Soccer World Cup 2015 / New Zealand

This article covers the New Zealand national football team of the women in the soccer World Cup Women 2015 in Canada . New Zealand took part in the World Cup finals for the fourth time and, as before, was eliminated without a win in the preliminary round. The team qualified as the winner of the Oceania Championship in 2014 .

qualification

The Oceania Championship took place without qualification, as only four teams had registered.

rank	country	Games	Gates	Points
1.	New Zealand	3	30: 00	9
2.	Papua New Guinea	3	7: 4	6th
3.	Cook Islands	3	02:16	1
4th	Tonga	3	01:20	1

October 25, 2014
New Zealand	-	Tonga	16: 0
October 27, 2014
Papua New Guinea	-	New Zealand	0: 3
October 29, 2014
Cook Islands	-	New Zealand	0:11

Coach Tony Readings used a total of 17 players in the three games, 11 of which were used in all games. The top scorer and top scorer of the championship was Amber Hearn with seven goals. Hellen Collins scored five goals, Rosie White and Annalie Longo scored three goals each . In the first game, Daisy Cleverley scored the 1-0 in her first A international game in the first minute of the game and the record national player Abby Erceg was the first New Zealander to make her 100th international game . In the last game, Jasmine Pereira also made her first international match. New Zealand needed the fewest games of all qualified teams to qualify: 3.

preparation

After the Oceania Championship, New Zealand traveled to Europe for three friendly matches:

• November 22, 2014 in Laval against World Cup participants France : 1: 2 (0: 1)
• November 25 and 27, 2014 in Randaberg in a hall on artificial turf against World Cup participants Norway 1: 1 (1: 0) or 0: 2 (0: 0)

On January 12th and 15th, 2015 New Zealand met Denmark in Belek ( Turkey ) (1-1 in the first and 3-2 in the second game).

In February 2015, the New Zealanders played two international test matches in Auckland : on the 8th against North Korea (1: 1), which was not allowed for the World Cup, and on the 12th against Australia (2: 3), which also qualified for the World Cup Has. For March 3 (2: 2) and March 5, 2015, the New Zealand Association has announced two test matches against World Cup newcomers Spain in Guadalajara and La Roda . First of all, New Zealand's participation in the Zyper Cup, which will take place from March 4th to 11th, was announced on the Cyprus Cup website , in which New Zealand was to meet World Cup participants Mexico in the easier group C and, for the first time, Belgium and the Czech Republic . On February 6, New Zealand was removed from the list of participants, but no other team was named. Further test matches took place on April 4th in St. Louis and on May 24th in Marugame against the last World Cup finalists USA (0: 4) and Japan (0: 1).

The team

Contingent

The squad of 23 players (including three goalkeepers), which must be communicated to the FIFA general secretariat at least ten working days before the opening match, was announced on 14 May.

number	Surname	Date of birth	society	Calls	Gates	World Cup games	Last use	World Cup 2015
								Sp.	Gates
goal
23	Cushla Lichtwark	11/29/1980	Upper Hutt City	000	00			0	0	0	0	0
1	Erin Nayler	04/17/1992	Norwest United AFC	031	00	0 ( 2011 )	06/15/2015	3	0	0	0	0
21st	Rebecca Rolls	08/22/1975	Three Kings United	021st	00		11/28/2014	0	0	0	0	0
Defense
18th	Catherine Bott	04/22/1995	Forrest Hill Milford Utd AFC	001	00	4 (U20 2014)	03/10/2014	0	0	0	0	0
5	Abby Erceg	11/20/1989	Chicago Red Stars	116	05	6 (2007, 2011)	06/15/2015	3	0	1	0	0
3	Anna Green	08/20/1990	without a club	056	07th	3 (2011)	09/25/2013	0	0	0	0	0
15th	Meikayla Moore	06/04/1996	Eastern Suburbs AFC	010	00	4 (U20 2014)	15/01/2015	0	0	0	0	0
2	Ria Percival	07/12/1989	FF USV Jena	106	11	6 (2007, 2011)	06/15/2015	3	0	1	0	0
7th	Ali Riley	10/30/1987	FC Rosengård	095	01	6 (2007, 2011)	06/15/2015	3	0	0	0	0
6th	Rebekah Stott	06/17/1993	without a club	042	03		06/15/2015	3	1	0	0	0
midfield
14th	Katie Bowen	04/15/1994	University of North Carolina	029	00	2 (2011)	06/15/2015	3	0	0	0	0
20th	Daisy Cleverley	04/30/1997	Forrest Hill Milford Utd AFC	003	02	4 (U20 2014)	October 29, 2014	0	0	0	0	0
4th	Katie Duncan	02/01/1988	FC Zurich Women M, P	105	01	4 (2007, 2011)	06/15/2015	3	0	1	0	0
12	Betsy Hassett	08/04/1990	without a club	081	08th	3 (2011)	06/15/2015	3	0	0	0	0
16	Annalie Longo	07/01/1991	Coastal Spirit FC	081	06th	4 (2007, 2011)	06/15/2015	3	0	0	0	0
19th	Evie Millynn	11/23/1994	Eastern Suburbs AFC	002	00	7 (U20 2012, 2014)	October 29, 2014	0	0	0	0	0
11	Kirsty Yallop	04/11/1986	Vittsjö GIK	090	12	1 (2011)	06/15/2015	1	0	0	0	0
attack
10	Sarah Gregorius	08/06/1987	AS Elves Saitama	069	23	3 (2011)	06/15/2015	3	0	1	0	0
9	Amber Hearn	11/28/1984	FF USV Jena	102	45	3 (2011)	06/15/2015	3	0	0	0	0
22nd	Emma Kete	09/01/1987	Fencibles Utd AFC	048	03	0 (2011)	06/27/2012	0	0	0	0	0
8th	Jasmine Pereira	07/20/1996	Three Kings United	009	00	4 (U20 2014)	06/11/2015	2	0	0	0	0
13	Rosie White	06/06/1993	without a club	071	14th	2 (2011)	06/15/2015	2	0	0	0	0
17th	Hannah Wilkinson	05/28/1992	University of Tennessee	072	23	3 (2011)	06/11/2015	3	1	0	0	0
Coaching staff
Coach	Tony Readings	11/27/1975	New Zealand Football			3 (2011)		3		0	0	0
Assistant coach	Aaron McFarland		New Zealand Football					3		0	0	0
Assistant coach	Danny Robinson		New Zealand Football					3		0	0	0
Remarks: ↑ Numbers according to the squad list ↑ As of May 14, 2015 (M = champions, P = cup winners of the 2014/15 season) ↑ a b Status: June 15, 2015 after the last group game ↑ Before the 2015 World Cup ↑ As Katie Hoyle ↑ As an assistant trainer

Games at the World Cup

Edmonton Winnipeg

Venues

When the groups were drawn, New Zealand was not seeded and was drawn to group A with hosts Canada. China and World Cup newcomers Netherlands were drawn as further opponents. According to the positions in the FIFA world rankings before the World Cup, this was the most balanced group: New Zealand was in 17th place before the World Cup, the Canadians in 8th, China in 16 and the Netherlands in 12; Group cut = 13.25.

New Zealand lost only the first game against the newcomer to the World Cup, the Netherlands, against which the balance is now balanced with two wins, a draw (with one defeat on penalties ) and defeats. Against the Canadians now trained by former New Zealand coach John Herdman , against whom there was only one win with three draws and six defeats in 10 games before, a goalless draw followed in the second group game. With a win against China, New Zealand could have qualified for the round of 16. Against the Chinese, who won only three times in 16 games but lost 13 times, there was now the first draw. This increased the number of games without a win at World Championships to 15 and New Zealand was eliminated from the bottom of the group. The New Zealanders took the lead, but had to accept an equalizer 13 minutes later with a questionable hand penalty. In the second half, China even took the lead. The New Zealanders could only equalize through Hannah Wilkinson , who was the first New Zealand player to score a goal in two World Cup finals and thus became New Zealand's record goalscorer.

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Canada	3	1	2	0	002: 100	+1	05
2.	China	3	1	1	1	003: 300	± 0	04th
3.	Netherlands	3	1	1	1	002: 200	± 0	04th
4th	New Zealand	3	0	2	1	002: 300	−1	02

Sat June 6, 2015 in Edmonton
New Zealand	-	Netherlands	0: 1 (0: 1)
Thursday June 11, 2015 in Edmonton
Canada	-	New Zealand	0-0
Mon., June 15, 2015, in Winnipeg
China	-	New Zealand	2: 2 (1: 1)

Web links

• OFC Women's Nations Cup - Schedule and Results

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} nzfootball.co: "Ferns to host top 10 sides" ( memento of the original from January 20, 2015 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. ↑ nzfootball.co: "Ferns lock in Spain, Japan" ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2015 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.  
3. ^ Cyprus Women's Cup
4. ↑ fifa.com: "Regulations FIFA Women's World Cup Canada 2015 ™"
5. ↑ nzfootball.co: "Football Ferns named for World Cup" ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2015 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.  
6. ↑ framba.de: "Women's World Cup 2015: group draw degenerates into a farce" ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2014 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.