National association football team
The West Papua football team is a team from the Indonesian western half of the island of Western New Guinea. It is a member of ConIFA, having previously been a member of the NF-Board. On 23 June 2005, the West Papua national football team played in the 2005 UNPO Cup in The Hague. They played only one match against South Moluccas. They drew (1–1), and South Moluccas won on penalties. West Papuans were listed to take part in the 2006 VIVA World Cup but then withdrew.[citation needed]
The national team returned to action in 2019, playing a friendly against East Turkestan, for the first time after 14 years hiatus.[7] On 25 January 2020, the F.A.W.P. was accepted in to ConIFA as its full member.[4]
Football Association West Papua
The Football Association West Papua is the football association of West Papua and was founded in 2017.[8][9]
Tournament records
Matches played
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- ^ "Who we are". Football Association of West Papua. October 2021. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
- ^ "Western Papua". ConIFA. 2022. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
- ^ "East Turkistan, West Papua and an Extraordinary Game of Football". the Diplomat. 16 October 2019. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
- ^ "Profile".
- ^ "Participation in the CONIFA Football Strategy Days in Sabbioneta, Italy". internations-exchange.org.
- ^ CONIFA [@CONIFAOfficial] (October 19, 2019). "LIVE" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ a b c CONIFA [@CONIFAOfficial] (December 21, 2019). "MATCHDAY" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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- ^ @OfficialFAWP (October 23, 2021). "Today's match officials" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
External links
- West Papua in Fedefutbol.net Archived 2011-11-07 at the Wayback Machine
- November 1999 version website
- 2017 version website
