John Herdman’s team join Germany, who qualify automatically as hosts, fellow European nations England, Sweden, Norway and France, and Asian qualifiers Australia, Korea DPR and Japan as the sides to have confirmed their involvement in the 16-nation finals next…

Each has the same goal as they approach the play-off for third but will come into the match with contrasting levels of confidence.The Solomon Islands defence leaked a steady stream of goals in their 8-0 semi-final loss to New…

Papua New Guinea, second favourites to take the title after New Zealand, justified their reputation with the 3-0 victory over a physical Fijian side and didn’t take long to make their mark. The impressive Sammy Peninsa popped up at…