FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 / New Zealand

This article covers the New Zealand national football team at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup . New Zealand took part in the Confederations Cup for the fourth time and qualified by winning the 2016 Oceania Cup .

Squad

On May 26, New Zealand coach Anthony Hudson nominated the 23-player squad. Three players ( Tommy Smith , Shane Smeltz and Chris Wood ) were already used at the 2010 World Cup. Michael McGlinchey and goalkeeper Glen Moss were also in the World Cup squad, but were not used. Moss, Smeltz and Wood were also part of the New Zealand squad for the 2009 Confederations Cup , where they were also used. 18-year-old Dane Ingham is the youngest participant in the tournament. He was used in the second group game against Mexico.

position	No.	Surname	society	birth date	Calls	Gates	debut	Last use	Games	Gates
goal	01	Stefan Marinovic	SpVgg Unterhaching	0Oct 7, 1991	16	00	2015	June 12, 2017	3
	12	Glen Moss	Newcastle Jets	Jan. 19, 1983	29	00	2006	08 Sep 2014
	23	Tamati Williams	RKC Waalwijk	Jan. 19, 1984	01	00	2014	May 30, 2014
Defense	05	Michael Boxall	Supersport United	Aug 18, 1988	24	00	2011	June 12, 2017	3		1
	02	Sam Brotherton	Sunderland AFC	0Oct 2, 1996	07th	00	2015	Oct 11, 2016
	18th	Kip Colvey	San Jose Earthquakes	15th Mar 1994	10	00	2016	June 12, 2017	1
	17th	Tom Doyle	Wellington Phoenix	June 30, 1992	05	00	2014	02nd June 2017	1
	22nd	Andrew Durante	Wellington Phoenix	0May 3, 1982	17th	00	2013	June 12, 2017	3
	16	Dane Ingham	Brisbane Roar	0June 8, 1999	02	00	2017	June 12, 2017	2		1
	21st	Storm Roux	Central Coast Mariners	Jan. 13, 1993	07th	00	2013	31 Mar 2015
	20th	Tommy Smith	Ipswich Town	31 Mar 1990	32	02	2010	02nd June 2017	3
	04th	Themistoklis Tzimopoulos	PAS Ioannina	Nov 20, 1985	11	01	2015	June 12, 2017
	03	Deklan Wynne	Vancouver Whitecaps	Apr 17, 1989	09	00	2014	June 12, 2017	2
midfield	15th	Clayton Lewis	Auckland City FC	Feb 12, 1997	09	00	2015	02nd June 2017	2		1
	08th	Michael McGlinchey	Wellington Phoenix	0Jan. 7, 1987	44	04th	2009	June 12, 2017	3
	11	Marco Rojas	Melbourne Victory	0Nov 5, 1991	34	05	2011	June 12, 2017	3
	19th	Alex Rufer	Wellington Phoenix	June 12, 1996	03	00	2015	28 Mar 2017
	14th	Ryan Thomas	PEC Zwolle	Dec 20, 1994	11	02	2014	June 12, 2017	3		1
	06th	Bill Tuiloma	Olympique Marseille	23 Mar 1995	18th	00	2013	June 12, 2017	3
Storm	07th	Kosta Barbarouses	Wellington Phoenix	19 Feb 1990	39	03	2008	June 12, 2017	3
	13	Monty Patterson	Ipswich Town	0Dec 9, 1996	11	01	2016	June 12, 2017	2
	10	Shane Smeltz	Borneo FC	29 Sep 1981	55	24	2001	June 12, 2017	2
	09	Chris Wood	Leeds United	0Dec 7, 1991	49	19th	2009	June 12, 2017	3	1
Status: total stakes and goals before the tournament

preparation

In preparation for the tournament, the New Zealanders met Northern Ireland for the first time on June 2 in Belfast (0: 1), on June 6 in Dublin against Irish second division team Cabinteely FC (5: 2) and on June 12 in Minsk for the first time Belarus (0: 1).

Group stage

St. Petersburg Sochi

Venues

The New Zealand team playing the national anthem before the game against Portugal

In Group A, New Zealand met European champions Portugal, the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup winner Mexico and hosts Russia. The New Zealanders have never played against Portugal and Russia, but there was a game in the preliminary round of the 1982 World Cup against the Soviet Union, which was lost 3-0. Against Mexico there was one victory in six games - in the first game in 1980 - and five defeats, two of which in the intercontinental playoffs of the 2014 World Cup qualification.

The New Zealanders were the only team to lose all group matches and were eliminated as the bottom group.

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Portugal	3	2	1	0	007: 200	+5	07th
2.	Mexico	3	2	1	0	006: 400	+2	07th
3.	Russia	3	1	0	2	003: 300	± 0	03
4th	New Zealand	3	0	0	3	001: 800	−7	00

Sat, June 17, 2017, 6:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. CEST) in Saint Petersburg
Russia	-	New Zealand	2: 0 (1: 0)
Wed, June 21, 2017, 9:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) in Sochi
Mexico	-	New Zealand	2: 1 (0: 1)
Sat, June 24, 2017, 6:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. CEST) in Saint Petersburg
New Zealand	-	Portugal	0: 4 (0: 2)

Individual references and notes

1. ↑ Hudson names Confeds Cup squad ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ FIFA Confederations Cup - Players
3. ↑ Positions according to the New Zealand Association, FIFA sometimes names others.
4. ↑ Numbers according to the FIFA squad list  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ weltfussball.de: Northern Ireland 1-0 New Zealand
6. ↑ nzfootball.co: All Whites beat Cabinteely 5-2 ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ nzfootball.co: All Whites edged out by Belarus ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.