# Tanner Vili

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{{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](/source/Flyhalf_(rugby_union)), [Fullback](/source/Fullback_(rugby_union))
| amatyears1      = 
| amatteam1       = | repteam1        = [Samoa](/source/Samoa_national_rugby_union_team)
| amatteam2       = [Pacific Islanders](/source/Pacific_Islanders_rugby_union_team)
| repyears1       = 1999–2006
| repyears2       = 2004
| repcaps1        = 34
| repcaps2        = 3
| reppoints1      = 99
| reppoints2      = 0
| years1          = 2002–04
| years2          = 2004–06
| clubs1          = [Border Reivers](/source/Border_Reivers_(rugby))
| clubs2          = [Kintetsu](/source/Kintetsu_Liners)
| apps1           = 
| points1         = 
| super1          = [Hurricanes](/source/Wellington_Hurricanes)
| superyears1     = 2000–01
| superapps1      = 5
| superpoints1    = 7
| province1       = [Counties Manukau](/source/Counties_Manukau_Rugby_Union)
| province2       = [Wanganui](/source/Wanganui_Rugby_Football_Union)
| province3       = [King Country](/source/King_Country_Rugby_Football_Union)
| provinceyears1  = –2002
| provinceyears2  = 2006–08
| provinceyears3  = 2009
| provinceapps1   = 
| provincepoints1 = 
}}

'''Tanner Vili''' (born 13 May 1976) is a New Zealand/[Samoa](/source/Samoa)n [rugby union](/source/rugby_union) footballer. He plays as a [fly-half](/source/Fly-half_(rugby_union)) and [full back](/source/Rugby_union_positions)

He played for [Samoa](/source/Samoa_national_rugby_union_team) at the [1999 Rugby World Cup](/source/1999_Rugby_World_Cup) and [2003 Rugby World Cup](/source/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](/source/Mark_Cueto) began the tension that eventually led to the mass brawl that led to the dismissal of [Semo Sititi](/source/Semo_Sititi) (yellow card), [Alesana Tuilagi](/source/Alesana_Tuilagi) and [Lewis Moody](/source/Lewis_Moody) (both red cards), in some of the worst scenes of violence ever to be witnessed at [Twickenham](/source/Twickenham_Stadium).<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}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vili, Tanner}}
Category:Living people
Category:1976 births
Category:Border Reivers players
Category:Samoa international rugby union players
Category:Pacific Islanders rugby union players
Category:New Zealand rugby union players
Category:Rugby union players from Wellington City
Category:New Zealand people of Samoan descent
Category:Sportspeople of Samoan descent
Category:New Zealand expatriate rugby union players in Scotland
Category:New Zealand expatriate rugby union players in Japan
Category:Samoan expatriate rugby union players in Japan
Category:Samoan expatriate sportspeople in Scotland
Category:Rugby union fly-halves
Category:1999 Rugby World Cup players
Category:2003 Rugby World Cup players
Category:Wanganui rugby union players
Category:Hurricanes (rugby union) players

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