2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup


The 2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup was the 11th edition of the OFC Women's Nations Cup, the quadrennial international football championship organised by the Oceania Football Confederation for the women's national teams of the Oceanian region. The tournament was held in New Caledonia between 18 November – [|1] December 2018.
The tournament served as the Oceanian qualifiers to the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, with the champions qualifying for the World Cup in France. The champions also qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics women's football tournament in Japan.
New Zealand were the defending champions. They won the tournament for their fourth consecutive and sixth overall OFC Women's Nations Cup title.

Format

The format was as follows:
The draw for the tournament was held on 21 March 2018 at the OFC Headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand. In both the qualifying stage and final tournament, the hosts were assigned to position A1 in the draw, while the remaining teams were drawn into the other positions without any seeding.

Qualification

For the first time, the OFC Women's Nations Cup is a compulsory tournament, so all 11 OFC member national teams will enter the tournament.
TeamMethod of
qualification
AppearancePrevious best performanceFIFA ranking
at start of event
Automatic4th Not ranked
Automatic2nd Not ranked
Automatic11th 20
Automatic9th Not ranked
Automatic3rd Not ranked
Automatic2nd Not ranked
Automatic4th Not ranked
Qualification winner4th 81

Note: New Caledonia and Tahiti are not members of the International Olympic Committee and thus not eligible to qualify for the Olympic Football Tournament.

Venues

The host nation of the final tournament was New Caledonia. The matches were played at four venues.

KonéNouméaLifouMaré
Stade YoshidaStade Numa-Daly MagentaStade de HnasséStade de la Roche
Capacity: 3,000Capacity: 16,000Capacity: 1,680Capacity: 1,500
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Squads

Each team can name a maximum of 23 players.

Group stage

The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals.
All times are local, NCT.

Group A


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Group B


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Knockout stage

Bracket


Semi-finals

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Third place match

Final

Winner qualifies for 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup and 2020 Summer Olympics.

Goalscorers

Awards

The Golden Ball Award was awarded to the most outstanding player of the tournament. The Golden Boot Award was awarded to the top scorer of the tournament. The Golden Glove Award was awarded to the best goalkeeper of the tournament. The Fair Play Award was awarded to the team with the best disciplinary record at the tournament.
AwardRecipient
Golden Ball Betsy Hassett
Golden Boot Sarah Gregorius
Meagen Gunemba
Golden Glove Adi Tuwai
Fair Play Award

Qualification for international tournaments

Qualified teams for FIFA Women's World Cup

The following team from OFC qualify for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.
TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA Women's World Cup1
1 12 20184

Qualified teams for Summer Olympics

The following team from OFC qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympic women's football tournament.
TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in Summer Olympics1
1 12 20183