Founded | 2002 |
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Region | Oceania (OFC) |
Number of teams | Various |
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Most successful team(s) | |
The OFC U-20 Women's Championship (previously the 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 Confederation (OFC) representative at the FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship. [1]
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of eleven players. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing goal.
The Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) is one of the six continental confederations of international association football, consisting of New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Tonga, and other Pacific Island countries. It promotes the game in Oceania and allows the member nations to qualify for the FIFA World Cup.
Until 2006 it was an under 19 tournament. The most recent edition for 1 to 15 July 2017 was again an U-19 tournament, [2] and the tournament was called the OFC U-19 Women's Championship.
There was no 2008 edition.
Year | Host | Final | Third Place Match | ||||||
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Champion | Score | Second Place | Third Place | Score | Fourth Place | ||||
2002 [3] details | Nukuʻalofa, Tonga | Australia | 6 – 0 | New Zealand | Tonga | 2 – 0 | Samoa | ||
2004 [4] details | Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea | Australia | RR | Papua New Guinea | Solomon Islands | RR | — | ||
2006 [5] details | Apia, Samoa | New Zealand | 6 – 0 | Tonga | Papua New Guinea | 4 – 1 | Samoa | ||
2010 [6] details | Auckland, New Zealand | New Zealand | RR | Cook Islands | Tonga | RR | American Samoa | ||
2012 details | Auckland, New Zealand | New Zealand | RR | Papua New Guinea | New Caledonia | RR | Samoa | ||
2014 details | Auckland, New Zealand | New Zealand | RR | Papua New Guinea | Tonga | RR | Vanuatu | ||
2015 details | Nuku’alofa, Tonga | New Zealand | RR | Samoa | Vanuatu | RR | New Caledonia | ||
2017 details | Auckland, New Zealand | New Zealand | RR | Fiji | Papua New Guinea | RR | New Caledonia |
Team | 2002 | 2004 | 2006 | 2008 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016 | 2018 | Total |
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QF | QF | AFC member | 2 | |||||||
GS | GS | GS | GS | QF | GS | qualified | 6 | |||
GS | 1 |
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