2025 OFC Women's Nations Cup

2025 OFC Women's Nations Cup
Tournament details
Host countryFiji
Dates4–19 July 2025
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Solomon Islands (1st title)
Runners-up Papua New Guinea
Third place Samoa
Fourth place Fiji
Tournament statistics
Matches played18
Goals scored57 (3.17 per match)
Top scorer(s) Marie Kaipu
Leimata Simon
(5 goals each)
Best player Ramona Padio
Best goalkeeper Zainab Donga
Fair play award Cook Islands
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The 2025 OFC Women's Nations Cup was the 13th edition of the OFC Women's Nations Cup, the quadrennial international football championship organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) for the women's national teams of the Oceanian region. As with the previous tournament, it was held in Fiji. It took place between 4 and 19 July 2025.[1]

Papua New Guinea were the defending champions but they lost to Solomon Islands 2–3 (a.e.t.) in the final.

Format

The format will follow:

  • Final tournament: A total of eight teams will play in the tournament, which will be held in July 2025 in Fiji. [2] For the group stage, they will be divided into two groups of four teams. The top two teams of each group will advance to the knockout stage (quarter-finals, semi-finals, positional play-offds and final) to decide the winner of the OFC Women's Nations Cup, however the winner will no longer qualify for the FIFA Women's World Cup with OFC instead opting to organise a separate qualifiers tournament.[1]

Teams

The following teams entered the final tournament alongside host Fiji.[3]

Team App First Last Best performance World
Rankings[4]
 Cook Islands 6th 2003 2022 Third place (2010, 2014) 115
 Fiji 6th 1983 Runners-up (2018, 2022) 72
 Papua New Guinea 11th 1989 Champions (2022) 56
 Samoa 5th 1998 Fourth place (2003, 2022) 98
 Solomon Islands 4th 2007 Third place (2022) 86
 Tahiti 4th 2010 Quarter-finals (2022) 114
 Tonga 6th 2007 Third place (2007) 93
 Vanuatu 3rd 2010 Group stage (2010, 2022) 120

Teams do not enter in the competition:

Venues

 Lautoka Suva
Churchill Park HFC Bank Stadium
Capacity: 18,000 Capacity: 15,446

Draw

The final draw took place at 18:00 NZST on 18 March 2025 at the OFC Home of Football - Te Kahu o Kiwa in Auckland, New Zealand. OFC Women's Football Manager Ashleigh Cox and Media and Communications Manager Matt Brown conducted and presented the draw. The draw began with Pot 3, with all teams from this pot allocated before proceeding to Pot 2 and then Pot 1. Teams were drawn sequentially, with the first team placed in Group A and the second in Group B.[5][6]

Seeding

The seeding for the draw was based on the FIFA Women's World Ranking of December 2024.

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3
 Papua New Guinea (56)
 Fiji (72)		  Solomon Islands (87)
 Tonga (95)
 Samoa (100)
 Tahiti (113)		  Cook Islands (114)
 Vanuatu (121)

Squads

Main article: 2025 OFC Women's Nations Cup squads

Group stage

All match times are local (UTC+12).

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Papua New Guinea 3 2 1 0 11 2 +9 7 Semifinals
2  Samoa 3 2 0 1 7 3 +4 6
3  Tahiti 3 0 2 1 3 5 −2 2 Fifth place game
4  Cook Islands 3 0 1 2 1 12 −11 1 Seventh place game
Source: OFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Tahiti 1–1 Cook Islands
K. Mai 63' Report Rouru 28'
Attendance: 200
Referee: Torika Delai (Fiji)
Papua New Guinea 2–1 Samoa
Kaipu 19', 40' Report Xev. Salanoa 84'
Attendance: 200
Referee: Shama Maemae (Solomon Islands)
Cook Islands 0–3 Samoa
Report
  • Xev. Salanoa 3'
  • Dowsing 12'
  • Fischer 58'
Attendance: 200
Referee: Torika Delai (Fiji)
Papua New Guinea 1–1 Tahiti
Samuel 51' Report Wong 45+4' (pen.)
Attendance: 200
Referee: Jovita Ambrose (Solomon Islands)
Samoa 3–1 Tahiti
  • Skeers 6' (pen.)
  • Kitiona 18'
  • Jessop 75'
 Report
  • Teore 38'
Attendance: 200
Referee: Torika Delai (Fiji)
Cook Islands 0–8 Papua New Guinea
Report
  • Butubu 4'
  • Kaipu 9', 30', 39'
  • Pala 14'
  • Kalapai 15', 70'
  • Padio 58'
Attendance: 200
Referee: Yantama Atoa (Tonga)

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Solomon Islands 3 2 0 1 9 4 +5 6 Semifinals
2  Fiji (H) 3 2 0 1 6 3 +3 6
3  Vanuatu 3 2 0 1 5 2 +3 6 Fifth place game
4  Tonga 3 0 0 3 0 11 −11 0 Seventh place game
Source: OFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
Tonga 0–3 Vanuatu
Report Simon 22', 45+3', 53'
Attendance: 100
Referee: Kyllian Lelarge (New Caledonia)
Fiji 3–2 Solomon Islands
 Report
  • Solosaia 8', 42'
Attendance: 803
Referee: Sarah Jones (New Zealand)
Vanuatu 1–2 Solomon Islands
  • Simon 82'
 Report
Attendance: 200
Referee: Kyllian Lelarge (New Caledonia)
Fiji 3–0 Tonga
 Report
Attendance: 599
Referee: Peter Olomaga (Samoa)
Solomon Islands 5–0 Tonga
  • Arukau 8', 85'
  • Pegi 28', 41'
  • David 77'
 Report
Attendance: 200
Referee: Keith Kitumbing (Papua New Guinea)
Vanuatu 1–0 Fiji
  • Simon 32'
 Report
Attendance: 827
Referee: Sarah Jones (New Zealand)

Knockout stage

Bracket

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
 16 July – Suva
 
 
  Papua New Guinea 2
 
 19 July – Suva
 
  Fiji 1
 
  Papua New Guinea 2
 
 16 July – Suva
 
  Solomon Islands (a.e.t.) 3
 
  Solomon Islands 2
 
 
  Samoa 1
 
Third place
 
 
 19 July – Suva
 
 
  Fiji 0
 
 
  Samoa 2
 
Fifth place
 
  
 
 14 July – Suva
 
 
  Tahiti 0
 
 
  Vanuatu 1
 
 
 
 
 
Seventh place
 
 
 14 July – Suva
 
 
  Cook Islands 0
 
 
  Tonga 1
 

Seventh place match

Cook Islands 0–1 Tonga
Report
  • Hausia-Haugen 90'
Attendance: 100
Referee: Jovita Ambrose (Solomon Islands)

Fifth place match

Tahiti 0–1 Vanuatu
Report Poida 28'
Attendance: 165
Referee: Yantama Atoa (Tonga)

Semi-finals

Papua New Guinea 2–1 Fiji
 Report
  • Leba 34'
Attendance: 600
Referee: Kyllian Lelarge (New Caledonia)
Solomon Islands 2–1 Samoa
 Report
  • O. Kitiona 14'
Attendance: 850
Referee: Torika Delai (Fiji)

Third place match

Fiji 0–2 Samoa
Report
  • Dowsing 8', 16'
Attendance: 400
Referee: Shama Maemae (Solomon Islands)

Final

Papua New Guinea 2–3 (a.e.t.) Solomon Islands
 Report
  • Solosaia 18'
  • Arukau 45+3'
  • David 94'
Attendance: 1,150
Referee: Sarah Jones (New Zealand)

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 57 goals scored in 18 matches, for an average of 3.17 goals per match.

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

  • Narieta Leba
  • Lilly Dowsing
  • Oteta Kitiona
  • Xevani Salanoa
  • Jemina David

1 goal

  • Tearoa Rouru
  • Sereana Naweni
  • Michaelyn Butubu
  • Phyllis Pala
  • Raynata Samuel
  • Lilly Dowsing
  • Monique Fischer
  • Malia Jessop
  • Arianna Skeers
  • Kohai Mai
  • Tauhere Teore
  • Kiani Wong
  • Leila Hausia-Haugen
  • Angelina Poida

1 own goal

  • Breanna Kitiona (against Solomon Islands)
  • Ana Lauteau (against Fiji)

Awards

 2025 OFC Women's Nations Cup winners 

Solomon Islands
First title
Award Winner
Golden Ball Ramona Padio
Golden Boot Marie Kaipu
Golden Glove Zainab Donga
Fair Play  Cook Islands

References

  1. ^ a b "OFC competition hosts confirmed for 2025". Oceania Football Confederation. 13 October 2024. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
  2. ^ "OFC release competition schedule, with venues and dates for 2025". Friends of Football. 18 October 2024. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
  3. ^ Bjerkevoll, Ola (18 March 2025). "Here's how the women's Nations Cup will be played". footballoceania.com. Football in Oceania. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  4. ^ "Women's World Ranking". fifa.com. FIFA. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  5. ^ "Draw confirmed for OFC Women's Nations Cup 2025". oceaniafootball.com. OFC. 18 March 2025. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  6. ^ Cama, Akuila (18 March 2025). "Fiji, Solomon in same OFC Women's Nations Cup group". FBC. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
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