Papua New Guinea women's national football team
The Papua New Guinean national football team of women representing the independent island nation of Papua New Guinea in international women's football. The national team is under the Papua New Guinea Football Association -.
Papua New Guinea is a member of the world football governing body FIFA and the regional association OFC. So far, it's the team not been able to qualify for a World Cup. Also, could not be achieved the Ozeanienmeistertitel. Their first official match did they do at the Ozeanienmeisterschaft 1989, although that was actually planned already at the OFC Championship 1986. But the team was withdrawn shortly before the start of this tournament, so that the New Zealand national team sent two teams ( an A and B team ) in an OFC tournament.
Through the crossing of Australia for the AFC Papua Guinean team has become the second force in Oceania, but the distance from New Zealand is still great as the 0:11 showing defeat in the final of Ozeanienmeisterschaft 2010. Also in the qualification for the Olympic Games in London they met each other in the play - off games. With four wins against other oceanic teams to Papua New Guinea to qualify for these games and thereby place the first time in the top 50 of the FIFA world rankings in March 2012. In the play - off games against New Zealand, but showed again the performance difference. With 0:8 and 0:7, the games were lost.
World cup
- 2003: not qualified
- 2007: not qualified
- 2011: not qualified
Ozeanienmeisterschaft
Olympic games
- 2008: not qualified
- 2012: not qualified