New Zealand 8 – 0 Papua New Guinea

The return leg will be played in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, on Wednesday 4 April with the winner advancing to the Women’s Olympic Football Tournament set to take place in the United Kingdom from 25 July to 9 August. See below for all the play-by-play action.Starting line-ups:New Zealand: 1. Jenny BINDON (GK), 2. Ria…

The Football Ferns have never lost to Papua New Guinea and swept them aside with ease in an 11-0 victory the last time the sides met, in the final of the 2010 OFC Women’s Nations Cup.But Mune is taking a positive approach to the teams’ next encounter and believes his squad has the potential to…

The game was set to be held at 2pm on Saturday 31 March at Govind Park in Ba but has now been rescheduled to kick off at 1pm on Sunday 1 April at Churchill Park in Lautoka.The change of date and venue was necessary as a severe storm has caused massive disruption across Fiji and…

The last time the Football Ferns played at home – the OFC Women’s Nations Cup in 2010 – four players were playing professionally in Europe or the USA. But post-World Cup that number has swelled with over half the squad selected for this week’s home-and-away play-off against Papua New Guinea based overseas, including 10 at…

Wilkinson and her Ferns team mates can take a big step on the road to London when they meet Papua New Guinea tomorrow at Whangarei’s Toll Stadium in a match that acts as the first leg of the OFC Women’s Olympic Qualifier Play-off.It is a game that holds special significance for the 19-year-old as she…

The match is the first leg of a home-and-away play-off for a place at the 2012 London Olympics and will take place at Whangarei’s Toll Stadium from 5pm.Papua New Guinea earned the right to take on New Zealand after winning stage one of the OFC Women’s Olympic Qualifier in Tonga earlier this month but go…

The line-up, which will be trimmed to 18 for each of the two matches, is drawn from leagues in six countries with the German Bundesliga alone providing six players.The first leg of the play-off takes place at Toll Stadium in Whangarei on Saturday from 5pm local time while the second will be held at Port…

The return leg will be played in Port Moreseby, Papua New Guinea, on Wednesday 4 April with the winner advancing to the Women’s Olympic Football Tournament set to take place in the United Kingdom from 25 July to 9 August. New Zealand were seeded straight through to the play-offs while Papua New Guinea qualified ahead…

All eight teams will take to the field on Saturday and, while for most it will be their last hit-out of the campaign, several are still harbouring hopes of booking a meeting in the final with Auckland City, who earned their spot by securing first place in Group B in the previous round.With the other…