title: Tokelau national rugby league team
text: # Tokelau national rugby league team
  
  The Tokelau national rugby league team represents Tokelau in rugby league football and first participated in international competition in 1986.
  
  Tokelau has participated four times in the Pacific Cup: in 1986, 1988, 1992 and 2006.
  
  Tokelau is expected to make a return to international Rugby League with the planned introduction of a new formalise the structure for Rugby League. It's envisaged from this symposium that rugby league will be able to officially form the Tokelau Rugby League Association (TRLA). The TRLA will be the driving force behind Tokelau's rugby league development and also allow the game to receive support from the Tokelau government.
  
  In December 2011 the Tokelau National Sports Coordinator made contact with the Rugby League International Federation (RLIF) to express their ambitions to come back to the rugby league fold. After the TRLA is formalised in February/March 2012 the first goal of the body is to obtain membership of the Asia Pacific Rugby League Confederation (APRLC).
  
  ## Heritage Players
  
  * Sam Panapa
  * Francis Meli
  * Vince Mellars
  * Alehana Mara
  * Marvin Filipo
  * Bureta Faraimo
  * Renouf Atoni
  
  ## Results
  
      Note: The Winning team is given first.
  
  ### Pacific Cup 1986
  
  * Western Samoa 34–12 Tokelau
  * Tonga 26–22 Tokelau
  
  ### Pacific Cup 1988
  
  * Cook Islands 19–10 Tokelau
  * Western Samoa 40–18 Tokelau
  
  ### Pacific Cup 1992
  
  * Tokelau 26–18 American Samoa
  * Australia Aborigines 46–18 Tokelau
  * New Zealand Māori 34–18 Tokelau
  * Tokelau 44–8 Norfolk Island
  * Tokelau beat Cook Islands (9-aside)
  * Tokelau 8 beat American Samoa 8 (9-aside semi Final)
  * Winners of the 9-aside Final Tokelau 18 v Fiji 18
  
  ### Pacific Cup 2006
  
  * Tonga 62–0 Tokelau
  * New Zealand Māori 64–4 Tokelau
  * Tokelau 34–28 Samoa
  
  ### Pacific Games 2019 (rugby league 9s)
  
  * Cook Islands 22–4 Tokelau
  * Cook Islands 22–20 Tokelau
  * Solomon Islands 24–18 Tokelau
  * Tokelau 8–4 Solomon Islands
  * Fiji 30–4 Tokelau
  
  ## National stadium
  
  | Stadium | Capacity | City |
  | - | - | - |
  | Hemoana Stadium | 1,000 | Nukunonu |
  