Rewa F.C.

Rewa F.C.
Full nameRewa Football Club
Nickname(s)Delta Tigers
Founded1928
GroundFoodcity Ratu Cakobau Park
Nausori, Fiji
Capacity8,000
ChairmanNazeel Buksh
ManagerRoderick Singh
LeagueNational Football League (Fiji)
2023NFL, 2nd

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

Rewa is a successful club in Fiji. The club has won many tournaments throughout their history, having won their first ever Fiji Premier League title in 2022.

History

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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.

Squad (2022)

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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 Isikeli Sevanaia
2 DF Fiji FIJ Peniame Drova
3 DF Fiji FIJ Keni Cagi
4 MF Fiji FIJ Mohammed Shaheer
5 DF Fiji FIJ Patrick Joseph
6 MF Fiji FIJ Monit Vikash Chand
7 FW Fiji FIJ Waisake Soga
8 MF Fiji FIJ Setareki Hughes (captain)
9 MF Fiji FIJ Iosefo Verevou
10 FW Fiji FIJ Samuela Nabenia
11 MF Fiji FIJ Madhwan Goundar
No. Pos. Nation Player
12 MF Fiji FIJ Ratu Waranaivalu
13 MF Fiji FIJ Epeli Valevou
14 FW Fiji FIJ Josaia Sela
15 MF Fiji FIJ Madhwan Goundar
17 DF Fiji FIJ Mervin Chand
18 DF Fiji FIJ Samuela Kautoga
19 FW Fiji FIJ Asivorosi Rabo
20 DF Fiji FIJ Iowane Matanisiga
21 GK Fiji FIJ Uzayr Buksh
22 GK Fiji FIJ Mohammed Alam
23 FW Nigeria NGA Sanni Issa

Personnel

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Achievements

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  • Fiji National Football League: 2
2022, 2024
1938, 1939, 1943, 1944, 1947, 1955, 1972, 2001, 2010.
1994, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2020.
2011, 2017, 2018.
2010.
1994 (Gold Medalist).

See also

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Bibliography

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  • 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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