In this paper, the design of an event-triggered fault-tolerant control for leader-following consensus in multi-agent systems subject to actuator faults is presented. The problem under consideration is to reduce the control update rate and to guarantee that all the agents follow the trajectories of a leader when one or all the agents are subject to actuators faults. The proposed fault-tolerant strategy is based on distributed virtual actuators without re-tuning the nominal leader-following control. Linear matrix inequalities-based conditions are synthesized to guarantee the stability of the synchronization error and estimation error. The efectiveness of the event-triggered fault-tolerant strategy is illustrated through numerical examples.