Rewa F.C.

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Rewa F.C.
Full nameRewa Football Club
NicknameDelta 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; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

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

Personnel

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Achievements

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  • Fiji National Football League: 3
2022, 2024, 2025
1938, 1939, 1943, 1944, 1947, 1955, 1972, 2001, 2010, 2025
1994, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2020.
2011, 2017, 2018.
2010.
1994 (Gold Medalist).

See also

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Further reading

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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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