2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup

The 2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup, and they do it every four years. Different countries from Oceania took part in this tournament. It was the 9th time they had this competition. Originally, they were going to play the matches in July and August 2022. But they had to change the dates to January and February because of some schedule changes by the FIFA Women's International Match Calendar. Also, they had to move it because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, they decided to have the tournament in Fiji from 13th to 30th July 2022.^[2][1][3]

2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Fiji
City	Suva
Dates	13–30 July[1]
Teams	9 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Papua New Guinea (1st title)
Runners-up	Fiji
Third place	Solomon Islands
Fourth place	Samoa
Tournament statistics
Matches played	17
Goals scored	49 (2.88 per match)
Attendance	10,260 (604 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Meagen Gunemba Ramona Padio Jayda Stewart (5 goals each)
Best player(s)	Cema Nasau
Best goalkeeper	Camille Andre
Fair play award	Samoa
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This tournament was a way for teams in Oceania to try to qualify for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup which was to take place in Australia and New Zealand. However, New Zealand, one of the countries in Oceania, didn't have to compete because they were hosting the World Cup, so they were automatically in.^[4]

The team from Papua New Guinea won this special tournament and became the champions. It was the first time they won the OFC Women's Nations Cup.

Teams

Team	Appearance	Previous best performance	FIFA rankingat start of event[5]
Cook Islands	5th	Third place (2010, 2014)	102
Fiji (H)	5th	Runners-up (2018)	69
New Caledonia	3rd	Third place (1983)	100
Papua New Guinea	10th	Runners-up (2007, 2010, 2014)	49
Samoa	4th	Fourth place (2003)	109
Solomon Islands	3rd	Fourth place (2007, 2010)	120
Tahiti	3rd	Group stage (2010, 2018)	104
Tonga	5th	Third place (2007)	92
Vanuatu	2nd	Group stage (2010)	121

Venue

All the games where played in one place called the ANZ Stadium. This stadium is on an island called Viti Levu, in a town called Suva.

Suva	Suva
	ANZ Stadium
	Capacity: 4,300

Draw

On 10th May, they had an event to decide which teams will play against each other in the first part of the competition. They put the teams into different groups. This was based on how well the FIFA rankings of 25 March.^[6]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3
Papua New Guinea (49)  Fiji (67)  Tonga (92)	New Caledonia (99)  Cook Islands (104)  Tahiti (105)	Samoa (111)  Solomon Islands (119)  Vanuatu (121)

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Samoa	2	2	0	0	3	0	+3	6	Knockout stage
2	Cook Islands	2	0	1	1	1	2	−1	1
3	Tonga	2	0	1	1	1	3	−2	1

Source: OFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Matches

Samoa vs Tonga

Samoa	2–0	Tonga
Fischer  28' Stewart  70'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)

13 July 2022 (2022-07-13)

19:00

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 100

Referee: Shama Maemae (Solomon Islands)

Tonga vs Cook Islands

Tonga	1–1	Cook Islands
Swift  73'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Davison  49'

16 July 2022 (2022-07-16)

19:00

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 100

Referee: Delvin Joel (Vanuatu)

Cook Islands vs Samoa

Cook Islands	0–1	Samoa
	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Stewart  14'

19 July 2022 (2022-07-19)

19:00

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 100

Referee: Shama Maemae (Solomon Islands)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Papua New Guinea	2	2	0	0	5	2	+3	6	Knockout stage
2	Tahiti	2	0	1	1	1	2	−1	1
3	Vanuatu	2	0	1	1	1	3	−2	1

Source: OFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Matches

Vanuatu vs Papua New Guinea

Vanuatu	1–3	Papua New Guinea
Keletia  71'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Kaipu  34' Padio  76' Yanding  79'

14 July 2022 (2022-07-14)

16:00

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 865

Referee: Torika Delai (Fiji)

Papua New Guinea vs Tahiti

Papua New Guinea	2–1	Tahiti
Padio  28' (pen.) Gunemba  83'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Tamarii  90' (pen.)

17 July 2022 (2022-07-17)

16:00

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 150

Referee: Shama Maemae (Solomon Islands)

Tahiti vs Vanuatu

Tahiti	0–0	Vanuatu
	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)

20 July 2022 (2022-07-20)

16:00

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 250

Referee: Torika Delai (Fiji)

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Fiji (H)	2	1	1	0	4	2	+2	4	Knockout stage
2	Solomon Islands	2	0	2	0	3	3	0	2
3	New Caledonia	2	0	1	1	3	5	−2	1

Source: OFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Host

Matches

Solomon Islands vs Fiji

Solomon Islands	1–1	Fiji
Pegi  37' (pen.)	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Kumar  22'

14 July 2022 (2022-07-14)

19:00

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 865

Referee: Anna-Marie Keighley (New Zealand)

Fiji vs New Caledonia

Fiji	3–1	New Caledonia
Hussein  4' Diyalowai  45', 56'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Pahoa  90+1' (pen.)

17 July 2022 (2022-07-17)

19:00

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 500

Referee: Anna-Marie Keighley (New Zealand)

New Caledonia vs Solomon Islands

New Caledonia	2–2	Solomon Islands
Neporo  73', 79'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Gogoni  16' Maefiti  86'

20 July 2022 (2022-07-20)

19:00

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 500

Referee: Anna-Marie Keighley (New Zealand)

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	23 July 2022 – Suva
	Samoa	4
					27 July 2022 – Suva
	New Caledonia	2
					Samoa	0
	23 July 2022 – Suva
					Papua New Guinea	3
	Papua New Guinea (p)	3 (3)
									30 July 2022 – Suva
	Tonga	3 (2)
									Papua New Guinea	2
	24 July 2022 – Suva
									Fiji	1
	Fiji	2
					27 July 2022 – Suva
	Cook Islands	0
					Fiji	3
	24 July 2022 – Suva
					Solomon Islands	1			Third place
	Tahiti	0
									30 July 2022 – Suva
	Solomon Islands	1
									Samoa	1 (5)
									Solomon Islands (p)	1 (6)

Quarter-finals

Samoa vs New Caledonia

Samoa	4–2	New Caledonia
Fischer  35' Stewart  51', 83', 90+5'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Uregei  45', 90'

23 July 2022 (2022-07-23)

16:00

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 120^[7]

Referee: Torika Delai (Fiji)

Papua New Guinea vs Tonga

Papua New Guinea	3–3 (a.e.t.)	Tonga
Padio  63', 99' Gunemba  70'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	D. Vaka  29' Loto'aniu  44', 109'
Penalties
Bauelua Padio Gunemba Morris	3–2	Loto'aniu D. Vaka La'akulu L. Vaka Siale

23 July 2022 (2022-07-23)

19:30

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 200^[8]

Referee: Veer Singh (Fiji)

Fiji vs Cook Islands

Fiji	2–0	Cook Islands
Diyalowai  22' Tamanitoakula  74'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)

24 July 2022 (2022-07-24)

16:00

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 400^[9]

Referee: Shama Maemae (Solomon Islands)

Tahiti vs Solomon Islands

Tahiti	0–1	Solomon Islands
	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Maefiti  38'

24 July 2022 (2022-07-24)

19:30

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 600^[10]

Referee: Neeshil Varman (Fiji)

Semi-finals

Samoa vs Papua New Guinea

Samoa	0–3	Papua New Guinea
	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Yanding  44' Gunemba  48', 78'

27 July 2022 (2022-07-27)

16:00

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 1,250^[11]

Referee: Torika Delai (Fiji)

Fiji vs Solomon Islands

Fiji	3–1	Solomon Islands
Nasau  14', 28' Tamanitoakula  83'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Pegi  11' (pen.)

27 July 2022 (2022-07-27)

19:30

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 1,250^[12]

Referee: Delvin Joel (Vanuatu)

Third place match

Samoa	1–1	Solomon Islands
Fischer  16'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	David  40'
Penalties
Soifua Lilii Moa Uluvili Tuatagaloa Fischer Stevens	5–6	Pegi Saepio Solo Nari Maefiti Joe

30 July 2022 (2022-07-30)

16:00

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 1,419^[13]

Referee: Torika Delai (Fiji)

Final

Papua New Guinea	2–1	Fiji
Gunemba  17' Padio  28'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Nasau  42'

30 July 2022 (2022-07-30)

19:00

HFC Bank Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 1,591

Referee: Shama Maemae (Solomon Islands)

Goalscorers

There were 49 goals scored in 17 matches, for an average of 2.88 goals per match.

5 goals

• Meagen Gunemba
• Ramona Padio
• Jayda Stewart

3 goals

• Sofi Diyalowai
• Cema Nasau
• Monique Fischer

2 goals

• Luisa Tamanitoakula
• Jennifer Neporo
• Sarah Uregei
• Charlie Yanding
• Mary Maefiti
• Ileen Pegi
• Jazmine Loto'aniu

1 goal

• Lyric Davison
• Aliza Hussein
• Vanisha Kumar
• Jackie Pahoa
• Marie Kaipu
• Jemina David
• Almah Gogoni
• Tahia Tamarii
• Kiana Swift
• Daviana Vaka
• Vanessa Keletia

Awards

2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup winners
Papua New Guinea First title

Award	Winner
Golden Ball	Cema Nasau
Golden Boot	Meagen Gunemba Ramona Padio Jayda Stewart
Golden Glove	Camille Andre
Fair Play	Samoa

Qualified teams for FIFA Women's World Cup

Only New Zealand got a spot to play in the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup because they are hosting the tournament together Australia. They didn't have to qualify like the other teams.^[14]

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in FIFA Women's World Cup1
New Zealand	25 June 2020	5 (1991, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019)

References

1. "OFC Women's Nations Cup set down for July in Fiji". Oceania Football Confederation. 29 April 2022.
2. "More calendar changes for 2021". Oceania Football Confederation. 16 December 2020.
3. "OFC confirms schedule changes". Oceania Football Confederation. 4 March 2021.
4. "Australia and New Zealand selected as hosts of FIFA Women's World Cup 2023". FIFA. 25 June 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
5. "Women's Ranking". FIFA. 17 June 2022. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
7. "Samoa v New Caledonia". Oceania Football Confederation. 23 July 2022.
8. "Papua New Guinea v Tonga". Oceania Football Confederation. 23 July 2022.
9. "Fiji v Cook Islands". Oceania Football Confederation. 23 July 2022.
10. "Tahiti v Solomon Islands". Oceania Football Confederation. 23 July 2022.
11. "Samoa v Papua New Guinea". Oceania Football Confederation. 23 July 2022.
12. "Fiji v Solomon Islands". Oceania Football Confederation. 23 July 2022.
13. "Samoa v Solomon Islands". Oceania Football Confederation. 23 July 2022.