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This article is about the New Zealand Women’s National Football Team at the Women’s World Cup 2015 in Canada. New Zealand took part in the World Cup finals for the fourth time and, as before, was defeated in the preliminary round. The team qualified as the winner of the 2014 Oceania Championship.

Qualification

The Oceania Championship took place without qualification, as only four teams had reported.

Coach Tony Readings used a total of 17 players in the three games, 11 of whom were used in all games. Best scorer and queen of the championship was Amber Hearn with seven goals. On five goals came Helen Collins, three goals each Rosie White and Annalie Longo. In the first game Daisy Cleverley scored in her first A-country match already in the first minute of play the 1:0 and record international Abby Erceg came as the first New Zealander to her 100th. international game. In the last game, Jasmine Pereira also came to her first A-country match. New Zealand needed the fewest games of all qualified teams to qualify: 3.

Preparation
After the Oceania Championship, New Zealand travelled to Europe for three test matches:

22 November 2014 in Laval against World Cup participants France: 1:2 (0:1)
25 and 27. November 2014 in Randaberg in a hall on artificial turf against World Cup participants Norway 1:1 (1:0) or 0:2 (0:0)

On 12 and 15. In January 2015, New Zealand met Denmark in Belek (Turkey) (1-1 in the first and 3-2 in the second game).

In February 2015, the New Zealanders played two Test international matches in Auckland: on the 8th against North Korea (1:1), which was not allowed for the World Cup and on the 12th against Australia (2:3), which also qualified for the World Cup. For the 3rd (2:2) and 5. In March 2015, the New Zealand Federation announced two test matches against World Cup newcomers Spain in Guadalajara and La Roda. First of all, on the website of the Cyprus Cup, New Zealand participated on the 4th to 11th. In the lighter Group C, New Zealand should meet Mexico as well as Belgium and the Czech Republic for the first time. On February 6, New Zealand was removed from the list of participants, but no other team was named. Further test matches took place on April 4 in St. Louis and on May 24 in Marugame against the last World Cup finalists USA (0:4) and Japan (0:1).

The team shall:

Order
The squad of 23 players (including three goalkeepers), who must be notified to the FIFA General Secretariat no later than ten working days before the opening match, was appointed on 14 May.

Games at the World Cup

In the draw of the groups New Zealand was not set and was drawn to the group A with host Canada. As further opponents, China and World Cup newcomer Netherlands were drawn. According to the rankings in the FIFA world rankings before the World Cup, this was the result of