{"id":309393,"date":"2026-03-02T12:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T12:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/309393\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T12:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T12:51:13","slug":"live-football-ferns-v-solomon-islands-fifa-womens-world-cup-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/309393\/","title":{"rendered":"Live: Football Ferns v Solomon Islands &#8211; FIFA Women&#8217;s World Cup qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow all the action as the Football Ferns take on hosts Solomon Islands at National Stadium in Honiara for their second World Cup qualifying match.<\/p>\n<p>Kick off is at 7pm.<\/p>\n<p>The Ferns come off the back of an 8-0 victory in their opening World Cup qualifier against Samoa on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand&#8217;s other Group A opponents in the Oceania Qualifiers for next year&#8217;s Fifa Women&#8217;s World Cup in Brazil are America Samoa, with the top two teams from the pool advancing to the semi-finals and final, hosted by New Zealand in April.<\/p>\n<p>The Football Ferns play American Samoa on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4JSJT1H_260227FFernsSamoa_18_JPG.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"New Zealand's Manaia Elliott during FIFA Women's World Cup Qualifiers 2027, OFC Qualifiers, New Zealand v Samoa, National Stadium Honiara. Friday 27 February 2026. Photo: Joshua Devenie \/ www.phototek.nz \/ Photosport\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nManaia Elliott<br \/>\nPhoto: Joshua Devenie \/ Phototek.nz\n<\/p>\n<p>Full Football Ferns squad:<\/p>\n<p>Liz Anton (25 caps\/0 goals) Canberra United, Australia<br \/>\nMackenzie Barry (22\/1) Wellington Phoenix, New Zealand<br \/>\nHannah Blake (8\/0) Durham FC, England<br \/>\nKelli Brown (9\/0) Newcastle Jets, Australia<br \/>\nClaudia Bunge (38\/0) Melbourne Victory, Australia<br \/>\nMilly Clegg (20\/2) Vittsj\u00f6 GIK, Sweden<br \/>\nManaia Elliott (5\/0) Wellington Phoenix, New Zealand<br \/>\nVictoria Esson (31\/0) Wellington Phoenix, New Zealand<br \/>\nMichaela Foster (30\/1) Durham FC, England<br \/>\nMaya Hahn (8\/1) FC Viktoria Berlin, Germany<br \/>\nMaddie Iro (0\/0) Hills United, Australia<br \/>\nDeven Jackson (7\/0) Melbourne City, Australia<br \/>\nGrace Jale (35\/8) Wellington Phoenix, New Zealand<br \/>\nKatie Kitching (23\/6) Sunderland AFC, England<br \/>\nCharlotte Lancaster (debut) Newcastle Jets, Australia<br \/>\nMeikayla Moore (75\/4) Calgary Wild, Canada<br \/>\nEmma Pijnenburg (8\/0) Wellington Phoenix, New Zealand<br \/>\nIndiah-Paige Riley (34\/3) Crystal Palace, England<br \/>\nAlina Santos (1\/0) University of Denver, USA<br \/>\nRebekah Stott (108\/4) Melbourne City, Australia<br \/>\nPia Vlok (debut) Wellington Phoenix, New Zealand<br \/>\nLara Wall (2\/0) Wellington Phoenix, New Zealand<br \/>\nGrace Wisnewski (5\/0) FC Nordsj\u00e6lland, Denmark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow all the action as the Football Ferns take on hosts Solomon Islands at National Stadium in Honiara&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-309393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}