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Papua New Guinea
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)Kapuls (Tok Pisin for Cuscus)
AssociationPapua New Guinea
Football Association
ConfederationOFC (Oceania)
Head coachAustraliaFrank Farina
Most capsPapua New Guinea Richard Daniel
Top scorerPapua New Guinea Reginald Davani
Home stadiumHubert Murray Stadium
FIFA codePNG
First colours
Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current203
Highest160 (June 2004)
Lowest203 (July 2009)
First international
 Fiji 3–1 Papua New Guinea Australia
(Suva, Fiji; 29 August 1963)[1]
Biggest win
Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea 20–0 American Samoa 
(Nouméa, New Caledonia; 15 December 1987)
Biggest defeat
 Malaysia 10–1 Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea
(Jakarta, Indonesia; June 1976)
 Australia 11–2 Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea
(Nouméa, New Caledonia; 26 February 1980)
OFC Nations Cup
Appearances2 (first in 1980)
Best resultRound 1, 1980 and 2002

The Papua New Guinea national football team is the national team of Papua New Guinea and is controlled by the Papua New Guinea Football Association.

As of May 2011 PNG was, at 202, ranked lowest in the world by FIFA, jointly with five other national teams, principally because the team has not played a match since July 2007.[1] It is likely that if Papua New Guinea do not play a match before 21 July 2011, four years since their last game, they will be removed from the FIFA World Rankings.[citation needed]

Papua New Guinea all time record against all nations

Against Played Won Drawn Lost GF GA GD
 American Samoa 2 2 0 0 17 0 +17
 Australia 1 0 0 1 2 11 -9
 China 2 0 1 1 2 5 -3
 Fiji 15 2 4 9 14 28 -14
 Indonesia 2 1 0 1 3 8 -5
 Liberia 1 1 0 0 2 1 +1
 Malaysia 1 0 0 1 1 5 -4
 New Zealand 3 1 0 2 2 16 -14
 Samoa 3 3 0 0 14 2 +12
 Solomon Islands 1 0 0 1 1 2 -11
 Tahiti 2 0 0 2 1 6 -5
 Tahiti 1 1 0 0 4 1 +3
 Tonga 2 1 1 0 7 2 +5
 Vanuatu 12 4 3 5 15 20 -5
Total 57 16 13 28 91 117 -26


Results

Main article: Papua New Guinea national football team results

Last match:

World Cup record

* Although initially listed by FIFA as having entered the 2010 World Cup, PNG did not enter the football tournament at the 2007 South Pacific Games, which was used as the preliminary round of the Oceanian zone qualification tournament.

Oceania Nations Cup record

South Pacific Games record

Wantok Cup record

List of coaches

  • Papua New Guinea Richard Tamari Nagai (1996)
  • Papua New Guinea John Davani (2002)
  • England Steve Cain (2002)
  • Papua New Guinea Ludwig Peka (2003–2004)
  • Brazil Markos Gusmao (2004–2011)
  • Australia Frank Farina (2011-)

Current squad

No players have been called up for internationals since July 2007.

References

  1. ^ "FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking". FIFA. 18 May 2011. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
  2. ^ "Papua New Guinea - Latest Fixtures and Results", FIFA, accessed 14 January 2008
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