Papua New Guinea national football team

The papua new Guinean national football team is the selection team of Papua New Guinea Football Association - from the Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea. The Papua New Guinea Football Association is a member of the world football governing body FIFA and the regional association OFC. So far, the team could not qualify for a World Cup. At the OFC Nations Cup, she participated in 1980 and 2002.

Papua New Guinea at the World Cup

The selection of Papua New Guinea took part in a qualifying first time in 1998 for a World Cup. In the first round, the team met with the team from the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. With a win and a draw from two games went to Papua New Guinea in the second round. Although the first group match was won on May 31, 1997 compared with New Zealand 1-0, the national team finished at the end of the last place in the standings behind New Zealand and Fiji.

The qualification for the FIFA 2006 World Cup in Germany was less successful. Against the teams from Vanuatu, Fiji, Samoa and American Samoa reached Papua New Guinea two wins and a draw and thus left in third place.

Participation in World Cups

² The Oceania qualifiers was also considered South Pacific Games football tournament since Papua New Guinea did not participate, it is not qualified for the World Cup.

Participations in the OFC Nations Cup

Attendance at the South Pacific Games and Pacific

Papua New Guinea took until 2007 to participate in all sweeps, but could never win the title. 2015 Papua New Guinea once again host

Participations in the Melanesia Cup

Papua New Guinea has participated in five of the seven preceding editions and was able to win the title so far.