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Cook Islands women's national under-20 football team

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Cook Islands women's U-20
AssociationCook Islands Football Association
ConfederationOFC (Oceania)
Head coachNetherlands Judith Kuipers
Top scorerRegina Mustonen (5)
Home stadiumAvarua Tereora Stadium
FIFA codeCOK
First colours
Second colours
First international
 Cook Islands 0–15  Australia
(Nuku'alofa, Tonga; April 26, 2002)
Biggest win
 American Samoa 0–4  Cook Islands
(Auckland, New Zealand; January 25, 2010)
Biggest defeat
 Cook Islands 0–15  Australia
(Nuku'alofa, Tonga; April 26, 2002)
World Cup
Appearances0
OFC U-20 Women's Championship
Appearances4 (first in 2002)
Best resultSecond Place (2010) [1]

The Cook Islands women's national under-20 football team is the highest women's youth team of women's football in the Cook Islands and is controlled by the Cook Islands Football Association (CIFA).

History

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The Cook Islands is with approximately 18.000 inhabitants one of the smallest nations in the world. Despite being such a small country they are quite good at the Women's football tournaments. Their under-20 team participated just twice at OFC U-20 Women's Championship so far. At the first ever edition of the tournament, in 2002, they managed to get a draw in their second game of the tournament: 1–1 against Tonga. The first game they ever played, a 15–0 loss against Australia, is still their biggest loss ever.

Eight years later, in 2010, they performed a lot better with grabbing their first victory ever: a 4–0 victory against American Samoa. After again 1–1 draw against Tonga and a 8–0 defeat against New Zealand they reached the second place, out of four teams. Notably was that all their five goals in this tournament were scored by Regina Mustonen which made her automatically the all-time top scorer of the Cook Islands Women's U-20.

In 2019 they will participate again.

OFC Championship Record

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OFC U-20 Women's Championship
Year Round Pld W D L GF GA GD
Tonga 2002 Group stage 2 0 1 1 1 16 -15
Papua New Guinea 2004 Did not Participate
Samoa 2006
New Zealand 2010 Second Place 3 1 1 1 5 9 -4
New Zealand 2012 Did not Participate
New Zealand 2014
Tonga 2015
New Zealand 2017
Cook Islands 2019[2] Group stage 3 1 0 2 1 2 -1
Fiji 2023 Fourth place 5 2 1 2 4 8 -4
Total 4/10 13 4 3 6 11 35 -24

Current squad

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The following players were called up for the 2019 OFC U-19 Women's Championship from 30 August–12 September in Avarua, the Cook Islands.

Caps and goals updated as of 6 September 2019, after the game against the Solomon Islands.

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1 1GK Daimzel Rongokea (2001-07-29) 29 July 2001 (age 23) 3 0 Cook Islands Puaikura
20 1GK Alma Ngametua (2003-01-19) 19 January 2003 (age 21) 0 0 Cook Islands Avatiu

2 2DF Merran Munro (2002-08-22) 22 August 2002 (age 22) 2 0 Cook Islands Puaikura
3 2DF Teretia Teinaki (2002-01-23) 23 January 2002 (age 22) 3 0 Cook Islands Tupapa Maraerenga
4 2DF Esther Potoru (2002-05-26) 26 May 2002 (age 22) 3 0 Cook Islands Puaikura
5 2DF Tiamarama Tuivaga (2001-06-26) 26 June 2001 (age 23) 0 0 Cook Islands Nikao Sokattack
13 2DF Tarita Mamanu (2001-08-09) 9 August 2001 (age 23) 1 0 Cook Islands Puaikura
14 2DF Eitiare Tangirere (2001-09-08) 8 September 2001 (age 23) 2 0 Cook Islands Titikaveka
17 2DF Tepaeru Ngaroi (2003-08-09) 9 August 2003 (age 21) 2 0 Cook Islands Avatiu
18 2DF Tineke De Jong (2002-05-26) 26 May 2002 (age 22) 0 0 Cook Islands Titikaveka

6 3MF Tehinnah Tatuava (captain) (2002-04-15) 15 April 2002 (age 22) 3 0 Cook Islands Titikaveka
7 3MF Piri Murare (2001-08-16) 16 August 2001 (age 23) 3 0 Cook Islands Avatiu
8 3MF Jessica Warmington (2001-06-08) 8 June 2001 (age 23) 3 0 New Zealand Papatoetoe
10 3MF Ngametua Taringa (2002-02-03) 3 February 2002 (age 22) 3 0 Cook Islands Tupapa Maraerenga
15 3MF Lyric Davison (2002-04-11) 11 April 2002 (age 22) 3 0 New Zealand Ellerslie
16 3MF Keana Maaka (2002-10-10) 10 October 2002 (age 22) 0 0 Cook Islands Avatiu

9 4FW Kuramaeva Mose (2004-06-26) 26 June 2004 (age 20) 3 0 Cook Islands Tupapa Maraerenga
11 4FW Moeroa Harmon (2000-07-08) 8 July 2000 (age 24) 3 0 Cook Islands Tupapa Maraerenga
12 4FW Ngamata Moekaa (2002-05-24) 24 May 2002 (age 22) 3 1 Cook Islands Puaikura

References

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  1. ^ "Cook Islands training squad o course". oceaniafootball. 4 September 2009. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
  2. ^ "Draw for U-16 & U-19 Women's Championships complete". oceaniafootball. 18 April 2019. Retrieved 19 August 2019.