FIFA U-17 WOMEN&039;S WORLD CUP – LEMARRE STEALS THE SHOW AS CANADA EDGE BRAVE KIWIS

AUCKLAND – Canada has won the opening match of the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup after edging out a spirited New Zealand by 1-0 in front of a vociferous home crowd of 13,123 at North Harbour Stadium tonight. A 53rd minute solo effort by Canada’s pacy wide midfielder Rachel Lemarre proved enough to hand her…

AUCKLAND – The opening ceremony and first match of the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup – New Zealand 2008 has come and gone and www.oceaniafootball.com is pleased to present a selection of images from North Harbour Stadium for your enjoyment. Relive all the colour, action and drama from this history making match between host nation…

It is now nine years since New Zealand last hosted a football showpiece, yet the legacy of the FIFA U-17 World Cup in 1999 serves as a powerful reminder of why the Kiwis are once again throwing their doors open to the world. All it takes, in fact, is a look back at the class…

The prolific attack of AS Lossi ran rampant on Saturday afternoon as they scored 11 goals against JS Baco to inflict the heaviest defeat in the clubs history. With the win Lossi moves into second spot in the Super Ligue ladder one point behind leaders Hienghene who scored a 4-0 win over AS Temala Jacques…

Waitakere United today welcomes Brazilian import Adriano Pimenta to the country after last week naming the midfielder in their O-League squad. The 25 year old Brazilian playmaker has spent time with FC Thun (Switzerland), Yokohama FC (J League) and more recently Bragantino (Brazil). In confirming the signing, Waitakere Chairman Rex Dawkins expressed delight in the…

AUCKLAND – Hosts New Zealand are champing at the bit to open the inaugural FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup with a bang against Canada at North Harbour Stadium on Tuesday night. It’s been 22 months since Paul Temple took over the reins of the Young Football Ferns – who qualified automatically in September 2006 when…

Many women footballers across Oceania dream to see the game develop, and the region compete strongly on the world stage. The desire to achieve this goal was the common theme among the delegates and course participants at the FIFA/OFC Coaching Course for Women’s Football in New Zealand, that opened today at the Millennium Institute on Auckland’s North…

ZURICH – The FIFA Referees Committee, chaired by FIFA Vice-President Ángel María Villar Llona, selected on 22 October 2008 a group of 38 referees from which the definitive list of referees for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ will be chosen. Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) is represented on the list by New Zealand Football…

The FIFA Executive committee has suspended the Samoa Football Soccer Federation (SFSF) with immediate effect today due to the non compliance of the SFSF with the normalisation committee FIFA set up in June 2008 to stabilise the situation of the federation. As FIFA’s warnings and deadlines went unheeded, the FIFA Executive Committee had no other…

At its meeting in Zurich on 23and 24 October, the FIFA Executive Committee primarily discussed finances, competitions, the international match calendar, social responsibility and political and legal matters. On the subject of finances, a detailed analysis of the potential impact of the ongoing international financial crisis was presented, first to the Finance Committee and then…