Football at the 2007 South Pacific Games – Women's tournament

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Women's Football at the Pacific Games 2007
Tournament details
Host countrySamoa
Dates25 August – 7 September
Teams9 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Papua New Guinea (2nd title)
Runners-up Tonga
Third place Fiji
Fourth place Tahiti
Tournament statistics
Matches played20
Goals scored55 (2.75 per match)
Top scorer(s)Papua New Guinea Lydia Banabas
(8 goals)
2003
2011

The 2007 Pacific Games women's football tournament was the second edition of Pacific Games women's football tournament. The competition was held in Samoa from 25 August to 7 September 2011 with the final played at the Toleafoa J.S. Blatter Complex in Apia.

This tournament was the first stage of qualification for the 2008 Olympic Games Women's Football Tournament. Only Papua New Guinea moved on to stage 2.

Vanuatu was listed as an entrant initially, but withdrew before the draw.

Group seedings[edit]

Group A Group B

Note: Rankings shown are as of March 2007.

Preliminary round[edit]

Group A[edit]

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Fiji 4 4 0 0 11 1 +10 12
 Papua New Guinea 4 3 0 1 14 2 +12 9
 Solomon Islands 4 1 1 2 4 8 −4 4
 Cook Islands 4 0 2 2 4 10 −6 2
 American Samoa 4 0 1 3 1 13 −12 1

Papua New Guinea 6–0 American Samoa
Konalalai 41' 45+1'
Siniu 44'
Banabas 55'
Midi 68' Alau 89'
Report
Fiji 4–1 Cook Islands
Ratu 17'
Vatulili 57' 70'
Regu 78'
Report Patia 81'



Papua New Guinea 0–1 Fiji
Report Vanua 14'

Solomon Islands 0–3 Fiji
Report Adiela Kurikaba 11' 49' 64'
Referee: Averii Jacques (Tahiti)

Group B[edit]

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Tahiti 3 2 1 0 6 0 +6 7
 Tonga 3 1 2 0 2 0 +2 5
 Samoa 3 1 1 1 2 4 −2 4
 New Caledonia 3 0 0 3 0 6 −6 0



Note: while all other groups had the two final matches played simultaneously, this was not the case here.

Knockout stage[edit]

Semi-finals[edit]

Fiji 0–1 Tonga
Report Feke 80' (pen.)

Bronze medal match[edit]

Fiji 1–0 Tahiti
Vatulili 49' Report

Gold medal match[edit]

Note: Penateti Feke's goal in the final gave her the tournament's Golden Boot (with 4 goals), and marked the first time in South Pacific Games history that a single player has scored every one of their team's goals en route to the final.

Papua New Guinea advanced to face New Zealand in a playoff game for a spot at the 2008 Olympics.

Goalscorers[edit]

8 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Own goal

See also[edit]

References[edit]