Type: | women |
Papua New Guinea Women's U-17 | |
Nickname: | Lakatois (Motuan sailing vessel) |
Association: | Papua New Guinea Football Association |
Confederation: | OFC (Oceania) |
Coach: | Susan Watpore + Tracy Kig & Edna Thomas |
Top Scorer: | Belinda Giada (7) |
Home Stadium: | Hubert Murray Stadium |
Fifa Trigramme: | PNG |
First Game: | 4–0 (Auckland, New Zealand; 12 April 2010) |
Largest Win: | 7–1 (Matavera, Cook Islands; 14 January 2016) |
Largest Loss: | 0–11 (Auckland, New Zealand; 17 June 2024) |
World Cup Apps: | 0 |
Regional Name: | OFC U-17 Women's Championship |
Regional Cup Apps: | 3 |
Regional Cup First: | 2010 |
Regional Cup Best: | Runners-up (2012, 2016) |
The Papua New Guinea women's national under-17 soccer team is the second highest women's youth team of women's soccer in Papua New Guinea and is controlled by the Papua New Guinea Football Association.
Papua New Guinea have participated all three times so far in the OFC U-17 Women's Championship. They managed to get a second spot twice, in 2012 and in 2016. In the first tournament, in 2010, they became third. Georgina Kaikas scored Papua New Guinea's first ever goal in the tournament. She did this on April 12, 2010 in a 4–0 victory against Tonga women's national under-17 football team. She managed to score four goals in total. However, with this number she is not the top goal scorer of the country cause in 2016 Belinda Giada scored seven goals.
The OFC Women's Under 17 Qualifying Tournament is a tournament held once every two years to decide the only qualification spot for Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) and representatives at the FIFA U-17 World Cup.
OFC U-17 Women's Championship | |||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
width=80 | Year | width=100 | Round | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | ||||||
2010 | Third Place | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 10 | ||||||||
2012 | Runners-up | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 11 | ||||||||
2016 | Runners-up | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 13 | ||||||||
2017 | Withdrew | ||||||||||||||
2023 | |||||||||||||||
2024 | Did not qualify | ||||||||||||||
Total | 3/6 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 21 | 34 | ||||||||
Position | ||
---|---|---|
Head Coach | Susan Watpore | |
Assistant Coach | Tracy Kig | |
Assistant Coach | Edna Thomas | |
Team Manager | Maggie Taligatus |