Samoa national under-20 football team explained

Samoa U20
Fifa Trigramme:SAM
Association:Football Federation Samoa
Confederation:OFC (Oceania)
Coach: Matt Calcott
Asst Manager:Alastair McLae
Captain:Kyah Cahill
Most Caps:Samuelu Malo (6)
Top Scorer:Pago Tunupopo
Samuelu Malo (4)
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First Game:
(Suva, Fiji; September 3, 1988)
Largest Win: American Samoa 0–5 Samoa
(Nukuʻalofa, Tonga; June 21, 2016)
Largest Loss:
(Suva, Fiji; September 5, 1988)
World Cup Apps:0
Regional Name:OFC U-20 Championship
Regional Cup Apps:9 (1988, 1994, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2016, 2018)
Regional Cup Best:Quarter Final (2022)
Current:2022 OFC U-20 Championship

The Samoa national under-20 association football team (Samoan: Sāmoa soka au) represents Samoa in under-20 competitions and is controlled by the Football Federation Samoa, the governing body for football in Samoa. Samoa's U20 home ground is Toleafoa J.S Blatter Soccer Stadium in Apia.[1] It was known as the Western Samoa national under-20 football team until 1997, following the renaming of the country. Samoa is a part of the FIFA Goal project.[2] The 2022 squad consisted of 18 non-Samoan based players out of a squad of 26, this was made possible through extensive worldwide scouting, no other country in the OFC region has seen this amount of off shore players in an U20 squad.

Competitive record

OFC

The OFC Under 20 Qualifying Tournament 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-20 World Cup.

OFC U-19 ChampionshipQualification record
YearRound
as
1974Did not enterNo qualification
1978
1980
1982
1985
1986
1988Group stage3003131
1990Did not enter
1992
1994Group stage310226
1997Did not enter
as Samoa
1998Group stage3102112No qualification
20015203622
20024103612
20053003122
2007Seventh Place6006433
2008Did not enter
2011
2013
2014
2016Did not qualify311184
2018321051
2022Quarter-finals200218No qualification
TotalGroup stage35822535151

Current technical staff

Position
Head coach Matt Calcott
Assistant coach Alastair McLae
Team manager Gareth Winder
Goal Keeper Coach Horst Petana
Coach Paul Lomitusi
Physio Ethan Horne
International Scout Alastair McLae
International Scout Russ Gurr

Current squad

The following players were called up for the 2022 OFC U-19 Championship from 7 to 20 September 2022. Names in italics denote players who have been capped for the Senior team.

Caps and goals as of 19 September 2022 after the game against Fiji.

Results and fixtures

2018

References

  1. http://www.football-lineups.com/stadium/743/ "Football Lineups – Toleafoa J.S. Blatter Complex" Retrieved 15 August 2011
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20070916170947/http://fifa.com/associations/association=sam/goalprogramme/index.html FIFA.com

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