Soccer World Cup 2019 / New Zealand

Football Women's World Cup 2019 : New Zealand
Trainer	Tom Sermanni
captain	Ali Riley
Qualified as	Winner of the Oceania Championship 2018
Tournament result	Last group
Games won	0
Games tie	0
Games lost	3
Gates	1: 5

This article covers the New Zealand national football team of the women in the soccer World Cup Women 2019 in France . New Zealand took part in the finals for the fifth time, as before as reigning Oceania champions . New Zealand retired after three defeats like four times before after the group stage.

qualification

Shortly before the 2018 Oceania Championship, which, as before, served as a qualification for the World Cup finals, the Scottish Tom Sermanni became the new national coach of the New Zealand women's national team.

New Zealand and six other teams automatically qualified for the championship, for which all eleven oceanic associations had registered a team for the first time. The later final opponent Fiji, however, only had to qualify in a tournament in August against American Samoa, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. Sermanni nominated 23 players for the tournament, including Grace Jale and Nadia Olla (goal), two players without an A international match and eight players who had played a maximum of five A internationals. Four players, on the other hand, have already played more than 100 international matches. Due to injury, Hannah Wilkinson and record goal scorer Amber Hearn could not be considered. In addition, the record national player Abby Erceg ended her national team career in May 2018.

The New Zealand team met Tonga in their first game and won 11-0 - the largest international defeat for Tonga. The half-time substitute debutante Grace Jale scored the last goal of the game in the 88th minute with her first international goal. In the second game against the Cook Islands, it was Sarah Morton , Emma Rolston (2) and Katie Rood who contributed to the 6-0 win with their first international goals. In the last group game against Fiji, they won 10-0. The New Zealanders reached the semi-finals as group winners, where they met tournament hosts New Caledonia. With 8: 0 in front of 1,200 spectators - the highest number of spectators at this tournament - they reached the final. With Paige Satchell, another player was able to score her first international goal. In the final, the New Zealanders met their group opponent Fiji, who had made it into the top two teams for the first time and had defeated Papua New Guinea, the finalists of the previous championship, 5-1 in the semifinals. Although the New Zealanders scored two goals less than in the group game, with 8-0 this game was also a one-sided thing. The realized Rosie White in the second minute and the first in the 90th minute the last goal of the game.

With the final victory, New Zealand not only qualified as the last team for the World Cup finals, but also as the third team for the women's football tournament at the 2020 Olympic Games.

All 23 nominated players were used in the tournament, but only Ria Percival took part in all five games. Percival was able to replace Abby Erceg as a record national player in the third group game with her 133rd international match.

The New Zealanders scored a total of 42 goals and also benefited from an own goal by a Fijian player in the group game. The most goals for the New Zealand team were scored by Sarah Gregorius (8, who, together with a player from Papua New Guinea, was also the tournament's top scorer), Emma Rolston and Rosie White (6 each), Betsy Hassett and Annalie Longo (5 each) . A total of 12 New Zealand players scored in the tournament.

Group games

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	New Zealand	3	3	0	0	027: 000	+27	09
2.	Fiji	3	2	0	1	015:100	+5	06th
3.	Tonga	3	1	0	2	001:230	−22	03
4th	Cook Islands	3	0	0	3	000:100	−10	00

November 19, 2018	Nouméa	New Zealand	-	Tonga	11: 0 (8: 0)	Gregorius (3), White (2), Longo (2), Hassett (2), Jale (1st international goal), Percival
11/22/2018	Nouméa	New Zealand	-	Cook Islands	06: 0 (3: 0)	Rolston (2, first international goals), Jale, Longo, Morton (1st international goal), Rood (1st international goal)
11/25/2018	Nouméa	Fiji	-	New Zealand	00:10 (0: 4)	Gregorius (3), Longo (2), Rood (2), Moore , Rolston; Torah (own goal)

Semifinals

11/28/2018

Maré

New Zealand

-

New Caledonia

8: 0 (7: 0)

Rolston (3), White (2), Bowen , Hassett, Satchell (1st international goal)

final

December 01, 2018

Nouméa

Fiji

-

New Zealand

0: 8 (0: 4)

Gregorius (2), Hassett (2), White (2), Moore, Rood

preparation

At the end of February / beginning of March 2019, New Zealand took part in the Cup of Nations organized by the Australian Association with four World Cup participants. New Zealand could only win the game against Argentina (2-0), but lost to Australia (0-2) and South Korea (0-2). On April 5th and 9th, the New Zealanders will play twice against Norway in Marbella , the first losing 1-0 in camera and winning the second 1-0. On May 16, they lost in St. Louis against world champions USA 5-0, with Rosie White making her 100th international match. On May 22nd they won 2-1 against Mexico in New York and 1-0 against England on June 2nd in Brighton . The preparation ended on June 4th in Cardiff with a 1-0 loss to Wales .

Squad

The World Cup squad was named on April 29th. 17 players were already part of the squad at the last World Cup . Sarah Gregorius, Abby Erceg, Katie Duncan and Emma Kete had already resigned from the national team, but had resigned at the beginning of the year. Hannah Wilkinson had torn a cruciate ligament six months earlier and has not played an international match since. On June 10, Meikayla Moore was replaced by Nicole Stratford , as Moore tore a Achilles tendon during training.

No.	Player	birth date	debut	society	Country games	Country goals	Last use	World Cup games, goals	World Cup 2019
									Sp.
goal
21st	Victoria Esson	March 31, 1991	2018	Avaldsnes IL	004th	00	05/23/2019
01	Erin Nayler	04/17/1992	2013	Girondins Bordeaux	065	00	06/04/2019	3 (2011, 2015)	3
23	Nadia Olla	02/07/2000	2018	Western Springs AFC	001	00	11/28/2018
Defense
04th	CJ Bott	04/22/1995	2014	Vittsjö GIK	018th	01	06/01/2019	0 (2015)	2
08th	Abby Erceg	11/20/1989	2006	North Carolina Courage	138	06th	06/04/2019	9 (2007, 2011, 2015)	3
03	Anna Green	08/20/1990	2006	Miramar Rangers	075	07th	06/04/2019	3 (2011, 2015)	2		1
15th	Sarah Morton	08/28/1998	2018	Western Springs	007th	01	05/23/2019
02	Ria Percival	07/12/1989	2006	West Ham United	142	14th	06/04/2019	9 (2007, 2011, 2015)	3
07th	Ali Riley	10/30/1987	2007	Chelsea FC	127	01	06/04/2019	9 (2007, 2011, 2015)	3
18th	Stephanie Skilton	October 27, 1994	2014	Papakura City	010	00	05/23/2019
06th	Rebekah Stott	06/17/1993	2012	Avaldsnes IL	074	04th	06/04/2019	3.1 (2015)	3
05	Nicole Stratford	02/01/1989		Glenfield Rovers AFC	00	00
midfield
14th	Katie Bowen	04/15/1994	2011	Utah Royals FC	062	03	06/04/2019	5 (2011, 2015)	3
22nd	Olivia chance	05/10/1993	2011	Everton FC	015th	00	06/04/2019		3
20th	Daisy Cleverley	04/30/1997	2014	California Golden Bears	009	02	05/23/2019	0 (2015)
16	Katie Duncan	02/11/1988	2006	Onehunga Sports	124	01	05/23/2019	7 (2007, 2011, 2015)	1
12	Betsy Hassett	08/04/1990	2008	KR Reykjavík	113	13	06/04/2019	6 (2011, 2015)	3
10	Annalie Longo	07/01/1991	2006	without a club	117	15th	06/04/2019	7 (2007, 2011, 2015)	3
19th	Paige Satchell	04/10/1998	2016	Three Kings United	015th	01	06/04/2019		1
attack
11	Sarah Gregorius	08/06/1987	2010	Miramar Rangers	095	35	06/04/2019	6.1 (2011, 2015)	3
09	Emma Kete	09/01/1987	2007	without a club	052	03	06/04/2019	0 (2011, 2015)	1
13	Rosie White	06/06/1993	2009	without a club	103	25th	06/04/2019	4 (2011, 2015)	3
17th	Hannah Wilkinson	05/28/1992	2010	without a club	091	25th	06/04/2019	6.2 (2011, 2015)	2
Coaching staff
Trainer	Tom Sermanni	07/01/1954	2018	NZF				11 (1995, 2007, 2011)	3
Remarks: ↑ Numbers according to the FIFA squad list ↑ As of May 2019 ↑ a b Status: June 4, 2019 ↑ An own goal by the Cameroonian Aurella Awona . ↑ a b c Also a game with NZ A Women in December 2016 against Thailand ↑ a b c d Also two games with NZ A Women in December 2016 against Thailand ↑ With Australia

draw

Grenoble Le Havre Montpellier

New Zealanders' venues

For the World Cup group draw that took place on December 8, 2018, New Zealand was allocated to Pot 3 due to its placement in the FIFA world rankings of December 7, 2018. The team was able to meet world champions USA, Germany or hosts France for the first time at a World Cup. On the other hand, a group game against China, which has so far been played most frequently at world championships, was not possible because China was also assigned to pot 3.

Ultimately, the team was drawn like Canada and European champions Netherlands in 2015. Then there was Cameroon, which so far has only been played in the preliminary round of the 2012 Olympic Games . The 3-1 win against the Africans was the first win for the New Zealanders in an Olympic football tournament. There have been eleven games against Canada so far, only the first of which was won in 1987 (1-0), four games ended in a draw and six games were lost. The last game between the two in the preliminary round of the last World Cup ended goalless. Only the first two games were won against the Netherlands, in 1981 at the Women's World Invitation Tournament (Zwart-Wit '28 played for the Netherlands and the game is not counted by the Dutch Association) and the Cyprus Cup in 2009 . This was followed by two draws (with one defeat on penalties) and three defeats, u. a. in the preliminary round of the last World Cup.

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Netherlands	3	3	0	0	006: 200	+4	09
2.	Canada	3	2	0	1	004: 200	+2	06th
3.	Cameroon	3	1	0	2	003: 500	−2	03
4th	New Zealand	3	0	0	3	001: 500	−4	00

Tuesday, June 11, 2019 in Le Havre
New Zealand	-	Netherlands	0: 1 (0: 0)
Saturday, June 15, 2019 in Grenoble
Canada	-	New Zealand	2: 0 (0: 0)
Thursday, June 20, 2019 in Montpellier
Cameroon	-	New Zealand	2: 1 (0: 0)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ nzfootball.co: Sermanni named as Ferns Head Coach ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2018 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: Sermanni names strong squad for Nations Cup
3. ↑ fifa.com: New Zealand completes the field of participants
4. ↑ footballaustralia.com: Cup of Nations
5. ↑ nzfootball.co: Ferns go down to Norway
6. ↑ nzfootball.co: Ferns go down to the USA
7. ↑ nzfootball.co: Ferns confirmed to play Mexico in May
8. ↑ nzfootball.co: Sermanni names strong World Cup squad
9. ↑ nzfootball.co: Wilkinson completes comeback for World Cup
10. ↑ nzfootball.co: Moore ruled out of World Cup
11. ↑ fifa.com: Pot allocation for World Cup draw according to the latest world rankings