Football at the 2015 Pacific Games – Women's tournament

2015 Pacific Games
women's football tournament
Tournament details
Host country	Papua New Guinea
City	Port Moresby
Dates	6–16 July 2015
Teams	7 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Papua New Guinea (4th title)
Runners-up	New Caledonia
Third place	Cook Islands
Fourth place	Samoa
Tournament statistics
Matches played	13
Goals scored	47 (3.62 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Christelle Wahnawe (10 goals)
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International football competition

The 2015 Pacific Games women's football tournament was the fourth edition of the Pacific Games women's football tournament. The women's football tournament was held in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea between 6–16 July 2015 as part of the 2015 Pacific Games. The tournament was open to full women's national teams (unlike the men's tournament, which was age-restricted).

The tournament also doubled as the first stage of the fourth edition of the OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the quadrennial international tournament organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) to determine which women's national teams from Oceania qualify for the Olympic football tournament.^[1]^[2] The highest-ranked team of this competition who is a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) advanced to the second stage against New Zealand, where the winner qualifies for the 2016 Summer Olympics women's football tournament.^[3]

Papua New Guinea won the gold medal for the fourth consecutive Pacific Games.

Teams

A total of seven teams participated in the tournament.^[4]

Team	Appearance	Previous best performance
Cook Islands	3rd	Group stage (2007, 2011)
Fiji	4th	Bronze medal (2007, 2011)
New Caledonia	3rd	Silver medal (2011)
Papua New Guinea (hosts)	4th	Gold medal (2003, 2007, 2011)
Samoa	2nd	Group stage (2007)
Solomon Islands	3rd	Group stage (2007, 2011)
Tonga	4th	Silver medal (2007)

New Caledonia are ineligible for the Olympics as they are not affiliated to the IOC. Had they won the tournament, the runner-up would advance to the second stage of the OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament.^[4]

Venues

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Port Moresby
Bisini Sports Complex	Sir Hubert Murray Stadium
9°28′18″S 147°12′03″E / 9.471732°S 147.200810°E / -9.471732; 147.200810 (Bisini Field)	9°27′59″S 147°09′24″E / 9.466323°S 147.156674°E / -9.466323; 147.156674 (Sir Hubert Murray Stadium)

Group stage

The draw was held on 1 June 2015 at the OFC Headquarters at Auckland.^[5] The seven teams were drawn into one group of four teams and one group of three teams.

The top two teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals.

All times UTC+10.^[6]

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	New Caledonia	3	2	1	0	16	3	+13	7	Knockout stage
2	Samoa	3	2	1	0	5	3	+2	7	Knockout stage
3	Tonga	3	1	0	2	2	7	−5	3
4	Solomon Islands	3	0	0	3	2	12	−10	0

Source: OFC

6 July 2015 (2015-07-06)

10:30

Solomon Islands	1–8	New Caledonia
Aihunu 67' (pen.)	Report	Wahnawe 6', 48', 68' Rabah 14' Xolawawa 39' (pen.) Maguire 73' Hace 80' Gatha 90+8'

Bisini Sports Complex, Port Moresby

Referee: Mel Knight (New Zealand)^[7]

6 July 2015 (2015-07-06)

12:45

Tonga	0–1	Samoa
	Report	Ioane 57'

Bisini Sports Complex, Port Moresby

Referee: Mairi Noni (Papua New Guinea)^[7]

8 July 2015 (2015-07-08)

12:45

Solomon Islands	0–2	Tonga
	Report	Soakai 58' Akolo 90+4'

Bisini Sports Complex, Port Moresby

Referee: Hillary Ani (Papua New Guinea)^[8]

8 July 2015 (2015-07-08)

15:00

New Caledonia	2–2	Samoa
Rabah 7' Wahnawe 48'	Report	Kapisi 2' Ioane 21'

Bisini Sports Complex, Port Moresby

Referee: Mel Knight (New Zealand)^[8]

11 July 2015 (2015-07-11)

10:30

New Caledonia	6–0	Tonga
Haocas 4' Wahnawe 21', 66', 72' Rabah 42' Kenon 45+1'	Report

Bisini Sports Complex, Port Moresby

Referee: Robinson Banga (Vanuatu)^[9]

11 July 2015 (2015-07-11)

12:45

Samoa	2–1	Solomon Islands
Malo 2' Peleti 44'	Report	Joe 45+1'

Bisini Sports Complex, Port Moresby

Referee: Mel Knight (New Zealand)^[9]

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Papua New Guinea (H)	2	2	0	0	7	1	+6	6	Knockout stage
2	Cook Islands	2	0	1	1	1	3	−2	1	Knockout stage
3	Fiji	2	0	1	1	2	6	−4	1

Source: OFC
(H) Hosts

6 July 2015 (2015-07-06)

15:00

Fiji	1–5	Papua New Guinea
Rao 90+1'	Report	M. Gunemba 30' (pen.), 45', 50' Padio 83' Rama 90+2'

Bisini Sports Complex, Port Moresby

Referee: Tapaita Lelenga (Tonga)^[7]

8 July 2015 (2015-07-08)

10:30

Fiji	1–1	Cook Islands
Diyalowai 67'	Report	L. Harmon 10'

Bisini Sports Complex, Port Moresby

Referee: Robinson Banga (Vanuatu)^[8]

11 July 2015 (2015-07-11)

15:00

Papua New Guinea	2–0	Cook Islands
M. Gunemba 31' Rama 72'	Report

Bisini Sports Complex, Port Moresby

Referee: George Time (Solomon Islands)^[9]

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Gold medal match

	13 July – Port Moresby

	New Caledonia	5
					16 July – Port Moresby
	Cook Islands	1
					New Caledonia	0
	13 July – Port Moresby
					Papua New Guinea	1
	Papua New Guinea	3

	Samoa	0
					Bronze medal match

					16 July – Port Moresby

					Cook Islands	2

					Samoa	0

Semi-finals

13 July 2015 (2015-07-13)

11:00

New Caledonia	5–1	Cook Islands
Wahnawe 10', 82', 84' Rabah 26' Haocas 31'	Report	L. Harmon 90+1'

Bisini Sports Complex, Port Moresby

Referee: Ichikawa Polovili (Tonga)^[10]

13 July 2015 (2015-07-13)

14:30

Papua New Guinea	3–0	Samoa
Kaikas 6' M. Gunemba 25' Padio 45+1'	Report

Bisini Sports Complex, Port Moresby

Referee: Gerald Oiaka (Solomon Islands)^[10]

Bronze medal match

16 July 2015 (2015-07-16)

15:00

Cook Islands	2–0	Samoa
Toka 41' Carr 54'	Report

Sir Hubert Murray Stadium, Port Moresby

Referee: Mel Knight (New Zealand)^[11]

Gold medal match

16 July 2015 (2015-07-16)

19:00

New Caledonia	0–1	Papua New Guinea
	Report	Kaipu 21'

Sir Hubert Murray Stadium, Port Moresby

Referee: George Time (Solomon Islands)^[11]

Papua New Guinea advanced to the second stage of the OFC Qualifying Tournament for the 2016 Summer Olympics; since New Caledonia are ineligible for the Olympics, Papua New Guinea would have advanced as the highest-ranked IOC member team regardless of the result.

Goalscorers

10 goals

Christelle Wahnawe

5 goals

Meagen Gunemba

4 goals

Myranda Rabah

2 goals

Liz Harmon
Marielle Haocas
Ramona Padio
Fatima Rama
Lusia Ioane

1 goal

Maeva Carr
Tepaeru Toka
Sofi Diyalowai
Sonali Rao
Sydney Gatha
Isabelle Hace
Brenda Kenon
Kim Maguire
Céline Xolawawa
Georgina Kaikas
Marie Kaipu
Kelsey Kapisi
Hana Malo
Hazel Peleti
Cathy Aihunu
Merina Joe
Mele Akolo
Mele Soakai

See also

Men's Football at the 2015 Pacific Games

References

^ "OFC Executive Committee decisions". Oceania Football Confederation. April 23, 2014. Archived from the original on September 13, 2016. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
^ "OFC Insider Issue 6". Oceania Football Confederation. March 11, 2015. p. 8.
^ "QUALIFICATION SYSTEM – GAMES OF THE XXXI OLYMPIAD – RIO 2016 – Football" (PDF). Rio 2016 Official Website. 23 April 2014. Archived from the original (pdf) on 6 September 2015. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
^ ^a ^b "OFC Olympic Qualifying schedule unveiled". OceaniaFootball.com. 1 June 2015. Archived from the original on 3 June 2015.
^ "Draw defines Road to Rio". Oceania Football Confederation. June 3, 2015. Archived from the original on June 3, 2015.
^ "XV Pacific Games - Papua New Guinea 2015 Match Schedule" (PDF). Oceania Football Confederation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-07-04.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Women's football fires up". oceaniafootball.com. 5 July 2015. Archived from the original on 6 July 2015. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Cook Islands enter the fold". oceaniafootball.com. 8 July 2015. Archived from the original on 10 July 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Victory essential for all". oceaniafootball.com. 11 July 2015. Archived from the original on 13 July 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Chase for final berth heats up". oceaniafootball.com. 13 July 2015. Archived from the original on 14 September 2015. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
^ ^a ^b "All in for the medal hunt". oceaniafootball.com. 16 July 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2015.

External links

Official 2015 Pacific Games website
XV Pacific Games Women's Tournament, Official OFC website

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Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Men's qualification
AFC	Qualification rounds U-23 Championship
CAF	Qualification rounds U-23 Cup of Nations
CONCACAF	Qualification rounds Olympic Qualifying Championship
CONMEBOL	U-20 Championship
OFC	Pacific Games
UEFA	Qualification rounds Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5 Group 6 Group 7 Group 8 Group 9 Group 10 Play-offs U-21 Championship
Play-off	CONCACAF v CONMEBOL

Women's qualification
AFC	Olympic Qualifying Tournament
CAF	Olympic Qualifying Tournament
CONCACAF	Qualification rounds Olympic Qualifying Championship
CONMEBOL	Copa América
OFC	Pacific Games Play-off
UEFA	Qualification rounds Preliminary round Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5 Group 6 Group 7 Play-offs World Cup Tournament for final berth

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