2002 OFC Women's Under 19 Qualifying Tournament

The 2002 OFC Women's Under 19 Qualifying Tournament was the inaugural edition of what would later be known as the OFC U-20 Women's Championship, a biennial international football competition for women's under-20 national teams organised by Oceania Football Confederation. It was hosted by Tonga from 23 April–3 May 2002.

2002 OFC Women's Under 19 Qualifying Tournament
Tournament details
Host country Tonga
Dates23 April–3 May 2002
Teams7 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Australia (1st title)
Runners-up New Zealand
Third place Tonga
Fourth place Samoa
Tournament statistics
Matches played13
Goals scored91 (7 per match)
Top scorer(s) Amber Hearn (10 goals)

Players born on or after 1 January 1983 were eligible to participate in the competition.

In the final, Australia defeated New Zealand 6–0.

By winning the tournament, Australia also qualified for the 2002 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship, the inaugural FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, in Canada.

Qualification

All members of the Oceania Football Confederation qualified automatically, however, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu withdrew before the tournament began.[1]

Participating teams

The following teams participated in the 2006 OFC U-20 Women's Championship tournament:

Country
 American Samoa
 Australia
 Cook Islands
 Fiji
 New Zealand
 Samoa
 Tonga

Group stage

Group A
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Group stage result
1  New Zealand 3 3 0 0 20 0 +20 9 Advance to knockout stage
2  Samoa 3 1 1 1 4 13 −9 4
3  American Samoa 3 0 2 1 2 4 −2 2
4  Fiji 3 0 1 2 1 10 −9 1
Source: RSSSF
American Samoa 0–0 Fiji
Report
New Zealand 10–0 Samoa
Clapham
Hearn
Meo
Duncan
Yallop
Ray 		Report
New Zealand 2–0 American Samoa
Duncan
Hearn 		Report
Samoa 2–1 Fiji
Report
New Zealand 8–0 Fiji
Duncan
Hearn
McColl
Ray
Thompson 		Report
Samoa 2–2 American Samoa
Report

Group B
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Group stage result
1  Australia 2 2 0 0 26 0 +26 6 Advance to knockout stage
2  Tonga (H) 2 0 1 1 1 12 −11 1
3  Cook Islands 2 0 1 1 1 16 −15 1
Source: RSSSF
(H) Host.
Tonga 0–11 Australia
Report Crawford  5'
McCallum  19', 88'
Davison  22'
Munoz  28'
Kuralay  44', 50', 67'
Slatyer  51'
Neilson  63'
Stocco  75'
Cook Islands 0–15 Australia
Report Gill  7', 10'
Cannuli  20', 34', 45', 72'
Davison  22'
Mitchell  28'
McShea  37', 62'
Slatyer  64'
Canham  74', 89'
Kuralay  82'
Harch  90'
Cook Islands 1–1 Tonga
Report

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary.

Bracket
 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
1 May
 
 
 New Zealand 15
 
3 May
 
 Tonga 0
 
 New Zealand 0
 
1 May
 
 Australia 6
 
 Australia 13
 
 
 Samoa 0
 
Third place
 
 
3 May
 
 
 Tonga 2
 
 
 Samoa 0

Semi-finals
New Zealand 15–0 Tonga
Hearn
Clapham
Thompson
Duncan
Meo
McColl
Yallop 		Report
Australia 13–0 Samoa
Davison  2'
McCallum  3'
Crawford  11', 14', 42'
Harch  19'
Kuralay  37', 58', 64', 70', 84'
Cannuli  74'
Gill  77'		 Report

Third Place Match
Samoa 0–2 Tonga
Report

Final
Australia 6–0 New Zealand
Munoz  30', 70'
McCallum  36'
Crawford  56'
Davison  61', 78'		 Report

Top goalscorers
10 goals
9 goals
6 goals
5 goals

References
  1. Zlotkowski, Andre (17 April 2014). "OFC Under 19 Women's Qualifying Tournament 2002". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
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