Solomonic national football team

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Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands
Association logo
Nickname (s) Bonitos
Association Solomon Islands Football Federation
confederacy OFC
Head coach vacant
Assistant coach Batram Suri
captain Benjamin Totori
Record scorer Commins Menapi (34)
Record player Henry Fa'arodo (56)
Home stadium Lawson Tama
(Honiara)
FIFA code SOL
FIFA rank 141st (1073 points)
(as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey
Second jersey
statistics
First international game
Solomon Islands 6: 3 New Hebrides Suva , Fiji ; August 30, 1963Solomon IslandsSolomon IslandsNew Hebrides 1953New Hebrides (British)New Hebrides (French) 
Biggest win Solomon Islands 17-0 Wallis and Futuna Papua New Guinea ; August 1991
Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands Wallis FutunaWallis and Futuna
Biggest defeat Tahiti 18: 0 Solomon Islands Suva , Fiji ; 17th December 1983
TahitiTahiti Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands
Successes in tournaments
Oceania Championship
Participation in the finals 6 ( first : 1980 )
Best results 2nd place 2004
(As of June 9, 2017)

The Solomonic national football team is the selection team of the Pacific island state of the Solomon Islands .

The Solomon Islands are a member of the world football association FIFA and the regional association OFC . Thus, one takes part in the qualifying games for the soccer world championships as well as for the Oceania championship . So far, the team has not yet managed to qualify for the soccer World Cup. For the Oceania Championship you have been there six times so far.

The greatest success in the history of the national team was achieved in the qualifying matches for the 2006 World Cup in Germany . In the second qualifying round Oceania you could prevail against New Zealand . In the subsequent playoffs for participation in the relegation round, however, Australia was defeated in two games.

At the Oceania Championship 2004 they finished second behind Australia.

The Solomon Islands at the World Cup

The Solomon Islands first participated in a FIFA World Cup when they qualified for the 1994 World Cup in the United States . But already in the first round the team was eliminated against Australia and Tahiti with just one draw (1-1 against Tahiti).

Qualification for the 1998 World Cup in France ended again in the first round for the Solomon Islands. Without a win against Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu , second place in the table behind Papua New Guinea would not be enough for the second round.

The football world championship in 2002 was also not achievable for the team. Against New Zealand , Tahiti, Vanuatu and the Cook Islands , the Solomon Islands won two games and scored 17 goals, but in the end they only finished third.

The qualification for the 2006 World Cup in Germany was quite successful for the Solomon Islands. In the first round, the team played against Tahiti, New Caledonia , Tonga and the Cook Islands and won three of four games. At the end of the first round, the team took first place in the table and moved into the second round. Here the Solomon Islands met Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Tahiti and Vanuatu. Since New Zealand lost to Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands reached 2-2 against Australia, they qualified for the relegation. In two games against Australia, however, they lost significantly with 0: 7 and 1: 2 and were eliminated.

In qualifying for the 2010 World Cup , the team was eliminated in the first round, which was played as part of the South Pacific Games. After the group stage ended as group winners, the Solomon Islands lost 3-2 in the semifinals against New Caledonia.

The country again failed to qualify for the World Cup in Brazil four years later . They eliminated in the third qualifying round Oceania as the group bottom.

The team developed under the new Spanish coach Felipe Vega-Arango Alonso and reached the final continental elimination in qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia . With a 2-1 win against Papua New Guinea on the last day of the match, they moved into the two finals against New Zealand . They lost the first leg in Auckland with 1: 6. In the second leg, the team achieved a 2: 2 after falling 0: 2. New Zealand qualified for the intercontinental play-offs . The best Solomon scorer of the qualification was the captain and record international Henry Fa'arodo with three goals .

Trainer

player

Participation in soccer world championships

  • No international matches before December 1963
  • 1966 to 1990 - did not participate
  • 1994 to 2018 - not qualified

Participation in the Oceania Championship

Oceania Championship
year round placement Games Won draw Lost Gates Goals conceded
New ZealandNew Zealand 1973 not participated
New CaledoniaNew Caledonia 1980 Preliminary round 8th. 3 0 0 3 3 21st
1996 Semifinals 3. 2 0 0 2 1 3
AustraliaAustralia 1998 not qualified
TahitiTahiti 2000 3rd place match 3. 4th 2 0 2 7th 10
New ZealandNew Zealand 2002 Preliminary round 6th 3 0 1 2 3 9
AustraliaAustralia 2004 final 2. 7th 3 1 3 10 17th
2008 not qualified
Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands 2012 Semifinals 4th 5 1 2 2 5 6th
Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea 2016 Semifinals 4th 4th 1 0 3 2 4th
All in all 7/10 28 7th 4th 17th 31 70

Participation in the South Pacific and Pacific Games

With three second places, the Solomon Islands are the fourth best team in this competition.

  • 1963 - fourth
  • 1966 - preliminary round
  • 1969 - sixth (of six participants)
  • 1971 - did not participate
  • 1975 - third
  • 1979 - third
  • 1983 - preliminary round
  • 1987 - did not participate
  • 1991 - second
  • 1995 - second
  • 2003 - preliminary round
  • 2007 - fourth
  • 2011 - second
  • 2015 - preliminary round
  • 2019 - preliminary round

Participation in the Melanesia Cup

The Solomon Islands took part in all previous events and were able to register once on the list of winners.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Solomon Islands are looking forward to a historic duel. In: fifa.com. FIFA , August 30, 2017, accessed September 5, 2017 .