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OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
The OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament is an association football tournament held once in four years to decide the only qualification spot of the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) and representatives at the Olympic Games. The tournament was first held in 2004. In 1996, no OFC team took part at the Olympics, in 2000, Australia were given the spot as hosts.https://archive.today/20141224185227/http://www.foxsportspulse.com/club_info.cgi?c=0-2472-22534-0-0 Format In 2004, three teams played a round robin. After Australia had left the Oceanic Confederation to Asia, all teams but New Zealand play a tournament. The winner then plays a two-legged play-off for the Olympics spot against New Zealand, Oceania's highest ranked team in the FIFA Women's World Rankings. Results 1 The second leg was scratched as Papua New Guinea was unable to travel to New Zealand for the match due to visa issues. 2 The OFC place at the 2020 Olympics was decided by the 2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oceania Football Confederation
The Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) is one of the six continental confederations of international association football. The OFC has 13 members, 11 of which are full members and two which are associate members not affiliated with FIFA. It promotes the game in Oceania and allows the List of men's national association football teams#OFC (Oceania), member nations to qualify for the FIFA World Cup. OFC is predominantly made up of island nations where association football is not the most popular sport, with low GDP and low population meaning very little money is generated by the OFC nations. The OFC has little influence in the wider football world, either in terms of international competition or as a source of players for high-profile club competitions. OFC is the only confederation to have not had at least one international title, the best result being Australia making 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, the final of the 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup. In 2006, the OFC's larges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world's foremost sports competition with more than 200 teams, representing sovereign states and territories, participating. The Olympic Games are normally held every four years, and since 1994, have alternated between the Summer and Winter Olympics every two years during the four-year period. Their creation was inspired by the ancient Olympic Games (), held in Olympia, Greece from the 8th century BC to the 4th century AD. Baron Pierre de Coubertin founded the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1894, leading to the first modern Games in Athens in 1896. The IOC is the governing body of the Olympic Movement (which encompasses all entities and individuals involved in the Oly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIFA Women's World Rankings
The FIFA Women's World Rankings for football were introduced in 2003, with the first rankings published on 16 July of that year, as a follow-on to the existing Men's FIFA World Rankings. They attempt to compare the strength of internationally active women's national teams at any given time. Currently, as of the August 2022 update, the ranking has 185 national teams. Specifics of the ranking system *FIFA Women's World Rankings are based on every international match a team ever played, dating back to 1971, the first FIFA-recognized women's international between France and the Netherlands. *FIFA Women's World Rankings are implicitly weighted to emphasize recent results. *FIFA Women's World Rankings are only published four times a year. Normally, rankings are released in March, June, September and December. (In World Cup years, dates may be adjusted to reflect the World Cup results.) The first two points result from the FIFA Women's World Rankings system being based on the Elo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
The 2004 OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament was an association football tournament used two determine the Oceanian participant to compete at the 2004 Summer Olympics. It was held at Govind Park in Ba, Fiji, from March 2–6, 2004. It was the first edition of the OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament (with previous competitions using FIFA Women's World Cup performances for qualification). Three nations participated. Tournament Times listed are UTC+12. ---- ---- Goalscorers ;4 goals * Kate Gill * April Mann ;3 goals * Lana Harch ;2 goals * Lisa De Vanna ;1 goal * Gillian Foster * Selin Kuralay * Joanne Peters * Sarah Walsh * Tokoe Norrie * Nellie Taman See also * 2004 OFC Men's Olympic Football Tournament Notes References * * External links2004 OFC Women's Olympic Qualifiers {{Qualification for the 2004 Summer Olympics Football tournament Oceania OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament 2003–04 in OFC football International association footb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RSSSF
The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF) is an international organization dedicated to collecting statistics about association football. The foundation aims to build an exhaustive archive of football-related information from around the world. History This enterprise, according to its founders, was created in January 1994 by three regulars of the Rec.Sport.Soccer (RSS) Usenet newsgroup: Lars Aarhus, Kent Hedlundh, and Karel Stokkermans. It was originally known as the "North European Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation", but the geographical reference was dropped as its membership from other regions grew. The RSSSF has members and contributors from all around the world and has spawned seven spin-off projects to more closely follow the leagues of that project's home country. The spin-off projects are dedicated to Albania, Brazil, Denmark, Norway, Poland (90minut.pl), Romania, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiji
Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands—of which about 110 are permanently inhabited—and more than 500 islets, amounting to a total land area of about . The most outlying island group is Ono-i-Lau. About 87% of the total population of live on the two major islands, Viti Levu and Vanua Levu. About three-quarters of Fijians live on Viti Levu's coasts: either in the capital city of Suva; or in smaller urban centres such as Nadi—where tourism is the major local industry; or in Lautoka, where the Sugarcane, sugar-cane industry is dominant. The interior of Viti Levu is sparsely inhabited because of its terrain. The majority of Fiji's islands were formed by Volcano, volcanic activity starting around 150 million years ago. Some geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
The second OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament in 2008 determined the Oceania Football Confederation's berth for the 2008 Beijing Olympic football tournament. First stage Nine women's teams participated in the first stage, held as the 2007 South Pacific Games in Apia, Samoa. from August 25 to September 7. The winning team, Papua New Guinea, progressed to the second round to play New Zealand. Participating Teams * * * * * * * * * Second stage The second stage was a play-off between New Zealand and the stage 1 winner. It was apparently planned as a two match play-off, but was eventually played over just one game. New Zealand won the match 2–0 and progressed to the Beijing Olympics. References Football qualification for the 2008 Summer Olympics 2008 Women's football at the 2008 Summer Olympics Oly Oly may refer to: * Oly, informal name for Olympia, Washington, United States * OLY (: ), postnominals granted to participants in the Olympics People with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
2012 OFC Women's Pre-Olympic Football Tournament was the qualifying tournament to the football competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London for the member nations of the Oceania Football Confederation. It was the third edition of the OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament. Four nations participated in a preliminary tournament (hosted by Tonga) based on a league system with two advancing to a final. The winner of this preliminary stage played New Zealand in a home-and-away play-off for a place at the Olympics. Participating teams * * * * * First stage The teams' paths to the Olympics were revealed on 17 February 2012. Round-robin ---- ---- Knockout round Third place play-off Final Awards A number of awards were announced following the preliminary tournament. Final stage Summary Matches ''New Zealand won 15–0 on aggregate and qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics.'' References See also * Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics * 2012 OFC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
The 2016 OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament was the 4th edition of the OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the quadrennial international football competition organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) to determine which women's national teams from Oceania qualify for the Olympic football tournament. The tournament consisted of two stages. The first stage was the Pacific Games women's football tournament, where the highest-ranked team who is a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) advanced to the second stage. The second stage was a two-legged play-off between the first stage qualifier and New Zealand, OFC's highest ranked team in the FIFA Women's World Rankings. The winner of the second stage qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics women's football tournament in Brazil. New Zealand qualified for their third straight Olympics after the second leg of their final play-off against Papua New Guinea was cancelled due to visa issues preventing P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 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 qualifying stage, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Caledonia
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