Papua New Guinea national football team results

This article lists the Papua New Guinea national football team results. The national team is organised by the Papua New Guinea Football Association that was established in 1962. Papua New Guinea joined FIFA in 1963. In 1966, Papua New Guinea were a founder member of the Oceania Football Confederation with Fiji, New Zealand and Australia. Jack Warner, then a FIFA Vice-President, in April 2009 called on New Zealand to help Papua New Guinea to bring them up to a good level.

Contents

• 2014
• 2012
• 2011
• 2007
• 2004
• 2003
• 2002
• 2000
• 1998
• 1997
• 1996
• 1995
• 1994
• 1993
• 1991
• 1990
• 1989
• 1987
• 1985
• 1984
• 1983
• 1981
• 1980
• 1979
• 1976
• 1975
• 1971
• 1969
• 1966
• 1963
• References

Their first competitive match was on 26 February 1980 in the 1980 OFC Nations Cup. Before then, the team had only played friendly matches. The national team plays relatively few games. For example, between 2004 and 2011 they played just one match, and that a friendly.

Success has been hard to achieve. In 1996 they won the first round of the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification tournament against Solomon Islands and Vanuatu but were eliminated in the second round. However, in that tournament they gained the most notable result in their history when they beat New Zealand 1-0, at home, on 31 May 1997. Then in 2002 Papua New Guinea won the qualification stage of the Oceania Nations Cup against New Caledonia, Samoa, Tonga, and American Samoa to qualify for the group stage, when they were eliminated. The team entered the inaugural 2008 Wantok Cup but withdrew, without playing any matches, citing financial problems. Papua New Guinea declined to take part in the 2010 Wantok Cup (which was subsequently cancelled) because they were "occupied by other football programs".

Papua New Guinea entered the FIFA World Cup, for the first time, for the 1998 competition. They subsequently entered for 2006 and 2010. They were, though, disqualified from the 2010 FIFA World Cup when they failed to enter the 2007 South Pacific Games, which acted as the first qualification stage. Papua New Guinea took part in the 2012 OFC Nations Cup, held in June 2012, which also formed part of the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification process. However, they failed to progress from the group stage.

The national team competed in the 2011 Pacific Games, the first competitive event that they had played in since 2004. During that tournament they recorded their largest ever victory, on 3 September 2011, 17-1 over Kiribati.

Papua New Guinea's highest ever FIFA ranking was 160, in June 2004. As of October 2015, the country was ranked 206= out of 209 countries with only Anguilla and Bahamas below them. This was down one place from September 2015.