The Flying Fijians finished in fourth place in this season's IRB Pacific Nations Cup competition.

Not only that, they also slipped to 11th place in the IRB World Rugby rankings after going down 16-27 to Tonga on Saturday in Nuku'alofa.

Fiji is expected to remain in 11th place till the end of this year because now they won't be playing any international Test matches.

Meanwhile, the New Zealand Maori were crowned the Pacific Nations Cup champions yesterday after their 21-18 victory over Australia A.

Samoa finished in third place in the competition with a 37-31 victory over Japan, who finished in 5th place and Tonga finished in last place this season.