2010 Oceania Women's Soccer Championship

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2010 Oceania Women's Soccer Championship
OFC Women's Nations Cup 2010
Number of nations (of 8 applicants)
Oceania Champion New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand (4th title)
venue New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand ( Auckland )
Opening game September 29, 2010
Endgame October 8, 2010
Games 16
Gates 78  (⌀: 4.88 per game)
spectator 4,940  (⌀: 309 per game)
Top scorer New ZealandNew Zealand Amber Hearn (12 goals)
Yellow card yellow cards 21  (⌀: 1.31 per game)
Yellow-red card Yellow-red cards 0
Red card Red cards (⌀: 0.06 per game)

The OFC Women's Nations Cup 2010 ( Engl. : OFC Women's Nations Cup ) was the ninth playout of an oceanic continental championship in women's football and found in the period from 29 September to 8 October 2010 at North Harbor Stadium in Auckland and for the third time held in New Zealand. In addition to hosts New Zealand , the Cook Islands , Fiji , Papua New Guinea , the Solomon Islands , Tahiti , Tonga and Vanuatu , the record number of eight teams took part in the tournament for the first time, which was also the qualification of the Oceania zone for the 2011 World Cup. The game was played in two groups of four teams. The respective group first and second reached the final round.

New Zealand became group winners and Oceania champions in women's football for the fourth time, qualifying as a representative of Oceania for the 2011 Women's World Cup in Germany.

New Zealand won the championship without conceding a goal. In the preliminary round, the New Zealand players scored more goals than all other teams in all games combined. Also in the knockout round they prevailed with clear wins, so that in the end 4 New Zealand players scored the most goals. The top scorer was Amber Hearn with 12 goals , who scored five goals in the first game against Vanuatu. The 0:14 is Vanuatu's biggest defeat so far.

The Cook Islands and the Solomon Islands achieved a place in the top four for the first time. With the runner-up, Papua New Guinea confirmed its second place among the oceanic women. New Zealand scored the highest victory ever in a continental championship final with an 11-0 final.

Group stage

Group A

Pl. country Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand  3  3  0  0 031: 000 +31 09
 2. Cook IslandsCook Islands Cook Islands  3  2  0  1 003:100  −7 06th
 3. TahitiTahiti Tahiti  3  1  0  2 005: 900  −4 03
 4th VanuatuVanuatu Vanuatu  3  0  0  3 001:210 −20 00
September 29, 2010
New Zealand - Vanuatu 14: 0
Cook Islands - Tahiti 1-0
October 1, 2010
Tahiti - Vanuatu 5: 1
Cook Islands - New Zealand 0:10
October 3, 2010
Tahiti - New Zealand 0: 7
Vanuatu - Cook Islands 0: 2

Group B

Pl. country Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea Papua New Guinea  3  3  0  0 008: 100  +7 09
 2. Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands Solomon Islands  3  1  1  1 005: 200  +3 04th
 3. TongaTonga Tonga  3  1  0  2 002: 800  −6 03
 4th FijiFiji Fiji  3  0  1  2 001: 500  −4 01
September 30, 2010
Papua New Guinea - Fiji 3-0
Solomon Islands - Tonga 4-0
October 2, 2010
Tonga - Fiji 2: 1
Solomon Islands - Papua New Guinea 1: 2
4th October 2010
Fiji - Solomon Islands 0-0
Tonga - Papua New Guinea 0: 3

Final round

Semifinals

October 6, 2010
New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand - Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands Solomon Islands 8-0
October 6, 2010
Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea Papua New Guinea - Cook IslandsCook Islands Cook Islands 1-0

3rd place match

October 8, 2010
Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands Solomon Islands - Cook IslandsCook Islands Cook Islands 0: 2

final

October 8, 2010
New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand - Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea Papua New Guinea 11: 0

Best goalscorers

rank Player Gates
1 New ZealandNew Zealand Amber Hearn 12
2 New ZealandNew Zealand Sarah Gregorius 7th
New ZealandNew Zealand Hannah Wilkinson 7th
4th New ZealandNew Zealand Rosie White 6th
5 Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea Zeena Limbai 5
6th New ZealandNew Zealand Ria Percival 4th
7th New ZealandNew Zealand Hayley Moorwood 3
TahitiTahiti Heimiri Alvarez 3

Another 6 players with two and 18 players with one goal each. There is also an own goal.

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