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2012 OFC Women's Pre-Olympic Football Tournament

Tournament details
Dates	1 March–4 April 2012
Teams	5 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions	New Zealand (2nd title)
Runners-up	Papua New Guinea
Third place	Tonga
Fourth place	Vanuatu
Tournament statistics
Matches played	10
Goals scored	63 (6.3 per match)
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2012 OFC Women's Pre-Olympic Football Tournament was the qualifying tournament to the football competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London for the member nations of the Oceania Football Confederation. It was the third edition of the OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament. Four nations participated in a preliminary tournament (hosted by Tonga) based on a league system with two advancing to a final. The winner of this preliminary stage played New Zealand in a home-and-away play-off for a place at the Olympics.

Participating teams

•  New Zealand
•  Papua New Guinea
•  Samoa
•  Tonga
•  Vanuatu

First stage

The teams' paths to the Olympics were revealed on 17 February 2012.

Round-robin

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Papua New Guinea	3	3	0	0	20	3	+17	9	Qualification to final
2	Tonga (H)	3	2	0	1	11	5	+6	6
3	Samoa	3	1	0	2	7	16	−9	3	Qualification to third place play-off
4	Vanuatu	3	0	0	3	6	20	−14	0

Tonga	5–2	Vanuatu
Piuingi Feke 31', 47', 61' Salome Va'enuku 42' Kiana Mu'amoholeva 56'	Report	Serah Thompson 62' Joella Avock 90+3'

Papua New Guinea	7–2	Samoa
Fatima Rama 7' Linah Honeakii 12', 38' Rumona Morris 45+1' Daisy Winas 86' Sandra Birum 87', 90+2'	Report	Lanuola Mulipola 19' Tamasailau Leuta 70'

Tonga	0–2	Papua New Guinea
	Report	Zeen Limbai 32' Deslyne Siniu 48'

Samoa	4–3	Vanuatu
Hazel Peleti 24', 63', 84' 80' (o.g.)	Report	Lisa Batick 5', 29' Fina Angelo 43'

Samoa	1–6	Tonga
Hazel Peleti 38'	Report	Laite Si'i Manu 4' Piuingi Feke 30', 33', 34', 45' Kiana Mu'amoholeva 45+6'

Vanuatu	1–11	Papua New Guinea
Junane Ishmael 42'	Report	Georgina Kaikas 6', 57' Deslyne Siniu 19', 22', 63' (pen.), 89' Esther Muta 56' Barbra Muta 73' Fatima Rama 79' Daisy Winas 85', 89'

Knockout round

	Final
	7 March 2012 – Nukuʻalofa
	Papua New Guinea	2
	Tonga	0
	Third place play-off
	7 March 2012 – Nukuʻalofa
	Samoa	0
	Vanuatu	2

Third place play-off

Samoa	0–2	Vanuatu
	Report	Elodie Samuel 20' Leisale Solomon 24'

Final

Papua New Guinea	2–0	Tonga
Fatima Rama 47' Barbra Muta 49'	Report

Awards

A number of awards were announced following the preliminary tournament.

Player of the tournament	Best goalkeeper	Top scorer	Fairplay Award
Deslyne Siniu	Lupe Likiliki	Piuingi Feke (7 goals)	Vanuatu

Final stage

Summary

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
New Zealand	15–0	Papua New Guinea	8–0	7–0

Matches

New Zealand	8–0	Papua New Guinea
Hannah Wilkinson 6' Rebecca Smith 13' Sarah Gregorius 40' Amber Hearn 43', 90+1' Rosie White 63', 89' Ria Percival 70'	Report

Papua New Guinea	0–7	New Zealand
	Report	Hayley Moorwood 13' Sarah Gregorius 32', 84' (pen.) Hannah Wilkinson 37' 42' (o.g.) Anna Green 49' Betsy Hassett 70'

New Zealand won 15–0 on aggregate and qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

References

1. "Schedule set for key competitions". Oceania Football Confederation. 6 February 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-02-07. Retrieved 6 February 2012.
2. "PNG women's squad announced". Oceania Football Confederation. 31 January 2012. Archived from the original on 2015-11-26. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
3. "Path to London unveiled". Oceania Football Confederation. 17 February 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
4. "PNG secure play-off with New Zealand". Oceania Football Confederation. 7 March 2012. Archived from the original on 2013-04-18. Retrieved 8 March 2012.

See also

• Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics
• 2012 OFC Men's Pre-Olympic Football Tournament

External links

• Official OFC website
• Official OFC competition schedule

• Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification
• OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
• 2011–12 in OFC football