| Type: | women |
| Vanuatu | |
| Association: | Vanuatu Football Federation (VFF) |
| Confederation: | OFC (Oceania) |
| Coach: | Jean Robert Yelou |
| Captain: | Elodie Samuel |
| Most Caps: | Serah Thompson (11) |
| Top Scorer: | Lavinia Taga (11) |
| Home Stadium: | Port Vila Municipal Stadium |
| Fifa Trigramme: | VAN |
| Fifa Max: | 82 |
| Fifa Max Date: | December 2003 – June 2004 |
| Fifa Min: | 122 |
| Fifa Min Date: | December 2021; August – December 2022; June – August 2023; March 2024 |
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| First Game: | 3–2 (Nausori, Fiji; 30 June 2003) |
| Largest Win: | 0–11 (Suva, Fiji; 10 July 2003) |
| Regional Name: | OFC Women's Nations Cup |
| Regional Cup Apps: | 2 |
| Regional Cup First: | 2010 |
| Regional Cup Best: | Group stage (2010, 2022) |
The Vanuatu women's national football team represents Vanuatu in international women's association football. The team is controlled by the Vanuatu Football Federation (VFF). Vanuatu's home field is the Port Vila Municipal Stadium, located in the country's capital, Port Vila. The team is managed by Job Alwin.[1]
Vanuatu never qualified for a FIFA Women's World Cup, but competed in the 2010 OFC Women's Championship, hosted by New Zealand during September–October 2010. The team also participated in the 2003 South Pacific Games football tournament. Vanuatu also competed in the 2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup.
Currently, their FIFA ranking position is the 104th. Vanuatu's highest ever ranking was 82, in 2004 and their worst ranking was 148 in September 2015.[2]
Vanuatu's first match was played in Nausori, Fiji at the Ratu Cakobau Park on 30 June 2003, against Tonga, who also played its first match. Tonga won the match, despite losing 2–1 at the end of the first half. Five days later, Vanuatu achieved a draw with Papua New Guinea, by 2–2. The team's biggest win was accomplished against Kiribati by 11–0 another five days later. Lavinia Taga scored seven goals for Vanuatu. In the other games, Fiji, Guam and Tahiti defeated the Vanuatuans.
The team was expected to participate in the 2003 and 2007 OFC Women's Championships, but ultimately withdrew from both.[3]
After seven years of inactivity, Vanuatu returned to the international competition in the 2010 OFC Women's Championship in New Zealand. With only one goal, scored by midfielder Stephanie Tougen, the team finished last in the Group A table, after losing all of its games against the Cook Islands, New Zealand and Tahiti.
Vanuatu failed to qualify for the 2012 Olympics tournament, due to its poor performance in the qualifiers. Nevertheless, the team managed to achieve a second victory, with Samoa.
See also: 2022 in association football, 2022 in sports and FIFA International Match Calendar.
The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.
| Against | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | GF | GA | GD | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | −2 | ||
| 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | ||
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | ||
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | +11 | ||
| 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 8 | −7 | ||
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 14 | −14 | ||
| 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 13 | −10 | ||
| 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | ||
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | +2 | ||
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | +5 | ||
| 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 8 | −7 | ||
| 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 | −4 | ||
| Total | 15 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 27 | 61 | −34 |
| Position | ||
|---|---|---|
| Head coach | Jean Robert Yelou | |
| Assistant coach | Pauliena Manwo Cavilla Kalorib | |
| Team Manager | Anne Tamata | |
| Goal Keeper Coach |  Alex Britton | |
| International Scout | Alastair McLae | |
| International Scout | Russ Gurr--> |
| Manager | Career | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Win % | Competitions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| < | -- -->Unknown | 2003–2011 | |||||
| Florian Sam | 2012–2015 | ||||||
| Job Alwin | 2015–2016 | ||||||
 Wu Kangzhen | 2017–2019 |
Caps and goals as of 18 July 2019, after the game against Tahiti.
The following players have been called up for the team in the last 12 months.
| FIFA Women's World Cup | Qualification | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | Position | ||||||||||||
| 1991 | Did not enter | |||||||||||||
 1995 | ||||||||||||||
 1999 | ||||||||||||||
| 2003 | Withdrew | |||||||||||||
| 2007 | ||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Did not qualify | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 21 | |||||||
 2015 | Did not enter | |||||||||||||
 2019 | Did not qualify | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | |||||||
 2023 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
 2027 | To be determined | To be determined | ||||||||||||
| Total | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 29 |
| Summer Olympics | Qualification | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | Position | ||||||||||||
| 1996 | Ineligible | No qualifying process | ||||||||||||
| 2000 | ||||||||||||||
| 2004 | Did not enter | |||||||||||||
| 2008 | ||||||||||||||
 2012 | Did not qualify | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 20 | |||||||
| 2016 | Did not enter | |||||||||||||
 2020 | Did not qualify | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||
| Total | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 23 |
| OFC Women's Nations Cup | Qualification record | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | Position | |||||||||||||
 1983 | Did not enter | No qualification | |||||||||||||
| 1986 | |||||||||||||||
| 1989 | |||||||||||||||
| 1991 | |||||||||||||||
 1994 | |||||||||||||||
| 1998 | |||||||||||||||
| 2003 | Withdrew | ||||||||||||||
| 2007 | |||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Group stage | 8th | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 21 | |||||||
| 2014 | Did not enter | ||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Did not qualify | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | ||||||||
| 2022 | Group stage | 9th | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | No qualification | ||||||
| Total | Group stage | 2/12 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 24 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | |
| Pacific Games | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | Position | ||||||
| 2003 | Group stage | 6th | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 12 |
| 2007 | Did not enter | |||||||
| 2011 | ||||||||
| 2015 | ||||||||
| 2019 | Group stage | 5th | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
| 2023 | To Be Determined | |||||||
| Total | Group stage | 2/5 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 20 | 22 |
| Pacific Games | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | ||||||||
| 2017 | Second Place | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | +5 | |
| Total | Second Place | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | +5 | |