Sport in New Zealand and earned the Bronze medal at the 2014 FIFA Club World Cup held in Morocco. Nowadays, the "Navy Blues" are looking into the possibility of joining the A-League as the second New Zealand team after the Wellington Phoenix. Football is especially popular amongst young people. In 2017, football was played by 25,037 secondary school students, making it the fourth-most popular sport behind netball, rugby union and basketball. New Zealand hosted the 1999 FIFA U-17 World Cup and the inaugural FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in 2008. Athletics is New Zealand's second-most successful Olympic sport with 24 medals, of which 10
Sport in Vanuatu successful Vanuatu Bid to host the 2017 Pacific Games and is currently working with the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) for the establishment of the Melanesian Games in the near future. Cricket is also become very popular in Vanuatu from last decades. Vanuatu National Cricket team is associate member of International Cricket Council of ICC East Asia - Pacific region. Vanuatu has been runners up of ICC East Asia Pacific (EAP) cup against Papua New Guinea. Sport in Vanuatu Sports in Vanuatu are played throughout the country. Association football was and is the most popular sport in the country. In 1988,