The American Samoa women's national under-20 football team is the highest women's youth team of women's football in

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and is controlled by the

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(FFAS).

History

is known as one of the worst football teams in the world. In that perspective their debut at the

OFC U-20 Women's Championship The OFC U-19 Women's Championship (previously the OFC U-20 Women's Championship or OFC Women's Under 20 Qualifying Tournament) is a football tournament held every two years to decide the only qualification spot for the Oceania Football Confederati ...

was quite good. They made their debut in 2002 at the first tournament ever held. They managed to draw two times with only one loss: just 2–0 against giants

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. The team managed to score two goals in their 2–2 draw against

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. They ended up 3 out of 4 in the group, above Fiji. Eight years later, in 2010, the team struggled a whole lot more. They lost all their three games: two 4-0 defeats against

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and the

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and an 8–0 defeat against New Zealand. After two tournaments the American Samoa team has never won and just scored two goals. However they will participate again in

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OFC Championship Record

Current squad

The following players were called up for the

2019 OFC U-19 Women's Championship The 2019 OFC U-19 Women's Championship was the 9th edition of the OFC U-19/U-20 Women's Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) for the women's under-19/under-2 ...

from 30 August – 12 September in Avarua,

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. Caps and goals updated as of 7 September 2019, after the game against

References

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