Rewa F.C.

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Rewa FC
Rewa FA.png
Full nameRewa Football Club
Nickname(s)Delta Tigers
Founded1928
GroundVodafone Ratu Cakobau Park
Nausori, Fiji
Capacity8,000
ChairmanNazeel Buksh
ManagerFiji
LeagueNational Football League (Fiji)
20186th

Rewa Football Club is a Fijian semi-professional football club based in Nausori, playing in the National Football League. Rewa's home ground is Vodafone Ratu Cakobau Park

Rewa is a pretty successful club in Fiji. They have won many tournaments throughout their history but have never won the national league.

History[]

A league competition was organised in Rewa for the first time in 1928, although football was known to be played in the area since 1916. In 1928, two teams from Rewa, Dilkusha Excelsior Football Club and Rewa Football Club took part in competition organised by the Suva based Indian Reform League for the Vriddhi Cup. The other two teams were from Suva. Dilkusha won the trophy and repeated its success in 1929 and 1930. Having won the trophy three times in a row, Dilkusha was allowed to permanently keep the trophy and the competition came to end. From 1931 to 1936, Rewa United Football Club took part in the Fletcher Challenge Cup organised by the Indian Reform League of Suva. In 1937, the Rewa Indian Football Association was formed. The Rewa Association was one of the founding members of the Fiji Indian Football Association in 1938, which in 1961 became the Fiji Football Association.

Rewa won the first Inter-district competition (IDC) held in Suva in 1938, defeating Ba by 3 goals to 2 in the final. In June 1939, Rewa, as the IDC champions played against a team from the naval ship, H.M.S. Leath at the C.S.R. grounds in Nausori. Rewa won the game by a lone goal, watched by a thousand fans.

Rewa Football Association currently consists of more than 42 clubs. The football club has done well in recent times, winning the Battle of Giants tournament in 2003 and 2004. Above all win or loss, Rewa has the strongest support from their fans and they are very vocal.

Rewa qualified for the first time to 2017 OFC Champions League.

Current squad[]

Squad for the 2018 Inter-District Championship

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Fiji FIJ
2 DF Fiji FIJ Peniame Drova
3 MF Solomon Islands SOL Charlie Otainao
4 DF Fiji FIJ Josateki Tamudu
5 Fiji FIJ
6 MF Fiji FIJ
7 DF Fiji FIJ Anish Khem
8 FW Fiji FIJ Setareki Hughes
9 FW Fiji FIJ Iosefo Verevou
10 FW Vanuatu VAN Tony Kaltack
11 FW Fiji FIJ
No. Pos. Nation Player
12 MF Fiji FIJ
13 MF Fiji FIJ
14 FW Fiji FIJ Epeli Saukuru
15 MF Fiji FIJ Akash Sharma
16 DF Fiji FIJ Amani Makoe
17 DF Fiji FIJ Paulo Posiano
18 FW Fiji FIJ
19 MF Fiji FIJ
20 Solomon Islands SOL
21 GK Fiji FIJ
22 GK Fiji FIJ Epeli Loaniceva

Youth Squad[]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— DF Fiji FIJ Savenaca Baledrokadroka
— FW Fiji FIJ
— FW Fiji FIJ

Personnel[]

Current technical staff[]

Position Staff
Head coach Fiji
Assistant manager Fiji
Youth team coach

Source:[citation needed]

Achievements[]

1938, 1939, 1943, 1944, 1947, 1955, 1972, 2001, 2010.
1994, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2020
  • Fiji Football Association Cup Tournament: 3
Winner - 2011, 2017, 2018
Runner-up - 2003, 2015
2010.
  • : 1
1994 (Gold Medalist).

See also[]

Bibliography[]

  • M. Prasad, Sixty Years of Soccer in Fiji 1938–1998: The Official History of the Fiji Football Association, Fiji Football Association, Suva, 1998.

References[]

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