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New Zealand Women's National Football Team
The New Zealand women's national football team represents New Zealand in international women's association football, football competitions, and is governed by New Zealand Football (NZF). They are nicknamed the Football Ferns. The New Zealand national team has taken part in the FIFA Women's World Cup six times, making their debut in 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup, 1991. New Zealand co-hosted the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, 2023 World Cup alongside Australia women's national soccer team, Australia. They have failed to go past the group stage in all occasions. History The New Zealand Women's Soccer Association was founded in 1975. By invitation, the team took part in the 1975 AFC Women's Championship, Asian Women's Championship in 1975 and won the championship. They have since then played in the Oceanic Championship. As Australia left the OFC, New Zealand had no serious and competitive rivals in Oceania. This made New Zealand's qualification to the World Cup and Olympics easier hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Stuff (website)
Stuff is a New Zealand news media website owned by newspaper conglomerate Stuff Ltd (formerly called Fairfax). As of early 2024, it is the most popular news website in New Zealand, with a monthly unique audience of more than 2 million. Stuff was founded in 2000, and publishes breaking news, weather, sport, politics, video, entertainment, business and life and style content from Stuff Ltd's newspapers, which include New Zealand's second- and third-highest circulation daily newspapers, ''The Post'' and '' The Press'', and the highest circulation weekly, '' Sunday Star-Times'', as well as international news wire services. Stuff has won numerous awards at the Newspaper Publishers' Association awards including 'Best News Website or App' in 2014 and 2019, and 'Website of the Year' in 2013 and 2018, 'Best News Website in 2019', and 'Digital News Provider of the Year' in 2024 and 2025. History Independent Newspapers Ltd, 2000–2003 The former New Zealand media company Independ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Football At The 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's Tournament
The women's association football tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics was held in Beijing and four other cities in the People's Republic of China from 6 to 21 August. Associations affiliated with FIFA were invited to send their full women's national teams. For these Games, the women competed in a 12-team tournament. Preliminary matches commenced on 6 August, two days before the Opening Ceremony of the Games. The teams were grouped into three pools of four teams each for a round-robin preliminary round. The top two teams in each pool, as well as the best two third-place finishing teams, advanced to an eight-team single-elimination bracket. The tournament was won by the United States, which beat Brazil 1–0 in the gold medal game. Carli Lloyd scored the game-winning goal in the 96th minute for the United States, which collected their third Olympic gold medal. Qualifying A National Olympic Committee may enter one women's team for the football competition. * Note – The t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
1998 OFC Women's Championship
The 1998 OFC Women's Championship, also known as the VI Ladies Oceania Nations Cup was held in Auckland, New Zealand between 9 October & 17 October 1998. It was the sixth staging of the OFC Women's Championship. The 1998 OFC Women's Championship, like its previous edition, served as the OFC's qualifying tournament for the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. OFC's only berth was given to the winner – Australia. Participating nations Of the twelve nations affiliated to the Oceania Football Confederation, six entered the tournament. Did not enter * * * * * * First round Group A ---- ---- Group B ---- ---- Knockout stage Semi-finals ---- Third place playoff Final Australia won the tournament and qualified for 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. Awards Goalscorers ;15 goals * Pernille Andersen ;10 goals * Sharon Black ;9 goals * Cheryl Salisbury ;7 goals * Sacha Haskell ;5 goals * Joanne Peters * Wendi Henderson ;4 goals * Alicia Ferguson * Julie Murray * Katri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
1994 OFC Women's Championship
The 1994 OFC Women's Championship was the fifth edition of the OFC Women's Championship. Papua New Guinea hosted the tournament between 14 and 20 October 1994. The tournament was contested by three sides and played as a round robin. Australia won on goal difference after tying with New Zealand on points. They qualified for the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup as a result. Participants * * * Results ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Goalscorers ;3 goals * Cheryl Salisbury * Wendy Sharpe ;2 goals * Lisa Casagrande * Alison Forman * Sunni Hughes * Karly Pumpa * Donna Baker * Kim Dermott ;1 goal * Julie Murray * Amanda Crawford * Wendi Henderson * Maureen Jacobson ;Own goal * ''Unknown player'' See also * 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification References * * * * External links Oceania Football Confederation official website {{1995 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification Women's Championship OFC Women's Nations Cup tournaments 1995 FIFA Women's World C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
1989 OFC Women's Championship
The 1989 OFC Women's Championship was the third OFC Women's Championship of women's association football (also known as the OFC Women's Nations Cup). It took place in Brisbane, Australia from 26 March to 1 April 1989. Five teams participated in the tournament, and a total of eleven matches were played. Chinese Taipei won the tournament for the second time after beating New Zealand 1–0 in the final. The third place match between Australia and their B-side was cancelled due to waterlogged pitch. Teams The following five teams participated in the tournament: * (also known as ''Australia Green'') * Australia B (also known as ''Australia Gold'') * * * * withdrew after the team was refused permission to participate by the Indian government, which was "''not satisfied it had reached a sufficiently high standard to compete''". First round ---- ---- ---- ---- Third place play-off Final Awards Statistics Goalscorers ; 9 goals * Huang Yu-chuan ; 5 go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2014 OFC Women's Nations Cup Squads ...
This article describes about the squads for the 2014 OFC Women's Nations Cup. Cook Islands The squad was announced on 17 October 2014. Head coach: Jimmy Katoa New Zealand The squad was announced on 13 October 2014. Head coach: Tony Readings Papua New Guinea A 22-player squad was announced on 22 September 2014. Head coach: Gary Philips Tonga Head coach: Kilifi Uele References {{OFC Women's Championship 2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2014 OFC Women's Championship
The 2014 OFC Women's Nations Cup (also known as the 2014 OFC Women's Championship) was the 10th edition of the OFC Women's Nations Cup, and took place in Papua New Guinea from 25 to 29 October 2014. The football tournament was organised by the Oceania Football Confederation. It was the tenth edition of the tournament. New Zealand won the tournament without conceding a goal, thus winning their third straight edition, record-extending fifth overall, and qualifying for the 2015 Women's World Cup. Hosts Papua New Guinea and New Zealand had submitted a bid for the tournament. Papua New Guinea was chosen at the OFC Executive Committee on 29 March 2014. Papua New Guinea had hosted the 2007 edition previously. Teams All eleven OFC members were eligible to participate but only four entered teams. Venue Matches were originally to be played at the Sir Ignatius Kilage Stadium in Lae. However, the venue was later changed to the Kalabond Oval in Kokopo. Format Teams played each other once in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup
The 2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup was the 11th edition of the OFC Women's Nations Cup (also known as the OFC Women's Championship), the quadrennial international football championship organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) for the women's national teams of the Oceanian region. The tournament was held in New Caledonia between 18 November – 1 December 2018. The tournament served as the Oceanian qualifiers to the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, with the champions qualifying for the World Cup in France. The champions also qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics women's football tournament in Japan. New Zealand were the defending champions. They won the tournament for their fourth consecutive and record-extending sixth overall OFC Women's Nations Cup title. Format The format was as follows: *Qualifying stage: The four lowest-ranked teams based on previous regional performances of all women's national teams (American Samoa, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Fiji) entered the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2014 OFC Women's Nations Cup
The 2014 OFC Women's Nations Cup (also known as the 2014 OFC Women's Championship) was the 10th edition of the OFC Women's Nations Cup, and took place in Papua New Guinea from 25 to 29 October 2014. The association football, football tournament was organised by the Oceania Football Confederation. It was the tenth edition of the OFC Women's Championship, tournament. New Zealand won the tournament without conceding a goal, thus winning their third straight edition, record-extending fifth overall, and qualifying for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, 2015 Women's World Cup. Hosts Papua New Guinea and New Zealand had submitted a bid for the tournament. Papua New Guinea was chosen at the OFC Executive Committee on 29 March 2014. Papua New Guinea had hosted the 2007 edition previously. Teams All eleven OFC members were eligible to participate but only four entered teams. Venue Matches were originally to be played at the Sir Ignatius Kilage Stadium in Lae. However, the venue was later ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2010 OFC Women's Championship
The 2010 OFC Women's Championship of women's association football (also known as the OFC Women's Nations Cup) took place in Auckland, New Zealand , Oceania Football Confederation, retrieved 9 July 2010 between 29 September and 8 October. It was the ninth edition of the . For the first time, eight teams participated in the tournament, and a total of sixteen matches were played. The tournament also served as the OFC Women's World Cup qualification tournament, with the winner, |
2007 OFC Women's Championship
The 2007 OFC Women's Championship of women's association football took place in Lae, Papua New Guinea between 9 April and 13 April. It was the eighth edition of the tournament. The tournament was also known as the OFC Women's World Cup Qualifier, as the winner qualified for the 2007 Women's World Cup. New Zealand have never lost a match to any of their three competitors at the OFC Women's Championship, with the closest result being a 2–0 win over Papua New Guinea in 1995. Erik Garin, RSSSF, retrieved 5 April 2007 The Cook Islands, |
1991 OFC Women's Championship
The 1991 OFC Women's Championship was the fourth OFC Women's Championship of women's association football (also known as the OFC Women's Nations Cup). It took place in Sydney, Australia from 19 to 25 May 1991. Only three teams participated in the tournament, and a total of six matches were played. This edition served as the OFC's qualifying tournament for the inaugural FIFA Women's World Cup. New Zealand won the tournament for the second time after finishing first in the round robin (by goal difference) and qualified to the World Cup. Background After the 1989 edition of the tournament, the Oceania Women's Football Confederation (OWFC) decided to increase the length of matches from 70 to 80 minutes. The next tournament was provisionally awarded to Papua New Guinea and scheduled for 1992. In February 1990 FIFA had announced the Women's World Cup for November 1991 but still not confirmed the arrangements for qualification in the Oceania region. At an OWFC meeting in September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
