2003 Oceania Women's Soccer Championship

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2003 Oceania Women's Soccer Championship
OFC Women's Nations Cup 2003
Number of nations 5  (of 10 applicants)
Oceania Champion AustraliaAustralia Australia (3rd title)
venue AustraliaAustralia Australia ( Canberra )
Opening game April 5, 2003
Tournament end April 13, 2003
Games 10
Gates 88  (⌀: 8.8 per game)
spectator 5,900  (⌀: 590 per game)
Top scorer New ZealandNew Zealand Maia Jackman (10 goals)

The OFC Nations Cup Women 2003 ( Engl. : OFC Women's Nations Cup ) was the seventh playout of an oceanic continental championship in women's football and found in the period from 5 to 13 April 2003 Belconnen Soccer Center held for the third time in Australia in Canberra . In addition to hosts Australia , five teams took part in the tournament with Debutant Cook Islands , New Zealand , Papua New Guinea and Samoa , after American Samoa, Fiji, Tahiti, Tonga and Vanuatu had already canceled. The tournament was also considered to qualify the Oceania Zone for the 2003 Women's World Cup. The game was played in a simple round of everyone against everyone.

Host Australia became group winners and Oceania champions in women's football for the third time, qualifying as representatives of Oceania for the 2003 Women's World Cup in the USA.

Finals

Pl. country Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. AustraliaAustralia Australia  4th  4th  0  0 045-000 +45 12
 2. New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand  4th  3  0  1 029: 200 +27 09
 3. Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea Papua New Guinea  4th  2  0  2 010:210 −11 06th
 4th SamoaSamoa Samoa  4th  1  0  3 003:390 −36 03
 5. Cook IslandsCook Islands Cook Islands  4th  0  0  4th 001:260 −25 00
April 5, 2003
Cook Islands - Papua New Guinea 1: 5
Australia - Samoa 19: 0
April 7, 2003
Australia - Cook Islands 11: 0
Samoa - New Zealand 0:15
April 9, 2003
Cook Islands - New Zealand 0: 9
Australia - Papua New Guinea 13: 0
April 11, 2003
Papua New Guinea - New Zealand 0: 5
Cook Islands - Samoa 0: 1
April 13, 2003
Papua New Guinea - Samoa 5: 2
Australia - New Zealand 2-0

Best goalscorers

rank Player Gates
1 New ZealandNew Zealand Maia Jackman 10
2 AustraliaAustralia April man 8th
3 New ZealandNew Zealand Nicola Smith 7th
4th AustraliaAustralia Kelly Golebiowski 6th
AustraliaAustralia Joanne Peters 6th
6th New ZealandNew Zealand Simone Ferrara 5
7th AustraliaAustralia Heather Garriock 4th
AustraliaAustralia Danielle Small 4th

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