Samoa national football team

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Samoa
Association	Samoa Football Soccer Federation
Confederation	OFC (Oceania)
Head coach	David Brand
Home stadium	National Soccer Stadium
FIFA code	SAM
FIFA ranking	188
Highest FIFA ranking	160 (March 2002)
Lowest FIFA ranking	190 (September 2006)
Elo ranking	204
First kit 　 Second kit
First international Wallis & Futuna 3 - 1 Western Samoa (Fiji; August 22, 1979) Cook Islands 2 - 1 Samoa (Cook Islands; September 2, 1998)
Biggest win Samoa 8 - 0 American Samoa (Coffs Harbour, Australia; April 9, 2001)
Biggest defeat Tahiti 13 - 0 Western Samoa (Solomon Islands; July 13, 1981)

The Samoa national football team is the national team of Samoa and is controlled by the Samoa Football (Soccer) Federation. It was known as the Western Samoa national football team until 1997. It is among the weakest teams of the OFC and is a part of the FIFA Goal project.

[edit] World Cup record

• 1930 to 1990 - Did not enter
• 1994 - Withdrew
• 1998 to 2006 - Did not qualify

[edit] Oceania Nations Cup record

• 1973 - Did not enter
• 1980 - Did not enter
• 1996 to 2004 - Did not qualify

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Asia: AFC – Asian Cup      Africa: CAF – African Cup of Nations      North America: CONCACAF – Gold Cup      South America: CONMEBOL – Copa América      Oceania: OFC – Nations Cup      Europe: UEFA – European Championship      Non-FIFA: NF-Board – VIVA World Cup
National football teams of Oceania (OFC) v • d • e
American Samoa | Cook Islands | Fiji | Micronesia† | New Caledonia | New Zealand | Niue† | Northern Mariana Islands† | Palau† | Papua New Guinea | Samoa | Solomon Islands | Tahiti | Tonga | Tuvalu† | Vanuatu †Associate Member Australia ceased to be a member of OFC from 1 January 2006 when they joined AFC.