2025 OFC Women's Nations Cup

2025 OFC Women's Nations Cup
Tournament details
Host countryFiji
Dates4–19 July 2025
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)2 (in 2 host cities)
Tournament statistics
Matches played8
Goals scored23 (2.88 per match)
Top scorer(s) Leimata Simon
(4 goals)
← 2022
2029 →
All statistics correct as of 7 July 2025.

The 2025 OFC Women's Nations Cup will be the 13th edition of the OFC Women's Nations Cup, the quadrennial international football championship organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) for the women's national teams of the Oceanian region. As with the previous tournament, it will be held in Fiji. It will take place between 4-19 July 2025.[1]

Papua New Guinea are the defending champions having beaten Fiji 2–1 in the previous final.

Format

The format will follow:

  • Final tournament: A total of eight teams will play in the tournament, which will be held in July 2025 in Fiji. [2] For the group stage, they will be divided into two groups of four teams. The top two teams of each group will advance to the knockout stage (quarter-finals, semi-finals, positional play-offds and final) to decide the winner of the OFC Women's Nations Cup, however the winner will no longer qualify for the FIFA Women's World Cup with OFC instead opting to organise a separate qualifiers tournament.[1]

Teams

The following teams entered the final tournament alongside host Fiji.[3]

Team App First Last Best performance World
Rankings[4]
 Cook Islands 6th 2003 2022 Third place (2010, 2014) 115
 Fiji 6th 1983 Runners-up (2018, 2022) 72
 Papua New Guinea 11th 1989 Champions (2022) 56
 Samoa 5th 1998 Fourth place (2003, 2022) 98
 Solomon Islands 4th 2007 Third place (2022) 86
 Tahiti 4th 2010 Quarter-finals (2022) 114
 Tonga 6th 2007 Third place (2007) 93
 Vanuatu 3rd 2010 Group stage (2010, 2022) 120

Teams do not enter in the competition:

Venues

 Lautoka Suva
Churchill Park HFC Bank Stadium
Capacity: 18,000 Capacity: 15,446

Draw

The final draw took place at 18:00 NZST on 18 March 2025 at the OFC Home of Football - Te Kahu o Kiwa in Auckland, New Zealand. OFC Women's Football Manager Ashleigh Cox and Media and Communications Manager Matt Brown conducted and presented the draw. The draw began with Pot 3, with all teams from this pot allocated before proceeding to Pot 2 and then Pot 1. Teams were drawn sequentially, with the first team placed in Group A and the second in Group B.[5][6]

Seeding

The seeding for the draw was based on the FIFA Women's World Ranking of December 2024.

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3
 Papua New Guinea (56)
 Fiji (72)		  Solomon Islands (87)
 Tonga (95)
 Samoa (100)
 Tahiti (113)		  Cook Islands (114)
 Vanuatu (121)

Squads

Main article: 2025 OFC Women's Nations Cup squads

Group stage

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Samoa 3 2 0 1 7 3 +4 6 Semifinals
2  Papua New Guinea 2 1 1 0 3 2 +1 4
3  Tahiti 3 0 2 1 3 5 −2 2 Fifth place game
4  Cook Islands 2 0 1 1 1 4 −3 1 Seventh place game
Updated to match(es) played on 10 July 2025. Source: OFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Tahiti 1–1 Cook Islands
K. Mai 63' Report Rouru 28'
Attendance: 200
Referee: Torika Delai (Fiji)
Papua New Guinea 2–1 Samoa
Kaipu 19', 40' Report Xev. Salanoa 84'
Attendance: 200
Referee: Shama Maemae (Solomon Islands)
Cook Islands 0–3 Samoa
Report
  • Xev. Salanoa 3'
  • Dowsing 12'
  • Fischer 58'
Attendance: 200
Referee: Torika Delai (Fiji)
Papua New Guinea 1–1 Tahiti
Samuel 51' Report Wong 45+4' (pen.)
Attendance: 200
Referee: Jovita Ambrose (Solomon Islands)
Samoa 3–1 Tahiti
  • Skeers 5' (pen.)
  • Kitiona 18'
  • Jessop 74'
 Report
  • Teore 37'
Referee: Torika Delai (Fiji)
Cook Islands v Papua New Guinea
Report
Referee: Yantama Atoa (Tonga)

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Fiji (H) 2 2 0 0 6 2 +4 6 Advance to knockout phase
2  Solomon Islands 2 1 0 1 4 4 0 3
3  Vanuatu 2 1 0 1 4 2 +2 3
4  Tonga 2 0 0 2 0 6 −6 0
Updated to match(es) played on 8 July 2025. Source: OFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
Tonga 0–3 Vanuatu
Report Simon 22', 45+3', 53'
Attendance: 100
Referee: Kyllian Lelarge (New Caledonia)
Fiji 3–2 Solomon Islands
 Report
  • Solosaia 8', 42'
Attendance: 803
Referee: Sarah Jones (New Zealand)
Vanuatu 1–2 Solomon Islands
  • Simon 82'
 Report
Attendance: 200
Referee: Kyllian Lelarge (New Caledonia)
Fiji 3–0 Tonga
 Report
Attendance: 599
Referee: Peter Olomaga (Samoa)
Solomon Islands v Tonga
Vanuatu v Fiji

Knockout stage

Bracket

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
 16 July 2025 (2025-07-16) – Suva
 
 
 Group A Winner
 
 19 July 2025 (2025-07-19) – Suva
 
 Group B Runner-up
 
 Semi-final 1 Winner
 
 16 July 2025 (2025-07-16) – Suva
 
 Semi-final 2 Winner
 
 Group B Winner
 
 
 Group A Runner-up
 
Third place
 
 
 19 July 2025 (2025-07-19) – Suva
 
 
 Semi-final 1 Loser
 
 
 Semi-final 2 Loser
 
 14 July 2025 (2025-07-14) – Suva
 
 
 Group A Fourth place
 
 
 Group B Fourth place
 
 

14 July 2025 (2025-07-14) – Suva
 
 
 Group A Third place
 
 
 Group B Third place
 

Seventh place match

Group A fourth placevGroup B fourth place

Fifth place match

Group A third placevGroup B third place

Semi-finals

Group A winnersvGroup B runners-up
Group B winnersvGroup A runners-up

Third place match

Loser SF1vLoser SF2

Final

Winner SF1vWinner SF2

Statistics

Goalscorers

There have been 27 goals scored in 9 matches, for an average of 3 goals per match (as of 10 July 2025).

4 goals

  • Leimata Simon

2 goals

1 goal

  • Tearoa Rouru
  • Narieta Leba
  • Sereana Naweni
  • Raynata Samuel
  • Lilly Dowsing
  • Monique Fischer
  • Malia Jessop
  • Oteta Kitiona
  • Arianna Skeers
  • Lorina Solosaia
  • Ileen Pegi
  • Kohai Mai
  • Tauhere Teore
  • Kiani Wong

1 own goal

  • Ana Lauteau (against Fiji)

References

  1. ^ a b "OFC competition hosts confirmed for 2025". Oceania Football Confederation. 13 October 2024. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
  2. ^ "OFC release competition schedule, with venues and dates for 2025". Friends of Football. 18 October 2024. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
  3. ^ Bjerkevoll, Ola (18 March 2025). "Here's how the women's Nations Cup will be played". footballoceania.com. Football in Oceania. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  4. ^ "Women's World Ranking". fifa.com. FIFA. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  5. ^ "Draw confirmed for OFC Women's Nations Cup 2025". oceaniafootball.com. OFC. 18 March 2025. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  6. ^ Cama, Akuila (18 March 2025). "Fiji, Solomon in same OFC Women's Nations Cup group". FBC. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
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