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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

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Rewa FC

Full name	Rewa Football Club
Nickname(s)	Delta Tigers
Founded	1928
Ground	Vodafone Ratu Cakobau Park Nausori, Fiji
Capacity	8,000
Chairman	Nazeel Buksh
Manager	Marika Rodu
League	National Football League (Fiji)
2021	2nd
Home colours Away colours

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

As of 5 August 2022.

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  FIJ Mohammed Alam 2 DF  FIJ Peniame Drova 3 MF  FIJ Ivan Kumar 4 MF  FIJ Jeshal Kumar 5 DF  FIJ Patrick Joseph 6 MF  BRA Marcelo Tannus 7 FW  FIJ Abbu Zahid 8 FW  FIJ Setareki Hughes (captain) 9 FW  FIJ Bruce Hughes 10 DF  VAN Gabriele Matanisiga 11 FW  FIJ Misaele Draunibaka 12 MF  FIJ Tevita Waranaivalu 13 FW  FIJ Samuela Nabenia 14 FW  FIJ Josaia Sela 15 MF  FIJ Madhwan Goundar

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 DF  FIJ Kavaia Rawaqa 17 MF  FIJ Iosefo Verevou 18 MF  VAN Alick Worworbu 19 FW  FIJ Rusiate Matarerega 20 DF  FIJ Iowane Matanisiga 21 GK  FIJ Emori Ragata 22 GK  FIJ Manasa Waqavou 23 FW  NGA Sanni Issa — GK  FIJ Epeli Loaniceva — GK  FIJ Ayush Chand — DF  FIJ Jale Dreloa — DF  FIJ Kishan Sami — DF  FIJ Neemish Prasad — MF  FIJ Alma Naituku

Personnel

Achievements

• League Championship (for Districts): 0

• Inter-District Championship : 9

1938, 1939, 1943, 1944, 1947, 1955, 1972, 2001, 2010.

• Battle of the Giants: 9

1994, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2020.

• Fiji Football Association Cup Tournament: 3

2011, 2017, 2018.

• Champion versus Champion: 1

2010.

• Fiji Games: 1

1994 (Gold Medalist).

See also

• Fiji Football Association

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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