- Papua New Guinea national football team
Infobox National football team
Name = Papua New Guinea
Badge = Papua_NG_FA.gif
Nickname = The golden Bird of Paradise
Association = Papua New Guinea
Football Association
Confederation = OFC (Oceania )
Coach = flagicon|BrazilMarcos Gusmao
Most caps = Richard Daniel
Top scorer = Reginald Davani
Home Stadium =Hubert Murray Stadium
FIFA Trigramme = PNG
FIFA Rank = 200
1st ranking date = September 1996
FIFA max = 160
FIFA max date = June 2004
FIFA min = 200
FIFA min date = August 2008
Elo Rank = 175
pattern_la1=_golden_stripes2|pattern_b1=_blackstripes|pattern_ra1=_golden_stripes2
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pattern_la2=_redlines|pattern_b2=_vneckblack|pattern_ra2=_redlines
leftarm2=FFD600|body2=FFD600|rightarm2=FFD600|shorts2=145234|socks2=FFFFFFFirst game = ; December, 1963)
Largest win = Flagicon|Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea 20 - 0 American Samoa Flagicon|American Samoa (Nouméa ,New Caledonia ;December 15 ,1987 )
Largest loss = Flagicon|Malaysia Malaysia 10 - 1 Papua New Guinea Flagicon|Papua New Guinea (Jakarta ,Indonesia ; June, 1976) Flagicon|Australia Australia 11 - 2 Papua New Guinea Flagicon|Papua New Guinea (Nouméa ,New Caledonia ;February 26 ,1980 )
World cup apps =
World cup first = -
World cup best = -
Regional name =OFC Nations Cup
Regional cup apps = 2
Regional cup first = 1980
Regional cup best = Round 1, 1980 and 2002The Papua New Guinea national football team is the national team ofPapua New Guinea and is controlled by thePapua New Guinea Football Association .Results
"Last match:
* Friendly match -July 13 ,2007 ,Honiara ,Solomon Islands - fb|Solomon Islands 2 - 1 fb-rt|Papua New Guinea [http://www.fifa.com/associations/association=png/index.html "Papua New Guinea - Latest Fixtures and Results"] ,FIFA , "accessed14 January 2008 "]World Cup record
*1930 to 1994 - "Did not enter"
*1998 - "Did not qualify"
*2002 - "Did not enter"
*2006 - "Did not qualify"
*2010 - "Disqualified"** 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
* 1973 - "Did not enter"
* 1980 - Round 1
* 1996 - "Did not qualify"
* 1998 - "Did not qualify"
* 2000 - "Did not qualify"
* 2002 - Round 1
* 2004 - "Did not qualify"
* 2008 - "Did not enter"outh Pacific Games record
*1963 - Round 1
*1966 - Fourth place
*1969 - Third place
*1971 - Fourth place
*1975 - Round 1
*1979 - Quarter-final
*1983 - Fourth place
*1987 - Third place
*1991 - Round 1
*1995 - Round 1
*2003 - Round 1
*2007 - "Did not enter"Wantok Cup record
*2008 (July, 1st edition) - "Withdrew"
Current squad
"(As of 2004)"
References
External links
* [http://www.pngfootball.com.pg/ Papua New Guinea Football Association]
* [http://www.oceaniafootball.com/ofcassociation/papua.new.guinea "Latest Papua New Guinea Football News"] , Oceania Football Federation
* [http://www.national-football-teams.com/v2/country.php?id=143 National Football Teams]
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