000	Tafea
2001	Tafea
	Tafea	Shepherds United
2003	Tafea	Shepherds United
2004	Tafea
2005	Tafea
	Tafea
2007	Tafea	Tupuji Imere
2008–09	Tafea	Amicale
2009–10	Amicale	Tafea
2010–11	Amicale	Tafea
2011–12	Amicale	Tafea
2012–13	Amicale	Erakor Golden Star
2013–14	Amicale	Erakor Golden Star
2014–15	Amicale	Erakor Golden Star
2016	Erakor Golden Star	Amicale
2017	Ifira Black Bird	Erakor Golden Star
2017–18	Tupuji Imere	Erakor Golden Star
2018–19	Tafea	Galaxy

Port Vila First Division[]

Season	Winner	Runner-up
	Seveners United
	Spirit 08
	Shepherds United	Ifira Black Bird
	Seveners United
	Erakor Golden Star
	Yatel
	Narak Tegapu
	Mauriki	Sia-Raga
	Mauwia	Seveners United

	Sia-Raga	Mauwia

Port Vila Second Division[]

Season	Winner	Runner-up
	ABM Galaxy

Performances[]

Club	Winners	Runners-up
Tafea	15	3
Amicale	6	2
Erakor Golden Star	1	5
Tupuji Imere	1	1
Ifira Black Bird	1	–
Shepherds United	–	2

Domestic Cups[]

Port Vila Independence Cup[]

The Port Vila Independence Cup is held in July. The final match is played on July 30, Vanuatu's independence day

Season	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Ref
2019	Tupuji Imere FC	3–1	Tafea	^[5]

Port Vila Shield[]

The Port Vila Shield is the National Cup held in January each year since 2013.
Previous Winners of the Port Vila Shield are:

Season	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Ref
	Tafea FC
2014	Tafea FC	1–0	Amicale FC	^[6]
2015	Amicale FC	1–0	Erakor Golden Star	^[7]

Port Vila FA Cup[]

The Port Vila FA Cup (PVFA Cup) was originally a tournament held as a warm-up for the 8 teams that play in the Digicel Premier League. As of 2016, the PVFA Cup became a tournament for all of the 27 teams of the first 3 divisions.
Previous winners of the PVFA Cup are:

Season	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Ref
	Tafea	3–0	Ifira Black Bird
2016	Tupuji Imere	1-0	Erakor Golden Star
	Amicale	4-1	Galaxy
2019	Tafea	1-0	Galaxy	^[8]

Top Four Super League[]

The Top Four Super League is a competition played between the top four teams of the Port Vila Football League to decide one of the two representatives of Vanuatu in the OFC Champions League (the other representative is from the VFF National Super League).

Season	Winner
2016	Erakor Golden Star
2017	Erakor Golden Star^[9]
2017–18	Erakor Golden Star
2018–19	Galaxy

References[]

^ "Kalo, the magician for surprise package Vanuatu". fifa.com. Archived from the original on 27 August 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2017. The No10 is a student and, like the other 20 members of the Vanuatu squad, he is not a professional footballer, but he is still the only player among his compatriots with experience of playing in the OFC Champions League. Centre-back Jason Thomas is the only other player to have represented his country – an island with fewer than 300,000 inhabitants – at senior level. Most of the population earn a living through horticulture, and some of the players also help out their families with the work.
^ "Global Club Football Report 2017" (PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 29 June 2017. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 February 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2018. None of the top-tier domestic competitions in Oceania is fully professional.
^ "Vanuatu - List of Champions".
^ "Archive - Premia Divisen - Vanuatu - Results, fixtures, tables and news - Soccerway". soccerway.com. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
^ Vanuatu Football Brazil [@VanuatuB] (Jul 30, 2019). "Tweet" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
^ "Vanuafoot - Vanuatu Football Federation". Archived from the original on 2014-03-22.
^ OFC. "Oceania Football Confederation". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03.
^ https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2793108104051852&set=a.1563948363634505&type=3&theater
^ "Erakor book Champions League return". Oceania Football Confederation. 9 July 2017.

[vanuatu-1] "Kalo, the magician for surprise package Vanuatu". fifa.com. Archived from the original on 27 August 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2017. The No10 is a student and, like the other 20 members of the Vanuatu squad, he is not a professional footballer, but he is still the only player among his compatriots with experience of playing in the OFC Champions League. Centre-back Jason Thomas is the only other player to have represented his country – an island with fewer than 300,000 inhabitants – at senior level. Most of the population earn a living through horticulture, and some of the players also help out their families with the work.

[OFC-2] "Global Club Football Report 2017" (PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 29 June 2017. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 February 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2018. None of the top-tier domestic competitions in Oceania is fully professional.

[3] "Vanuatu - List of Champions".

[4] "Archive - Premia Divisen - Vanuatu - Results, fixtures, tables and news - Soccerway". soccerway.com. Retrieved 5 March 2016.

[5] Vanuatu Football Brazil [@VanuatuB] (Jul 30, 2019). "Tweet" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

[6] "Vanuafoot - Vanuatu Football Federation". Archived from the original on 2014-03-22.

[7] OFC. "Oceania Football Confederation". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03.

[8] ttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2793108104051852&set=a.1563948363634505&type=3&theater

[9] "Erakor book Champions League return". Oceania Football Confederation. 9 July 2017.

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Divisions	Port Vila Premier League
Clubs	ABM Galaxy Amicale Erakor Golden Star Ifira Black Bird Mauriki Mauwia Narak Tegapu Pango Green Bird Seveners United Shepherds United Sia-Raga Tafea Tupuji Imere Varona Yatel
Seasons	2007 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2016 2017 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20

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Current	American Samoa Cook Islands Fiji Kiribati^† New Caledonia New Zealand Niue^† Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tahiti Tonga Tuvalu^† Vanuatu (Port Vila, rest of country)
Non-recognized	Palau
^† Associated members