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 | | As well, the cost of travel to such tournaments, plus issues such as player availability - soccer in New Zealand, regardless of gender, is not a professional sport - means that, in recent years, most smaller provinces have only entered the tournament when it was being held in, or near, their geographical location. |
 | | Thirteen teams took part in the 1998 event, including, for the first time, New Zealand's national team, who used the tournament as part of their final preparations for the Oceania Women's World Cup qualifying series. |
 | | Never out of the top four between 1984 and 1998, the decline in the standard of women’s soccer immediately south of the Bombay Hills, as evidenced by Waikato’s placings in the last three tournaments, is startling, to put it mildly. |
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