Steve Mafi
 Mafi representing Greater Sydney Rams during the National Rugby Championship | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Full name | Sitiveni Mafi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 9 December 1989 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Fairfield, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 112 kg (247 lb; 17 st 9 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Westfields Sports High School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sitiveni Mafi (born 9 December 1989) is a professional rugby union player who plays as a lock for Top 14 club Oyonnax. Born in Australia, he represents Tonga at international level after qualifying on ancestry grounds.
Club career
[edit]Mafi previously played for the Leicester Tigers and New South Wales Waratahs.[1][2][3] Mafi played as a replacement during the 2013 Premiership final as Leicester defeated Northampton Saints.[4] In the final of the 2017–18 Top 14 season he scored a try after coming on as a replacement as Castres defeated Montpellier.[5]
He is the grandson of former Tonga captain Sione Mafi Pahulu.[6] He attended Westfields Sports High School and played his Junior rugby at Parramatta Two Blues in Sydneys west. In 2007 he played for the Australian Schoolboys.
Career statistics
[edit]Club summary
[edit]| Year | Team | Played | Start | Sub | Tries | Cons | Pens | Drop | Points | Yel | Red |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Force | 16 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016 | Force | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Career | 26 | 18 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | |
Honours
[edit]- Leicester Tigers
- Castres
References
[edit]- ^ "Aviva Premiership Rugby – Gloucester Rugby". web page. Premier Rugby. Archived from the original on 16 June 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
- ^ "Leicester swoop for Mafi". Scrum.com. 31 August 2010. Retrieved 7 January 2011.
- ^ "Senior".
- ^ "Aviva Premiership final: Leicester 37-17 Northampton". BBC. 25 May 2013. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
- ^ "Castres stun Montpellier to claim Top 14 title". planetrugby.com. 2 June 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
- ^ "Meet Steve Mafi: The Tigers' Tongan hitman". 25 May 2012. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022.
- ^ "Player Statistics". its rugby. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
- ^ "Castres stun Montpellier to claim Top 14 title". planetrugby.com. 2 June 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
External links
[edit]- ARU profile
- Steve Mafi at ESPNscrum
- Steve Mafi at ItsRugby.co.uk
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- Living people
- 1989 births
- Australian rugby union players
- Tongan expatriate sportspeople in England
- Tonga international rugby union players
- Leicester Tigers players
- Greater Sydney Rams players
- Rugby union locks
- Australian sportspeople of Tongan descent
- Australian expatriate rugby union players in England
- Australian expatriate rugby union players in France
- Western Force players
- Castres Olympique players
- Rugby union players from Sydney
- 2015 Rugby World Cup players
- 2019 Rugby World Cup players
- 2023 Rugby World Cup players
- Tongan rugby union biography stubs