Vereniki Goneva (born 5 April 1984) is a Fijian rugby union footballer who plays for Mont-de-Marsan in France's Pro D2, the second division.

Goneva made his debut in English rugby for Rotherham against Northampton Saints in the RFU Championship in the 2007–2008 season.

He played for Leicester Tigers from 2012 to 2016, where he won the Aviva Premiership title,[1] before signing with Newcastle Falcons.

In the same year he played in the Colonial Cup for the Western Crusaders team but lost in the finals to Coastal Stallions.

[3] Goneva claimed that the only reason he chose to play for the Tigers was because their Rugby director, Richard Cockerill personally flew to France just to speak to him regarding him joining the club.

In the 2013–14 English Premiership; in his first game against Worcester Warriors, he scored a stunning individual try to give him team a bonus-point win,[7] a week later, he started at his preferred position at 13 and scored another brilliant try against Bath but it wasn't enough as the Tigers lost but Goneva's try secured them a bonus-point loss.

[13] In the 2015–16 European Rugby Champions Cup, he scored a try in every game finishing with 6 tries in 5 matches in the Knock-out round making him the competition's top try scorer alongside Thomas Waldrom.

[15] On 21 June 2020, Goneva returned to France to sign for Pro D2 side Mont-de-Marsan ahead of the 2020–21 season.