2002 OFC Women's Under 19 Qualifying Tournament

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2002 OFC Women's Under 19 Qualifying Tournament
Tournament details
Host country Tonga
Dates23 April–3 May 2002
Teams7 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Australia (1st title)
Runners-up New Zealand
Third place Tonga
Fourth place Samoa
Tournament statistics
Matches played13
Goals scored91 (7 per match)
Top scorer(s)New Zealand Amber Hearn (10 goals)
2004

The 2002 OFC Women's Under 19 Qualifying Tournament was the inaugural edition of what would later be known as the OFC U-20 Women's Championship, a biennial international football competition for women's under-20 national teams organised by Oceania Football Confederation. It was hosted by Tonga from 23 April–3 May 2002.

Players born on or after 1 January 1983 were eligible to participate in the competition.

In the final, Australia defeated New Zealand 6–0.

By winning the tournament, Australia also qualified for the 2002 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship, the inaugural FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, in Canada.

Qualification[]

All members of the Oceania Football Confederation qualified automatically, however, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu withdrew before the tournament began.[1]

Participating teams[]

The following teams participated in the 2006 OFC U-20 Women's Championship tournament:

Country
 American Samoa
 Australia
 Cook Islands
 Fiji
 New Zealand
 Samoa
 Tonga

Group stage[]

Group A[]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Group stage result
1  New Zealand 3 3 0 0 20 0 +20 9 Advance to knockout stage
2  Samoa 3 1 1 1 4 13 −9 4
3  American Samoa 3 0 2 1 2 4 −2 2
4  Fiji 3 0 1 2 1 10 −9 1
Source: RSSSF
American Samoa 0–0 Fiji
Report
New Zealand 10–0 Samoa
Clapham GoalGoalGoal
Hearn GoalGoal
Meo GoalGoal
Duncan Goal
Yallop Goal
Ray Goal
Report

Samoa 2–1 Fiji
Report

Samoa 2–2 American Samoa
Report

Group B[]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Group stage result
1  Australia 2 2 0 0 26 0 +26 6 Advance to knockout stage
2  Tonga (H) 2 0 1 1 1 12 −11 1
3  Cook Islands 2 0 1 1 1 16 −15 1
Source: RSSSF
(H) Host
Tonga 0–11 Australia
Report Crawford Goal 5'
McCallum Goal 19', 88'
Goal 22'
Munoz Goal 28'
Kuralay Goal 44', 50', 67'
Goal 51'
Neilson Goal 63'
Goal 75'

Cook Islands 0–15 Australia
Report Gill Goal 7', 10'
Cannuli Goal 20', 34', 45', 72'
Goal 22'
Goal 28'
McShea Goal 37', 62'
Slatyer Goal 64'
Goal 74', 89'
Kuralay Goal 82'
Harch Goal 90'

Cook Islands 1–1 Tonga
Report

Knockout stage[]

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary.

Bracket[]

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
1 May
 
 
 New Zealand 15
 
3 May
 
 Tonga 0
 
 New Zealand 0
 
1 May
 
 Australia 6
 
 Australia 13
 
 
 Samoa 0
 
Third place
 
 
3 May
 
 
 Tonga 2
 
 
 Samoa 0

Semi-finals[]


Australia 13–0 Samoa
Goal 2'
McCallum Goal 3'
Crawford Goal 11', 14', 42'
Harch Goal 19'
Kuralay Goal 37', 58', 64', 70', 84'
Cannuli Goal 74'
Gill Goal 77'
Report

Third Place Match[]

Samoa 0–2 Tonga
Report

Final[]

Australia 6–0 New Zealand
Munoz Goal 30', 70'
McCallum Goal 36'
Crawford Goal 56'
Goal 61', 78'
Report

Top goalscorers[]

10 goals
9 goals
6 goals
5 goals

References[]

  1. ^ Zlotkowski, Andre (17 April 2014). "OFC Under 19 Women's Qualifying Tournament 2002". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 24 September 2017.

External links[]

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