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)New Zealand Amber Hearn (10 goals)

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.

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
Samoa 2–1 Fiji
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) Hosts
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

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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