Papua New Guinea Women's U-17
Nickname(s)Lakatois
(Motuan sailing vessel)
AssociationPapua New Guinea Football Association
ConfederationOFC (Oceania)
Head coachSusan Watpore + Tracy Kig & Edna Thomas
Top scorerBelinda Giada (7)
Home stadiumHubert Murray Stadium
FIFA codePNG
First international
 Papua New Guinea 4–0  Tonga
(Auckland, New Zealand; April 12, 2010)
Biggest win
 Papua New Guinea 7–1  Vanuatu
(Matavera, Cook Islands; January 14, 2016)
Biggest defeat
 New Zealand 9–0  Papua New Guinea
(Auckland, New Zealand; April 14, 2010)
 Papua New Guinea 0–9  New Zealand
(Māngere, New Zealand; April 13, 2012)
World Cup
Appearances0
OFC U-17 Women's Championship
Appearances3 (first in 2010)
Best resultRunners-up (2012, 2016)

The Papua New Guinea women's national under-17 soccer team is the second highest women's youth team of women's soccer in Papua New Guinea and is controlled by the Papua New Guinea Football Association.

History

Papua New Guinea have participated all three times so far in the OFC U-17 Women's Championship. They managed to get a second spot twice, in 2012 and in 2016. In the first tournament, in 2010, they became third. Georgina Kaikas scored Papua New Guinea's first ever goal in the tournament. She did this on April 12, 2010 in a 4–0 victory against Tonga women's national under-17 football team. She managed to score four goals in total. However, with this number she is not the top goal scorer of the country cause in 2016 Belinda Giada scored seven goals.

OFC

The OFC Women's Under 17 Qualifying Tournament is a tournament held once every two years to decide the only qualification spot for Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) and representatives at the FIFA U-17 World Cup.

OFC U-17 Women's Championship
Year Round Pld W D L GF GA
New Zealand 2010Third Place3102410
New Zealand 2012Runners-up3201411
Cook Islands 2016Runners-up53111313
Samoa 2017Withdrew
French Polynesia 2023
Total3/5116142134

Current technical staff

Position
Head CoachPapua New Guinea Susan Watpore
Assistant CoachPapua New Guinea Tracy Kig
Assistant CoachPapua New Guinea Edna Thomas
Team ManagerPapua New Guinea Maggie Taligatus

References

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