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A win 47 years in the making: Kiribati thrash Nadroga 6-0 at Fiji’s IDC to claim first-ever senior national team victory

Kiribati have finally won a football match. Forty-seven years after the country first appeared in senior international football, the Kiribati national team produced a result that will have a permanent place in its history, demolishing Alfraaz Security Nadroga FC 6-0 at the HFC Bank Stadium in Suva and booking a place in the semi-finals ofContinue reading “A win 47 years in the making: Kiribati thrash Nadroga 6-0 at Fiji’s IDC to claim first-ever senior national team victory”

Kiribati’s participation in the 2026 FMF Inter-District Championship is about much more than entering another football tournament. When the national team walks onto the HFC Bank Stadium pitch in Suva, it will be taking part in one of the most important competitive tests available to a country still fighting for a permanent place within Oceania’sContinue reading “Kiribati’s historic IDC debut carries a bigger ambition: proving they belong on Oceania football’s next stage”