Tourney Name: | OFC U-19 Women's Championship |
Year: | 2019 |
Country: | Cook Islands |
City: | Rarotonga |
Dates: | 30 August – 12 September 2019 |
Num Teams: | 11 |
Confederations: | 1 |
Venues: | 1 |
Cities: | 1 |
Count: | 7 |
Matches: | 19 |
Goals: | 120 |
Top Scorer: | Kelli Brown (21 goals) |
Player: | Grace Wisnewski |
Goalkeeper: | Corail Harry |
Prevseason: | 2017 |
Nextseason: | 2022 |
The 2019 OFC U-19 Women's Championship was the 9th edition of the OFC U-19/U-20 Women's Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) for the women's under-19/under-20 national teams of Oceania. The tournament was held in the Cook Islands from 30 August to 12 September 2019.[1] [2]
The winner of the tournament would have qualified for the 2021 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup (originally 2020 but postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic) in Costa Rica as the OFC representatives.[3] However, FIFA announced on 17 November 2020 that this edition of the World Cup would be cancelled.[4]
New Zealand were the defending champions, and they went on to win the 2019 Championship.
All 11 FIFA-affiliated national teams from OFC entered the tournament.
Team | data-sort-type="number" | Appearance | Previous best performance |
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3rd | (2010) | ||
(hosts) | 3rd | (2010) | |
4th | (2017) | ||
5th | (2012) | ||
8th | (2006, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017) | ||
6th | (2004, 2012, 2014) | ||
6th | (2002, 2006, 2012) | ||
3rd | (2004) | ||
1st | |||
7th | (2006) | ||
4th | (2015) |
The matches were played at the CIFA Academy Field, Rarotonga.
See main article: 2019 OFC U-19 Women's Championship squads.
Players born on or after 1 January 2000 were eligible to compete in the tournament.
The draw of the tournament was held on 17 April 2019 at the OFC Academy in Auckland, New Zealand.[5] The 11 teams were drawn into three groups, with Groups A and B having four teams and Group C having three teams. The hosts Cook Islands were assigned to group position A1, while the remaining teams were drawn into the other group positions without any seeding, with the only restriction that the defending champions New Zealand must be drawn into Group A or B.[6]
The winners of each group and the runners-up of Group B advanced to the semi-finals.
All times are local, CKT (UTC−10).
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Results against the fourth-placed teams of each group C were not counted in determining the ranking of the third-placed teams.
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Winner qualified for 2021 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.[7]
Award | Player | |
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Golden Ball | Grace Wisnewski | |
Golden Boot | Kelli Brown | |
Golden Gloves | Corail Harry | |
Fair Play Award |
The following team from OFC would have qualified for the 2021 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup before the tournament was cancelled.
Team | Qualified on | data-sort-type="number" | Previous appearances in FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup1 |
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[8] | 7 (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018) |
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.