{{Short description|Samoa international rugby union player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2014}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Tanner Aiavao Vili | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1976|05|13}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.espnscrum.com/blogs/rugby/player/13152.html |title=Tanner Vili Samoa |publisher=ESPN |access-date=9 May 2023}}</ref> | birth_place = Wellington, New Zealand | death_date = | death_place = | height = 1.73 m | weight = 80&nbsp;kg | position = Flyhalf, Fullback | amatyears1 = | amatteam1 = | repteam1 = Samoa | amatteam2 = Pacific Islanders | repyears1 = 1999–2006 | repyears2 = 2004 | repcaps1 = 34 | repcaps2 = 3 | reppoints1 = 99 | reppoints2 = 0 | years1 = 2002–04 | years2 = 2004–06 | clubs1 = Border Reivers | clubs2 = Kintetsu | apps1 = | points1 = | super1 = Hurricanes | superyears1 = 2000–01 | superapps1 = 5 | superpoints1 = 7 | province1 = Counties Manukau | province2 = Wanganui | province3 = King Country | provinceyears1 = –2002 | provinceyears2 = 2006–08 | provinceyears3 = 2009 | provinceapps1 = | provincepoints1 = }}

'''Tanner Vili''' (born 13 May 1976) is a New Zealand/Samoan rugby union footballer. He plays as a fly-half and full back

He played for Samoa at the 1999 Rugby World Cup and 2003 Rugby World Cup. He later joined the NZ Barbarians.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.barbarianrugby.co.nz/members/tanner-vili/ |title=Tanner Vili |date=18 August 2021 |publisher=New Zealand Barbarian Rugby Club |access-date=9 May 2023}}</ref>

In 2004 Vili's illegal clothesline tackle on Mark Cueto began the tension that eventually led to the mass brawl that led to the dismissal of Semo Sititi (yellow card), Alesana Tuilagi and Lewis Moody (both red cards), in some of the worst scenes of violence ever to be witnessed at Twickenham.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/international/4466496.stm|title=England 40-3 Samoa|date=26 November 2005}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

{{Samoa Squad 2003 World Cup}} {{Samoa 2001 Rugby Sevens World Cup Squad}} {{Samoa Squad 1999 World Cup}} {{PIRA2004squad}}

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