David Nofoaluma

Winger

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Height:: 182 cm

Weight:: 94 kg

Age:: 25

Date of Birth:: 28 November 1993

Birthplace:: Newcastle, NSW

Nickname:: Nofa

Debut Club:: Wests Tigers
Opposition:: South Sydney Rabbitohs

Date:: 17 May 2013
Round:: 10

Previous Club:: -

Junior Club:: Campbelltown Collegians / Campbelltown Warriors

Biography:

A local junior of Wests Tigers, David Nofoaluma played Australian Schoolboys and NSW U/18’s in 2011 before stepping up to the club’s Holden Cup team, where he starred and helped the side record a maiden Premiership win in the junior competition.

He made his NRL debut as a teenager midway through the 2013 season, and quickly found his feet in the top flight. Nofoaluma scored the match-winning try in his second game, before crossing for the Dally M Try of the Year against Manly at his local Campbelltown Sports Stadium.

Nofoaluma was on the cusp of making his international debut for Samoa when selected in the squad for the side’s Pacific Test against in 2014, but would be forced to withdraw due to injury.

A regular for Wests Tigers, Nofoaluma would battle knee injuries throughout the following few years but continued to make an impact when on the field — making his representative debut for the Prime Minister’s XIII in 2015, scoring two tries in the 40-12 win over Papua New Guinea.

Missing just one game of the 2016 season, Nofoaluma ended the season as the team’s leading try-scorer with 14 and led the NRL in tackle breaks with 134 in easily the winger’s best season of his career so far. He would finally be rewarded with his debut for Samoa in the end-of-year Test against Fiji, playing out of position at fullback in the historic Test match in Apai, Samoa.

The Campbelltown kid would go one better in 2017 as he played in every game for Wests Tigers — leading the team in metres gained, tackle breaks, offloads and linebreaks. He was named in the Rugby League Players Association Dream Team, capping off a superb season that also saw him re-sign with the club on a four year deal.

Nofoaluma reached 100 games for Wests Tigers in 2018 and became the club’s all-time top try-scorer at Campbelltown Sports Stadium in the process. He requires just three more tries to pass Pat Richards as the all-time top try-scoring winger in club history.

Nofoaluma is signed through at Wests Tigers until the end of the 2021 season.

Appearances: 105
Tries: 49

Career By Season

	Year	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn	Win %	Tries	Goals	Points	Kicking Metres	Kicking Metres Average	Goal Conversion Rate	Forced Drop Outs	Try Assists	Linebreaks	Receipts	Tackles Made	Missed Tackles	Tackle Efficiency	Total Running Metres	Average Running Metres	Kick Return Metres	Total Points	Average Points
Wests Tigers	2013	15	5	10	-	33%	8	-	32	46	3.05	-	-	-	10	255	86	31	65.97%	1,736	115.77	270	1	0.1
Wests Tigers	2014	15	8	7	-	53%	7	-	28	11	0.74	-	-	-	9	249	73	22	77.33%	1,898	126.59	360	391	26.1
Wests Tigers	2015	10	4	6	-	40%	6	-	24	7	0.73	-	-	1	7	190	96	20	78.23%	1,575	157.53	77	415	41.5
Wests Tigers	2016	23	11	12	-	48%	14	-	56	111	4.83	-	2	1	16	475	174	42	73.20%	3,033	131.89	533	1,026	44.6
Wests Tigers	2017	24	7	17	-	29%	8	-	32	129	5.36	-	1	2	15	571	146	42	73.91%	4,151	172.99	670	1,084	45.2
Wests Tigers	2018	18	9	9	-	50%	6	-	24	31	1.73	-	-	-	7	393	89	27	68.27%	2,724	151.34	352	672	37.0

Career Overall
Summary									Scoring				Kicking				Attack			Passing		Defence				Running Metres				Fantasy
		Year Start	Year End	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn	Win %		Tries	Goals	Points		Kicking Metres	Kicking Metres Average	Goal Conversion Rate		Try Assists	Linebreaks		Receipts		Tackles Made	Missed Tackles	Tackle Efficiency		Total Running Metres	Average Running Metres	Kick Return Metres		Total Points	Average Points
	Wests Tigers	2013	2018	105	44	61	-	-		49	-	196		302	2.88	-		4	64		-		664	184	-		15,119	143.00	2,263		3,631	34.6