Malaita-native Laydah Samani made her debut with the Solomon Islands national team as a 16-year-old at the OFC Women’s Championship in 2007. Her call-up came on the back of earning…
FIFA, Women's Football
OFC are ALL IN with their first women’s football strategy
Jul 15, 2021, 8:28 PM 0
The Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) has launched its first strategic plan dedicated to women’s football. The ALL IN: OFC Women’s Football Strategy 2027 aims to increase the development, growth, sustainability,…
Twenty-two players gathered in Vava’u last week for an internal workshop ahead of Tonga’s national women’s team naming. Trials for the national team started in April as part of the…
New Zealand Football, Women's Football
Sharpe’s iconic assist for New Zealand’s Football Ferns
May 25, 2021, 11:41 AM 0
If you Google New Zealand’s squad from the 1991 FIFA Women’s World Cup, you may wonder why prolific goal-scorer Wendy Sharpe’s name is absent. Six months prior to the inaugural…
Coaching, Football Development, PNGFA, Women's Football
Wadunah changing mindsets through coaching
May 20, 2021, 12:51 PM 0
It’s rare to see a Papua New Guinean woman instructing 11 men on the sidelines of a football match but Rachel Wadunah is proving that it’s possible. Wadunah said words…
Tahiti’s U-19 national women’s team came together for six days last month to officially launch a senior women’s league on Raiatea Island. Known as Hine Taure’a, the youth team travelled…
Cook Islands, Football Development, Women's Football
Cook Islands festivals a hit including first-ever women’s event ‘She Shines’
May 4, 2021, 11:32 AM 0
Boys and girls of all ages and abilities combined for the inaugural ‘She Shines’ festival at the Cook Islands Football Association Complex in Matavera. Initiated by the Cook Islands Football…
Jane Patterson, COO for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup in NZ, talks to Ashley Stanley in part three of LockerRoom’s video series, The Big Four, with the women leading the four global…
Tony Readings has eagerly watched the development of women’s football in the Pacific and believes the current standard is the highest he has seen. Readings arrived in New Zealand from…
Earlier this year, striker Trina Davis made history when she signed a contract with ASA Tel-Aviv University Sports Club in Israel to become the first Fijian woman to play professional…