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Lautoka F.C.
Fijian football club
Lautoka Football Club is a Fijian professional football club based in Lautoka that competes in the Fiji Premier League, the top flight of Fijian football. Their home stadium is Churchill Park. The club was formed in 1934.
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| Full name | Lautoka Football Club | ||
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| Founded | 1934; 90 years ago (1934) | ||
| Ground | Churchill Park Lautoka, Fiji | ||
| Capacity | 18,000 | ||
| President | Shalendra Prasad | ||
| Manager | Babs Khan | ||
| League | National Football League | ||
| 2023 | Champions | ||
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Lautoka Soccer Football Association was formed in 1934, under the leadership of John Bairagi.[1] In 1961, Lautoka became affiliated with the Fiji Football Association.
Lautoka has the record of highest goals scored in the Inter-District Championship (IDC) finals. Lautoka thumped Ba in the finals one year by 6–0 and by 7–0 another year and also beat Suva in one of the finals by 7–1. That record remains untouched till this day.
Lautoka is also the first team to win the IDC 3 years in a row. They have also qualified for the 2009–10 OFC Champions League by finishing on top of the Fiji National league table and also remaining undefeated.
Squad for 2022 OFC Champions League
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Current technical staff
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| Head coach |  Roneel Kumar |
- 1941, 1942, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1973, 1984, 1985, 2005, 2008, 2017, 2018.
- 1985, 2016.
- Fiji Fact: 3
- 2000, 2002, 2023.
- 2009, 2016.
- OFC Champions League: 4 appearances
- M. Prasad, Sixty Years of Soccer in Fiji 1938–1998: The Official History of the Fiji Football Association, Fiji Football Association, Suva, 1998.
- Lautoka FC official website (archived 31 March 2012)