The Junior Football Ferns are New Zealand’s national U-20 women’s football side and are current champions of Oceania.
The team sealed a third staright World Cup appearance by qualifying for Germany 2010 with wins over American Samoa, Cook Islands and Tonga at the OFC U-20 Women's Championship in Auckland in OCtober 2009.
At the 2006 U-20 Women's World Cup in Russia, New Zealand drew 0-0 with eventual bronze-medalists Brazil to claim what was then just the second ever result by a kiwi side at a World Cup.
Two years later in Chile, the John Herdman coached side went a couple of steps better, defeating the hosts in pool play and going within seconds of achieving an historic victory over England, who found an 94th minute equaliser to advance at the Junior Football Ferns expense.
