| New Zealand Women's U-17 | |
| Fifa Trigramme: | NZL |
| Nickname: | Young Football Ferns |
| Association: | New Zealand Football |
| Confederation: | OFC (Oceania) |
| Coach: | Leon Birnie |
| Captain: | TBD |
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| First Game: | 4–0 (Auckland, New Zealand; 8 December 2007)[1] |
| Largest Win: | 0–27 (Pirae, Tahiti; 20 September 2023) |
| U17wc Apps: | 7 |
| U17wc First: | 2008 |
| U17wc Best: | Third place (2018) |
| Regional Name: | OFC U-17 Women's Championship |
| Regional Cup Apps: | 6 |
| Regional Cup First: | 2010 |
| Regional Cup Best: | Champions (2010, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2023, 2024) |
| Type: | women |
The New Zealand women's Under-17 Football Team, informally known as the 'Young Football Ferns', is the representative team for New Zealand in international Under-17 association football tournaments. The Young Football Ferns were the host team for the 2008 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.
The Young Football Ferns compete in the OFC U-17 Women's Championship, the bi-annual confederation championship to decide who represents Oceania Football Confederation at the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. The inaugural tournament was held in 2010.
Squad for the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.[2]
| FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Host | Round | Squad | |||||||
| 2008 | align=left style="border: 3px solid red" |  New Zealand | Group Stage | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Squad |
| 2010 |  Trinidad and Tobago | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 11 | Squad | ||
| 2012 |  Azerbaijan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | Squad | ||
| 2014 |  Costa Rica | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | Squad | ||
| 2016 |  Jordan | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | Squad | ||
| 2018 |  Uruguay | bgcolor=#c96 | Third place | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | Squad |
| 2022 |  India | Group Stage | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 10 | Squad | |
| 2024 |  Dominican Republic | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | Squad | ||
| 2025 |  Morocco | |||||||||
| Total | Third place | 27 | 5 | 3 | 19 | 25 | 63 | – | ||
The OFC Under 17 Women's Championship is a tournament held once every two years to decide the only two qualification spots for the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) and its representatives at the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. Since 2017 it has been renamed as the OFC U-16 Women's Championship and held in the year preceding the U-17 World Cup.[3]
| OFC U-17 Women's Championship | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | ||||||||
| 2010 | Champions | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 0 | ||
| 2012 | Champions | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 1 | ||
 2016 | Champions | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 0 | ||
| OFC U-16 Women's Championship | |||||||||
| Year | Round | ||||||||
 2017 | Champions | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 1 | ||
| 2023 | Champions | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 1 | ||
 2024 | Champions | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 0 | ||
| Total | 6 titles | 26 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 245 | 3 | ||