2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup

2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Fiji
City	Suva
Dates	13–30 July [1]
Teams	9 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Papua New Guinea (1st title)
Runners-up	Fiji
Third place	Solomon Islands
Fourth place	Samoa
Tournament statistics
Matches played	17
Goals scored	49 (2.88 per match)
Attendance	10,260 (604 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Meagen Gunemba Ramona Padio Jayda Stewart (5 goals each)
Best player(s)	Cema Nasau
Best goalkeeper	Camille Andre
Fair play award	Samoa
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The 2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup was the 12th 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. It was originally scheduled from July to August 2022, but was moved to January and February to accommodate changes to the FIFA Women's International Match Calendar. ^[2] The OFC announced on 4 March 2021 that it was pushed back due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and on 29 April 2022 announced that Fiji would host the tournament from 13 to 30 July. ^{[1] [3]}

The tournament served as Oceania's qualifiers to the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. With New Zealand having already qualified automatically for the World Cup as a co-host, they did not participate in the tournament. The winner advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs. ^[4]

New Zealand were the reigning champions, but they did not participate in the tournament as they were the host of the Women's World Cup and thus did not defend their title. Papua New Guinea won their first OFC Women's Nations Cup title.

Format

The format of the tournament involved a first round with nine teams playing three groups of three, with the top two in each group plus the two best third-place teams advancing to the quarter-finals. Fiji was picked to be the host in April 2022.

Tiebreakers

The ranking of teams is determined as follows: ^[5]

1. Points obtained in all qualifying matches;
2. Goal difference in all qualifying matches;
3. Number of goals scored in all qualifying matches;
4. Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
5. Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
6. Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
7. Fair play points in all qualifying matches (only one deduction can be applied to a player in a single match):
   • Yellow card: –1 points;
   • Indirect red card (second yellow card): –3 points;
   • Direct red card: –4 points;
   • Yellow card and direct red card: –5 points;
8. Coin toss or drawing of lots.

Teams

New Zealand will not participate with their World Cup spot already assured. American Samoa were unable to participate due to ongoing issues from the pandemic. All other countries in the OFC will participate. ^[1]

Team	Appearance	Previous best performance	FIFA ranking at start of event [6]
Cook Islands	5th	Third place (2010, 2014)	102
Fiji (H)	5th	Runners-up (2018)	69
New Caledonia	3rd	Third place (1983)	100
Papua New Guinea	10th	Runners-up (2007, 2010, 2014)	49
Samoa	4th	Fourth place (2003)	109
Solomon Islands	3rd	Fourth place (2007, 2010)	120
Tahiti	3rd	Group stage (2010, 2018)	104
Tonga	5th	Third place (2007)	92
Vanuatu	2nd	Group stage (2010)	121

Venue

All matches were played at the ANZ Stadium in Suva, on the island of Viti Levu.

Suva	Suva
	ANZ Stadium
	Capacity: 4,300

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 10 May with teams seeded into pots based upon the 25 March FIFA rankings. ^[1]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3
Papua New Guinea (49)   Fiji (67)   Tonga (92)	New Caledonia (99)   Cook Islands (104)   Tahiti (105)	Samoa (111)   Solomon Islands (119)   Vanuatu (121)

Squads

Main article: 2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup squads

Match officials

On 12 July 2022, the OFC announced the list of match officials for the tournament. ^[7]

During the tournament, Veer Singh and Neeshil Varman (Fiji) were assigned as referees.

Referees

• Torika Delai
• Veer Singh
• Neeshil Varman
• Anna-Marie Keighley
• Beth Rattray
• Shama Maemae
• Delvin Joel

Assistant referees

• Adi Gadolo
• Jemima Rao
• Allys Clipsham
• Sarah Jones
• Heloise Simons
• Stephanie Minan
• Maria Salamasina
• Natalia Lumukana
• Vaihina Teura
• Lata Kaumatule
• Feliuaki Kolotau

Group stage

All match times are local (UTC+12). ^[8]

Group A

Main article: 2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Samoa	2	2	0	0	3	0	+3	6	Knockout stage
2	Cook Islands	2	0	1	1	1	2	−1	1
3	Tonga	2	0	1	1	1	3	−2	1

Source: OFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

13 July 2022 (2022-07-13)

19:00

Samoa	2–0	Tonga
Fischer 28' Stewart 70'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 100

Referee: Shama Maemae (Solomon Islands)

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16 July 2022 (2022-07-16)

19:00

Tonga	1–1	Cook Islands
Swift 73'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Davison 49'

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 100

Referee: Delvin Joel (Vanuatu)

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19 July 2022 (2022-07-19)

19:00

Cook Islands	0–1	Samoa
	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Stewart 14'

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 100

Referee: Shama Maemae (Solomon Islands)

Group B

Main article: 2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Papua New Guinea	2	2	0	0	5	2	+3	6	Knockout stage
2	Tahiti	2	0	1	1	1	2	−1	1
3	Vanuatu	2	0	1	1	1	3	−2	1

Source: OFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

14 July 2022 (2022-07-14)

16:00

Vanuatu	1–3	Papua New Guinea
Keletia 71'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Kaipu 34' Padio 76' Yanding 79'

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 865

Referee: Torika Delai (Fiji)

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17 July 2022 (2022-07-17)

16:00

Papua New Guinea	2–1	Tahiti
Padio 28' (pen.) Gunemba 83'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Tamarii 90' (pen.)

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 150

Referee: Shama Maemae (Solomon Islands)

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20 July 2022 (2022-07-20)

16:00

Tahiti	0–0	Vanuatu
	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 250

Referee: Torika Delai (Fiji)

Group C

Main article: 2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Fiji (H)	2	1	1	0	4	2	+2	4	Knockout stage
2	Solomon Islands	2	0	2	0	3	3	0	2
3	New Caledonia	2	0	1	1	3	5	−2	1

Source: OFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

14 July 2022 (2022-07-14)

19:00

Solomon Islands	1–1	Fiji
Pegi 37' (pen.)	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Kumar 22'

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 865

Referee: Anna-Marie Keighley (New Zealand)

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17 July 2022 (2022-07-17)

19:00

Fiji	3–1	New Caledonia
Hussein 4' Diyalowai 45', 56'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Pahoa 90+1' (pen.)

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 500

Referee: Anna-Marie Keighley (New Zealand)

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20 July 2022 (2022-07-20)

19:00

New Caledonia	2–2	Solomon Islands
Neporo 73', 79'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Gogoni 16' Maefiti 86'

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 500

Referee: Anna-Marie Keighley (New Zealand)

Ranking of third-placed teams

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	C	New Caledonia	2	0	1	1	3	5	−2	1	Knockout stage
2	A	Tonga	2	0	1	1	1	3	−2	1 [a]
3	B	Vanuatu	2	0	1	1	1	3	−2	1 [a]

Source: OFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Notes:

1. Fair play points: Tonga 0, Vanuatu –3

Knockout stage

Main article: 2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup knockout stage

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	23 July 2022 – Suva
	Samoa	4
					27 July 2022 – Suva
	New Caledonia	2
					Samoa	0
	23 July 2022 – Suva
					Papua New Guinea	3
	Papua New Guinea (p)	3 (3)
									30 July 2022 – Suva
	Tonga	3 (2)
									Papua New Guinea	2
	24 July 2022 – Suva
									Fiji	1
	Fiji	2
					27 July 2022 – Suva
	Cook Islands	0
					Fiji	3
	24 July 2022 – Suva
					Solomon Islands	1			Third place
	Tahiti	0
									30 July 2022 – Suva
	Solomon Islands	1
									Samoa	1 (5)
									Solomon Islands (p)	1 (6)

Quarter-finals

23 July 2022 (2022-07-23)

16:00

Samoa	4–2	New Caledonia
Fischer 35' Stewart 51', 83', 90+5'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Uregei 45', 90'

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 120 ^[9]

Referee: Torika Delai (Fiji)

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23 July 2022 (2022-07-23)

19:30

Papua New Guinea	3–3 (a.e.t.)	Tonga
Padio 63', 99' Gunemba 70'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	D. Vaka 29' Loto'aniu 44', 109'
Penalties
Bauelua Padio Gunemba Morris	3–2	Loto'aniu D. Vaka La'akulu L. Vaka Siale

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 200 ^[10]

Referee: Veer Singh (Fiji)

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24 July 2022 (2022-07-24)

16:00

Fiji	2–0	Cook Islands
Diyalowai 22' Tamanitoakula 74'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 400 ^[11]

Referee: Shama Maemae (Solomon Islands)

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24 July 2022 (2022-07-24)

19:30

Tahiti	0–1	Solomon Islands
	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Maefiti 38'

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 600 ^[12]

Referee: Neeshil Varman (Fiji)

Semi-finals

27 July 2022 (2022-07-27)

16:00

Samoa	0–3	Papua New Guinea
	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Yanding 44' Gunemba 48', 78'

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 1,250 ^[13]

Referee: Torika Delai (Fiji)

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27 July 2022 (2022-07-27)

19:30

Fiji	3–1	Solomon Islands
Nasau 14', 28' Tamanitoakula 83'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Pegi 11' (pen.)

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 1,250 ^[14]

Referee: Delvin Joel (Vanuatu)

Third place match

30 July 2022 (2022-07-30)

16:00

Samoa	1–1	Solomon Islands
Fischer 16'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	David 40'
Penalties
Soifua Lilii Moa Uluvili Tuatagaloa Fischer Stevens	5–6	Pegi Saepio Solo Nari Maefiti Joe

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 1,419 ^[15]

Referee: Torika Delai (Fiji)

Final

Main article: 2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup Final

The winner will advance to the inter-confederation playoffs.

30 July 2022 (2022-07-30)

19:00

Papua New Guinea	2–1	Fiji
Gunemba 17' Padio 28'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Nasau 42'

HFC Bank Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 1,591

Referee: Shama Maemae (Solomon Islands)

Goalscorers

There were 49 goals scored in 17 matches, for an average of 2.88 goals per match.

5 goals

• Meagen Gunemba
• Ramona Padio
• Jayda Stewart

3 goals

• Sofi Diyalowai
• Cema Nasau
• Monique Fischer

2 goals

• Luisa Tamanitoakula
• Jennifer Neporo
• Sarah Uregei
• Charlie Yanding
• Mary Maefiti
• Ileen Pegi
• Jazmine Loto'aniu

1 goal

• Lyric Davison
• Aliza Hussein
• Vanisha Kumar
• Jackie Pahoa
• Marie Kaipu
• Jemina David
• Almah Gogoni
• Tahia Tamarii
• Kiana Swift
• Daviana Vaka
• Vanessa Keletia

Awards

2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup winners
Papua New Guinea First title

Award	Winner
Golden Ball	Cema Nasau
Golden Boot	Meagen Gunemba Ramona Padio Jayda Stewart
Golden Glove	Camille Andre
Fair Play	Samoa

Qualified teams for FIFA Women's World Cup

The sole OFC direct berth for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup was given to New Zealand, who qualified automatically as co-hosts. ^[4]

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in FIFA Women's World Cup 1
New Zealand	25 June 2020	5 (1991, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019)

References

1. "OFC Women's Nations Cup set down for July in Fiji". Oceania Football Confederation. 29 April 2022.
2. "More calendar changes for 2021". Oceania Football Confederation. 16 December 2020.
3. "OFC confirms schedule changes". Oceania Football Confederation. 4 March 2021.
4. "Australia and New Zealand selected as hosts of FIFA Women's World Cup 2023". FIFA. 25 June 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
5. @OFCfootball (24 August 2018). "Article 31: Determination of the winner" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 25 August 2018. Retrieved 25 August 2018– via Twitter.
6. "Women's Ranking". FIFA. 17 June 2022. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
7. "Female officials take centre stage at Women's Nations Cup". Oceania Football Confederation. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
8. "OFC Women's Nations Cup 2022". OFC. 13 May 2022. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
9. "Samoa v New Caledonia". Oceania Football Confederation. 23 July 2022.
10. "Papua New Guinea v Tonga". Oceania Football Confederation. 23 July 2022.
11. "Fiji v Cook Islands". Oceania Football Confederation. 23 July 2022.
12. "Tahiti v Solomon Islands". Oceania Football Confederation. 23 July 2022.
13. "Samoa v Papua New Guinea". Oceania Football Confederation. 23 July 2022.
14. "Fiji v Solomon Islands". Oceania Football Confederation. 23 July 2022.
15. "Samoa v Solomon Islands". Oceania Football Confederation. 23 July 2022.

External links

• OFC Women's Nations Cup 2022, at Oceania Football Confederation