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New Zealand national under 23 football team

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Nickname(s)
  
Oly-Whites

FIFA code
  
NZL

Head coach
  
Anthony Hudson

Location
  
New Zealand

Top scorer
  
Jeremy Brockie (8)

Appearances
  
7 (first in 1991)

Captain
  
Louis Fenton

Association
  
New Zealand Football

New Zealand national under-23 football team

Most caps
  
Jeremy Brockie & Daniel Ellensohn (15)

Best result
  
Champions (1999, 2008, 2012)

Confederation
  
Oceania Football Confederation (Oceania)

The New Zealand Under-23 Football Team, informally known as the "Oly-Whites", represents New Zealand Football and New Zealand in international Under-23 football (soccer) events, such as the Summer Olympics.

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The Oly-Whites qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing after winning the OFC Preliminary Competition in Fiji. Thus, Beijing saw the first Olympic appearance for a New Zealand men's football team.

OFC

The New Zealand national under-23 football team has competed in the OFC Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament since 1991. During the 1980s, the New Zealand national football team participated in Olympic Qualification.

By Match

2015

Current squad

The squad named for the 2015 Pacific Games. Caps listed are only at U23 level and are accurate as of 10 July 2015.

Head coach: Anthony Hudson

References

New Zealand national under-23 football team Wikipedia