2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup

The 2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup will be the 12th edition of the OFC Women's Nations Cup (also known as the OFC Women's Championship), the quadrennial international football championship organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) for the women's national teams of the Oceanian region. It was originally scheduled from July to August 2022, but was moved to January and February to accommodate changes to the FIFA Women's International Match Calendar.[2] The OFC announced on 4 March 2021 that it was pushed back due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and on 29 April 2022 announced that Fiji would host the tournament from 13 to 30 July.[1][3]

2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup
Tournament details
Host countryFiji
Dates13–30 July[1]
Teams9 (from 1 confederation)

The tournament will serve as Oceania's qualifiers to the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. With New Zealand having already qualified automatically for the World Cup as a co-host, they won't participate in the tournament. The winner will advance to the inter-confederation play-offs.[4]

New Zealand are the defending champions, but won't participate in this tournament.

Format

The format of the tournament will involve a first round with nine teams playing three groups of three, with the top two in each group plus the two best third-place teams advancing to the quarterfinals. Fiji was picked to be the host in April 2022.

New Zealand will not participate with their World Cup spot already assured. American Samoa decided not to participate due to ongoing issues from the pandemic.[1]

Draw

The draw for the group stage will take place on 10 May with teams seeded into pots based upon the 25 March FIFA rankings.[1]

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3
 Papua New Guinea (49)
 Fiji (67)
 Tonga (92)		  New Caledonia (99)
 Cook Islands (104)
 Tahiti (105)		  Samoa (111)
 Solomon Islands (119)
 Vanuatu (121)

Group stage

Group A
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 TBC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Knockout stage
2 TBC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 TBC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Possible knockout stage
Source:
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers


Group B
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 TBC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Knockout stage
2 TBC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 TBC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Possible knockout stage
Source:
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group C
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 TBC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Knockout stage
2 TBC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 TBC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Possible knockout stage
Source:
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Ranking of third-placed teams
Pos Grp Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 C TBC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 B TBC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 A TBC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source:

Knockout Stage
 
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Qualified teams for FIFA Women's World Cup

The sole OFC direct berth for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup was given to New Zealand, who qualified automatically as co-hosts.[4]

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA Women's World Cup1
 New Zealand25 June 20205 (1991, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019)

References
  1. "OFC Women's Nations Cup set down for July in Fiji". Oceania Football Confederation. 29 April 2022.
  2. "More calendar changes for 2021". Oceania Football Confederation. 16 December 2020.
  3. "OFC confirms schedule changes". Oceania Football Confederation. 4 March 2021.
  4. "Australia and New Zealand selected as hosts of FIFA Women's World Cup 2023". FIFA. 25 June 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
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