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2014 OFC Women's Nations Cup

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Host country
  
Papua New Guinea

Venue(s)
  
1 (in 1 host city)

Dates
  
25–29 October

Runners-up
  
Papua New Guinea

Teams
  
4 (from 1 confederation)

Champions
  
New Zealand (5th title)

The 2014 OFC Women's Nations Cup (also known as the 2014 OFC Women's Championship) took place in Papua New Guinea from 25–29 October 2014. The football tournament was organised by the Oceania Football Confederation. It was the tenth edition of the tournament.

Contents

New Zealand won the tournament without conceding a goal, thus winning their third straight edition and qualifying to the 2015 Women's World Cup.

Hosts

Papua New Guinea and New Zealand had submitted a bid for the tournament. Papua New Guinea was chosen at the OFC Executive Committee on 29 March 2014. Papua New Guinea had hosted the 2007 edition previously.

Teams

All eleven OFC members were eligible to participate but only four entered teams.

  •  Cook Islands
  •  New Zealand
  •  Papua New Guinea
  •  Tonga
  • Venue

    Matches were originally to be played at the Sir Ignatius Kilage Stadium in Lae. However, the venue was later changed to the Kalabond Oval in Kokopo.

    Format

    Teams played each other once in a round-robin tournament. The best placed team qualified to the 2015 FIFA World Cup.

    Matches

    All times are local (UTC+10:00).

    Awards

    The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.

    Goalscorers

    New Zealand's Amber Hearn won the top scorer award for the second tournament in a row.

    7 goals
  • Amber Hearn
  • 5 goals
  • Helen Collins
  • 4 goals
  • Meagen Gunemba
  • 3 goals
    2 goals
    1 goal

    References

    2014 OFC Women's Nations Cup Wikipedia