2024 Women's Olympic Football Tournament – Oceania Qualifier

2024 OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
Tournament details
Host country Samoa
CityApia
Dates7–19 February 2024
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions New Zealand (4th title)
Runners-up Solomon Islands
Tournament statistics
Matches played15
Goals scored82 (5.47 per match)
Attendance1,050 (70 per match)
Top scorer(s)Papua New Guinea Marie Kaipu
New Zealand Grace Jale
(7 goals each)
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The 2024 OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament was the 5th edition of the OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the quadrennial international football competition organized by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) to determine which women's national team from Oceania qualify for the Olympic football tournament. The tournament consisted of eight teams and was played between 7 and 19 February.[1]

The winners of the tournament, New Zealand, qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics women's football tournament in France as the OFC representative.

Teams

The draw for the tournament was held on 23 November 2023.[1] The eight teams who entered qualification were ranked according to the August 2023 FIFA Women's World Ranking, with the top two nations allocated to Pot A, the next four teams to Pot B, and the final two teams to Pot C. Teams were drawn from Pot C to the fourth position in groups A and B, respectively. Then teams were drawn from Pot B into the third position in each group, then the second position in each group. Finally, the teams in Pot A were drawn into the first position in each group.[2]

From the August 2023 FIFA Women's World Ranking[3]
Pot A Pot B Pot C
  1.  Fiji (71)
  2.  Tonga (92)
  3.  Samoa (97)
  4.  Solomon Islands (104)
  1.  Vanuatu (122)
  2.  American Samoa (NR)
Did not enter

Venue

All matches were played at the FFS Football Stadium across two fields.

2024 OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament venue
Apia
FFS Football Stadium
Capacity: 3,500

Group stage

All match times are UTC+13.

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Solomon Islands 3 2 1 0 11 3 +8 7 Knockout stage
2  Fiji 3 2 0 1 15 6 +9 6
3  Papua New Guinea 3 1 1 1 13 5 +8 4
4  American Samoa 3 0 0 3 1 26 −25 0
Source: OFC
Fiji 10–0 American Samoa
 Report
Attendance: 250
Papua New Guinea 1–1 Solomon Islands
 Report
Attendance: 100
American Samoa 1–7 Solomon Islands
 Report
Attendance: 100
Papua New Guinea 3–4 Fiji
 Report
Attendance: 100
American Samoa 0–9 Papua New Guinea
Report
Solomon Islands 3–1 Fiji
 Report
Attendance: 100

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  New Zealand 3 3 0 0 14 0 +14 9 Knockout stage
2  Samoa (H) 3 2 0 1 3 6 −3 6
3  Tonga 3 1 0 2 2 6 −4 3
4  Vanuatu 3 0 0 3 1 8 −7 0
Source: OFC
(H) Hosts
New Zealand 3–0 Tonga
 Report
Samoa 1–0 Vanuatu
 Report
Referee: Torika Delai (Fiji)
Vanuatu 1–2 Tonga
 Report
New Zealand 6–0 Samoa
 Report
Tonga 0–2 Samoa
Report
Attendance: 500
Vanuatu 0–5 New Zealand
Report

Final round

Bracket

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
16 February 2024 – Apia
 
 
 Solomon Islands2
 
19 February 2024 – Apia
 
 Samoa0
 
 Solomon Islands1
 
16 February 2024 – Apia
 
 New Zealand11
 
 New Zealand7
 
 
 Fiji1
 

Semi-finals

Solomon Islands 2–0 Samoa
 Report
New Zealand 7–1 Fiji
 Report Nasau 90+3'

Final

Solomon Islands 1–11 New Zealand
 Report

Player of the Match:
Indiah-Paige Riley (New Zealand)

Assistant referees:
Lata Kaumatule (Tonga)
Vaihina Teura (Tahiti)
Fourth official:
Mederic Lacour (New Caledonia)
Fifth official:
Jeremy Garae (Vanuatu)

Qualified teams for the 2024 Summer Olympics

The following team from OFC qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympic women's football tournament in France.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in Summer Olympics
 New Zealand February 19, 2024 4 (2008, 2012, 2016, 2020)


Goalscorers

There were 82 goals scored in 15 matches, for an average of 5.47 goals per match.

7 goals

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Awards

Team of the tournament[4]
Goalkeeper Samoa Xeyana Salaona
Defenders New Zealand Rebekah Stott Samoa Sasjah Dade Solomon Islands Lisa Solo
Midfielders New Zealand Indiah-Paige Riley New Zealand Kate Taylor Fiji Cema Nasau Fiji Adi Litia Bakaniceva
Forwards New Zealand Grace Jale Solomon Islands Lorina Solosaia Solomon Islands Ileen Pegi


Broadcasting

On 7 February 2024, the opening day of the tournament, Oceania Football Confederation announced that all the matches will be streamed live on FIFA+.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ a b New Caledonia and Tahiti are not members of the IOC, thus would be ineligible to compete in the Olympics regardless of results

References

  1. ^ a b "Draw Confirmed For Women's Olympic Football Tournament – Oceania Qualifier". Oceania Football. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  2. ^ "Draw for the Women's Olympic Football Tournament - Oceania Qualifier". Oceania Football Confederation. 23 November 2023. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  3. ^ "Women's Ranking". FIFA. 25 August 2023. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  4. ^ "Congratulations to those players selected for the Women's Olympic Football Tournament - Oceania Qualifier Team of the Tournament, as chosen by the OFC Technical Study Group". [Oceania Football Confederation. 21 February 2024. Retrieved 21 February 2024 – via Instagram.
  5. ^ "HOW TO WATCH: WOMEN'S OLYMPIC FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT – OCEANIA QUALIFIER". Oceania Football Confederation. 7 February 2024. Retrieved 7 February 2024.

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