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.
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 Championship | Qualification record | ||||||||||||||
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as | |||||||||||||||
1974 | Did not enter | No qualification | |||||||||||||
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1986 | |||||||||||||||
1988 | Group stage | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 31 | ||||||||
1990 | Did not enter | ||||||||||||||
1992 | |||||||||||||||
1994 | Group stage | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||||||||
1997 | Did not enter | ||||||||||||||
as Samoa | |||||||||||||||
1998 | Group stage | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 12 | No qualification | |||||||
2001 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 22 | |||||||||
2002 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 12 | |||||||||
2005 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 22 | |||||||||
2007 | Seventh Place | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 33 | ||||||||
2008 | Did not enter | ||||||||||||||
2011 | |||||||||||||||
2013 | |||||||||||||||
2014 | |||||||||||||||
2016 | Did not qualify | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | ||||||||
2018 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | |||||||||
2022 | Quarter-finals | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 8 | No qualification | |||||||
Total | Group stage | 35 | 8 | 2 | 25 | 35 | 151 | ||||||||
Position | ||
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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 |
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.