Women’s NSL ready to kick off

194
271

It has been a long time coming, but Papua New Guinea will finally see its National Women’s Soccer League get underway this weekend with matches in Lae and Port Moresby.

The Papua New Guinea Football Association have been working hard behind the scenes to prepare for the much anticipated competition, with 14 teams set to battle it out for the women’s silverware.

The Northern Conference has Sepik FC, Pacific Gardens FC, Markham Raings FC, Morobe Tulips FC, Bara FC, Rainy Lae FC, Poro FC and Tusbab Laidamon FC while Southern Conference has Port Moresby City FC, Port Moresby City Academy, National Capital District Public Servant Soccer Association, Hekari United FC, Genesis FC and Amoana FC.

Recently appointed PNGFA Competition Director Paul Isorua has confirmed the competing teams will be split into two conferences, Northern and Southern.

“Nothern Conference teams consist of a team from East Sepik province, Madang, Goroka and five are Lae-based while Southern has five Port Moresby-based teams and one from Central Province,” he said

“So far preparation has been going well and we are excited to see the revival of the women’s league.”

“We are starting off with the launch on Wednesday November 25 with a big bang, which will include the unveiling of the draw, followed by the kick-off on Saturday November 28. The competition starts at the end of this month and runs through to February next year.”

Isorua said the Conference competition stage will be a league format with two rounds, before the top two teams from the respective conferences proceed to the finals.

Papua New Guinea Football Association General Secretary Pius Letenge, believes the revamping of the women’s league is an interesting and exciting prospect, especially with the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 on the horizon.

“There is a huge interest in women’s football and it has grown massively over the years. We have seen young women and girls coming out from different settlements, communities, tribes, clans and provinces in Papua New Guinea and excelling in the sport,” Letenge said.

“We are also seeing mothers who regularly attend trainings and who bring their children to games. It’s truly amazing to see young women and girls who are focused to grow to become better, not only in football, but also in life.

“Our women’s national team is the only team in the country which has won five consecutive gold medals in the Pacific Games. We are currently ranked 48 in the world and second in Oceania behind New Zealand which is something very good..

“Our aim now for 2020 is to identify talented women and girls in football for development.”

Letenge said PNGFA will be going into overdrive in its bid to ensure players are well prepared over the next two years with the goal of qualifying for the FIFA Women’s World Cup for the first time.

Although Papua New Guinea hosted the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in 2016, competing with pride and honour on the global stage, women’s football development in the country has suffered immensely from the political maelstrom which has blighted the association over the past five years.

The promises that tournament offered have unfortunately not been delivered on, with many young players lost in the wilderness without regular matches, training, or any organised football activities to aid their development.

However, football still seems to have ingrained itself in the blood of many as Papua New Guinea won their fifth Pacific Games gold medal in 2019, less than a year after disappointingly missing out on the final of the OFC Women’s Nations Cup following a semi-final loss to rising women’s football nation Fiji.

With stability returning to PNGFA, a new president in John Kapi Natto joined by the newly appointed Letenge, things are certainly looking up for women’s football in the region’s most populous nation.

“These are hugely exciting times for women’s football and as the country’s flagship women’s competition, the revamped Women’s League will have a key role to play in furthering this growth,” Letenge said.

Advertise here on PNGBUZZ - Contact us today

RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR

194 COMMENTS

  63. I’ve been surfing on-line greater than 3 hours lately, but I by no means discovered any attention-grabbing article like yours. It is pretty value sufficient for me. Personally, if all web owners and bloggers made just right content material as you probably did, the net will likely be a lot more helpful than ever before.

  79. I just could not go away your site prior to suggesting that I actually loved the standard information a person provide in your visitors? Is going to be back continuously in order to check up on new posts

  87. Wow! This can be one particular of the most useful blogs We have ever arrive across on this subject. Actually Fantastic. I’m also an expert in this topic therefore I can understand your hard work.

  91. certainly like your web site however you have to take a look at the spelling on quite a few of your posts. Many of them are rife with spelling issues and I to find it very troublesome to inform the reality however I will surely come again again.

  93. Hello! I’ve been following your web site for a while now and finally got the courage to go ahead and give you a shout out from Humble Texas! Just wanted to say keep up the good job!

  97. An impressive share, I just given this onto a colleague who was doing a little analysis on this. And he in fact bought me breakfast because I found it for him.. smile. So let me reword that: Thnx for the treat! But yeah Thnkx for spending the time to discuss this, I feel strongly about it and love reading more on this topic. If possible, as you become expertise, would you mind updating your blog with more details? It is highly helpful for me. Big thumb up for this blog post!

  99. Hey there, You’ve done a great job. I will certainly digg it and personally suggest to my friends. I am sure they’ll be benefited from this site.

  102. Thanks for a marvelous posting! I genuinely enjoyed reading it, you happen to be a great author.I will be sure to bookmark your blog and will come back later on. I want to encourage one to continue your great posts, have a nice morning!

  103. I would like to thnkx for the efforts you have put in writing this blog. I am hoping the same high-grade site post from you in the upcoming also. In fact your creative writing abilities has encouraged me to get my own web site now. Really the blogging is spreading its wings quickly. Your write up is a great example of it.

  106. I was very pleased to find this web-site.I wanted to thanks for your time for this wonderful read!! I definitely enjoying every little bit of it and I have you bookmarked to check out new stuff you blog post.

  111. Thanks for every other informative website. Where else may I get that type of information written in such an ideal approach? I’ve a undertaking that I’m simply now operating on, and I’ve been on the glance out for such info.

  124. Thank you for sharing excellent informations. Your website is so cool. I’m impressed by the details that you have on this web site. It reveals how nicely you perceive this subject. Bookmarked this web page, will come back for more articles. You, my friend, ROCK! I found just the information I already searched everywhere and simply couldn’t come across. What a perfect web site.

  141. Thanks for the sensible critique. Me and my neighbor were just preparing to do some research on this. We got a grab a book from our local library but I think I learned more clear from this post. I’m very glad to see such great info being shared freely out there.

  159. Hi, Neat post. There’s a problem with your website in internet explorer, would check this… IE still is the market leader and a large portion of people will miss your excellent writing due to this problem.

  161. When I initially commented I clicked the “Notify me when new comments are added” checkbox and now each time a comment is added I get several emails with the same comment. Is there any way you can remove me from that service? Cheers!

  162. Hello There. I discovered your blog using msn. This is a really well written article. I’ll be sure to bookmark it and come back to read extra of your helpful information. Thank you for the post. I will certainly comeback.

  163. You could certainly see your skills within the work you write. The world hopes for more passionate writers like you who are not afraid to say how they believe. At all times follow your heart.

  165. My developer is trying to persuade me to move to .net from PHP. I have always disliked the idea because of the costs. But he’s tryiong none the less. I’ve been using Movable-type on a variety of websites for about a year and am nervous about switching to another platform. I have heard great things about blogengine.net. Is there a way I can transfer all my wordpress content into it? Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated!

  169. While not noted in the Salesses statement, the Washington Post earlier today reported that the 8 percent shift would not just be for FY26, but f고양출장샵or each year of the five-year long Future Years Defense Program (FYDP) that accompanies the annual budget request.

  181. Please let me know if you’re looking for a writer for your site. You have some really great posts and I believe I would be a good asset. If you ever want to take some of the load off, I’d love to write some material for your blog in exchange for a link back to mine. Please send me an email if interested. Thanks!

  185. You really make it seem really easy together with your presentation but I to find this topic to be really something which I feel I’d never understand. It kind of feels too complicated and very huge for me. I’m looking forward in your next post, I’ll try to get the hold of it!

  186. Hello, i read your blog occasionally and i own a similar one and i was just curious if you get a lot of spam comments? If so how do you prevent it, any plugin or anything you can suggest? I get so much lately it’s driving me mad so any assistance is very much appreciated.

  193. I like what you guys are up also. Such intelligent work and reporting! Carry on the excellent works guys I’ve incorporated you guys to my blogroll. I think it’ll improve the value of my site 🙂

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here