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2012 OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament

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Dates
  
1 March–4 April 2012

Third place
  
Tonga

Runners-up
  
Papua New Guinea

Fourth place
  
Vanuatu

Teams
  
5 (from 1 confederation)

Champions
  
New Zealand (2nd title)

2012 OFC Women's Pre-Olympic Football Tournament is the qualifying tournament to the football competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London for the member nations of the Oceania Football Confederation. It is the third edition of the OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament. Four nations participated in a preliminary tournament (hosted by Tonga) based on a league system with two advancing to a final. The winner of this preliminary stage will play New Zealand in a home-and-away play-off for a place at the Olympics.

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Participating teams

  •  New Zealand
  •  Papua New Guinea
  •  Samoa
  •  Tonga
  •  Vanuatu
  • First stage

    The teams' paths to the Olympics were revealed on 17 February 2012.

    Awards

    A number of awards were announced following the preliminary tournament.

    New Zealand won 15–0 on aggregate and advanced to the Olympic Games.

    References

    2012 OFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament Wikipedia