Fiji women's U20 | |
Nickname: | Bula Girls |
Association: | Fiji Football Association |
Confederation: | OFC (Oceania) |
Coach: | Saroj Kumar |
Most Caps: | 8 players with 5 caps |
Top Scorer: | Luisa Tamanitoakula (7) |
Home Stadium: | ANZ National Stadium |
Fifa Trigramme: | FIJ |
Fifa Rank: | 123 7 |
Fifa Max: | 69 |
Fifa Max Date: | 2003 |
Fifa Min: | 133 |
Fifa Min Date: | 2014 |
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First Game: | 0 – 0 (Nuku'alofa, Tonga; April 23, 2002) |
Largest Win: | 0 – 4 (Auckland, New Zealand; July 11, 2017) |
Largest Loss: | 8 – 0 (Nuku'alofa, Tonga; April 27, 2002) and 1 – 9 (Auckland, New Zealand; July 14, 2017) |
U20wwc Apps: | 1 |
U20wwc First: | 2024 |
Regional Name: | OFC U-20 Women's Championship |
Regional Cup Apps: | 5 |
Regional Cup First: | 2002 |
Regional Cup Best: | Second Place (2017, 2023) |
The Fiji women's national under-20 football team is the second highest women's youth team of women's football in Fiji and is controlled by the Fiji Football Association.
Fiji participated five times at the OFC U-19 Women's Championship so far. In 2002, 2006 and 2019 they were eliminated in the group stages. At their third participation, in 2017, they became second.
In 2002 Fiji drew their first ever game at this level, a 0–0 against American Samoa. They fought for their first win but it wasn't meant to be after two losses: a 2–1 against Samoa and an 8–0 against New Zealand.
In 2006 Fiji were again searching for their first win ever. They had to wait for their final group game, but they got it in the end. After two defeats against again Samoa (3-0) and a heavy 6–1 against Papua New Guinea they won by 3 goals to nil against New Caledonia. Savaia Ratu was the top scorer of the tournament with two goals.
After reaching the goal of winning their first game there was more to celebrate nine years later, in 2017. Fiji became second after three wins, a draw and only one loss against football giants New Zealand. Fiji managed to get the victory's against Tonga (4-0), Papua New Guinea (3-2) and again New Caledonia (2-1). Fiji managed to score a lot of goals with Luisa Tamanitoakula scoring seven goals and Cema Nasau who scored four goals. Although Fiji scored a total of 12 goals, they still had a negative goal scoring tally with conceding 14 goals. Most of those goals were against New Zealand, after that ended in 9–1 loss.
In 2023, they finished second again after losing 0–7 to New Zealand. Eventually, after the announcement of the expansion of the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup to 24 teams, Fiji took the new second spot as OFC representative, which will mark their first time in a World Cup.
FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup record | |||||||||
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2002 | Did not qualify | ||||||||
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2022 | |||||||||
2024 | Qualified | ||||||||
2026 | To be determined | ||||||||
Total | — | 1/12 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
OFC U-20 Women's Championship | |||||||||||||||||
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2002 | Group stage | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 10 | -9 | |||||||||
2004 | Did not Participate | ||||||||||||||||
2006 | Group stage | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 9 | -5 | |||||||||
2010 | Did not Participate | ||||||||||||||||
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2017 | Second Place | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 14 | -2 | |||||||||
2019[1] | Group stage | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | |||||||||
2023 | Second Place | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 11 | -5 | |||||||||
Total | 5/10 | 19 | 9 | 2 | 8 | 27 | 46 | -19 | |||||||||
Position | ||
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Director | Susan Wise | |
Head Coach | Saroj Kumar | |
Assistant Coach | Sunil Kumar | |
Assistant Coach | Alisi Uluibatiki | |
Goalkeeper Coach | Lice Waqaliti | |
Physio | Titilia Tuwai | |
Team Manager | Merewai Turaganikeli |
The following players were called up for the 2019 OFC U-19 Women's Championship from 30 August–12 September in Avarua, the Cook Islands.
Caps and goals updated as of 6 September 2019, after the game against Vanuatu.
The following players were called up for the 2017 OFC U-19 Women's Championship
Caps and goals correct after match against New Caledonia on July 24, 2017.