Papua New Guinea women's national under-17 soccer team

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Papua New Guinea Women's U-17
Nickname(s) Lakatois
(Motuan sailing vessel)
Association Papua New Guinea Football Association
Confederation OFC (Oceania)
Head coach Susan Watpore + Tracy Kig & Edna Thomas
Top scorer Belinda Giada (7)
Home stadium Hubert Murray Stadium
FIFA code PNG
First international
Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg  Papua New Guinea 4–0 Tonga  Flag of Tonga.svg
(Auckland, New Zealand; 12 April 2010)
Biggest win
Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg  Papua New Guinea 7–1 Vanuatu  Flag of Vanuatu.svg
(Matavera, Cook Islands; 14 January 2016)
Biggest defeat
Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg  Papua New Guinea 0–11 Samoa  Flag of Samoa.svg
(Auckland, New Zealand; 17 June 2024)
World Cup
Appearances0
OFC U-17 Women's Championship
Appearances3 (first in 2010 )
Best resultRunners-up (2012, 2016)

The Papua New Guinea women's national under-17 soccer team is the second highest women's youth team of women's soccer in Papua New Guinea and is controlled by the Papua New Guinea Football Association.

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History

Papua New Guinea have participated all three times so far in the OFC U-17 Women's Championship. They managed to get a second spot twice, in 2012 and in 2016. In the first tournament, in 2010, they became third. Georgina Kaikas scored Papua New Guinea's first ever goal in the tournament. She did this on April 12, 2010 in a 4–0 victory against Tonga women's national under-17 football team. She managed to score four goals in total. However, with this number she is not the top goal scorer of the country cause in 2016 Belinda Giada scored seven goals.

OFC

The OFC Women's Under 17 Qualifying Tournament is a tournament held once every two years to decide the only qualification spot for Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) and representatives at the FIFA U-17 World Cup.

OFC U-17 Women's Championship
YearRound Pld W D L GF GA
Flag of New Zealand.svg 2010 Third Place3102410
Flag of New Zealand.svg 2012 Runners-up3201411
Flag of the Cook Islands.svg 2016 Runners-up53111313
Flag of Samoa.svg 2017 Withdrew
Flag of French Polynesia.svg 2023
Flag of Fiji.svg 2024 Did not qualify
Total3/6116142134

Current technical staff

Position
Head Coach Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg Susan Watpore
Assistant Coach Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg Tracy Kig
Assistant Coach Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg Edna Thomas
Team Manager Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg Maggie Taligatus

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