Editing Apia (section)

===Association football===
Apia hosted the [[Oceania]] region's qualification matches for the [[2010 FIFA World Cup]]. As such, Apia was the location of the first goal scored in the 2010 qualifiers, by [[Pierre Wajoka]] of [[New Caledonia national football team|New Caledonia]] against [[Tahiti national football team|Tahiti]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://m.fifa.com/newscentre/news/newsid=1135945.html |title=Oceania FIFA World Cup qualifying review |publisher=M.fifa.com |date=12 January 2017 |access-date=2 February 2017 |archive-date=25 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325222607/http://m.fifa.com/newscentre/news/newsid=1135945.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The qualification matches commenced on 27 August 2007 and finished on 7 September 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.futbolplanet.de/oceania/south_pacific_games/south_pacific_games_2007.htm |title=futbolplanet.de |publisher=futbolplanet.de |access-date=2 February 2017}}</ref> All matches were played at the [[Toleafoa J.S. Blatter Complex]], which is named after [[FIFA]] president [[Sepp Blatter]].

The complex, based in Apia, is also the venue of the [[Samoa national football team]]'s home matches and has a capacity of 3,500.