New Zealand women's national under-17 football team
national association football team
The New Zealand women's national under-17 football team is a national association football youth team of New Zealand is controlled by New Zealand Football. They have qualified to every FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup and their best placing was third in 2018.
| Nickname(s) | Young Football Ferns | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Association | New Zealand Football | ||
| Confederation | OFC (Oceania) | ||
| Head coach | Leon Birnie | ||
| Captain | TBD | ||
| FIFA code | NZL | ||
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| First international | |||
 Australia 4–0 New Zealand  (Auckland, New Zealand; 8 December 2007)[1] | |||
| Biggest win | |||
 Tonga 0–18 New Zealand (Auckland, New Zealand; 16 April 2010) | |||
| Biggest defeat | |||
New Zealand 0–6 Japan  (Scarborough, Trinidad and Tobago; 13 September 2010) | |||
| OFC U-17 Women's Championship | |||
| Appearances | 4 (first in 2010) | ||
| Best result | Champions (2010, 2012, 2016, 2017) | ||
| FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup | |||
| Appearances | 6 (first in 2008) | ||
| Best result | Third place (2018) | ||
Competitive record change
OFC U-17 Women's Championship change
The OFC Under 17 Women's Championship is a tournament held once every two years to decide the only two qualification spots for the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) and its representatives at the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. Since 2017 it has been renamed as the OFC U-16 Women's Championship and held in the year preceding the U-17 World Cup.[2]
| OFC U-17 Women's Championship | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Host | Round | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
| 2010 | New Zealand |
Champions | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 0 | +37 | 9 | |
| 2012 | New Zealand |
Champions | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 1 | +28 | 9 | |
| 2016 |  Cook Islands |
Champions | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 0 | +55 | 15 | |
| OFC U-16 Women's Championship | |||||||||||
| Year | Host | Round | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
| 2017 |  Samoa |
Champions | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 1 | +46 | 15 | |
| 2020 |  Tahiti |
Cancelled due to COVID-19 | |||||||||
| 2022 | Tahiti |
New Zealand nominated by OFC[3] | |||||||||
| Total | 4 titles | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 168 | 2 | +166 | 48 | ||
FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup change
| FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Host | Round | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Squad |
| 2008 | New Zealand |
Group Stage | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | Squad |
| 2010 |  Trinidad and Tobago |
Group Stage | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 11 | −9 | 0 | Squad |
| 2012 |  Azerbaijan |
Group Stage | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | −5 | 0 | Squad |
| 2014 |  Costa Rica |
Group Stage | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | −6 | 1 | Squad |
| 2016 |  Jordan |
Group Stage | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | –2 | 3 | Squad |
| 2018 |  Uruguay |
Third place | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | –1 | 10 | Squad |
| 2020 |  India |
Cancelled due to COVID-19 | |||||||||
| 2022 | India |
Qualified | |||||||||
| Total | Third place | 21 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 21 | 44 | −23 | 17 | – | |
References change
- ↑ "Young Ferns".
- ↑ "Oceanian Women U-16/U-17 Championship". RSSSF. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
- ↑ "OFC competitions schedule update for 2022". oceaniafootball.com. Oceania Football Confederation. 15 July 2022.
