Steve Mafi
 Sitiveni Mafi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Full name | Sitiveni O. Mafi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 9 December 1989 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Fairfield, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 112 kg (17 st 9 lb; 247 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Westfields Sports High School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sitiveni O. Mafi (born 9 December 1989) is a Tongan rugby union player. He plays in the lock and occasionally flanker position for the English Premiership Rugby side, London Irish. Mafi also represents Tonga at international level.
Mafi previously played for the Leicester Tigers and New South Wales Waratahs.[1][2][3] Mafi played as a replacement during the 2013 Premiership final as Leicester defeated Northampton Saints.[4] In the final of the 2017–18 Top 14 season he scored a try after coming on as a replacement as Castres defeated Montpellier.[5]
He is the grandson of former Tonga captain Sione Mafi Pahulu.[6] He attended Westfields Sports High School and played his Junior rugby at Parramatta Two Blues in Sydneys west. In 2007 he played for the Australian Schoolboys.
Super Rugby statistics[]
- As of 25 July 2016[7]
| Season | Team | Games | Starts | Sub | Mins | Tries | Cons | Pens | Drops | Points | Yel | Red |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Force | 16 | 13 | 3 | 1157 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016 | Force | 10 | 5 | 5 | 404 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 26 | 18 | 8 | 1561 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | |
Honours[]
Club[]
References[]
- ^ "Aviva Premiership Rugby - Gloucester Rugby". web page. Premier Rugby. Archived from the original on 16 June 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
- ^ "Leicester swoop for Mafi". Scrum.com. 31 August 2010. Retrieved 7 January 2011.
- ^ "Senior".
- ^ "Aviva Premiership final: Leicester 37-17 Northampton". BBC. 25 May 2013. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
- ^ "Castres stun Montpellier to claim Top 14 title". planetrugby.com. 2 June 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
- ^ "Meet Steve Mafi: The Tigers' Tongan hitman". 25 May 2012.
- ^ "Player Statistics". its rugby. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
- ^ "Castres stun Montpellier to claim Top 14 title". planetrugby.com. 2 June 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
External links[]
- ARU profile
- Steve Mafi at ESPNscrum
- Steve Mafi at ItsRugby.co.uk
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- Living people
- 1989 births
- Australian rugby union players
- Tonga international rugby union players
- Leicester Tigers players
- Greater Sydney Rams players
- Rugby union locks
- People from New South Wales
- Australian people of Tongan descent
- Australian expatriate rugby union players
- Expatriate rugby union players in England
- Expatriate rugby union players in France
- Australian expatriate sportspeople in England
- Western Force players
- Castres Olympique players
- Tongan rugby union biography stubs