User:Nfitz/nauru national soccer team

Nauru
AssociationNauru Amateur Soccer Association
Home stadiumMeneng Stadium
First international
Unofficial
Nauru Nauru 2 –1 Solomon Islands Solomon Islands
Denigomodu, Nauru; 2 October 1994
Biggest win
Unofficial
Nauru Nauru 2 –1 Solomon Islands Solomon Islands
Denigomodu, Nauru; 2 October 1994

The Nauru national soccer team is an international team from the Republic of Nauru. However it is not a member of the OFC or FIFA, and is therefore not eligible to enter either the World Cup or OFC Nations Cup.

History

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The national team is the most important organ of the Nauru Amateur Soccer Association which was formed in 1973 [citation needed] and since then has been inconspicuous outside of the country. The federation is as yet unrecognized by either FIFA or the OFC as an official national soccer federation. There are no soccer stadiums in Nauru; though there was an incomplete sports stadium in Meneng.

On 2 October 1994 the Nauruan national soccer team played an unofficial friendly match in Denigomodu against selection of Solomon Islanders working on Nauru at the time.[1] Nauru won the match 2–1 against them.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Watson, Paul (1 December 2014). "FIFA's Exiles". The Blizzard Football Quarterly (15). Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  2. ^ Nauru – International Matches at RSSSF