The call comes after it was confirmed there was a second drone spying attempt on the Football Ferns from the Canadian team, three days before the first incident.
The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) is confident the women's team head coach, Bev Priestman, had no knowledge of the spying ahead of their gold medal title defence at the Paris Games.
Priestman, a former head of NZ Football, will stand down for the match against the Kiwis on Friday morning (NZ time).
Priestman joined New Zealand Football in 2009 and rose to the rank of Head of Football before leaving in 2013. She left New Zealand to continue her career in Canada and took up the head coaching position in 2020.
NZOC said Team Canada confirmed a second incident took place on July 19, three days before the latest drone was caught by the Football Ferns. Both occurred in St Etienne where the teams were due to play.
Canada's assistant coach and an analyst have been kicked out of the Olympic squad after New Zealand said its team had their training session disrupted by a drone flown by a staff member of their Group A opponents.
"Joseph Lombardi, an unaccredited analyst with Canada Soccer, is being removed from the Canadian Olympic Team and will be sent home immediately," COC said.
"Jasmine Mander, an assistant coach to whom Mr Lombardi reports to, is being removed from the Canadian Olympic Team and will be sent home immediately."
Priestman has apologised for the offence.
"On behalf of our entire team, I first and foremost want to apologise to the players and staff at New Zealand Football and to the players on Team Canada. This does not represent the values that our team stands for. I am ultimately responsible for conduct in our programme.
"Accordingly, to emphasise our team's commitment to integrity, I have decided to voluntarily withdraw from coaching the match on Thursday. In the spirit of accountability, I do this with the interests of both teams in mind and to ensure everyone feels that the sportsmanship of this game is upheld."
The drone was flown on Monday and the incident was reported by the NZOC to police and to the International Olympic Committee's integrity unit.
"The NZOC and New Zealand Football are committed to upholding the integrity and fairness of the Olympic Games and are deeply shocked and disappointed by this incident, which occurred just three days before the sides are due to face each other in their opening game of Paris 2024," NZOC said in a statement.
NZOC said the actions taken by the COC reinforced the seriousness of the integrity breach.
"We continue to seek a full review of the situation. With just over 24 hours until the New Zealand athletes kick off in their opening match of the Olympic Games, we acknowledge the disruption this has caused players and team management, and continue to offer wellbeing and performance support assistance."
The Ferns team departed for France in a state of turmoil, after coach Jitka Klimkova stepped aside from the Paris campaign following a failed "restorative process" to rebuild relationships in the team. The move came after Klimkova was in June cleared by an employment investigation - although the details of what kicked off the investigation remain a mystery.
Late last night came a further blow. Football Ferns captain Ali Riley, who was seeking to join a select group of women to compete at a fifth Olympic Games, was withdrawn on medical grounds.
Coach had no knowledge: Canada boss
The Canadian Olympic Committee's CEO is confident Priestman had no knowledge of the spying incident, Reuters reports.
David Shoemaker was asked repeatedly by media how she avoided suspension and why he was comfortable with her resuming her coaching duties after Friday's game.
"I was persuaded by the fact that Bev Priestman had no involvement, no knowledge in the incident," Shoemaker told reporters. "Those who had the direct involvement in the incident we removed from Team Canada.
"There is no room for that in Team Canada. It doesn't conform to our standards of fair play and our values at the Canadian Olympic Committee."
Shoemaker said if any facts were to become known in the future suggesting Priestman was involved then the COC reserves the right to impose further sanctions.
Canada Soccer is launching an independent external review into the matter while global football's governing body FIFA has begun disciplinary proceedings.
Shoemaker also said he felt there was no need for Priestman to miss more than one game since, according to him, she was not in possession of any footage from New Zealand's training sessions.
"We thought about all the repercussions for Bev," said Shoemaker. "At the end of the day the drone footage related to the filming of two New Zealand practices remained in the hands of the pilot of the drone and the advantage that I guess was intended to be obtained was not obtained."
Shoemaker also said that while he is not aware of any calls for the women's team to be disqualified from the Olympics, he did say New Zealand Football registered a complaint to FIFA, asking that Canada not be awarded any points if they win on Friday.
Statement from NZ Football
New Zealand Football have released their first statement on the spying incident.
It does not confirm whether New Zealand Football has asked for Canada not to receive any points should they win, though NZF chief executive Andrew Pragnall said they are seeking urgent action from world governing body FIFA.
"There is no place for this type of action in football and it is critical that urgent action is undertaken to address this integrity breach.
"To hear now that the Canadian team had filmed secret footage of our team training at least twice is incredibly concerning and if not treated urgently could have wider implications for the integrity of the tournament.
"We note that there have been some admissions by the Canadian National Olympic Committee, and they have taken their own sanctions against the Canadian team, however, considering the seriousness of the situation, and the potential implications to the sporting integrity of the entire tournament, we have referred the matter to the FIFA Disciplinary Committee seeking urgent action."
- Reuters / RNZ
