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Samoa
	Shirt badge/Association crest
Association	Football Federation Samoa
Confederation	OFC (Oceania)
Head coach	Jeremy Teague
Home stadium	Toleafoa J.S Blatter Soccer Stadium
FIFA code	SAM
First colours	Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current	165
Highest	146 (December 2007)
Lowest	204 (November 2011)
First international
	Wallis and Futuna 3–1 Western Samoa ; (Fiji; 22 August 1979)
Biggest win
	Samoa 8–0 American Samoa ; (Coffs Harbour, Australia; 9 April 2001)
Biggest defeat
	Tahiti 13–0 Western Samoa ; (Solomon Islands; July 13, 1981)

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The Samoa national association football team (Samoan: Sāmoa soka au) represents Samoa in association football and is controlled by the Football Federation Samoa, the governing body for football in Samoa. Samoa's home ground is Toleafoa J.S Blatter Soccer Stadium in Apia.^[1] It was known as the Western Samoa national football team until 1997, and is one of the weakest teams in the OFC. Samoa's weakness is due to the popularity of rugby union,^[2] the national sport, and American football, baseball and basketball.

World Cup record

1930 to 1990 - Did not enter
1994 - Withdrew
1998 to 2014 - Did not qualify

Oceania Nations Cup record

OFC Nations Cup record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
1973 and 1980	Did not enter
1996 to 2008	Did not qualify
2012	Group stage	8th	3	0	0	3	1	24
Total		1/9	3	0	0	3	1	24

South Pacific Games record

1963 to 1975 - Did not enter
1979 - Round 1
1983 - Quarter-final
1987 to 2003 - Did not enter
2007 - Round 1
2011 - Did not enter

List of coaches

Rowan Naylor (1996-01)
Pedro Smerdon (2001–02)
Alexander Balson & Grant Bedford (2002–03)
Rudi Gutendorf (2003–04)
David Brand (2004–07)
Pailasi Saumani (2007-2011)
Tunoa Lui (2011-2012)
Jez Teague (2012-present)

Current squad

Competition: 2012 OFC Nations Cup

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Aukusitino Aitupe	(1985-01-23) 23 January 1985 (age 39)
21	1GK	Ethan Hanns	(1988-11-11) 11 November 1988 (age 35)

2	2DF	Andrew Setefano (c)	(1987-08-10) 10 August 1987 (age 37)	Gold Star Sogi
3	2DF	Peni Kitiona	(1994-06-24) 24 June 1994 (age 30)
4	2DF	Vaalii Faalogo	(1983-11-09) 9 November 1983 (age 40)	Kiwi
5	2DF	Tamoto Fenika	(1988-09-05) 5 September 1988 (age 36)	Kiwi
7	2DF	Jarrell Sale	(1984-09-16) 16 September 1984 (age 40)	Kiwi
13	2DF	Sapati Umutaua	(1987-11-25) 25 November 1987 (age 36)
19	2DF	Masei Amosa	(1988-05-24) 24 May 1988 (age 36)

6	3MF	Silao Malo	(1990-12-30) 30 December 1990 (age 33)	Kiwi
8	3MF	Joseph Hoeflich	(1984-04-12) 12 April 1984 (age 40)	Kiwi
14	3MF	Sopo FaKaua	(1988-02-23) 23 February 1988 (age 36)
15	3MF	Patrick Asiata	(1985-08-13) 13 August 1985 (age 39)	Kiwi

9	4FW	Max Hoeflich	(1986-12-22) 22 December 1986 (age 37)	Kiwi
10	4FW	Luki Gosche	(1986-01-13) 13 January 1986 (age 38)	Kiwi
11	4FW	Suivai Ataga	(1987-04-21) 21 April 1987 (age 37)
12	4FW	Mike Saofaiga	(1991-01-12) 12 January 1991 (age 33)	Kiwi
16	4FW	Amilale Esaroma	(1985-07-24) 24 July 1985 (age 39)
17	4FW	Spencer Keli	(1985-10-26) 26 October 1985 (age 38)

References

^ http://www.football-lineups.com/stadium/743/ "Football Lineups - Toleafoa J.S. Blatter Complex" Retrieved 15 August 2011
^ http://www.fifa.com/associations/association=sam/goalprogramme/index.html "FIFA.com - Samoa: FIFA Goal Programme" Retrieved 15 August 2011
^ http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/oceania/matches/round=258398/match=300197596/report.html

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[1] ttp://www.football-lineups.com/stadium/743/ "Football Lineups - Toleafoa J.S. Blatter Complex" Retrieved 15 August 2011

[2] ttp://www.fifa.com/associations/association=sam/goalprogramme/index.html "FIFA.com - Samoa: FIFA Goal Programme" Retrieved 15 August 2011

[3] ttp://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/oceania/matches/round=258398/match=300197596/report.html

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