Full name | Lupe o le Soaga Soccer Club | ||
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Ground | Toleafoa J.S Blatter Soccer Stadium | ||
Capacity | 3,500 | ||
Chairman | Tafilipepe Fineaso Aimaasu | ||
Manager | Paul Ualesi | ||
League | Samoa National League | ||
2021 | Champions | ||
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Lupe o le Soaga Soccer Club is a Samoan professional football club based in Tuanaimato. It currently plays in the Samoa National League.
History
Lupe o le Soaga was founded in 2011. The team played in the First Division, the second tier of the Samoa National League during the 2011–12 season where they finished runners-up to Vaimoso. They were promoted to the national league in 2012, and won the 2012-13 Samoa National League, losing only once throughout the whole season. They also won the Samoa Cup, defeating Kiwi 2–1 in the final. Kiwi took the lead, but Lupe equalised with a penalty. An additional twenty minutes extra time was played and in the second half of extra time Lupe scored the winner. The Lupe ole Soaga women's team were runner's-up in the 2012–13 women's cup final.
In the 2020 edition of the OFC Champions League they became the first team coming from the qualifying stage to win a group stage match.
In 2020 it was the top-ranked team in the national league.
The team won all three of its matches in the 2023 OFC Champions League qualifying stage, qualifying for the 2023 OFC Champions League. Injuries caused the cancellation of their last pool game, and they were withdrawn from the competition.
Titles
- Samoa Cup: 1
- 2012-13
Current technical staff
Current squad
Squad for the 2020 OFC Champions League Premiliminary Stage
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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References
- Which stadiums are home to the most champions? at The Knowledge, Guardian Newspapers
- ^ "OFC Champions League Club Profile: Lupe Ole Soaga SC (Samoa)". OFC. 5 May 2023. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
- Samoa – 2011 at RSSSF.
- ^ Samoa 2013 at RSSSF
- ^ National League closer to an end Archived 2013-09-28 at the Wayback Machine at footballsamoa.ws
- "Lupe make history in Tahiti". Oceania Football Confederation. Mar 6, 2020.
- Vaelei Von Dincklage (19 September 2020). "Lupe Soaga work to keep top ranking". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
- Vaelei Von Dincklage (1 December 2020). "Lupe defeats Vaipuna to win Premier League". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
- "Tupapa Maraerenga bundles out of OFC Champions League". Cook Islands News. 25 February 2023. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
- Shalveen Chand (20 May 2023). "Samoan champs sit out last Champions League match". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
- "Samoan team facing disciplinary body". Loop Samoa. 25 May 2023. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
- "Samoan club to face OFC disciplinary committee after pulling out of Auckland City game". Stuff. 22 May 2023. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
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